Professor does not care about students. If you ask a "dumb" question during her lectures or zoom meetings (currently taking class during covid), she'll say "I already answered it". Doesn't really know economics, just reads things off a slide. If you're a minute late for the midterms/exams , she will give you a ZERO. Worst Economic Professor.

Essentially just goes over a slide deck in lecture, may not have even been made by her. Her explanations aren't terrible, but honestly skipping lecture and going over the slides yourself wouldn't be a bad move. Overall engages in childish behavior and does little to help students.

Doesn't prepare for lectures and often skips slides or she speeds through them really quickly. though the material isnt hard, test/section questions can be confusing and hard to answer. Her class single handedly convinced me to not pursue econ lol Edit: also she likes making learning difficult. she refuses to give out review questions from class??

I took AP Micro in High School, and maybe its just that I had a really good teacher, but listening to this woman lecture, I felt like I was losing knowledge. Do anything but listen to her. She is rude, confusing, and overall just unpleasant. Feel mean writing this but I just feel bad for all of us who had to go through that.

By far the worst quality class I have taken at UCSB, the material honestly seems like it would be quite easy to learn if we had some decent instruction, but we don't. The Excel projects are confusing as there is typically a huge lack of instruction on the material provided. . MUST ATTEND OFFICE HOURS to be confident in any of the material. ITS BAD!

this mf does not care at all abt her job. she breezes thru content, randomly decides to leave stuff to next class, and kicks mfs out if they're a minute late to exams. exams aren't hard and lowest grades gets dropped.

OMG PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH MISS ALISA, Jesus Christ she needs to get her slideshows together it's a BUNCH of information crammed into one slide. I like how she says "we don't have to memorize anything" but that's the complete opposite. You do have to teach yourself for this course so beware. Her BOB and her outfits are fye though!!!

Beware of this professor she breezes through her slides and it's so annoying you basically have to teach yourself. None of the PQ's actually helped with the final exam in my opinion it was a bunch of complex problems. What irked me the most was when she said she took the exams that we had to do and she found them "easy".

Where do I even start her slides aren't even helpful she should really highlight what is important because I feel like I'm reading a bunch of useless slides that don't even help for the exams. Two PQ's didn't really help surprisingly. Three TA's don't even know what they're doing and I don't even blame them. Her outfits are good though.

There is no way people are giving this women a good rating. I feel bad for everybody who had to go through all of that, honestly thinking about switching my major because she made me dread the class. Also one more thing to add DON'T EVER SHOW UP TO AN EXAM LATE, I saw her screaming at a dude who tried to sneak in which was funny but scary.

All I have to say is if you can take this class with a different professor please do by far the worse professor I've had here at UCSB.

Don't this professor. She goes thru lessons extremely fast and vaguely goes over important stuff that will be on the exam. All the practice midterms she gives you are useless because they are nothing like the actual exams which are 10 times harder. You have 30min to finish a 15 question midterm that is very wordy and tricky and needs more time.

Probably worst professor at this school, I have never heard a good thing about her or her class. Has stopped lecturing because she was BORED. Has said on multiple occasions that she has been reported by students and even said “You can try and report me it wont work,I always win.” She is the PROBLEM!

Lit your teaching yourself everything, her lectures are useless when it comes to the exams.

Worst professor. Rushes through material to spend lecture time on examples that don't explain the lecture material she rushed through in the first 15 min of class. Claims the course is going to be curved before every test and during week 9 emails that there will be no curve. Gives 30 min for difficult 15 Q exams that require critical analysis.

I am not one to hate on a professor but she clearly doesn't care enough about student comprehension. She tells students she tries to make the exams harder and takes back her promise of a curve midway through the quarter. Slides are a mess and had me going to outside resources to understand. Some simple changes to this class it could be much better.

She is a horrible lecturer, she is convoluted, spends 20 minutes on the easiest stuff and no time on the hard stuff. She also wrote her test questions in a way that made them more of a riddle and figuring out what she was talking about not about the actual knowledge/topics. She just doesn't know how to teach.

test questions are just meant to trick you feels like a im solving a riddle - concepts were easy but the test made it seem like I was taking spanish - shot good fits though icl

Took this class first quarter as a freshman. DO NOT DO IT!! lectures go on and on. The professor lectures as if we already know the material and is a really fast paced class. Your whole grade depends on three exams. Class averages around 13-12 out of 20. Doesn't answer questions properly, makes exam process so complicated.

Extremely frustrating to be in this class. She speeds through her lectures. And don't get me started on the tests. She has a weird habit of thinking shes Shakespeare and wording the questions really confusing, so most questions are trick questions. She had to apologize for how hard she made the first test because people did so bad. DON'T TAKE!

The exam was too difficult

Wording on tests are very weird and doesn't reflect your ability at Econ 1

Nothing good about this professor. Horrible lecturer and the 3 tests are testing your riddle skills rather than actual econ topics. Average 12/20 for a class of 700 students is beyond terrible, and makes excuses trying to say its not her fault even though she's the one who makes the tests. Fits are so mid idk what the other reviews are saying.

You will regret taking this professor. Take the Econ 1 class with BENZARTI. If you see this review and still take the class don't say I didn't warn you...

Lectures went on and on, talking a lot but saying basically nothing. Think I'm going to switch my major because I don't think I can stand another Econ class if they're all like this, felt like I was being taught pseudo science by stupid people. Test were graded on how well I could guess what the prof was thinking she wrote them.

Worst econ professor ever! Actually! Had to send a email for making the first exam too hard out of 700 students the average was 12/20. She does not teach whatsoever just reads off the slides, tells us not to bother her during her office hours to bother our TA's. Practice problems and practice exams are nothing like the real exam. DO NOT TAKE!

Most of these other reviews paint a pretty clear picture; confusing test questions, almost entirely pointless lectures, and difficult attitude. Try and avoid if you're trying to take econ 1.

Probably worst professor of the campus, very rude, not willing to help, only grades off of 3 tests and everyone failed, then proceeded to email "Hi all, The exam turned out to be just a tad too hard." Worst prof, do not take.

I don't understand how anyone could've enjoyed this professor. I legit learned everything by myself and nothing through the professor and she makes the most riddle like questions ever. Congrats to those who got a good score, wish I could've studied with yall. The study material literally gives wrong answers and thinking process for the real test.

If you try and study a lot you can probably do good or decent in the class, but really its not worth the stress. I stressed so much for this class after getting the "class average" score (13/20 which was technically failing without a curve). Lectures are tbh usless in the sense of learning any material. Take the other professor to not stress..

Makes so many excuses. "Made the test a tad bit too hard" so makes the next test even harder. "There's limited spots in the econ major so i made the tests hard" bruh. "Men are more likely to complain its the professors fault" I think she said that idk... if that's true that's actually crazy

Really horrible lectures need to self-teach to pass,

Pretty much self-taught everything. Don't take this professor, it's not worth the amount of stress you go through just to get a B. Take the other professor for Econ 1.

90% of grades are exams the worst professor ever never seen such a disgusting professor grading like her🤮

Three tests that determine your grade. Averages on the first two tests were a 65% and a 60% which shows the difficulty and bad wording of them. Had a B+ going into the final test and got an 18/20 but still ended up with a B+. Bad class.

Avoid this professor! Goes through slides too quick, doesn't do a good job at explaining concepts either. I thought the bad reviews were exaggerated, but they ended up being true. 3 midterms, worth 90%, practice tests don't even help prepare cause exams are MUCH harder. Just teach yourself the material or don't take the class with her.

i took this class as an elective and it was a lot tougher than i expected. wouldn't take again.