Reviews of professor Jonas Hedlund

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hedlund is one of the best profs in the department. Be sure to brush up on Calc 1-3 concepts as well as your Intermediate Micro notes before Day 1. His exams will test not just your ability to work out math-intensive problems (like on the Problem Sets) but also your ability to think critically. A great class and would definitely take again!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The lectures will usually help a little; however, application is required (which is lacked in the lectures). The professor believes each students has acquired a level of calculus extraordinarily higher than what they really have required and proves to complicate lectures and confuse students. Studying and even tutoring outside of class can help.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hedlund is noticeably trying to keep students as engaged in the subject matter as he is. However, this can lead to him taking tangents in which he explains very difficult proofs that are not necessary to learn the material. He makes up for this by grading very leniently, especially when you visit his office hours to ask questions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
A really good guy. however, he doesn't hold a review session at all. goes very quickly, you need to be Einstein in Calculus to understand him. TA is a serious joke, I went to ask him for the demand curve before the first exam; he told me to google it :( what a joke !!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wonderful professor if you have a strong economic and mathematical background - know your calculus and basic micro. Not an easy course but youll learn a lot if you pay attention and ask questions when needed. Best professor Ive had in a minute but its easy to slip up if youre not on top of the work

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took his PhD level course on Information Economics and Mechanism Design. He is fabulous. I continue to refer to his material, and graphical way of understanding ideas everyday. He is incredibly smart.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
His class is super easy, he just likes to over-complicate things. This class is an easy A. but he likes to be tough on his students because he knows nobody takes his class seriously. Save your money and take another professor for this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not very helpful in helping students learn the material. Would not answer questions very well. Also graded very toughly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The grade this semester was 75% exam based with 3 exams. He certainly makes you work for whatever grade you get but this has been the class that I've learned the most from by far. He is very thorough and gives a lot of time to ask questions during class and discuss them. If you want to learn you'll be able to learn a lot. Great for econ major/minor