Eriksson, Katherine  

Class wasn't too bad. Consisted of two essays, two data assignments, and a take home final. Participation was also a part of your grade, so show up to every class. Not too much work, just had to put in the effort. B is easily doable, and get an A with just a little work.

Well, I guess I'll start with the positives: her class is super easy and you can easily pass without effort. Well that's all the positives, now time for the negatives. This professor is probably the most unorganized professor I've ever had. I would say that every single piece of homework was a complete waste of time and didn't have anything to do with the course subject. She is also probably one of the worst public speakers I have ever seen. She is always swaying side to side and tapping her fingers loudly while lecturing and it is very distracting. Also, don't ever study for her quizzes because the material on them has absolutely nothing to do with the material being covered. You wont be able to get a good grade. Just do well on the paper you have to write and it will offset all the bad quiz grades.

Eriksson is a nice lady, and is obviously very smart. She is still learning how to lecture, which leads to the main point of frustration in her class. It is often hard to retain information of pay attention in her class because she is terrible at lecturing. She is constantly moving or twitching while she speaks, she trails off and she fails at getting the class to participate in discussions. The material is not that hard to understand, and this is definitely an Intro style course that scratches the surface of many topics that could very well have their own unique courses. There is no text book, just light reading from articles that she will post to PolyLearn. The midterm and final are worth 50%, and are very manageable. There are online discussion boards that you must participate in, and a Policy Brief that is the major project of the course. It is spread out into 3 parts due over the span of the course, and it helps to lighten the load and spread out the project. Eriksson also seemed to be a pretty lenient grader in my experience. Overall the course material is interesting if not a little obvious, and not a lot of work to get a good grade. Hopefully Eriksson takes some public speaking classes over the summer and can work on her lecturing, because it is the only thing that is really lacking from her courses.

Eriksson was not that bad, and the class was pretty easy. She isn't the best public speaker and the material can get pretty boring, but she does a relatively good job explaining the material, and the exams and assignments are pretty easy. One midterm, one final, a data assignment, a policy brief, and reading responses. For exams, just go over broad concepts and the one or two "math" problems she goes over in class, and you will be fine. As long as you show up and pay some attention, getting an A is easy.

New teacher to Cal Poly this quarter..... First of all she is teaching a very hard course econometrics and it is her first quarter so she is kinda unsure of herself and how to present and teach the material. As of this point I am not understanding the material she is presenting and her classes are extremely confusing. I can only hope it gets better as the quarter continues . This class is made of of weekly hw assignments that are really long and take forever, are confusing you usually have to use bing to figure out how to solve the questions and figure out the answers and you have to come to the computer lab every time and use SATA to complete them. HW 30%, midterm 30% and final 40%.

Not a good teacher. No experience. Does not present material consistently, clearly or well. Frequently gets confused and lost. Does not answer questions very well. Assignments - hws and midterm were way way way too long and take forever. don't feel like this class is a good class. Take a different one.

I thought Professor Eriksson was very helpful in class as well as office hours. If you attend class and complete the homework you will be golden. Her exams are very similar to the homework problem sets. She also provides great study guides for the midterm and final. She doesn't grade on participation. Grades consists of homework, midterm, and final. If you have any questions, Professor Eriksson is friendly and easy to approach. For a new professor at Cal Poly, I thought she did a great job teaching this course.

Hard class made harder by this teacher. Midterm was too long and the homeworks were too long and very difficult as well.

I was in class with everyone else who reviewed her so far and I'll be the first to admit, she is a new teacher, and in the first 66% of the quarter, she was doing a very good job, also take into account she taught 8-10wf class so half the people either didn't show up or were half asleep. Also this class is a statistics based class so i suggest you take it pretty recently after stat252 if you can! also this class is not an easy class! but eriksson was in her room for questioning like everyday and was actually very helpful. As for hw, they are pretty challenging, but even when i didn't answer all the questions cause i didn't know what to do, i just saw her after class to ask her about it and she usually gave me full credit! if you understand the homework, the tests are easy.(i hate when that is the other way round!) and honestly i got an F on the first midterm but i would be surprised if i didn't get a b or better on the final! It gets a lot easier if you reread her power points and look over the homework answers or talk to her, Its just a bunch of multiple regressions and interpreting coefficients, also she got a better grip on what the difficulty of the class should be as well as giving us enough resources to find the answers for the homework near the end! I'd also suggest you find a homework buddy! and i'll probably be taking her again sometime in the future!

Worst class I have ever taken. Worst teacher ever. Don't take this class with her!!!

Didn't like this class don't take unless you absolutly have too. Not the best lecture teacher but she may get better with leaning how to clearly and accurately present the material along with gaining more experience.

Keep in mind this was her first quarter..class consisted of 30% homework which wasn't bad at all (one a week max) and then 30% for midterm and 40% for final which were totally doable and she allows a note sheet. Good news is you use STATA which is actually useful in the future, ie jobs and academics in economics/statistics use it. Don't listen to the whiners on here I've seen them first hand, show up late to class, don't work hard, graduating seniors, and the list goes on. 8am class??? wahhhhh wait until you get a job.

If you have not taken a couple substantive stats classes prior to taking 339, this class will be very challenging. The class is made up of 7-8 weekly homework assignments that are graded partially on accuracy but mostly on completion (she will not take points off for minor errors). If you make a serious attempt at the homework (which will take 2-3 hours to complete) you should get full credit. You will need this to pad your grade for the exams. She gave us a midterm and a final, both which were 7-8 pages long and took more time to complete than was allotted in class. Thankfully, she curved them after realizing they were too long. The final is the largest part of your grade, and if you leave learning (and I mean ACTUALLY learning) the material until the week before, you will not do well. This class demands a significant amount of time, and requires you to follow along every week and avoid falling behind. This IS a statistics class; the only difference between it and others you might take is you will be applying it to a different programming software (STATA). Again, if you've recently taken a few stats classes you should be fine (an A or B is definitely manageable). If you haven't, this will be one of your harder courses.

I don't even know where to begin with this lady. She honestly has no idea what she is doing up there. She doesn't talk, but mumbles incoherently. She tries to teach out of the book but ends up jumping randomly, not only from chapter to chapter but from section to section. ("Test is on 5.2, 4.7, 4.8 7.1-7.3, 12.5") That cannot possibly be the best way to teach as there is a reason that the book put them in that order. Teach yourself this class because going to class will actually set you back. I really think going to class hindered my ability to learn the material and as such didn't go the last month of the class. She takes "attendance" but only by seeing if you turned in the in class assignment online...which I would set my alarm for mash buttons on my computer from the comfort of my bed and turn it in. Overall, she is a lazy professor that MIGHT know what she is doing but obviously cannot purvey to the class. I really hope Hamilton reads this and gets her out of Cal Poly.

By far the worst academic instructor I have had since the 1st grade. I'm dead serious. Avoid at all cost unless you can teach yourself. The class is interesting and practical, just needs a professor who can teach the subject. Erickson is not worthy of Poly.

Eriksson is a smart economist and has potential to be a good teacher. I'm not sure why but she just doesn't seem to care. It's pretty obvious she spends almost no time prepping for her lectures, often just grabbing another teachers powerpoint slides off the internet and all of homework assignments were taken from a UCLA econometrics course. Quickly breezes over complex topics and expects students to get full comprehension. The textbook is not required and has hardly anything to do with her method of teaching/ what she expects you to know. Expect to spend a lot of time on google looking for relevant information other professors have posted for the public. Frequently let us out halfway through class or cancelled it due to her "personal issues". This is simply a cry for help, I know she could be a good teacher; there are a few things she did a great job of teaching. She has a PHD from UCLA in econ, I'm sure that required a ton of work. Bottom line, she doesn't seem to care about teaching or her students so why should we care about her class? She made the course easier than she could have, I think she did this just to boost the average to hide her laziness/ lack of effort.

By far the worst academic instructor I have had since the 4th grade. I'm dead serious. AVOID AT ALL COSTS, unless you can teach yourself. The class is interesting and practical, just needs a professor that actually cares about academia. Eriksson, you aren't worthy of Calpoly.

She may know alot of stuff, but teaching is not one of them. She is literally a joke and I hope you're ready for the most dull class of your entire life with a kindergarten teacher mentality.

As intelligent as Professor Eriksson may be, she isn't the best at giving lectures or teaching the course. She's very young, and when she lectures she has a very nonchalant tone. The class is mainly taught through a program called STATA and powerpoint slides. She basically just reads through the slides, types in commands, and throws up broad examples on the board that are sometimes difficult to relate to the lecture. If you ask her for help, she's more than willing but you have to be extremely specific with what you want to know. If you've taken STAT 251/252 and actually grasped the main concepts from those courses, you should be able to survive. The course is more stats than econ. She actually never really talked about any economic principles in the course. Shame. She curves almost everything substantially, and drops exams scores, etc.

There is no doubt that Eriksson is smart, very smart, yet she is not a good teacher. Read off slides, entirety of class is using STATA to do statistical analysis and run test on data sets to see if data is correlated, so pay close attention to the commands if you are not familiar with the program. She is arrogant, insecure, and annoying- has to curve the tests and ultimately the class because people do so poorly. She often ends class early, stating she is tired of teaching. Makes it difficult to learn when she breezes through material, yet this stuff is obviously important. She was available for help if you needed it, but you better bring specific questions to ask otherwise it appears that you are wasting her time as she "went" over that in class. Would rather put my head in a microwave then sit through another lecture with her... If she gets tenured the department is tie-ing its shoe laces together.

Prof. Eriksson gets bagged on quite a bit on her polyratings, and it isn't quite justified. The one big downside about Eriksson is her presentation skills. She's pretty bad at public speaking, and presenting in a manner that holds your attention. However, that doesn't mean she is bad at teaching the material. She knows econometrics/linear regression, and STATA very well. When asked a question, she's usually very explicit and helpful in her answers. But odds are, you'll have quite a few questions. So don't be afraid to speak up and ask, others are thinking the same thing. She's a nice person and cares about her students learning the material. If you think she'll make you want to learn econometrics, you're wrong, and you'll probably hate the class. But if you find the material interesting, you'll put up with her just fine. As for the class, it involves almost all linear regression, and how to run analysis on STATA. STATA is pretty easy to learn, no previous programming necessary. Do the homework thoroughly and the exercises she gives at the end of class.

This class was irrelevant to economics. It was Stat 252/251 with some new concepts. The lectures were like listening to a fifteen year old explain something. The HW was all copied from some UCLA database which is free online. The exams were very tricky. I still don't understand what's the point of a true and false section in an econometrics class. With that being said, she was helpful in office hours which helped.

This course was extremely helpful in linking together what is taught in Econometrics (339) and how to apply it to your senior project. I found it extremely valuable and rumor has it that in the future 417 may be required to take before/ during senior project and I think that's a good idea. For a new class taught by a relatively new teacher I think everything turned out well. If you needed help with anything Eriksson was always very helpful with answering questions in office hours or via email. For future classes I'd highly recommend making the time later than 8am

Prof cried today.... What a weirdo hahahah get a grip of your life.