Steven Jaffee

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Average rating: 2.33

This professor has taught: AREC345

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Steven Jaffee AREC345 Anonymous 05/04/2021 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.	Overall the class wasn't too challenging in terms of the content and how the course is set up. Three papers, a midterm and a final. Overall not a very engaging professor for such a bland and boring subject, which made the class worse than it had to be. If you do the readings and attend lecture you should get no less than a B. Wouldnt recommend though for any gen ed requirement that this class fills out though
Steven Jaffee AREC345 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/04/2021 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.	This class is very difficult for a gen-ed requirement. There is a lot of reading and requires you to analyze data that is probably unfamiliar with a lot of students. Professor Jaffee is not a terrible teacher but this class is going to be hard for anyone who has not studied economics before or is not aware of world economics. The exams are not terrible as they are just short answers and a couple essays. The three papers are very hard to conceptualize and the curve on them is minimal. I would advise taking another class if you are trying to get a distributive study course out of the way.
Steven Jaffee AREC345 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/07/2020 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.	I had him during his first year teaching at UMD. Professor Jaffe is a very nice person. He is genuinely engaged with the material and has first-hand experience from his work at the World Bank that he brings up and is really interesting. Sometimes his lectures will seem a little dry, but the content is really interesting. There was a lot of reading in the class and it was overwhelming, but he recognized that and plans to make changes for the curriculum. For his first time as a professor, I think he did a great job and you will learn a lot if you take his class. The essays he had us write were very cool and engaging I had a lot of fun with them.