Review: Linda Kamas, Economics, Leavey School of Business
ECON 405: Macroeconomics
At a glance
- Workload: Moderate
- Teaching Style: Lecture
- Interest in students: High
- Relevance to outside world: High, especially if you’re into economics
Overall Professor Rating: 3 (she can get a bit impatient at times)
Overall Course Rating: 4 (but she can also make the course entertaining while getting the teaching across
The Review
This is the latest of my reviews on the professors I’ve had while an MBA student at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. There are lots of sites out there that provide feedback and rates – ratemyprofessor is the most notable. The SantaClaraMBA Yahoo group also has a big database of comments and lots of additional information in its message archive. That database can be a bit hard to wade through, and the comments are short and often just link to other threads, which are themselves pretty short and superficial. Only here can I write as much as I want 🙂
I review professors from a variety of perspectives. First, I explain the context(s) under which I took the class. Time of year, time of day, etc. Then I talk about the quality of the class and the professor, and finally about the professor as a person. After all, we are trying to learn about our interactions with people, so knowing that side of a teacher is critical, too. So these would be interactions outside the classroom, etc. I also just write whatever it is that I think is relevant or will be helpful to others. That is my overall goal.
The facts
I took ECON 405, Macroeconomics, in Winter 2009. This is the second of two required economics courses, and Professor Kamas teaches several sections. I took the later section of the evening, and I think that some of my comments about her patience, etc might be a result of that.
Them’s the facts (slim as they are). Now read on for the review.
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