Allan Drazen

This professor has taught: ECON325, ECON371, ECON601, ECON709, ECON754, ECON808, ECON848, HLTH672, HLTH710, HONR259G

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Allan Drazen ECON371 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2024	He’s a nice guy and funny. Older guy, so he’s not very tech or ELMS literate (to put it mildly). You’ll have no idea what your grade is until the very end. But the class is super easy. Every week, a group presents on the given topic and readings. So whenever your group presents, just do the readings for that week and put good time and effort into the presentation. Then there’s just a written final on the course themes, which is easy. The class content is interesting, but the quality of the class suffers due to the fact that your fellow students are teaching the content each week. As a result, it sounds like a more interesting class on paper than what it actually is. It’s an easy A though. And Prof Drazen will give you some funny moments for what that's worth.
Allan Drazen HONR259G Expecting a B+ Anonymous 07/27/2021	He says class is an open discussion, but you're secretly judged and graded on your views. Lashed out at a student for her views.
Allan Drazen HONR259G Expecting an A Anonymous 12/29/2020	Boring class and boring professor. Worse part was the course didn't have a final (according to the syllabus). A week before the course ends, prof. starts talking about a potential 1-2 page assignment. And then, at the very start of finals, he assigns a 5-6 page assignment. Unfortunate.
Allan Drazen HONR259G Expecting an A Anonymous 12/09/2020	Professor Drazen was great this semester. He is an older guy who said he has listened to feedback about his lectures, and thus decided to have discussions led by students instead (Obviously guided by him as well with important points and readings beforehand). His class was very simple, had minimal work, and had fantastic discussion even for an Honors Seminar. For someone who is not particularly technologically skilled, his adjustment to the virtual format was great.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2014	He was honestly the most boring professor I can think of other than Professor Binns. I never went to class, didn't learn anything, and wouldn't recommend this teacher for anyone.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/29/2013	I had him this past semester. I can honestly tell you I did not learn a single thing in this class. My final grade was a 55%, which was curved at least 32% to a B+. The TA's are not really helpful, and the models used are completely different from anything an economics student would have seen before this class. ECON201 really does not help with this class at all either.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/16/2013	This guy. I dont even have words for how bad he really is. Reads right off of the slides in a dry monotone voice. you can tell he just really doesnt care for macroeconomics very much which makes it harder on his students to grasp concepts when he doesnt present them with any energetic or constructive explanations or feedback. tests are extremely difficult with averages being around 50% sometimes lower. Just ridiculous im paying for this guy to speak the book information to me.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Anonymous 02/07/2013	i would give him zero stars if i could. he reads right off the powerpoints and doesnt teach you anything else. if you have trouble sleeping take his course. professor chugh is a 100 times better professor. he explains the information better and is available to you. drazen will brush you off to his TA's. every other economoics course i took the professor explained the information well. you are stuck taking him since he is the only one teaching it. if you can wait take it in the summer or if you know the material well take it in the winter. he is being paid just to read the powerpoints verbatim. any questions you ask him will get an obvious NO or I dont know.
Allan Drazen Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2011	Although he seems to understand economics very well, and he is a nice person in general, Professor Drazen clearly has better things to do than teach his students. He was consistantly late and when he wasn't late the lecture would start late because he can figure out his computer. He would then read off the slides word for word and vanish. He seemed unconcerned when the midterm average was less than 30%. He brushed me off when I approached him for help, and passed me off to the TAs, which were even less helpfull. In the end I learned very little and came away more confused than anything. The other professor teaching econ 325 wrote the book on this class (literally) I would take him if I had to do it again.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/18/2011	I had Professor Drazen for ECON325 this semester, but the funny this was, he did not teach my class. All of his material were pulled directly from those of Professor Sanjay Chugh. In lecture, Professor Drazen was Professor Chugh's mouthpiece - he literally read off Professor Chugh's slides and did little in gauging whether his students understood the material. There were only four grades in my class: two problem sets, one midterm and one final. This is absolutely absurd because by having so little grades, tremendous pressure is placed on each assignment and there is little to no chance of redeeming your grade if you do poorly on one assignment. Quite predictably, the problem sets were pulled from those of Professor Chugh. The problems were long and tough, so students resorted to consulting Professor Chugh's website for help. While I'm sure Professor Drazen is a very smart man and he understands Economics well, he is not fit to teach. It blows my mind that the university pays him $200,000 a year to read his colleague's slides. If this is how the professional world works, then shame on anyone who allows this. Never have I ever had a professor that cared so little about his students. Perhaps this was the reason why no one showed up to class.
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/12/2010	Professor Drazen is the most boring teacher I have had at UMD. If you are having trouble sleeping, I recommend attending his lectures. By reading off powerpoint slides which he posted online, students had no reason to listen to him while in lecture or attend lecture at all for that matter. The entire course consisted of 4 grades, with 40% based on the final exam which seems unfair. Being an ECON major, I am extremely dissapointed at how little Professor Drazen seemed to care about his students
Allan Drazen ECON325 Expecting a B JSlotkin517 05/18/2009	Great Professor. Very easy to understand and follow his logic. You have to go to class though unless you really like cramming for exams from the book because he writes all of his notes on the chalkboard. 2 Midterms, 5 Problem Sets, 1 Cumulative Final Exam.