Keskinel is a goat, he will make sure you stay awake by knocking on the board and randomly referencing statistics that might be on exams.

No slides so attending class is a must, his midterms were 50 multiple choice and fair.

He really wants students to understand the concepts through a historical grounding so you will learn a lot of interesting things that aren't in the textbook.

great econ professor in econ department. You can learn a lot from the class. Selling textbook for econ2. Text me **********

great econ professor in econ department. You can learn a lot from the class. Selling textbook for econ2

Not recommended. Too many tricky questions and historical trivia on exams.

He is not a good professor at all. He makes a lot of mistakes on grading. His accent is very hard to understand. He has no practical economics research or experience. He seems more like a community college instructor than a professor at a top university.

The post below me is stupid. We took a midterm today and they obviously did terribly. I haven't gone to a single lecture this quarter, but studied the powerpoints. As long as you study those, and look over someones notes (that helped a lot) you'll do fine on the test. There are a few weird questions that asked dates and stuff you just won't know, but it seems everybody got those wrong so I wouldn't really worry about that. Overall, have no opinion of the professor, but his midterms are easy.

never never take his class, cuz u will fuck up with all ur exams!!!! it is true that he is excited and enthusiastic about the lecture, but he expected students to remember almost all the details and cases in the class and he has some heavy accent which makes the situation worse. U can't miss even one lecture with a reasonable excuse cuz the thing he just mentioned once in class may be included in the exam with unbelievable amount of detail. call his course a GPA destroyer.

I have to say Keskinel is the worst ECON professor I have ever met since I came to UCLA.

The grading of this class was fair game: 25% Midterm 1, 25% Midterm 2 and 50% Final.

However, the horrible part came from the questions he gave in the exam. He liked those questions concerning trivial information which were merely not relevant to Economics. In all of these exams, he gave several multiple choices questions asking about specific years of certain historical events, like the first oil shock and the beginning of the Great Depression. The professor ought to give us the terms that would appear in the exam, while he did not mention these specific time at all.

Other than these trivial information, he also gave us questions based on the knowledge of ECON 102. The only source for these topics is his lecture notes because the textbook for Econ 2 does not cover the topic he mentioned.

Anyway, if you want to take his class, go to every lectures and prepare for the exam carefully.

I loved this guy. Keskinel is excited about the material and never seemed bound to some rigid "lesson plan". I mean his lectures were organized to a T, but he knows his subject and can seemingly talk for hours about it.
I really hope I get to take more classes with him.

If you're taking this class with him, know that he doesn't care much for the textbook, so be sure which chapters are going to be relevant to the course (and whether to spend time on them).
And really, GO to lecture. It's a bad class to miss lecture. His tests are based completely on what he says in lecture, right down to small historical references. And go to his office hours. He'll help you with anything (and right before the final, he had OHs. Wound up getting a lot of good ideas about what was about to be in the final, it HELPED).

He's a great teacher and he gave us a lot of supplemental material (articles, white papers, videos) that really solidified the econ concepts. (And more that a couple of final exam questions were based on the supplemental readings, so skim through them.)

Keskinel is worth taking. He'll make you love econ (if you didn't already).