Tests are all take home, however, he expects you to be able to know his train of thought on questions. He is not very good at explaining. ECON is all based on theory, but if you do not agree with him then you are wrong regardless if you prove yourself right! FIND ANOTHER TEACHER!!!

Lectures are difficult to follow, test questions are worded poorly, and I feel I learned more from my econ class in high school. Attendance is mandatory

Horrible..stay away. He can not explain things well so you can understand. His test are take home but worded badly. He's sarcastic and don't allow you to speak. This is worst class I've ever taken.

STAY AWAY! Horrible teacher! i did not learn a thing!!!!! His midterm and final are take home but they are very hard and he provides NO help with horrible lectures! no other grades besides pointless group meetings in class and attendance. unless you are already a genius in economics do not take him!

Horrible teacher. Midterm and final are take home but you did not understand them. Very awful at lectures. No other grades except group discussions that ade no sense. Very hard for a basic economics class. Attendance is very mandatory. Avoid this teacher if possible. Barely made a B in the class.

RUN!!!!! This is the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Take home tests are impossible, his lectures are ridiculously unclear and pertain in the least to what you are tested over. Do yourself a favor and drop this class if you have him. HORRIBLE!

The hardest thing about this class is sitting through his lectures. Attendance is mandatory only because the information for all assignments can be found on the internet. If you go to class, write down everything he writes on the board, and keep up with the handouts you will get an A.

I heard this teacher was good. They were WRONGGG. Horrible!!!!! I am so lost in this class. Take home test are extremely difficult. Lectures dont even make since.

he does know what he is teaching but he is terrible at teaching it. when you ask questions he puts you down. he does not post grades during the semester. he also does not respond to emails. this prof has no communication skills. avoid this class if you value your GPA. i never missed a day and did the extra credit and still did not pass

Run!!! The guy seems to know the subject material, but his communication skills are so poor that he can't communicate the material in lecture. You have to ask him about your grades periodically if you want to know where you stand. If you want to learn anything, avoid him at all costs!!!

Worst professor ever. I like econ, but he makes it unbearable. Attendance is mandatory, but you won't learn a thing. Midterm just got back. Got an A through the internet (it was a take home test).

Horrible. He does give you take home tests but they are so hard that google can't even help you. He also gives a lot of room for bonus but still. He's ADD, his notes do nothing withe the tests and he's boring. I only went because attendance was mandatory

Easily the worst professor I've ever had. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but he's so unclear when trying to teach it. At one point he mentioned being part-time for 20 something years. Near the middle of the semester, I could see why. Stay away from this man.

Hard prof for a gen-ed prof. Tests are take-home, but questions are extremely detailed. Final is 50% of your final grade. His instructions are not very clear and he isn't fair. Often he would ask one question to one side of the room, then vice versa. His motto seemed to be "Not everyone can get A's, and not everyone can get F's." Avoid if possible.

He's a very nice guy.. But a terrible teacher. The take home tests will give you headaches they are so difficult. He always gets off topic while lecturing and jumps back and forth from different topics making it very hard to take good notes. I don't normally post anything on here but his class is that aggravating.

Professor Mayers was extremely frustrating and unclear. It's like he waits until he gets to class to decide what to cover that day. Then writes with dead markers on the board - sideways. You have to go to class even though he doesn't teach you anything. Even though econ is an easy subject, this is just annoying.

Professor Mayer may know economics, but he is not a very good teacher. He is not clear in lectures. He seems to just ramble on about topics that are related to his life. He does not input grades online, and at the time of this post, have no clue as to my grade. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR, move your classes around so you do not have to!

Professor Mayer was very unclear in his lectures and even though his tests were take home and I have notes from every lecture, the tests were still extremely difficult for me. I would not recommend taking his class.

He's a very nice guy, but the lectures make no sense. He throws information onto the board without any sort of organized thought and changes the subjects so fast. There are take home tests which should be easy, but they won't be over what's in your notes or what is in the recommended text book.

Please do not take this professor. His lectures don't make much sense at all. His tests are take home, but they are still very hard. Attendance is taken randomly for a grade. I never missed a class and I cannot recall a thing I learned in the whole course.

He seems like the nicest guy. He responds to emails. If you try you can pass this class. If you want to learn something DONT TAKE this professor. He can not teach to save his life!!! He writes the formulas and problems with the answers. He never explains how to get to the answer. Pick a good group to work with to obtains points. Show up to class.

Extremely hard class. Two tests worth the majority of your grade and are both extremely difficult. If you need an A in this class, reconsider taking him. Extremely nice guy though.

Worst professor I have ever had. Lectures do not make much sense and then gives extremely detailed exams. Do not recommend

One of the hardest classes I've taken, he doesn't teach from the book and gets off topic a lot. the test are very confusing and uses information from the book that he does not teach or remotely talk about.

Prof. Mayer is a very nice person however is a horrible teacher. He does not use power points and just lectures. His test are nothing like the notes and the information in the book will not help you with the test either. If you want an easy class do not take Prof. Mayer.

Hes a kind man but not a great professor. Writes small print on a tiny white board and continues to stand in front of what he wrote. The notes dont have any rhyme or reason whatsoever. I walked out of class not knowing what I even learned. Exams are take home but impossible to make an A on. Takes attendance randomly in an unorganized fashion.

He is a nice person but I've never had a more disorganized teacher. He gets up and starts randomly mumbling his lectures in an unorganized fashion and I have no idea what's going on. The tests he gives us are take home but really difficult and have little to nothing to do with what he's taught us. It's basically a joke.

One of the worst professors I have ever had. Spends the majority of class teaching through random Kahoot questions and youtube videos. Tests are take home but extremely difficult and impossible to get an A on. All grades in the class are never posted so you have no idea where you stand in the class. Avoid at all costs.

Worst professor I've ever had. His lectures were all over the place and made no sense. Midterm and final were impossible to make an A or B on. Unorganized. Would randomly call names or have a sign in sheet but you can get away w/ not showing up. Does a lot of group work and Kahoots.

he takes attendance randomly so if you skip its hit or miss. Theres a midterm and a final. Those are pretty much your only grades. He looks like he doesn't really know what he's doing, but its econ so its pretty easy. The tests are open book and at home so you'll need your book for those occasions only (or copy). You get out of class halloween.

Please please save yourself and do not take this professor EVER. He does not give clear lectures and does not base his lectures off of PowerPoints or the book and his notes are all over the place so it is very hard to follow. The tests are take home, but almost impossible to get an A, take the other econ teachers!!!

I feel like I'm in a movie, watching a professor speak just like the teachers in Charlie Brown. Fails to draw connections between subjects and makes disconnected jokes throughout class. Not hard, tests are take home for a week. Definitely not a mean guy, just not very engaging.

The classes and lectures don't match. Don't take him unless you have a little background knowledge of economics.

Phil Mayer is clearly a good guy, but is clearly not meant for teaching ECON. You can't understand most of what he says. He writes on a whiteboard for you take notes and its very confusing. He gives take-home tests but they are still difficult because the material on the test has nothing to do with the lectures. Do not take him

DONT DO IT PLEASE! Ya'll do not take this class. Get out while you can. You cant hear him when he talks, his notes are all over the place. Just a bad teacher to have.

HE WONT LET US SEE OUR GRADES. I DONT CARE IF THERE ARE NO OTHER CLASSES AVAILABLE BUT THAT ONE DO. NOT. TAKE. HIS. CLASS. UNPROFESSIONAL, UNCOUTH, and cant even lecture he mumbles the whole class IN FRAGMENTS. I SWEAR ON EVERYTHING I KNOW AND LOVE KENNESAW STATE NEEDS TO HIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY.

he doesn't teach anything and it is very hard to understand him. The class is super boring. Exams are take home but the answers are hard to find because you basically learn nothing. Don't take him

For Prof Mayer's lectures he just writes stuff out on the board for you to take notes from, which is super confusing. There are 2 exams which were both take home, but did not really relate to anything he covered in lectures. As a student who took AP Econ in highschool, i found this class extremely hard and confusing. Avoid if possible!!

Yeah so I lasted for about 30mins in the first day of his class. God bless the dude he has no idea what he's talking about. For you guys out there that play GTA 5, he's like a character you'd meet on the " stranger and freaks" missions.

I am normally more than fair and feel students deserve the grade given. HOWEVER, DO NOT take this professor. I assume he has tenure and that is why he is still employed. Midterm & final are take home but HE writes them. Questions are contradictory & make no sense. He writes random notes on board. No technology and does not post grades on D2L.

This class is extremely confusing. He writes on the board for lectures and none of it really makes sense. I thought this class would be easier to follow as it is an intro to economics course, but is it difficult.

The class isn't all that hard, but I don't feel that I've learned anything. His lectures are so disorganized that I often have no idea what ideas he is trying to get across even when I am paying attention. The midterm is a take home and more than half of the final is as well, and all of the other grades are fairly trivial in class group projects.

This man is honestly the reason why people think economics is terrible. He freestyles his notes on the board, doesn't post grades, and he goes on random tangents where he'll practically be talking to himself. He assumes that you read the book without telling you what to read and the tests are on subjects he didn't even cover. Avoid this teacher plz

Had a weird system of group participation. I happened to miss the day that groups were assigned and I wasn't put in a group as far as I know so I guess that's a good chunk of my grade that's gone. Doesn't post grades or course materials online. Attend the lectures if you want to learn anything, cause those don't go online either.

The class is over and I am still bewildered how this man has a job. His tests are take home but written by him so technically, there is no correct answer. I'm pretty sure this class is going to ruin by 4.0 GPA. I attended every class and still left confused as he goes off on random tangents. Doesn't use technology, writes notes all over board. Bad.

Worst professor I have ever had. He does nothing but lecture, and the man cannot organize a lecture to save his life. There is a midterm, final, and then all of these random assignments that do not make sense, and "extra credit", which is just if you answer questions during class. He takes attendance by making everyone sign the same paper. AVOID.

This professor doesn't use technology, doesn't post grades, and gives 2 tests... A midterm and a final. Both are take home (sounds good right?) 1/2 the answers you can't find in the textbook or even online. The other 1/2 you think you got the right answer for, but you get it wrong because he makes the tests from memory by the looks of it.

By far the absolute worst professor I've ever had in my 4 years of college. lectures about absolutely nothing related to econ, doesn't post grades, and only 2 assignments for the semester. This man is awful.

Literally did all of the assignments with other people, they received Bs, and I made a C some how. Ridiculous grading, doesnt know how to teach. Would do anything you could not to take him

Please for the love of god do not take him. His lectures are incredibly boring and he likes to go off topic. The midterm and final is just a mess that comes nowhere from his notes. The only good thing about him is that he does give extra credit from time to time; TAKE THEM WHENEVER THEY COME UP. Doing them can determine whether you get an A or a B.

I dont recommend anyone taking him because he doesnt teach anything or even have a structure class. He tends to throw things on the whiteboard and doesnt explain what he teaches. Literally nobody knows what going on in the class, you basically have to teach yourself the content. The textbook is awful like its all over the place.

Half the class is him talking about something unrelated the other half is a 5 question index card participation grade with hard to understand questions. You need to pay good attention or youll be lost in his unorganized lecture

This man makes no sense. He rambles and mumbles and laughs when he sees we are confused. He wont answer you if you have a question and only calls on guys in the class. He only gives the midterm and final and wont even tell you your grade.

Please save yourselves, and DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. His lectures are all over the place. Yeah, the midterm and final are take home, BUT the questions are confusing and you will not find a lot of them online. This is coming from someone with a 4.0 GPA & who got a 5 on the AP Econ test. Our meme chat on groupme got me through that class.

DO NOT take this professor!! He is so disorganized in his lectures, makes no sense when he is talking and never answers questions. The class is practically just graded on the midterm and the final. His class participation assignments are just a waste of time and we never even get the answers to our assignments. Please whatever you do dont take him!

The worst teacher I have ever had. He does not tell you your grade at all. I finished the class and still dont know ONE grade I made in that class. I couldnt understand anything the professor was saying and he made no sense and would just ramble. The groupme was the only good thing about the class.

Do NOT take him. The WORST Econ professor I've had. He won't upload your grades so you'll have zero clue of what your grade is. There's only two tests, midterm and final and his questions are made up by him so its harder to understand. So good luck with that.

This professor is the worst one ever. He only gives you two grades; a midterm and final. If he doesn't like you you won't pass. He is always off topic and never is specific on what your are supposed to do. The content is so easy but he words his test awfully and makes it to were any answer could be it. He won't tell us our final grade yet either.

Easily the worst college professor I've ever had. There are only two grades the entire semester(the midterm and the final), so best of luck. His lectures are very unstructured, and he'll ramble on until some student asks him a question to put him back on topic. You won't know what your grade in the class will be until the end of the semester.

By far the worst professor I have ever had. Avoid him if you can! Class is very unorganized, and there is essentially no course content. It is mainly just stuff he wants to talk about that isn't relevant to a 1000 class. I somehow made it out with a B, so yeah. Just don't take him; waste of my time.

worst professor ever avoid him at all cost believe me. OKay first off he does not upload your grade at all so you don't know what your grade is until its late to fix it. second his final and midterm exams are nothing like we talked about in class, they're take home exams and very hard ones btw. And third his class is sooo boring. DON'T TAKE HIM.

Phil. avoid Phil at all costs. If this is the last econ class open, dont take it. Just wait another semester and do it later because this guys class isnt worth it. Hes incoherent, just scribbles random economics on the board then gives a vague explanation and asks whether we understand. Then he only has two tests the midterm and the final.

HE IS HORRIBLE, DO NOT TAKE. PLZ! although his midterm and part of the final is take home and half final in class. they are very hard. those are the only two major grades so you have to basically get As on them. 85 is an A in his class. his class is ridiculous and boring. if hes the last option, STILL DONT TAKE HIM. WAIT FOR THE NEXT SEMESTER

The class is useless. the professor is not the move. We bought a book for which we have no that we never used. Only had a midterm and the final and nothing else! I had 10 pints shy of 850 (a) and he could not bump me. Don't take him unless you have NO better options. I didn't learn (tish) and I almost hate Business because of this class and him!

seems like a nice guy but hes just a really bad professor. his lectures were PAINFULLY boring and i'm convinced this man doesn't know how to use his laptop. the only grades we got were for the midterm, final, and a few participation grades but he never put anything in d2l so I still don't even know what I have in the class.

Phil Mayer is the worst professor I have taken in my 3 years at Kennesaw. Phil is incoherent and extremely disorganized. He doesn't use D2L so you won't know your grade until the end of the semester. Phil's lectures and the textbook will not help you on the exams. I finished Econ 2100 & Econ 2300 with A's, yet will finish Econ 1000 with a C.

Do not take this class. The lectures are painfully boring and he just scribbles stuff on the board that you can't even read. He doesn't post any grades until the end of the semester. You are also only graded on the midterm and final. He claims there is extra credit, but I am pretty sure he didn't actually keep track of it. Do not take him.

Professor Mayer's class is a great example of an easy class made difficult. This course is an introductory course and the content is very manageable. However, the lack of effort Mayer puts into his lectures made it very difficult to succeed in his class. I would advise anyone seeking to take Econ 1000 to either wait or seek other options.

This class was a joke. The midterm and final were basically the only grades in the class, and they were take home tests that we had a week to do. His lectures made zero sense, I didn't learn a single thing, but it was the easiest class I've ever taken.

I dropped this class mid semester because I was failing for 2-3 months straight. He doesnt hold lecture for the allotted amount of time, he draws pictures of the lectures instead of actually teaching. He offers extra credit but if he doesnt like your answers, then you dont get the credit. He also doesnt tell you if youre right or wrong

His course page is a mess... his notes are awful. I was out sick for a couple weeks and he gave me no way to help my grade from missing the in class assignments. Takes some time to respond to emails. The textbook is so wordy and long and the quiz questions barely relate to the reading. Probably a good guy, wouldnt recommend.

Lectures were very confusing and he always went on tangents that had nothing to do with the lecture. The materials he provided didn't really help with the quizzes. Questions on tests and quizzes were confusing.

Honestly, if you're good at Econ you'll do fine. I am not though. His lectures were all over the place and hard to understand and the weekly quizzes were from what he taught, not the book. It was just a difficult class to navigate.

lectures were ALL over the place and then the tests were based off of his lectures. don't take him unless you're already really good at economics. you have a whole week to work on the tests but they just don't make sense so it's not even helpful

This professor is terrible. Doesn't know how to teach. The tests are hard too since he doesn't know how to teach. Just don't take him.

I don't understand why this guy is still allowed to teach. Lectures are all over the place, and he consistently would show up to class not knowing what to teach. Do NOT take this class!

This was my first ever econ class and it was terrible. His lectures are all over the place and not very helpful because he doesn't teach well. Not very good at explaining the material. There's also only 3 grades, two midterms and a final, which I did not enjoy. I was not even supposed to have him as my prof but I think the other class was full

I would have to say I barely learned anything from his class. He also gives pop quizzes randomly that are so poorly written it is hard to take them. I would advise not to take him unless you already know the content.

I have NEVER received an f in my school career. He waited to put grades in till after the drop period. He doesnt know how to teach. His lecture makes no sense. He uses crash course and other professors PowerPoints. Attendance acts like extra credit because its the only easy grade. Theres no studying for his class, the answers are specific to him

Absolutely ridiculous tests question. Very contextual to what he said in class however while you are listening to his lectures you have no idea anything he says matters cause it sounds like random nonsense. Very poor job at explaining/expanding on any concept he introduces, just kinda shrugs off any questions, cant stress enough how bad the test r

No matter where you sit, you will not know what this man is talking about. He never answers questions, as a matter of fact, it's like he gets offended when you do ask one because he thinks he is so clear with his speaking but he's really not. His tests are based of what he thinks and the PowerPoints are useless.

Professor Mayer is one of the worst professors currently at KSU. His lectures are a rambling mess, and his tests are ridiculously difficult. The highest I ever scored on a test was an 85%, and that was with my notes! DO NOT take this class with Professor Mayer!!! The only reason I got an A was from his insane participation grade.

learned nothing

10/10 Would not recommend, especially if you dont understand Econ as is. His lectures are very hectic, disorganized, and incoherent. He writes notes on the board while lecturing but theyre messy, he does not have lecture slides. The midterms do not make ANY sense. He doesnt update assignment grades but expects you to calculate your class grade.

No, actually, save yourself. Please don't take this class, you'll literally be setting yourself up for failure. I thought I would be fine even after reading the ratings, BUT THIS MAN LITERALLY DOES NOT TEACH. He pulls out random diagrams out of nowhere, is super uncoordinated, and nobody knows what he's talking about. Not even him sometimes.

Professor Mayer was awful. His lectures had nothing to do with the graphs he would randomly display. We were only graded on 3 test and class participation. Every single time he sent a test out, there was an always a problem with it. The only saving grace was that test are take home, however, you will teach yourself. Don't take him if you can.

Prof. Mayer often goes off on tangents and makes random connections to things that have no meaning to the topic. Class participation days are mandatory, but he lets you know when they are. There are only three exams in the entire semester, but they are all take-home and are not that difficult.

Grade is based off of 2 quizzes, one final + attendance. You have a set amount of days you have to show up to class for points. The tests and quizzes are horribly written. Belive the other reviews- NOTHING HE TEACHES IS ON THE TEST. Never found a single Quizlet for his class either. Most of the lecture is him rambling/doing something unrelated too.

Just don't. I don't have enough time to describe it. Just don't take his class.

This instructor did not teach us anything. Going to class is pointless, and he teaches as if you already understand all of the content. He would also get off on side stories while trying to tie the stories into part of the lesson, but the issue is that he would just get so deep into the side story that you completely forgot which class you were in.

DO NOT TAKE. He doesn't teach anything in lecture. He goes on tangents about things like the highway or his neighbor Linda, and what you learn, you'll either know from high school or figure out on your own from the internet. Not available really outside of class, rude he makes you calculate your own grade as if he can't do it himself.

This class was horrible. It included meaningless rants during class and useless graphs drawn on the board. There was also a mid-term and a final with questions that made no sense or relevance to what he had discussed in class. DO NOT TAKE IT.

Subjective test questions that had answers based on his opinion of a certain topic. Told random stories that had nothing to do with anything we were talking about, then tried to connect it to whatever he was trying to teach. Exams are take home at least.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS... He is all over the place when he teaches, and hurry up erase everything on a small white board. The class all got A's because he had health issues and he couldn't find the midterm exams, so everyone was lucky for that and the new professor Brett Katlzman, was super caring and the final was easy.

Very sweet old man but that's his biggest problem. He doesn't have any urgency and ended a lecture after 20 min because he couldn't remember the answer to a question he asked in class. He has 3 grades, a midterm, a final, and class participation. He also doesn't like to be asked questions about the class, as it seems like he takes it personally.

DO NOT TAKE!!! He was actually one of the worst professors that I have ever had. I learned absolutely nothing and he even lost our midterm papers.

I would not reccommend taking a class with this professor. Your grade depends on two tests, being the midterm and final. He wont post any lectures online, and his lectures are scatterbrained and extremely hard to follow.