Rojas was an amazing Econ teacher, his class was super straight forward and followed the book. He made it easy to keep up with the information with his homework. The class is competitive but if you do the work you can get an A. I really enjoyed his class. It consisted of Homework, 2 midterms, and a final. Overall I thought he did a really good job.

I have taken both Economics 1 and Economics 2 with Professor Rojas. I really enjoyed his Econ 1 class and did very well in it. I felt very prepared and I feel like he did a very good job of covering the material. However, in Economics 2 I feel like he has not done the same. I have not understood the concepts as well and I feel like he does not go as in depth as he did for Econ 1. When you attend his office hours he is very open to talk to and very willing to help you but he is not very good with responding to emails. He does have very good powerpoints that he posts online but in his lectures he basically just reads off of them.

I had Professor Rojas for Econ 1.

Overall, his class is taught very well. He puts all the information on the powerpoints online, so it is not a big deal if you miss class. That being said, I'd recommend going to class whenever possible.

His tests are straightforward and tailored heavily to the homework. Write down any homework questions you don't know, as his tests end up being very similar to the homework problems. Practice tests are also extremely helpful for this class.

He obviously cares about the subjects and the students, and the class isn't very hard. I'd highly recommend him as a teacher.

I only took econ 2 with this guy. I took econ 1 with Mike sproul.

Grade: B+

Mike > Randall. I love Mike

This guy has a quite boring tone. You will often space out or fall asleep.
All the material is on powerpoint which he puts up, but attend lecture for clarification on some of the powerpoint slides.

2 mid terms
1 accumulative final.

final questions are composed of:
30% 1st midterm
30% 2nd midterm
40% new material after midterms.

I give Randall 6.3/10

This is for Econ 41

Professor Rojas is quite a character. Honestly the other reviews are somewhat right, it appears like he is concerned but that is not the case with his tests. I saw previous years and the exams were easy. My friends said take him but I am taking him right now and his averages are not high. He is not flexible about grading and in Econ there is hardly a curve. The department must have told him to make the test hard to weed more people out.

Oh and definitely study the practice exam questions. They are more or less the same format as the real exams. I wish I realized it before the final.

He is a very boring lecturer-- be sure to supplement the lectures with study groups and use AAP to make sure you get an A.

I am taking ECON106V in the summer session and now struggling on my homework. This course involves the usage of some stupid online tool called "connect". It charges me a significant amount of money and the information presented has little to do with what Rojas is teaching in the lecture. I have to read EVERY PARAGRAPH to complete the homework problems. Searching online is even more helpful than staring at the book with no clear examples. Hope I can survive.

**ECON 1**

Professor Rojas goes quite slowly through the material compared to Sproul. He uploads lecture slides online, but I would still recommend attending class. The graphs can become complicated and confusing if you don't hear Rojas explain them step-by-step in person.

The grading is based on 15% homework, 20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2, and 45% final. The homework assignments are online, and they're great practice! A lot of the exam questions are similar to those in the homework. Each midterm consists of 25 multiple choice questions, and the final has 75 multiple choice. The exams are not terribly hard; if you can get your hands on past exams, that helps a lot! Section is not mandatory and, quite frankly, isn't very helpful.

Overall, it's a relatively straightforward class. Rojas does a good job explaining concepts, and he sincerely cares that everyone understands the material.

*I took econ 1 with him*
Maybe prior to winter 2015, he was great, but since then, I doubted because MindTap is a big problem for him.
His lectures follow the textbooks to correspond with MindTap questions. However, in correspondence with MindTap, when we were in chapter 6, Pro. Sproul's class has covered chapter 13. Well he is the one to make the exam so this is not a big deal. He is good at explaining stuff and reading textbook can make you succeed in understanding the material. Basically, you don't need to go to lecture if you have the book, and you don't need the book if you go to his lecture.
Here comes the shit. Online code is needed to access to MindTap in order to do and submit. The code is around $120 and the book is around $140. IT IS NOT WORTHY! Also, MindTap processess very slowly. If you focus yourself on the homework without any distraction, MindTap will cost you 2 times more than doing paper homework because this website processes slowly. The WORST is that after midterm, the time homework is posted and due is unpredictable because everything is a mess.
I will recommend him when he is not using any online technique to "help study".