The worst. The class was a horribly organized catastrophe. Homework varied GREATLY in level of difficulty, and full of typos. They are also not representative of materials that will be on the test. He was horrible at lecturing. If you actually wanna learn anything, avoid him. If all you want is an A, do the work and you'll likely get it.

He has STOPPED the 10% EC curve this semester, and requires a $130 online homework code?

This is probably the worst class I've taken at Michigan. Dudek is a pretty terrible lecturer, gives little to no resources, and writes on the chalkboard in a large lecture hall that nobody can see. Don't take 402 with him

He makes us to choose bw MC and short answers in the exam. It doesnt makes sense we solve different exams. He says difficulties are the same, but you know it can never be the same! In exam2 short answer was easier. Even gsis say that. So its always unfair for those who chose the harder part, and we never know which one is harder before solving it

Do not take his class unless you hate your life or you can learn all the materials by yourself because Dudeks class will never be helpful, instead left you feel extremely confused. Btw the Econ department needs to take a look at their overall quality.

Never take Dudeks class because he is not helpful and very confusing and create impossible exams for you.

He puts some things he didn't teach on the exam, so in the first exam A was 65%. A major problem students say is that we solve different parts on the exam. In the second exam he made part B much easier than part A. It's frustrating that even when you've studied really hard, you have to leave it to chance hoping the part you chose is the easier one.

I never get a grade below A- before. However, give credit to Maciej Dudek, I am pretty sure that I will receive a C+ at the end. If you just look at his exam, it is not difficut at all. However, he literally teach nothing and make extremely terrible PowerPoint which is impossible to understand. That is why his exam looks extremely difficult.

Require $130 access code to do homework. Exam is supposed to be easy but is hard because he cannot teach. He basically reads off slides provided by publishers which fail to highlight important concepts. His explanation of materials is very poor and unclear. He even teaches materials not covered by the textbook but nobody can understand

Dudek's lectures are dry, uninformative, and confusing, he reads only off of slides created by the textbook. When he does lecture himself, the content delves deeply into calculus and statistics - far beyond the scope of the actual class. Requires $130 access code to do homework. Changed his syllabus, so don't expect much extra credit.

Dry, confusing, hard tests, and no longer gives the extra credit that was supposed to make his class worth it. Nice guy, but first truly bad professor I've had.

Taking this class was the biggest mistake of my life. Dudek is a horrible lecturer. So boring and most of the things he says don't matter for the exam. He rambles and you never know what's important or not. Course has no structure and direction. Exams are nothing like the practice exams. Avoid this course at all costs!

Very unclear on expectations. The calculus he uses in lecture is brutal and leads into tough weekly homeworks. After the exams Im wondering what I couldve studied to do better and I sincerely couldnt come up with an answer. Hes nice but if you can, avoid this class. It should be an important class, but I havent learned anything useful.

Please, please do yourself a favor and stay as far away from this "professor" as you can. He and his teaching staff are massively unorganized and unhelpful, he obfuscates simple material, and the exams are absurd. I graduate next semester and until this class I had all As. Despite working my tail off- it ended my streak. Thanks Dudek.

Horrible, horrible teacher. He appears accommodating, but in reality just creates unclear expectations. Confusing exam formats. Who makes students choose between short answers and multiple choices!?

Dudek's study resources and lecture slides are the equivalent of him personally throwing a trash heap of papers in your direction and leaving you to figure it all out yourself. His new EC policy is terrible compared to his old one. It's telling that his GSIs can't solve prac exam MC questions during OH without answers; nobody knows what's going on.

He has stopped to offer either 10%ec or replace the weight of hw/exams. His homework are short answer questions and they are very difficult!

Sitting at work in mid-June and had a flash of ptsd from this class. I couldn't not leave a review of how bad this class was.

The single worst professor Ive had at UofM, and easily the worst educator of any material Ive seen in my entire life. If hes youre only option for 402, do yourself a big favor and just wait until another prof is teaching it, unless its spring or summer term when the GSI writes the written portion of the exam.

This is the type of class when people who study less then you do better then you. The more you look at the material the more you realize you have zero clue what Dudek is trying to say. He constantly contradicts himself and those who study less wont be confused by those constant contradictions on the test. This was a terrible class.

Intelligent researcher but unbelievably a letdown as a professor. He proves that Econ 402 is meant to weed out students from the major since his exams do not match his lectures at all. There is a reason his overall rating is so low, and this is it.

Dude literally has no idea how to teach 402 to anyone. Constantly contradicts himself in class and goes off on useless tangents and derivations that will help nobody learn anything. The multiple choice section of his tests has almost nothing to do with what we "learned" in class.

Super duper easy if u: Pretend this is MATH, screw the ECON title; Somehow grasp the testable stuff rushed in the last 5 mins after 4 boards of proofs/derivations, not required AND rarely error-free; can bear 0 aid from him before tests; ask the TA to get the full exam coverage. ENJOY THE REST OF UR DAY! At least he didn't spoil Star Wars IX...

He is a horrible teacher. Cant explain anything whatsoever and youre much better off reading the book since he has zero clue what hes talking about

Dudek is never clear about what he's teaching and he is so monotonous. Trying listen to him is brutal and when you do it doesn't help because he teaches stuff that never shows up on the exam. The exams are always out of left field and the semester I took it, he ended up curving 50% on the final to an A because everyone bombed it.

He taught so slowly and did not cover important topics in intro Macro. What he talked about in lectures did not correlate to the exam. It involves a lot of math instead of Econ concepts. For an intro-level course, the math required is beyond what is expected.

Dude literally does not explain anything in his lectures, and nothing on his lecture slides correlates to the homework or the tests. Get ready to teach yourself the course through the book.

He does not explain things well, is monotonous, and makes basic concepts and ideas more complicated and math-based than they need to be (and way more than what is required). It is basically a math class. He gives extra credit, which I appreciate, but no other resources to help his students with test prep (practice exams, etc).

Honestly one of the worst professors I have had, he's a nice dude who means well but this online class is so poorly formatted. There is little to no direction for this class, and optional lectures are so very monotonous and dry making it very hard to stay engaged. Absolutely no study guides for any exams, and I feel lost at all times in this class

Although he may be a nice guy, I would never take this class again. The fact there isn't a math requirement is wild. Partial derivatives and advanced algebra is all expected on his quizzes. After the first quiz, I was worried about all the math, so I emailed him. He insisted it would become more policy based, but it hasn't changed.

Avoid this class, there are better econ courses you can take--the tests are administered unfairly and the questions are pretty random a lot of the times. He's also very unorganized and barely got through half of the material

terrible

do not take class with this man. honestly shouldn't even be a teacher. you're just asking to fail by taking a class with this professor.

Seems knowledgeable enough but his tests are hard to prepare for and written poorly. I'd try to get a different prof if possible, this class wasn't taught or organized well. Extra credit is nice though.

Dudek teaches the material in a very confusing way, and the exam averages are all pretty low because people don't know what's going on. The only redeeming part of the class is that there's a lot of extra credit for doing the homeworks, but the homeworks are fairly challenging and sometimes dudek gives wrong answers in OH for them.

Avoid avoid avoid

Lectures are useless so be ready to read the textbook. Tests are poorly written and simply unfair. "None of the above" was the correct answer for roughly 1/3 of the questions on our last midterm. No wonder class average is so low on all of the midterms.

Avoid at all costs. Just trust. He puts material on the tests that he never talked about.

This guy is by all standards simply a very poor teacher. Even watching lectures on 2x speed, it was a challenge to not fall asleep. The tests do not accurately reflect the material he covers. He gives a LOT of extra credit, which is applied to your score, in addition to the curve, so you'll probably get a decent grade. But, man... it was rough.

I have never had such difficulty understanding what was expected of me in class. The lectures, practice tests, and actual tests seem to cover completely different material. Even the GSI admitted that he had no idea what material we should know for the exam at the exam review session. Grade consisted soley of 3, 24 question, multiple choice exams.

This class is very difficult and he does not do the best job explaining the material. Your grade is also solely based off of 3 exams, equally weighed, and option homework assignments.

Dudek reads off the slides and is very dry so hard to stay engaged during lecture. Be prepared to study a lot outside of class to do well on exams, even with AP experience. Most frustrating, discussion material was not connected to lecture so little relevant practice. Dudek ruined my love of Econ and I would avoid him at all costs.

His lectures were so dense and impossible to stay awake through. I did well but lived at my GSIs office hours and did hours and hours of studying for the exams (final grade is only made up of three exams). Be prepared to have to teach yourself most of the content

Dudek just wasn't a good professor. His lectures tended to be long-winded examples and his slide notes were short and vague. His exams were crab shoots. He offers a lot of extra credit so you can still get an A. If you want low workload I recommend him. If you want to learn something or to accurately study for exams, I do not recommend him!

Professor Dudek, while seemingly caring for his students' success, includes content on the exams which were never nearly touched on in lecture. 75% of the class grade is made up of three exams, and there are limited opportunities for outside help prior to exams. Dudek's lectures are extremely dull, which can be attributed to content and style.

AS OF WINTER 22-23, DUDEK NO LONGER GIVES EXTRA CREDIT FOR ECON 102. The textbook is "optional", but it's the only way you can get a decent grade in this class. Be prepared to rent a $60 book that you teach yourself with. Incredibly boring, slides are worthless, my final grade in this class was 86% that was curved to an A-.

Worst professor I have ever had. Lectures are so unbelievably boring and unengaging, while also relating little to what ends up being on the exam. This is an intro level course for a subject that many have experience with, and the test averages are still usually Cs. In addition, discussion sections are useless. You're cooked if you have him.

He is terrible at teaching, uses very messy graphs, talks in circles. He says you don't need the textbook but hw questions are from it. The tests are vague and covering all the content doesn't prepare you. He as a person is terrible. He made a grading error and then wasted my time with rhetorical questions and was very rude.

Awful professor. Lectures are monotone and boring, exams are harder than anything given in the class. Discussion sessions were extremely valuable because that is where you basically learned everything you needed for the class. If you don't rot your brain going to lectures and just learn from the book, you might do better than I did

Do not take this class!

He give grades based on mood partially, he is not better than anyone else, jus

Professor Dudek is not bad. However, the exams can be challenging and the lecture lacks a bit of explanation regarding the material.

Awful. Terrible at explaining things. Doesn't every clarify or explain any equations he gives - doesn't explain any new variable he writes in an equation unless he asks. Confusing and no joke the worst lecture slides I have seen in my entire life. Do not take his class unless you have no other option. dont know how he has a job at michigan

awful at lecture. boring. extremely rude. confusing. doesn't explain what he's doing. if you have to have him as ur professor drop the class

Most boring lecturer ever and is super unresponsive with questions. Gives u extra credit if you entertain him during lecture. Discussion is mandatory and you learn things that are completely different from lecture and the gsis are also bad.

By far the worst experience that I have had at Michigan. I genuinely don't understand who hired him. He will ask himself a question and reply "I do not know" I was able to get an A+ in this class by reading the chapters and studying the old exams. Did not go to lecture more than three times. Pay attention to Canvas because he posts pop quizzes

The worst professor/teacher I've ever had. Take this class with anyone else. Attendance isn't mandatory, but he posts pop quizzes during lecture. Lectures are absolutely terrible, and the slides are the worst I've ever seen. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.

He is literally so rude. I sent him an email asking a simple question, and his reply back was so blunt and rude. I was able to get through his lectures because I like econ, but other than that there was really nothing.

The worst professor at umich, especially in the econ department. Dudek is rude, gives poor lectures, and his slides are absolutely useless. Test and HW questions are poorly written and unclear, GSIs weren't great either. Overall, this is a teach-yourself class. I'd recommend taking it with someone else.

The worst lecturer ever. This guy will get through two slides in a lecture, then post 100 slides on Canvas after. I did not go to a single lecture after the first few, and neither did more than half the class. Go to the discussion for attendance because the 3% makes a difference, and some GSIs are somewhat decent.

my econ grade will never recover due to the disasterclass of dudek. i did not understand him or the slides half of the time, but that's okay, he gave me a chuckle here and there.