Ethan Kaplan

This professor has taught: ECON175, ECON326, ECON422, ECON470, ECON708, ECON709, ECON756, ECON808, ECON848, ECON878, HONR279V

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Ethan Kaplan ECON175 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/31/2024	If you are even slightly interested in economics and if you can keep up with notes and debates, professor Kaplan is a great teacher and ECON175 is a great course. The quizzes are easy if you've structured your notes for the past few days correctly and work out when they will be given, and you can easily average up to 125% on the whole category. The grading for debates is a little less consistent, but if you do basic research and plan out your arguments you should be fine. Midterm and Final are basically timed writings, and are a little less easy to study for. Overall, I feel that professor Kaplan made the course just difficult enough to justify the slightly more economics-major-related title but easy enough for a Gen Ed. However, if you are just looking for an easy Gen Ed or you're not so good at studying outside of class, ECON175 is probably not for you. At least a few people dropped the class even before the first debate, and the pop quiz averages were probably not great based on the other scores I saw.
Ethan Kaplan ECON175 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2023	This course is really a headache...professor kaplan is one of the top researches in inequality economics and it shows. However, a side affect of this is that he makes his course ridiculously confusing for people with no prerequisite knowledge in economics. His lecture slides are detailed, and his historical knowledge is extensive, but getting confused is a constant in this course. All of the assignments are easy, albeit the pop quizzes can be really inconvenient if you miss class, but the work load is manageable. I wouldn't recommend this course unless you are really really into economics. The reviews, sadly, are accurate.
Ethan Kaplan ECON175 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/07/2023	Took ECON175 with him; excellent professor and a great, interesting course. Learnt a lot, quizzes are reasonable and have a bonus question, lowest two quizzes are dropped, and the exams are fair. Lectures are very interesting and he provides a lot of examples around the world on the content, references a lot of research, and does a good job to answer questions.
Ethan Kaplan ECON422 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2022	Great professor!!! Definitely take him. Econometrics is challenging and difficult but he tries really hard to ensure everyone understands. He's reasonable and patient with students. He's also really passionate and it makes the lectures interesting. His slides are pretty detailed and comprehensive. He actually wants students to pass and is proactive about it. He gives extra credit questions on exams and drops the lowest hw grade. Don't get me wrong, this class was so so challenging, but it would have been 10x worse if I had a different professor. I honestly learned and truly understood a lot.
Ethan Kaplan ECON175 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2022	Ethan Kaplan is a great teacher. I took his ECON175 course not really expecting anything in particular, but ended up really enjoying it. Economics were never my particular focus, yet the course was really interesting, and he teaches it with enthusiasm. He always takes time to answer any questions students have, and does so thoroughly, periodically going into interesting tangents. Exam wasn't too hard and quizzes are very reasonable. Even if you aren't majoring in economics, imo the material of this course has a lot of generally useful and important information. Overall I really enjoyed the course :)
Ethan Kaplan ECON422 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 03/01/2022	Econometrics is very difficult and requires time to understand how the regression equations are derived. Professor Kaplan is very understanding and will help guide you with the homework and projects. I recommend Professor Kaplan because he wants you to learn and teaches you the material as an adult. As a college student, I understand it's very hard to teach yourself difficult concepts but showing up to class is important and still sticking to some sort of study schedule is vital. Econometrics will be fast and might not be that nice but its a requirement that all ECON BS majors have to take.
Ethan Kaplan ECON422 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/03/2022	Professor Kaplan's econometrics class was very eye-opening for me. Econometrics isn't easy but Professor Kaplan gives you opportunities to do well in the class. The project and homework assignments are 2 categories that I think you have the most leverage in. The exams are easier than the homework so as long as you understand what you're doing you should easily get a B in the course.
Ethan Kaplan ECON175 Anonymous 09/21/2021	You won't understand he's lecture because he is just reading the slides. Heavy lecture and you don't even understand a word. He doesn't like question and only gave a few few few examples. Eeven you ask a question, he won't answer it clearly. VERY AMBIGUOUS LECTURE!
Ethan Kaplan ECON422 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 11/13/2020	Everything is taught conceptually... Very very few examples if ever for the questions you will be asked on homework and exam problems. Answers questions you ask him by repeating exactly what he said or saying things in an equally confusing way. Speaks in terminology and a way that can't be directly applied to homework questions.