Very easy to understand and explains topics thoroughly with little boredom.

great power-point notes

Lecture is straight from book.

very knowledgable in economics and is very friendly and helpful

The powerpoints are nice. It was kind of hard but I definitely learned a lot.

Nice lady but the lectures and notes do not go into enough detail to prepare you for the tests which are very difficult. My discussion was terrible, DO NOT take Isao Kamato! It is pointless to ask him questions because he will only confuse you more.

She is the best instructor for 401... if you can take it with her, then do so. I had a fun time in 401, but many of my friends didn't.

I thought she taught Econ 101 well and that she knew her stuff. She also had clear powerpoint notes and good real world applications for the topics discussed.

Very enthusiastic. Tests are really hard! Overall a good class.

She was a pretty good teacher. The material is kind of boring, but you can tell she enjoys teaching it. Her energy is enjoyable.

Best econ teacher! She is very clear, come to lecture & you'll do fine. Material is boring but she keeps you awake. Study for the tests. Lectures are generally very clear and interesting.

Tests in Econ 101 are hard, however, achievable. Prof. Gerson's lectures are very clear. Understand the lecture, do your homework, get help from prof. Gerson or your GSI, and you'll do fine.

This class is a handful, but it's the hardest econ class. she really trys to make the material clear, which is nice. the exams suck but econ is really competitive. i think it's the students that make it hard, not gerson.

Well taught. Clear. Good examples. One of the best in the department. Class is not always easy though. Exams are tough. A lot of GSI's and places to get help if you have the effort.

I like her stories that relate to the subject she is teaching, and also some real life examples. However, when it gets to the point where she has none for that specific topic...I gets real boring real fast. Hard class, but very nice/energetic prof.

Great class, she is really energetic and enthusiastic. Oh yeah, don't take Hwajung Choi as your GSI, she will make you unlearn everything Gerson has taught you.

really good approach, awesome at answering emails

Helpful but exams just SUCK.. Not only you should understand the concept but also how to solve problems which she never teaches in lecture. Attendance quizzes don't count much..

Great class, though difficult. Gerson was an interesting lecturer although she could be clearer at some points. Lectures were well written, however. Slides and lecture coursepack were useful, but the readings coursepack was useless.

I think she did a great job explaining how econs is working in the real world. Her lectures are ok but 90 minutes lectures are just too long. Her coursepacks have all the graphs readily drawn, u just need to copy down the notes projected. The quizzes are similar to ur homework assignments.

Good explanations, but a bit boring in lecture. However, she's a babe.

Classes were overly difficult. Woman's incredibly nice, though she could stand to be a tad more helpful. And though she's very intelligent, she's not very charismatic. Don't sign up for long lectures unless you bring a pillow!

awesome

loved her, she was very helpful and clear in explanations!

I came in really excited, but was very frustrated because I do not do well on multiple choice tests and the ONLY way to do well is if you are decent on multilple choice tests.

A great teacher! Explains topics well and keeps class interesting!

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I had her for 101 and she's as cool in this class as she was in 101. Very good at explaining everything. Definitely knows her Micro stuff. Very clear and willing to meet outside of class. I definitely learned a lot.

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The class is very straightforward and Professor Gerson knows her stuff. The 1.5 hr long lectures are really, really brutal, so bring something to keep you awake...

not an easy A...because I got a C

She's alright as a teacher, but the class is just God-awful boring and she does nothing to help it. To compound the problem, there's no wireless internet in the room. Luckily, lecture is on Mon & Wed when the Daily crossword isn't too difficult. She thinks she's a lot funnier than she is and likes to chat with the B-school hopefuls in the front.

Seriously -> go & image google "Sybil Trelawney". I think its the same person. Gerson is a nice person, but a boring professor. She is quite helpful and knowledgable, but isn't about to revolutionize the way you learn.

She's a great professor and a decent lecturer. Her lectures can get dull sometimes but she goes through examples step by step which I found very helpful. Great professor, great class

I highly recommend taking Econ101 with Professor Gerson. She is a very good professor and is willing to stay after and help her students. Before her class I dreaded economics, and after taking her class I have decided to major in Economics!! :)Some students say that the Econ tests are impossible, but that is definately not true if you work hard! :)

An very easy class to take, great at lecturing.

Stay away unless you like econ or are doing the B-school. Your competing with the crazy B-school kids and the Bell curve screws everyone else. She is nice, pretty boring but gets the info across, the prof doesnt really matter with such a huge intro class since its all from the notes and tests are same for all econ 101.

Awesome professor!

her lectures seem about 10 hours long, but usually they are pretty easy to understand. the tests are tricky but not impossible if you study and the GSI's are really helpful. She's probably the best prof for econ 101 and shes always available for extra help. not a bad class to take.

Very clear lectures, I didnt really need to read out of the textbook because she covered it all so well. Exam questions are tricky, but they post past exams on ctools to help you get used to them.

Really Good teacher

difficult class, but gerson really tried to make it as easy to understand as possible...go to lectures and go to office hours for a better time

Best class I have taken so far. She gives great examples and really provokes thought.

401 is not an easy class but she makes it much less intimidating. If you have to take 401, take it in the spring with her, its much easier

Great class, def the best I've taken so far. Gerson uses great examples to keep the class interesting and fun. Make sure to read the textbook at least for the first half of the class, otherwise you will prob be lost in lecture. Lectures can get boring, but overall this class is a must-take.

Incredibly slow and boring, but she's thorough.

Great professor for anyone interested in econ. Lecture topics can be boring at times, but overall she is a very engaging and entertaining professor. Sample midterms are posted and extremely helpful. Gerson is definately the best econ 101 professor at UM from what Ive heard

Econ 101 is a really tough course, its all the b-school kids trying to get an A and its a bell curve so not everyone can. you have to study to do well, a lot. but Jan is a really good lecturer, if you can pay attention in lecture you shouldn't need to read the book ever. i didnt open it once. just remember that the exams are way harder than the hw

Econ 101 is realy cutthroat, and so sometimes I got the impression Gerson was only teaching to the very hardest working students so they'd get the top grades. Still, she's nice and fair. Her lectures aren't all that engaging though and the course material is slow and vastly convoluted. I'm sure, though, that it get could far worse.

she is very clear and concise, and a good lecturer for the size of the class. her exams are VERY TRICKY.

The class is a somewhat difficult class. Her lectures are easy to understand, but a little boring. For anyone who thinks she is not helpful, they are wrong. If you go to her office hours, she will spend hours with you if you need that much help.

Lectures are very boring, my gsi didnt speak english, so from the start it was bad. but i thought the clas was pretty easy if you just studied and understood the practice exams. Beware though, she always throws a few trick questions at you on the test that come from another planet.

Prof. Gerson lectures very clearly and concisely, although she moves slowly through the material at times. The tests make you think, but they're still really easy if you understand the concepts.

Gerson is an amazing professor. She's very engaging and charismatic. She understands the material like the back of her hand and finds ways to relate it to the real world. Yes, econ 101 is a weeder but the tests are reasonable. Do the homework, do well on the quizzes, take the practice exams and you will be fine. She's also very helpful in ofice hou

1st exam caught be off guard. My GSI could not have been worse. I went only in the beginning of discussion to see of there was a quiz. The difficulty of the class lies in that the exams have questions that are much more difficult than the concepts covered in lecture. Attend lecture, do practice exams, do homeworks, get an A.

Not as hard as everyone says it is, if you do the work and practice tests. Gerson's really good.

she is the queen of econ 101. she is a great lecturer and knows the content very well. she is very helpful and teaches the concepts very well. if you need extra help, she is always willing to sit down and work through whatever you need. she is very charismatic and pretty easy to listen to. the tests aren't terribly hard but do the practice exams

She's happy and grinning all the time. Some people love her for that, some people can't stand it. She likes to tell you how exciting economics is. I couldn't stand her constant smile, which I found kind of fake.

This class is a fun way to meet people freshman year and get involve in the Ann Arbor community. The work you do outside of class is loosely tied into economics.

All you hear about is how hard this class is. If you are good at simple derivatives, it is a breeze. I did 3 out of about 14 homeworks and went to 3-4 lectures and nearly pulled off an A+. I didn't have much to study and was nervous, but every question on the 2 tests involves taking two derivatives and setting them equal.

very difficult exams, boring lecturer

She knows the material like the back of her hand. The way she words things is somewhat confusing though. Tests are hard,go to lectures. Her constant smiling scared me.

Gerson is dedicated and helpful, she actually teaches the material.

Pretty tough class due to harsh curve (B school kids, engineers, etc) Go to discussion, work hard and you'll get a good grade

Easiest. Class. Ever. She presents the material very clear and makes sure you know it before she moves on. I Stopped going to lecture after the first exam, and got a B- without taking any quizzes (20% of your grade). Just go to lecture, take the quizzes, read the book, and you'll get an easy A.

Professor Gerson is a clear lecturer, but the nature of this class is for you to figure the material out on your own. Go to lectures and sections- the more exposure you have to the material, the better. A good professor, but eventually the material can only be comprehensible if you take a long time to review it yourself.

Extremely passionate about economics

Professor Gerson is a phenomenal lecturer. She's very clear and brings up interesting examples. The course is so well structured too. It was really helpful having a coursepack with all the graphs she used, so I could just take notes directly on the graphs as she explained them. However you definitely have to put in work to do well in this class.

Econ 101 is not the hardest class ever, not the easiest class ever. I took AP micro in HS and got a 4 on the AP and thought i would "know everything" but did not. It is much more indepth than HS AP micro. If you do all the practice exams the potential is there to do well on the test. It is graded as a distribution (1/4 A, 1/3 B) making it harder

Econ 101's bell curve does kill people, and it hurts that some people have had AP and others haven't. BUT Gerson's lectures pretty clear and the slides give you the essentials for success. Quizzes are give-away points, BUT the tests are designed to trick you. Study, do homework, take the practice tests, show up in class, and SLEEP, which helps.

I dropped econ 101, but I found Professor Gerson to be a wonderful person. The material is not esoteric, just really tricky.

Gerson was an excellent teacher. She presented informative PowerPoint presentations that were relevant to tests/quizzes. You must study the lecture slides, do the homework, and take all the practice exams in order to do well in this class.

This class (Econ 108) should be renamed "random discussions about nothing with Janet Gerson". The volunteering outside of class is fun and a great thing to do, but the class meetings are kind of useless. It's a nice one-credit filler class and not hard at all. I would recommend it. Gerson gets a little off topic but does a good job teaching it.

Professor Gerson is very passionate about economics. She works hard to teach the material. She cares that students really understand the basics of economics. But still, read the book!

Gerson is one of the strongest Econ 101 professors. She makes everything very clear. The two times I went into office hours she was quite helpful. She made econ seem very easy. Definitely try to be in her lecture. If you are in honors, take her econ 108 class as a supplement. It is an easy one credit class which will make econ 101 easier.

Good prof, uses many graphs to explain material, and does so in a clear manner with a slower pace. Lectures are usually very dull and carry on. uses iclickers to give a old exam practice question on material learned. read the textbook and do the homework and you can succeed in this course

Gerson is the best professor I have had so far at Michigan. She explains the material well and is willing to help anyone. She handle's questions well and wants to makes an effort to get to know the students who want to get to know her. The material is difficult to understand but it is doable.

She is a great teacher. Even though lecture isn't required, go to lecture! The practice exam questions are really helpful, and she explains the material so well. I never used the textbook, and just studied off the notes I took during lecture and I did well. It was a great introductory class.

She's very good at explaining things in the class. Going to lecture helps a lot, but it's not necessary. If you do the practice exams and do them well than you will do well on the real exams. Exam questions aren't hard as much as they're trick questions, which is annoying.

Excellent. Lectures are insightful and she is always willing to go the extra distance to help her students. I really felt like she genuinely cared about my understanding the material to the best of my ability. The best professor I had in my first semester at U of M.

Econ 101 and 108: She was such a great instructor and truly enjoys the subject and her job of teaching it. The details in her lectures gave me a solid understanding of basic Econ, even though I didn't attend every class. 108 taught me much about the economy and world around me, something that I had very little understanding/knowledge of before.

This has been one of the best teachers I've ever had. She was very clear, and SUPER approachable. I spent an hour and half every Monday after class in office hours, if not talking about Econ than it was about politics or personal issues. One of the best people I've met, and a perfect instructor for Econ 101. Highly recommend her.

She is fantastic in lecture. The material is presented in a way that's easy to understand. Also, I loved how the textbook followed 100% the lecture material. Made everything much more transparent. Overall, great professor for ECON 101.

Gerson is fantastic. Make sure to read the book before section to do well on quizzes. Take practice exams and you should have no problem with the actual exams.

This class is not as hard as everyone says it is. Go to lecture and read the book and do the practice exams and you'll do fine. This prof is very nice and helpful to students in a one on one setting. It seemed like she enjoyed chatting about econ with you. I thought her lectures were boring and preferred learning from the book, but thats me

I had to put a lot of work into this class to get a B. I went to my GSI's office hours every week, and never missed lecture. I finished the class with a B+, but because of the curve I got a B. Really frustrating. Gerson is nice and I like the way she structures her lectures.

Very good teacher, learned a lot in the class. Most of the time her lectures are good, but there are random occasions when something will be explained in a very confusing way. If you read the book as a supplement to lecture before class, you will have no problem. She is also always willing to help in office hours and answer questions in lecture.

Gerson is not a fantastic lecturer, but she's very clear. Read the textbook, pay attention in section, and you'll do fine. I recommend her and the class.

Gerson's lectures are helpful--clear, informative, etc. They are also incredibly boring, but going is a must because the book is worse. You'll end up learning a lot and having to work hard, but an A is definitely possible!

Very good professor, and it helps that I found econ to be interesting. Lectures are clear and interesting, and if you read the textbook and do practice tests you can get an A

Gerson is very smart and she is great at explaining the concepts of economics. Unfortunately, while she recognizes that the only way to succeed in economics is to do LOTS of practice, she doesn't provide a lot of resources to practice with. This will be a pretty difficult class if you have not taking economics before because of this.

Honestly, she was great. Yes Econ 101 was very competitive. I am an engineer took it for business minor, realized I didn't wanna do the minor, stayed in the class regardless. Go to class, sit in the front, take notes, go to discussion, grab the practice questions, leave, do the homework, read the book. Her lectures are very clear.HIGHLY Recommend!

Professor Gerson was a wonderful professor. She put so much energy into writing a great book that goes directly with her lecture (for the most part). In her lecture there is a LOT OF MATERIAL covered though so it is really really important to stay on top of your readings and review anything you don't understand in the coursepack with Gerson

If you are in honors and looking to convert econ 101 into an honors course. I highly suggest taking the volunteerism econ 108 class. Very fun and interactive. Professor Gerson did a great job and it was a very relaxed atmosphere. I can't speak for how she would be in a graded class (108 is only 1 credit, pass/fail) but anyone can benefit from it.

Professor Gerson is an extremely good instructor. She knows her stuff and explains concepts very clearly. If you go to class and do the assigned readings it is not too difficult to do well in her class.

The class is meant to be an entrance test for Ross students so performing well is not easy relative tot he rest of the class. The main goal should be to understand the material and the reasons behind the concepts. Gerson does not have that much time to go in depth so you need to think about it on your own.

I really enjoyed this class, she knows what she's talking about and does a great job of presenting the material.

Easy examples in the text and lectures but hard questions on the exams. She wrote the book so it is very usrful. She will be the best prof. to take for econ 101.

Gerson was a great prof. Clear, easy to understand. Tests are hard, but if you show up to lecture and pay attention, you should do fine.

If you don't go to class, all I have to say is good luck. While she can be boring, Gerson lays out the material in a very clear manner. Study a lot for tests, and definitely take advantage of office hours and review sessions.

Excellent professor! Very clear, especially if you have the notepack, which is very very helpful. She has an iClicker question and a real-life example of general concepts for every lecture, to encourage attendance. Tests are hard, so I highly recommend doing the homework (which makes test prep a LOT easier), which is encouraged by pop quizzes.

Gersons lectures tend to be big with about 300 students so it is also fast paced. If yo do not understand any concept, go to her office hours. She will be able to give you individual attention through office hours. She is really nice so don't be scared!

Gerson is a great professor. Do not be intimidated to talk to her just because she is a professor for huge lectures. Go to her office hours. She is very, very helpful in her office hours, especially if you are confused or need some more time on specific concepts.

I came into this class super intimidated, but it really is not that bad. Gerson's lectures are fairly straightforward, and you can clear up any confusion with office hours or FRIENDS (make a study group, they're helpful!). If you study, you will be fine!!!! Just be ready to put in effort.

Gerson is a great professor in that she goes out of her way to provide a ton of I-clicker questions and real world scenarios to go more in depth in lecture. She and the GSI's are really helpful and conduct many review sessions that I highly suggest you take advantage of to study for tests. Read, study, go to lecture and you should be alright.

Her tests are tougher than a lot of the other Econ professors but she is a good lecturer and she is very clear when she explains ideas. One-on-one she is very helpful and nice.

Great dancing for the S Equation