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Information	Review
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/05/2024	Very friendly and knowledgeable. Goes slow enough through concepts that are difficult, but if it is too fast, he will take time to answer several questions. Gives multiple past exams and supplemental problems before midterms and final to help students prepare. Slides are posted too. As long as you attend most classes and study 1-2 days before exam, you will be fine. It's not a intuitive class, but Vincent also makes it simpler to pick up the logic,
Peter Coughlin ECON414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2024	Class is only 3 tests and no homework. The lectures are pretty boring but the class is really easy.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/29/2023	Professor sometimes rush through the material, but he genuinely put an emphasis on his lectures. Indeed, he is a good professor for game theory course. Slides are thorough and enough to understand the material. The class is easy because there is not a lot of homework. 4 homework's set and he drops the lowest homework. He gave generous curve at the end.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/17/2023	nice guy, but lectures are the equivalent of getting your teeth pulled without novocane. i would strongly suggest sleeping before the class or else you will find it difficult to stay awake with this appetizing bedtime story singing you to sleep. exams are like the practice (avaliable on his website), so i would advise getting super comfortable with that. he will take off small fractions off your work for minor things so be diligent about checking your work. there's a guy on youtube (william spaniel) who uploads videos on game theory, i thought that helped flush out things dr vincent skims over or things i didn't fully understand. textbook is pretty useless- it gives largely examples and not explanations.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting a W Anonymous 12/16/2023	He did not hold any review for exams. I would not recommend him to anyone. Hard class to survive.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting a W Anonymous 12/16/2023	Do not take his class. Final exam is 45% on grade which contains hard part of the course. When material gets harder, he tends to rush through the material.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/04/2023	Decent prof, who is very knowledgable about the subject. Nice, funny guy too. Only critique is that, when the subject material gets a bit more difficult, he sometimes does not go over the concepts as thoroughly as he should. But on the whole, he's pretty good at explaining things. There's a nice curve at the end.
Daniel Vincent ECON414 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/10/2023	I didn't find the lectures too engaging but his slides explain the material pretty well. Never touched the textbook. Gave a generous curve at the end of the class.
Robert Schwab ECON414 Anonymous 12/24/2021	His lectures do not correlate with his problem sets. It is impossible to get 100% on the problem sets; either you get 5/6 and get an 83% for the homework section or 6/6 which adds on extra credit so you end up with 120% for the problem sets. While this could be nice if you get them all done, he is very strict with deadlines and how much work you show for the problems (so one missed problem set could make a difference of 6% in your final grade). His exams were extremely difficult as well but he provided a large curve to make up for the fact that the averages on the exams were in the 60s. However, he did provide previous exams and quizzes for practice. If you can take game theory with a different professor instead, do that.
Ece Yegane ECON414 Anonymous 12/26/2020	Very responsive to emails. Exams are easy if you do the optional homework. All lectures were prerecorded and async. Wasn't too much of a time commitment each week. The final grade was only 3 exam grades.
Nebahat Erturk ECON414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/04/2020	Ferda's class revolves heavily on her lectures. Many of her exam questions are modifications of homework or lecture examples. If you attend lecture, you can easily pass. People who usually have problems with her class typically don't attend lecture. When I took the class, the 40-person class decreased to roughly 10 regular lecture attendees (most of them B.S. Econ students). She can be terse, especially when approaching her for re-grades, but is more than willing to schedule office hours with you to help you understand the material.
Elif Osun ECON414 Anonymous 08/22/2019	Boring professor that constantly confused herself on the topic throughout lectures. Never graded fairly and gave random quizzes on purpose because people never showed up to class. Took the homeworks and quizzes way too seriously instead of focusing on connecting with students and making the topic more enjoyable for them. Ruined one of my favorite economics topics for me

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/05/2024

Very friendly and knowledgeable. Goes slow enough through concepts that are difficult, but if it is too fast, he will take time to answer several questions. Gives multiple past exams and supplemental problems before midterms and final to help students prepare. Slides are posted too. As long as you attend most classes and study 1-2 days before exam, you will be fine. It's not a intuitive class, but Vincent also makes it simpler to pick up the logic,

Peter Coughlin
ECON414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/17/2024

Class is only 3 tests and no homework. The lectures are pretty boring but the class is really easy.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/29/2023

Professor sometimes rush through the material, but he genuinely put an emphasis on his lectures. Indeed, he is a good professor for game theory course. Slides are thorough and enough to understand the material. The class is easy because there is not a lot of homework. 4 homework's set and he drops the lowest homework. He gave generous curve at the end.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/17/2023

nice guy, but lectures are the equivalent of getting your teeth pulled without novocane. i would strongly suggest sleeping before the class or else you will find it difficult to stay awake with this appetizing bedtime story singing you to sleep. exams are like the practice (avaliable on his website), so i would advise getting super comfortable with that. he will take off small fractions off your work for minor things so be diligent about checking your work. there's a guy on youtube (william spaniel) who uploads videos on game theory, i thought that helped flush out things dr vincent skims over or things i didn't fully understand. textbook is pretty useless- it gives largely examples and not explanations.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting a W
Anonymous
12/16/2023

He did not hold any review for exams. I would not recommend him to anyone. Hard class to survive.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting a W
Anonymous
12/16/2023

Do not take his class. Final exam is 45% on grade which contains hard part of the course. When material gets harder, he tends to rush through the material.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
09/04/2023

Decent prof, who is very knowledgable about the subject. Nice, funny guy too. Only critique is that, when the subject material gets a bit more difficult, he sometimes does not go over the concepts as thoroughly as he should. But on the whole, he's pretty good at explaining things. There's a nice curve at the end.

Daniel Vincent
ECON414

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/10/2023

I didn't find the lectures too engaging but his slides explain the material pretty well. Never touched the textbook. Gave a generous curve at the end of the class.

Robert Schwab
ECON414

Anonymous
12/24/2021

His lectures do not correlate with his problem sets. It is impossible to get 100% on the problem sets; either you get 5/6 and get an 83% for the homework section or 6/6 which adds on extra credit so you end up with 120% for the problem sets. While this could be nice if you get them all done, he is very strict with deadlines and how much work you show for the problems (so one missed problem set could make a difference of 6% in your final grade). His exams were extremely difficult as well but he provided a large curve to make up for the fact that the averages on the exams were in the 60s. However, he did provide previous exams and quizzes for practice. If you can take game theory with a different professor instead, do that.

Ece Yegane
ECON414

Anonymous
12/26/2020

Very responsive to emails. Exams are easy if you do the optional homework. All lectures were prerecorded and async. Wasn't too much of a time commitment each week. The final grade was only 3 exam grades.

Nebahat Erturk
ECON414

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/04/2020

Ferda's class revolves heavily on her lectures. Many of her exam questions are modifications of homework or lecture examples. If you attend lecture, you can easily pass. People who usually have problems with her class typically don't attend lecture. When I took the class, the 40-person class decreased to roughly 10 regular lecture attendees (most of them B.S. Econ students). She can be terse, especially when approaching her for re-grades, but is more than willing to schedule office hours with you to help you understand the material.

Elif Osun
ECON414

Anonymous
08/22/2019

Boring professor that constantly confused herself on the topic throughout lectures. Never graded fairly and gave random quizzes on purpose because people never showed up to class. Took the homeworks and quizzes way too seriously instead of focusing on connecting with students and making the topic more enjoyable for them. Ruined one of my favorite economics topics for me

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