He sux

Makes economics more boring than it has to be. He draws diagrams and doesn't bother to explain them or label them so your lost from the word "go". If you can avoid taking this class with him, I suggest you do so.

This man is so anal. He treats the students like they are in elementary school with his stupid "come to front of the class" punnishments. This man always has this fake smile on all the time and I feel like he is mocking me somehow.

brilliant man, but what the hell is he saying. Always has a smile on but the bopping and rocking back and forth is enough to make anyone sea sick.

He has a great deal of knowlegde about the principles of microeconomics, but his ability to express that information to students is a bit lacking. Also, his exams are terribly worded at times, and are not a true representation of what a student learns

What is with the rocking back and forth? He gets so excited on stuff that he confuses the students with. The test are ridiculous!!! They're too confusing and barely actually tests what the student learns in class because he switches it all around.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!! He is impossible to pay attention to and bops. He looks like the old guy from Futurama (and talks like him too.)

extremley boring class. i slept so much in class i stopped going. hard tests. avoid this teacher if you can. knowledgable about the material, but apparently being a harvard graduate doesnt mean he is able to relay the information to students

Kern learned how to be extremely boring at Harvard. Easy class if you can grasp the material. Got B+ without going to any lectures or discussions. Just know how to do the problems on the tests and you should be fine. Too bad he's a Red Sox fan.

It was a boring class, but his grading policy is nice but I would recommend taking someone else.

Nice guy and knows what he is talking about, he is just not good at teaching it. Extremely BORING class, tests are very hard. The coursework is easy but the tests are worded in a tricky way. Attend every lecture, stay awake, and prey for a good TA

The course will ruin your GPA. He couldn't explain a concept clearly if his life depended on it. His homeworks & tests were made on a typewriter and tests are overly difficult with 1 question worth 38%. He doesn't look at his students during class, has weird & distracting mannerisms, and I can count on one hand the # of classes I stayed awake for.

He is a nice adorable old man but class is extremely boring and hard to stay awake in. His teaching is kind of unclear and mostly based on diagrams, so if you're not a visual learner it could be hard. My TA wasn't very helpful either-each discussion had either HW collection or quiz, easy points. Boring but decently easy. getting a B w/not much effo

Awful professor: will make you hate economics- thinks poor class attendance is the sole reason students don't do well. I went to every class & disagree. After 20 min. announcements he draws diagrams that he explains with stammering and stuttering. He is monotone & uses knee bends & heel raises to accent words. It is both distracting and humorous.

If you are either interested in Micro or are planning on being an Econ major, please don't take this class with Kern. He will either destroy your chances of majoring in the class, or make you hate econ all together. Boring, won't help you, TAs don't show up to office hours, Tests based off of lectures (terribly taught lectures). Stay Away!

If you have an interest in Economics or haven't taken an Economics class yet, DO NOT take it with Kern. He is dreadfully boring and purposefully makes multiple choice questions tricky and convoluted. He is a nice man, but easily in the running for one of the worst teachers I have ever experienced. Save yourself from this nightmare if you can.

Lecture is mandatory with iClicker. Monotone, attempt to express sense of humor and knowledge but his voices zZzzZzz. Tests are managable but hard, to some extent, in the way that his sentence structures are confusing and misleading at time. Read textbooks before every lecture so that you won't fall asleep halfway.

Pretty much, I had to learn microeconomics on my own. Did terrible on the first two tests but the final pulled me through considering it could be counted 80% of your grade. Go to class because there are clicker questions, and try to pay attention despite how monotone he is

homework due every week and quizzes in discussion must go to lecture for clicker questions- 15% of grade fairly difficult class, don't fall behind because it gets hard not the best lecturer so prepare to learn the majority of the information in discussion uses unordinary chartsdiagrams

Profoundly boring and generally disinterested in teaching a way that doesn't make all of his subject matter convoluted. It seems as though he understands the material but internally hates the fact that he has to share it. I would've rated lower on clarity if I could; I wen't in with a mild understanding of concepts but he made me doubt that.

iClickers make you go to class and homework due every week in discussion. Lectures are boring and very monotone which make it very hard to pay attention and learn anything. I did awful on the first 2 tests...I guess we'll see how I'll do on the final. Overall he's an awful professor who should retire already. Kinda cute old grandpa though.

He writes questions in such a fashion that literally wording could have you fail a test as opposed to your actual knowledge of the subject. I've never met anyone so disinterested in how much his students are learning, he goes so incredibly slow in lectures that it's incredibly hard to pay attention to his monotone presentation of simple concepts.