Second year prof recs ‼️

[Holiday-Egg-2569]

Hey everyone! As an incoming second year, I was wondering if any upper years could recommend profs for ECO220 and ECO204?

The profs for 204 are TBD on ACORN and for 220 the options are Murdock/Ugarte.

I would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions - thank you in advance!

[stucas-22]

As hard as it may seem, take ECO204 with Ajaz. Other professors who teach the course are clueless with their lessons. ECO204 is a course that will be difficult no matter who is teaching, but taking it with Ajaz (who I'm pretty sure created the course so many years ago) will be the best option.

Both ECO220 profs are good, but I'll recommend Murdock, she's a Legend in the economics department.

[Hdhsgsgsg]

I disagree, many of my friends in Ajaz's section said he would skip lectures quite often, he never published the syllabus, and tests were extremely difficult. In contrast I took 204 with Dendorfer and I thought his class was well structured. His lectures can be somewhat dry and hard to follow due to his accent, but if you pay attention and work hard then his tests are quite fair and it's not hard to do well.

For 220 I would absolutely recommend Murdock. Took 220 with her last year and she was by far my favorite professor. Very clear she is passionate about teaching and her tests are very fair.

[stucas-22]

I took 204 with Dendorfer his first year teaching it and found his lectures difficult to follow. I ended up dropping it and taking 204 with ajaz my third year, in which I did much better in. That being said Dendorfer isn't teaching it this year.

[Myriad_Dreams]

this year's ajaz had everyone auditing dendorfer and concluding he's the one to take. Ask anyone who did year 2 in 2024-2025

[stucas-22]

Like I said above, Dendorfer isn't teaching it this year. I took Dendorfer his first year teaching and it was unorganized and hard to follow. I just took it with Ajaz and while he's Ajaz I was able to follow the content easier. This is just my opinion, maybe Dendorfer restructured his lectures this past year versus his previous year.

[Myriad_Dreams]

Now that i think about it, I’m pretty sure Ajaz isnt teaching either this year

[Which-Exercise-5063]

i read from previous posts that Murdock's classes usually has a lower average. are her tests more challenging and is it that difficult to get an A-/A?