Very hard to understand what he is saying in his lectures, expect to teach yourself everything from the book or go to the tutors because this professor is not helpful in the slightest

this dude will literally never tell you what he wants. there is no theme to when things are due and oftentimes he will add extra assignments to be due on the same date as others without telling anyone. classic LSBE professor

You can ace all the homework and fail every test because he gives you the generic homework from the textbook and then makes every test way harder than anything youve ever covered before. Avoid this prof.

Does nothing to help students. All he cares about is doing the least amount of work to stay on UMDs payroll and he could care less about his students actually learning anything.

I really didn't care for this professor. I felt there was a language barrier as I never could get used to his accent so I never could understand him, this made the lectures miserable. He gave lots of pop quizzes so skipping class was near impossible. I had to teach my self basically because I got nothing out of his lectures. I do not recommend him!

His class is boring and low-quality. He wants students to learn Zimbabwe in too much detail. I don't want to know about Zimbabwe after taking his class. I would have chosen other elective class other than this class if I could return to the moment of choice.

Terrible lectures, he just scribbles on already typed notes and is very difficult to understand. You can expect that 50% of the time there will be a pop quiz at the end of class, which you're allowed to use notes on. He's one of those profs that instead making sure everyone understands the material, just lowers the grade scale or gives extra credt

Gibson is an awful professor. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. The 3 exams that make up most of your grade have nothing to do with things learned in class. Gibson is hard to understand and moves through material way too fast.

The only materials that Professor Nene provided were the textbook, un-narrated slides, and a couple of 3 minute youtube videos. The exams had nothing to do with the assignments and he had very little contact with students. I was very unimpressed with this class. For a professor that gets paid to teach, I would expect that he put in more effort.

If you are not an econ major this class is really hard. Luckily he allows for notes on the test, but make sure to do notes on the homework as well or the tests will be extra hard. If you have a chance to take macro over micro economics I would recommend doing so. Luckily he gives lots of extra credit opportunities to help bring you grade up.

Terrible professor. I very much dislike his teaching style and the way he acts.

His lectures are just him reading slides. He reads them fast too so good luck absorbing any information. Also, Pop quizzes...

This class is brutal, the class average on our first midterm was 60 percent and with a curve, the average score was then a 69. coming straight from macroeconomics this class is so much harder. He said on the first day of class that only 10% of all students in the course receive an A in their final grade. All of my friends and I are struggling

One of the worst teachers I have ever had. He sits there an reads the same slideshow than I am assuming he has had for 10 years. Professor Nene does not care at all about his students and is absolutely terrible at explaining everything.

This is one of the worst professors I have ever had. Every class is content packed to the point where it is way too much information. Every time I go to his office hours for homework help or clarification he never helps. He only says read the entire chapter slide again and figure it out on your own. The tests also include trick questions!

WORST PROFESSOR IVE EVER HAD. does not have clear lectures, not easy to reach outside of class and does not explain formulas clearly. does not provide good review and expects us to know things he barely touches on. would not recommend so awful

If you take this class do not take it with Gibson he is such a bad professor. You can not understand a single thing he says and he goes through the slides really fast, and you have to be in class because he covers things that aren't on the slides and then puts them on the exam and he gives out random pop quizzes. Avoid Gibson's class if you can

I recommend not to take his class, he is not good at teaching. He only uses slideshows and slides fast, and just keep on talking. POP quizzes are low on grade% and exams are really terrible. Most of us are struggling now in his class, you can obviously see how low his rate here in this website. I regretted taking his class, makes my anxiety worse!

Wouldn't recommend taking micro econ with Nene. He has pop quizzes, exams are very tough and his slides wont help you study at all. You gotta know the textbook to do well and homework is wotth 30% of your grade so make sure you do all of it. Hes a nice guy but I don't think hes a very good college professor

The rating says it all.

The person below or before me is lying, he is not hilarious or caring or something, you can see from the other reviews.

Gibson Nene is a nice guy but his class is very difficult. There are pop quizzes, you pretty much gotta study the textbook a lot to pass the class. Lecture notes and slides are basically useless and he only curves some tests even though half the class usually gets a F. Extra credit is limited, I would try and take Micro with someone else.

The homework is online on McGraw Hill and you only get 2 attempts per question, we have pop quizzes and the exams are very heavily weighted and are very hard to do well on, he offers extra credit but it hardly boosts your grade

This class is difficult to get a good grade in if you do not go to the lectures. Beware of pop quizzes every so often because he uses them to track attendance and missing more than 3 will drag your grade down. Overall, Gibson is a nice person but could improve as a professor.

Not a great professor. Doesn't explain things well/at all, is very unsympathetic, and doesn't help at office hours. While there may not be much homework, the few assignments and exams there are are weighted heavily, along with the addition of random pop quizzes "for attendance".

Worst Professor I've taken at UMD. The class average on the exams are below 60%, and he claims that it's because the students don't work hard enough, without assigning any blame to himself. Extremely hard to understand. Do not take him, no matter what.

Based on all the other reviews on here, you should know not to take Gibson. His tests are absurdly hard, the class average tends to be around the 60-70 range and he does not curve them. very hard to understand in lectures as well. Be ready for many pop quizzes. gives extra credit worth very small amounts that don't help your grade. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

I am a relatively good student when it comes to getting all my work done and studying for exams. However, in this class, I couldn't study enough to even get above a C on the exams. Every class was just notes and random lecture points being addressed. Can't say enough bad things about this class and how the professor teaches.

Absolutely the worst teacher I've had, do not take his class! He brags about how many students fail. 99% lectures and he has an accent that's hard to understand, but even if he didn't, the way he teaches is horrible so it wouldn't even matter. Tests are extremely hard and barely even curved. Also, pop quizzes are very hard even with open notes.

Hard class

Nene gives random pop quizzes and the tests are extremely difficult. He is difficult to understand in lecture and I honestly didn't really learn anything from him, I had to do all of the learning on my own.

Gibson Nene doesn't seem to have a lot of passion for teaching, and spends the entire lecture talking along with a slideshow. I didn't miss one lecture, took every note from the slides, used the textbook, and studied previous assignments, but didn't do well on the exams. I would recommend taking another professor if you are able to.

tests are difficult and a large portion of final grad

If you can avoid taking micro econ with gibson. he does not teach well at all you can barely understand what he says during lectures and he will randomly give out pop quizzes about stuff we sometimes don't talk about or he says it really quickly and expects you to remember what he said

Hard to understand much of his teaching. Exams are very difficult.

This professor is horrible. He does not care about his students at all and basically doesn't teach. All he does is read off his lecture notes that don't have any substance at all. He gives pop quizzes that wont even help your grade if you don't understand. Everyone fails his exams and takes no blame. He should be fired.

Avoid at all costs. I studied the for the final exam and everything is literally difficult, he doesn't know how to teach well yet he erases some information in canvas so that you won't see it unless you attended the class. Quizzes doesn't really help at all. Exams are hard it's like taking a nurse exam, like literally choosing the best answer.

Get this professor if you want to fail ,still gives me PTSD after class ended .Will MAKE you change your major.Drop his class IMMEDIATELY

Avoid this professor. You're throwing money out the window because he's so bad at his job he'll make you retake the course. BS attendance policy and the pop quizzes were absolutely vile.

Gives terrible lectures, talks for over an hour straight then quizzes the class over a slide he had on the board for no more than 30 seconds. Posts the notes online but leaves out all of the graphs he shows in class.

WORST PROF AT DULUTH. Do not take it. Do it online through another college or anything but him. We were doing one of his pop quizzes in class and he screamed at a friend of mine for taking too long. He makes jokes about how many people fail his class.

Worst professor I have had at UMD by far. He reads straight off his lecture slides for an hour, then leaves. He gives out random pop quizzes that make no sense and aren't graded fairly. By far the most frustrated I've been with a prof. He just continuously threatened how students would fail the whole time.

I took applied statistics with him and would always leave the classroom more confused than when I got there. I would ask him questions and it didn't seem like he understood what me or other classmates were trying to ask. He had to offer extra credit after the exam because the entire classes comprehension and scores were so low

The worst professor I've had at UMD. Multiple times he talked about how lots of students failed his class. I've had to teach myself every subject in this class. Nothing he spoke about in class ever made sense. Worst attendance policy I've ever witnessed at UMD. Anyone who says they like him has Stockholm syndrome. This professor is a GPA killer.

He is not it. He is a very bad professor. Do not take this professor he is not reasonable whatsoever and the way he teaches hurts my brain.

Find the smallest font pencil lead possible for the notecards. If the question is not on the note card you get it wrong . Tough luck buddy

I would never recommend this professor to anybody, he is extremely hard to understand and explains things poorly. He himself seems very interested in what he is teaching but does not teach at the proper level for a class with no prereqs. Lots of random pop quizzes and does not post upcoming test dates until the week before.

His tests used really bad questions

I took this class online, however my friends were in the same class in person, and we all agree on the same things. He is a terrible teacher, he just doesn't teach he just uses other free youtube videos. His homework is kinda relative to the videos he provides, but the Quizz and Exams, are completely different and are not relative.

If you take this class, report Gibson to the department chair, if you agree he is a terrible prof. If you have not taken this class, don't. No matter how smart you think you are, your GPA will drop.

This guy blows pretty hard. Lectures are 50min slog-fest of Nene reading off slides provided by McGraw which clearly he read 4 years ago and hasnt bothered to look back, questions are shot down. If you want to save yourself from these there will surely be a pop-quiz that day. Homework is semi-related to lectures but be prepared to teach yourself.

will lower your GPA

Never take him. YOUR GPA WILL DROP. His tests are completely opposite of what he teaches and sometimes are worded wrong and do not have the correct answers. Our class was failing so bad he changed the grading scale to make us do slightly better, not to help the students, but to make himself look like a better teacher. DO NOT TAKE CLASS W/ HIM!!!!!

get ready to read the textbook. you learn almost nothing during class and he gives random pop quizzes that count towards your grade. you need to learn ALL of the content by yourself. make sure you participate in class, he gives you extra credit points which will help your final grade. take econ with ANYONE else.

Nene will gut your GPA like there's no tomorrow. Long, depressing, and difficult lectures with him rambling for almost an hour straight. YOU'LL BE FIGHTING WITH EVERY LAST BREATH TO PASS. He treats his students terribly and laughs in our faces about failing us. Exams are extremely difficult and poorly designed. He doesn't want you to succeed.

Horrible experience, told the class he would rounded grades up to the next best percentage. Then proceeded to round mine and a buddy's down. Uses a proctored browser for exams. All exams are on graphs and didn't teach how to use them. Random class pop quizzes. He barely speaks English. Avoid if possible.

If possible, take any other prof for an econ or blaw credit. Lectures are simply him reading off premade slides and giving pop quizzes or discussions, which count for credit, and does not elaborate on what should be done. Unless you plan on learning all the material on your own, do not take Nene. He will take an insane toll on your sanity and GPA

few homework assignments, and the class is graded heavily on exams and participation. handouts, every handout is the exact same common-sense question over and over again. I did not learn anything from this course, and I felt like my time was wasted. The exams were difficult, and if you do badly on the final, it completely tanks your entire grade