Literally the worst professor I have ever had. His tests are a review of micro and macro econ, but you won't know what to study as he wastes your time giving an overview of things like healthcare and social security that anyone with half a brain already knows. If you are suckered into taking this class stay at home and do practice tests. Horrible

Hartman botches what is a very interesting topic. The class and text book material are very interesting but he knows absolutely nothing about teaching or the subject. Just reads off memorized slides. UCSB need to hire a finace facility member to an Econ phd hack to teach this class. Frustrating to listen to and look at, great topic, terrible prof.

I recently graduated with an Economics/Accounting degree. I saved Hartman's class for my last quarter. I had never had him for a class before this. He is my least favorite econ professor at that school. His lectures do not help at all. You need to study the practice tests. Hartman is not friendly and a difficult person to get along with.

Just avoid him he is all about slides and won't bother to answer your questions in class since he has only 50 minutes to go through over 30 slides. Go to CLAS instead and your sections. Stick real close to your TAs and CLAS mentors they will help you pass not this slide show fanatic, and if you really want to attend class go to Slaters classes.

Hartman is dry when he teaches as he just reiterates what's already on the slides. There are two things that'll help you pass this class: Do all of the practice problems all of the time, and go to CLAS. The rest is useless. Also get ready for some tricky exams. Midterms are 6-7 questions and the final is 10. Put in the work and you'll survive.

10A is set up to fail you. The department designed it this way. Hartman runs 10A, writes the tests, and is a terrible teacher. Ditto about his lectures, they aren't helpful at all. The tests are made up of trick questions and are really difficult. Go to CLAS! Transfers beware! You need a solid B in order to get into the major. It's not easy.

LOL good luck, have fun

An embaressment to UCSBs' econ program. His lectures in the class are pointless as I could read the slides and interpret it better by myself. Section attendance helps alot and will save your grade. His goal is to weed out people of Econ and does so by acting like the tyrant of Econ and making MC questions where TAs would guess incorrect.

Terrible. Not much more needs to be said. If you have to take him, good luck.

Worst Professor I've ever had or even heard of. He gives you 2 midterms and a final and makes it impossible to get the B you need to get into the Econ major if you are a transfer student. He lives off of failing students so they cannot be Econ majors. Even if you do all the practice problems, get a tutor, attend CLAS and section, you could fail.

Honestly just doing his job with the strict testing rules, but the lecture does not prepare you at all for the test material. Make sure to seek outside help.

Hartman is a hit or miss for many. Teaching wise, he's doing his job teaching some pretty critical elements of Economics to a lecture hall of 300-400. Weeding out class so its truly a test of how well you can learn intuition behind concepts. Best believe you're going to work your hardest compared to almost any other class.

just terrible. reads from lecture slides. learned more from CLAS than his class. met more people retaking than first timers. he's more concerned about how difficult Econ10a is rather than teaching it. you'll see other students hating him. seems like his goal is to fail 50% of the class. changed my major cus of him. WORST professor at UCSB. BEWARE!

This class was super hard because the class is just all tests. If you miss one multiple choice question, you lose 3% of your total grade!! Hartman is a super boring lecturer and hes just a robot that reads off slides. Also you do not need to go to the 5th hour lectures. Just read the slides and you'll be good.

His lectures just go over the slides and talks about the general theories of micro-economics. However, every question on the tests require you to apply those concepts to solve problems with numbers. The math isn't hard at all but its knowing what to do for each problem which he doesn't cover. MT1: 100% MT2: 100% Final: 96%

He gives terrible lectures. He just read the PPT quickly and lack of clear explanations. He just assume students know everything and he does not answer academic question through email outside the class. The course content is relative easy but how can we pay for a professor who offers such limited help.

He teaches nothing and expects students to know everything.

Unhelpful. DON'T take his class!!!

Terrible. Definitely worst lecturer I met in UCSB. And he's not willing to help cause he don't care about the students.

Not great at explaining and just breezes through so the class is a self study course basically

Harsh man who cared little about fairness and his students. The course was even worse than before: raise curve for A from 87% (before pandemic) to 93%; set sequential navigation in tests (must finish one question before proceeding to next one); increased toughness of tests, making doing past papers futile. BTW he's not even a professor yet.

The worst professor I have ever had. I hope the econ department removes this man because he has no clue how to teach a class. He teaches you nothing, you need to teach yourself virtually everything in this class.

Hartman is pretty much the definition of mediocre. He gives you the very basics of the topics in his lectures (does not elaborate) and it's up to you to go read the book and watch the TA's do problem sets in order to really understand.

You will have to teach yourself the test material, because you certainly will not learn it from him.

Professor Hartman is not helpful at all. I took Econ 10A with him and I am taking Econ 134A. You need to do all of his previous tests to pass these classes. Don't rely on his lectures because they are useless. You basically need to teach yourself.

had not had one bad experience with a single professor until i took his class, he does not make any effort to help students or explain any material and a week before vaccines were available to the public he sent out an email warning students that sickness from the vaccine was not an excuse for an extention/to do poorly

Terrible professor. In my four years at UCSB, he is by far the worst professor I have ever taken. You learn absolutely nothing from his lectures. The tests and lectures feel like completely different material. You need to teach yourself or learn from Sarah, the best TA there is.

DON'T TAKE THIS PROFESSOR! No seriously, you rather skip a quarter and take it with someone else. Lectures are so useless. Gives an example but doesn't fully go over them. He will say "this is up for the students to calculate and figure out" then honestly what is the point of him? Exams were not similar to past exam so studying those didn't help.

Honestly the worst instructor I've had in my entire life. Restates the book in lecture but somehow makes the book seem even more unclear. Does not teach how to do any of the problems that will appear on the midterms. If TA Sarah was not in charge of the problem sets I would have failed the class along with many more students who I'm sure agree. Sad

10A is a disrespectful weeder class. The exams are artificially difficult. The actually material is easy to grasp and to apply but when lecturer John tests you on things that are no covered it makes it almost impossible to get a good grade in the class. The average grade is below a C. So if you get an average grade you will fail the class.

He doesnt go over problems or how to do them. The lectures are not closely related to the test questions.

Firstly, the professor is not good at teaching. He does not explain each concept fully with relevant clearances and examples. TAs are nice. The tests are completed unrelated to past exams so you have to study the materials on your own. As a person who enjoys learning economics, I can say the design of this course completely ruined my experience.

He is unworthy of being a professor. He should educate himself first. Every time you ask him a question, he just throws something else at you. Cold-blooded and doesn't care about students.

Hartman says he wants to help students but will deflect any question you come to him with. He encourages students who could do well to drop his course and doesn't seem to care about the well-being of his students. The lectures aren't worth it to attend- you'll get the same information online through the pre-recorded ones. Good luck!

The worst econ professor. Only reads materials in online lecture video without explaining the concept. Literally work-by-word from the slide. So is other professor of this class (Econ 5). The test is relative fair it's just don't try to rely on the lecture videos. Watch the slides and attend CLAS. You will be fine (hopefully).

If you can survive from this professor, you can succeed in ANY CLASS!

Hartman sucks. He reads the words on his slides and doesn't teach anything. There is one required class a week but so many small pointless assignments throughout the week. Always says he's available to answer questions but he never clearly answers them and just goes on a tangent about something I didn't ask about. Scared for the final.

I took this online over the summer and it was hard af, he doesn't know how to teach this class. He barely did any practice problems so when it got to the test I barely knew shit. I took ECON 5 with him too and that was in-person and very hard because it was the same thing, he didn't teach the damn class. I only got a B because I grinded heavily.

this was the worst class i've ever taken at ucsb. there is no structure, the lectures are awful, the tas do not know the material, and there is no one to help you. you are learning everything on your own with no help.

try your best to avoid any of his class cause taking his class means you have to put in a lot of effort in self-study the course. The way he explains the concepts is very confusing and sometimes you may doubt if he really understands the materials he's teaching. I took his econ 5 and luckily he's not the only instructor or I may fail his class.

Hartman isn't really even teaching the class. His involvement doesn't go beyond reading off of extremely confusing lecture slides and the only way to really learn anything in this class is to go to YouTube and watch people explain the concepts in a more understandable manner. Stay on top of online assignments and cram for exams and you'll be fine.

Horrible teacher. He does not deserve to teach students. He will show you slides and will not help you. Good luck.

Professor Hartman doenst teacher. He is very rude to his students. He has a sense of superiority that is very saddening. He doenst teach the course but rather sends lecture videos. so be prepared to teach yourself. there is not enough practice being applied in this course. the format and approach of this course is not very helpful to do well.

As a current member of L&S Honors Program, I persuade you to leave away from this xx as far as u can. John is a politician who constantly tries to sell his manipulation minds and ideas. Browse his slides, u will find out he keeps generating unnecessary pressure and brainwashing you with his set of 'success life' theory. Jesus Christ, Nightmare!

I understand that 10A is a weeder class but there is a difference between finding smart students and offering absolutely no help at all. His lectures are pretty much useless for tests. His attitude towards answering emails, students, and just his job in general is really poor. My advice is to do old exams and work with people in the class/ TAs.

You might be wondering why I put hilarious in my review of the most uninteresting man in the world, Professor Hartman. I put it because Hartman and his group of minion TAs are hilariously unhelpful and do not know the material. The video lectures are hilariously unhelpful and hard to follow. Also your grade basically rests on the final.

Took AP Stats so course was easy BUT if you're NEW to stats, this course is a NIGHTMARE! Recorded lectures & sections are USELESS. Only 1 REQUIRED weekly activity section! You have to SELF-STUDY EVERYTHING!! Instructors @office hours are HORRIBLE at explaining concepts. LOTS of online WEEKLY work! DO THE PRACTICE PRIOR MIDTERM/FINALS TO GET AN A!!!

His tests are always the hardest!!! Never choose him.

I've had him a couple times but this is finally the last time. Class grades are mostly test based and you would think that 50-60% test averages would be a sign for him to fix something. Honestly better off not going to lecture since he just reads off the slides anyways. Expected to know way more then whats covered in lecture so keep that in mind.

Lousy course setup. At the beginning of the quarter he'll give a speech about how they've switched the class format to help students learn better, but then the majority of the class is just watching pre-recorded lectures from covid. It's somewhat insulting how little effort is put into teaching students in this class.

By far the worst professor I've ever had at UCSB, I wish I could give him a 0/5. Super lazy, super condescending to students. The content itself isn't too bad it's just taught so poorly. My advice to do well, don't buy the textbook, don't watch the lecture vids, just memorize the slides and do every practice exam multiple times.

Econ 5 is not a hard class. Prof Hartman makes it hard. I feel bad for anyone taking this course as mostly every negative review is true. Lectures from 2020, the final is crazy hard, and you're required to do activities once a week with a group. Don't expect to learn anything though, everyone (including TA's) use ChatGPT. Terrible class.

Awful professor that teaches in a completely asynchronous manner, at least for my class. No feedback at all throughout the course and you teach yourself the content.

I got an A in this class because I taught myself EVERYTHING. The professor is lazy and uploads video lectures that are just him reading through the slides. The content is not hard but the class structure makes it hard. Do the practice tests and ask ChatGPT to explain things because the professor won't.

Super easy class until the impossible final that's worth 35% of your grade. If it's Hartman do not take

One of the worst professors I have ever had. I took AP Stats in high school and the way he explains topics makes even the most simplistic ones confusing. I had him for section, and he constantly spoke down to students, belittling and discouraging them. Teaching yourself the material and doing the practice tests is the best way to do well.

It's Hartman.

It's John Hartman.

Genuinely worst professor I've ever had and I'm writing this with an A in the class. All he does is post lecture videos of himself reading slides. He doesn't teach. Besides for his review lectures which aren't frequent where he is still terrible at explaining anything. He should be getting paid as a TA for the amount of work he puts into our class.

Econ 5, Hartman only appeared in online videos, but oml, I cannot stand the guy. He reads off slides word for word and switches up his tone of voice so that it sounds like he is adding remotely anything of value, while sounding condescending and unintelligent. He sticks his tongue out every 2 seconds. I could go forever but there is a char limit...

Awful professor. This class will not teach you everything. You're going to have to learn everything on your own. If you can avoid him, please do!

Lectures are pretty much useless except for the mandatory one. Professor Hartman is a lazy instructor. All the dude does in the videos is read off the slides and tries to talk slowly to pretend he is explaining it at a deeper level. At least the TA's videos are a little bit better but get ready to pretty much teach yourself the entire course.

The reviews are, for once, an accurate representation of the professor. Avoid at all costs.

heartless prof. my best friend spent a week in the hospital and died at the end of the quarter and he refused to excuse the lecture quizzes i missed while i was in the hospital with her. also i completed the excel project due the day she was taken off life support but the autograder didnt work and he still refused help me or manually grade it

Hartman's lecturing abilities are nonexistent, there was an inverse relationship between the time I spent in lecture and my understanding of the class. I genuinely think i would have more confidence if i had never attended a lecture. John Hartman should never again be allowed to lecture on economics, he nearly ended my interest in the topic.

A horrible teacher on the most basic and fundamental levels. I went to the first two lectures and decided I would be better off for the rest of the quarter avoiding being in the same room as him all together. ECON 5 is a class that you can 100% teach yourself online and get an easy A in the class if you end up getting stuck with Hartman like I did.

He definately wears insoles and I hope he stays insecure. Don't skip the midterm and study for it, it's easy, you're gonna need the cushion for the final.

Final was cooked. This class genuinely felt harder than econ10a for some reason, when its supposed to be a cushion. I spent an entire week doing practice exams 8 hours a day in leu of the final and flunked it. Do well on the midterm, and make sure everything else is 100% prior to the final.

John Hartman has no business being a professor of anyone, let alone college students. This was the most disjointed class I've taken at any level of academics and this man should be embarrassed and ashamed at the quality of education he provides to thousands of students every year. If you get stuck with him, do not go to his pointless lectures.

The contrast between the difficulty of the midterm and the final was insane. Dude has no business being an econ professor I'm not sure why the university hasn't fired this dude yet. He also has the worst music taste and thats still one of the least embarrassing things about him. Do not take his class.

Simply awful.

Single most boring and unmotivating instructor I've ever had. Lectures are monotone and it is obvious he does not want to be there, which makes you question why students should be there either. I have taken him for most upper div Econ classes and learned the material despite rarely attending lecture. He makes interesting subjects dull and draining.

The most whiney and unengaging professor i've ever had.

The most disorganized class I've ever had taken w the laziest professor who just reads off the slides. Stats is a subject that's straightfor but when he teaches it, it makes absolutely no sense. I spent all of thanksgiving break and dead week studying and still failed the final (60+ hours). That should tell you how unnecessarily hard the final was