Honestly, the work was very doable, but the entire concept of economics is tricky and Professor Mynhier did not really help at all in understand it. Every single lecture was a copy and paste from the textbook, so going to lecture was not necessary. Professor Mynhier offered extra credit several times which was nice. But again, having her teach economics was just not ideal. I do not recommending taking her class for Pub Aff 40.

I am genuinely confused by this professor's ratings. She gives ample extra credit, is incredibly accommodating to students (going as far as individually assessing student grades if a student did poorly on the midterm), and the material is that of a basic microeconomics intro course. Lecture attendance is not mandatory, and though she does spend a lot of it talking about topics that are not directly related to the coursework, one can simply not attend if they think it is a waste of time. I have had a class I would consider to be a 2/5, and comparing that to this one, it isn't even close. Do not be deterred by these reviews. If you put in a reasonable amount of time for this class you will do fine.

public affairs majors, i know you have to take this class but plan it out so you don’t have this professor.

where to even begin…. if you have a choice, do NOT take those class with mynhier. she was extremely disorganized, unhelpful, and honestly not a good teacher at all. the whole quarter the only thing i could think of was what a complete waste of my tuition and time this class was. my ta had no clue what they were doing, and genuinely could not even understand the class material. the concepts aren’t hard- the math is easy, and the actual material is easy to understand. this professor just makes everything unnecessarily difficult for no reason. the book did a better job of explaining things than her, and literally everything she says during lecture is verbatim from the book—if you do the readings you don’t need to go to class. she would get answers wrong or not be prepared for class. she was 20 minutes late to the midterm. she had to give out ec because everyone complained about the midterm grades, and was very unwilling to be accommodating for students that had to leave when class ended because of other classes. if you tank your midterm, even thought its only 20% of your grade, you have practically no shot of getting an A. its not hard material, even for a north campus major. it would have even been interesting had it not been for this professor. don’t take it with her. trust. don’t. and if you HAVE to then my best piece of advice is to read the book, and do the practice problems at the end of each section. make friends and study in groups. do the problem sets in groups ( she allows this) and I recommend watching Jacob Clifford on youtube (a microeconomics prof) to walk you through the material.

Nearly every slide from Professor Mynhier was word for word from the textbook -- meaning if you did each of the assigned readings, there was no point in attending lecture. She added virtually no personal analysis or contributions to the textbook material, which was especially disappointing considering I was hoping she would connect the microeconomic theories we were learning in class to current events and public affairs given this course is titled "microeconomics for public affairs"...
There were multiple lectures where it seemed Professor Mynhier didn't review the slides beforehand, leading to her giving incorrect answers to practice problems and frequently reading straight from the slides (which, as I mentioned, was almost always copy and pasted from the textbook).
Professor Mynhier is generous with grading though -- offering extra credit assignments, and a few extra credit questions on the midterm. I appreciated this grading-flexibility.
Overall though, disappointed with this course.

This class was not *that* bad despite the last review. I believe that taking an econ class as a pub aff major will probably be tough no matter the professor, and Professor Mynhier really did give students opportunities to keep our grades up. The content was tricky for me because math is not my specialty and this was my first ever econ class, but the math isn't too hard (its all just basic algebra) the hard part is graphs and memorization of many concepts. There were a lot of opportunities to raise your grade-- problem sets, weekly "quizzes" (bottom 2 grades are dropped) and she offered a few extra credit opportunities in class and on the first midterm. The final was a bit tricky but nothing crazy. If you need to take this class you will be fine if you pay attention and keep up with it. I didn't feel like she expected anything unreasonable of us. I didn't really even know what was going on before the midterm and I ended up getting 100% after studying.

The class content itself was not the issue in this class. Professor Mynhier was really the biggest hinderance to my final grade. Throughout lecture, she often gets sidetracked and her points are very unclear. She throws out a ton of information, and expects her students to pick up very quickly. She often gets confused what she is even talking about, and there have been many instances where students have pointed out her own mistakes in lecture. It is common to hear things like "you won't be tested on this" or "this won't happen in the real world", which makes the content you need to know unclear. She is also a very unorganized professor. The biggest example of this occurred on the day of our midterm exam, when she didn't print the tests until 20 minutes before, and ended up being 15 minutes late to our test, rushing to hand everything out. On top of that, the length of the test was completely unreasonable for the limited amount of time given. Luckily, the midterm is only worth 20%, final is worth 30%, problem sets are 10% each (30% total), and participation and weekly quizzes are each 10%. Overall, while the class content is not easy, I definitely think the root of the issue was the professor.