I never met a prof like Peter who can use a test like his nuclear weapon even he taught absolutely nothing in this hell-like course. to those who want to choose Peter, R.I.P

I believe professor Streufert had a difficult time adjusting to the new learning environment with COVID. His personally made textbook is poorly written and does not explain the topics clearly. His exams are poorly formatted and seem to test more on mathematics than actual economics concepts. Would not recommend his class.

Peter Streufert is unable to properly adjust to the online learning format. Instead of making slideshows or video lectures, he is writing his own, incoherent version of the textbook and not using the one that we had to buy. Has turned economics into a calculus course and when asked if he could post videos or slides, said "online teaching is hard".

The fact that his lectures provide far less information than the textbook is irrelevant due to almost all test questions are already online meaning all those who cheat and barely work do very well. This produces an inflated average and the prof to dock everyone's grade by the amount the average is above 70. cheaters win w streuferd

Struefert's lectures are boring, confusing, and unhelpful. He wrote his own textbook to be used alongside the real textbook (confusing way to learn). Going into the final, I have no idea what I learned in this course as most of it was just mathematical calculations with no economic theory tied to it. by far the lowest mark ive gotten in uni

The lack of effort this year due to online learning is apparent. His lectures give less information than the textbook does, and is difficult to contact consistently. Seems like he might be better in person, but he clearly has not adapted well to the online format, but he expects us to adapt with no issues.

This prof created his own textbook to go hand in hand with the actual textbook, making this course incredibly difficult to navigate. His textbook is difficult to comprehend as it simply throws complex mathematical formulas at you. I haven't learned a thing about economics in this course and I'm a straight-A student who rarely complains about profs.

Streufert has managed to make every single teacher I have had since kindergarten appear deserving of a noble prize. He cannot teach and frankly doesn't try to, so get excited for calc 2.0. The only time he tried explaining something over the semester was when he curved us down 11% on 2 midterms. Destroyed my mental health this year!

Streufert has just turned economics into a poorly explained calculus course. He has neglected teaching actual economic concepts and makes his exams unnecessarily difficult in comparison to the other economic professors. He also completely changed the way he taught the course for the last 3 lessons, making it difficult to study for the final

literally, just don't take his class. Econ is a fine subject but 1. I taught myself everything 2. he curves tests and exams down I wish someone wrote that here bc then I wouldn't have taken his class and got stuck with a mark 5-10% lower than the mark I actually earned. he's a nice man but i have swear words to describe how i feel about this man

One of the most confusing classes I have taken during COVID. I feel sorry for anyone who has to read the tedious mess he calls a textbook that was created to go alongside the actual course text. Just pages upon pages of unhelpful paragraphs and math formulas. I honestly don't think I have learned anything useful and I would avoid his online classes

This man is absolutely derailed. What kind of professor goes out of their way to craft an entire textbook that makes no sense? Did he want to supplement the course content? No, because that would be a sane thing to do. This man created an entire textbook to SUBSTITUTE THE COURSE. Yes, the entire course was delivered through his word-vomit PDFs.

Takes days to respond to emails. Hasn't adapted to online learning environment very well. He wrote his own textbook that is supposed to easily help us transition to the main textbook, but it only made things more confusing Be prepared for a math-heavy economics class.

his class is a disaster which fully shows that he didn't prepare for teaching an online class. he used his own textbook to teach before the last 3 weeks. his textbook is incomplete so he just threw 75% Eco main textbook in the last 3 weeks. no videos, ridiculous curve down and tech issues in every test but he requires you to prepare fully.

Man gave me depression. PLEASE take anyone but him

his exam was unlike anything he taught us all semester and was ridiculously difficult. he used his own textbook to teach 3/4 of the semester but none of that material was on the final exam. extremely unhelpful in emails and he seems exasperated when asked to clarify basic concerns and questions. makes me reconsider my major.

Final exam average was 63%, take that for what it's worth.

Don't take this class unless you want a grade below what you earned. He curves all his tests down so the average is at a 70. The final exam had questions he never taught in class and was unreasonably difficult. He does not know how to conduct an online class or write tests for online use.

Received over 90% on every midterm but this prof curved marks down so hard that I ended up with less than 80% as a final grade. Impossible to do well with this guy.

nice guy, but did not adjust to the online format well. Curves the class down by an insane amount, and had difficult questions on the final that were never seen before. Self taught myself the course. Mark ended up 5-10% lower than what it was supposed to be.

I do not recommend taking Professor Streufert's class online. I watched the first week's lectures and could not continue as they were too boring and intolerable. I did this entire course from the textbook. While the content of Econ1021 was not particularly hard, he marked his tests on a curve, lowering everyone's marks. Do not recommend!

Do not take this class online. He wrote the absolute worst and most confusing textbook of all time. Almost as if he wrote it with the intent of making your life hell. He uses a combo of 2 textbooks that conflict entirely. The SE textbook is just made up material that you can't find help for anywhere online. Coming from a dedicated student.

Self taught course, impossible to do well in this class. Try your best to get a different prof

He expects you to magically know all the concepts, especially last semester when his class was online, there was not enough teaching and more expectations. The examples discussed in class were baby food compared to what showed up on the exam. He says the honours course is supposed to challenge you, but he doesn't put in the effort to explain prprly

He did not use textbook at all and expected us to know the stuff through lectures.

Everything is taught out of a textbook he wrote which is easily the worst textbook I have ever read as it does not explain topics.. There are very few practice questions given which makes studying extremely difficult. Try your best to change professors.

The label of the course is economics but in reality, it's a do-it-yourself calculus course. He made his own textbook as if he had the intent of making you miserable and hoping that all his students fail.

You can tell he is very smart and knowledgeable about economics and the subject he is teaching, but may be the worst teacher I have ever experienced. Makes the class a million times harder than it should be. When I teach myself I start to get it, but his lectures are basically speaking another language. Class average on an ECON MIDTERM was a 54!!

PLEASE AVOID TAKING STREUFERT. His lectures will put you to sleep. He makes simple topics seem complex. Oh, and he DIDN'T SEND A SINGLE EMAIL TO THE CLASS ALL YEAR. He's clearly too smart for the course. He has a Ph.D from Stanford, writes complex papers on game theory... but teaches first years econ 101. It's like Einstein teaching 5 year olds.

AVOID DIY calc class, lectures are terrible, sounds like he's speaking gibberish. Doesn't explain anything, boring lectures. All material based of a textbook he wrote, worst textbook ever as it doesn't explain how to do anything. Clearly too smart to be teaching this course.

As others have said, this is essentially a Do-it-yourself calculus course. The professor wrote his own textbook that overcomplicates even the simplest topics, and is formatted extremely poorly. You will absolutely fail this course if you don't read his custom textbook cover-to-cover, which is unfortunate because he's actually a very nice person.

Here it is plain and simple: Lectures are boring af, he reads off the slides Tests are super hard and many drop the course He will drop your GPA I could write forever about how much I hate this guy but yeah do not take him

Nice and smart guy, but horrible prof. Worst one I've ever had. He is not helpful at all. Super vague. Wont tell you anything about what is going to be on the exam or the format. Refuses to give helpful examples in class. Exams are all short answer. Avoid him at all costs. I wish I knew how horrendous of a teacher he was before I took his class.

Get out while you can. Nice guy, very smart but doesn't translate to teaching. Lectures consist of talking about equations rather than doing them. Exams have low averages (40's, 50's). I feel like I didn't learn anything in this class, just tried to survive.

Definitely the most difficult professor I've had at Western. I would consider myself a fairly smart student who did decently well in econ first year (~80%), but his tests I could barely pass. I strongly suggest switching out of his course - he writes his own tests and they are extremely difficult.

Overall the class is terrible. If you have the chance to take 1021 with any other prof please save yourself and do it. I know a lot of people who dropped his course because he can't teach and everyone is failing in the class.

He is very respected professor, but he does not know how to make Economics question papers. He uses his own 'sandbox' textbook filled with useless math questions and confusing you more about economics. Never take his class.

He gave no information of what our exams would be like. When a student would ask what would be on it and what the layout would be like, he said and I quote "I want to keep the exams mysterious". So we all went into the midterms having no clue what they would be like. They weren't multiple choice they were weird fill in the blanks. AWFUL LECTURES

Streufert is definitely the worst prof I've had. His lectures are very boring. He speaks in a soft, monotone manner, and had very few slides. He will often have a very complicated graph on the board, and talk about the same image for half the lecture (not an exaggeration). It is practically impossible not to doze off. The exams are horrible too.

Get out of his class if you can. Terrible at explaining and super boring to listen to. His exams are virtually impossible and consistently have a 20% average lower than the other profs. Terrible econ experience for me.

The worst professor I have ever had. Created his own textbook to use for the course which explains economic concepts in the most confusing and complex way possible. Refused to give any information about the exams, and stated that "he hasn't taught a course like this before, so he is unable to give us any hints". He has taught multiple ECON classes.

The man can not teach the first 75% of the course it is taught out of his own textbook which is easily the most poorly formatted and written textbook I have ever read. His lectures are also very confusing, provide no clarity, and he gives no practice problems to prepare you for the exam.

He speaks in a very montone voice making it hard to pay attention to his lectures. Furthermore, he does a bad job at preparing the students for his exams since all you really have is the lecture notes. All you need to know is that the average in his class was significantly lower then other profs. If you take econ1026 find another prof.

I have never taken economics before and he made it so difficult to understand. The first midterm class average was 45%. I ended up dropping the course because his lectures were unbearable and SO unclear. Take any other prof if you can. Save yourself.

he is actually the worst professor you can have. He literally prays on your downfall and this class will be the only reason your gpa will be compromised. for your own sake, please dont take this class. Avoid it all cost.

hated this class with a passion

Not economic is math class at all

This professor is the only one at university that I will look extra hard to avoid. His lectures put you to sleep, they are so boring. Forget about getting practice on your own because all of the practice in his own made textbook only provides final answers and there is never a real solution to how to solve problems. Please drop this prof

has nothing on his slide deck