Professor: Sukkoo Kim
Department: Economics
College: Washington University in St. Louis
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: ECON3761
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Very smart guy but ambiguous. Exams are meh, research project is not explained clearly, but I recommend starting early (beginning of semester) and finding a group to work with.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: ECON3761
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Graded on only 2 exams and a research project. First exam was straightforward and easy; the second was viciously hard. He's very ambiguous about everything, from grading procedure to how the research project is done. Very smart, and his lectures are quite interesting, but he often loses his place and the lecture ends up trailing off. Odd professor.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: ECON326
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
You're graded on two tests and a research project. The tests are free response and based on his lectures, which may seem a bit non sequitur at times, but as long as you go over the slides and can weave together an explanation and justify it, even it it's contrary to what was discussed, he'll give you credit. Project is leniently graded. As and Bs.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: 4011
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Very tough class. The math isn't too bad, but his explanations are terse and often unhelpful. The exams are abusively difficult. Would not recommend.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: ECON326
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is not clear about the requirement. No sample test posted before midterm. He just read out (not loud) but really fast two questions of past paper. What is the point of doing this? Can not learn much from his class. Can not find any logic of his lecture. American economic history is really an interesting topic. But he teaches it in a terrible way
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: ECON401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His class was terrible for me. I regularly attended and was very involved in the homework. His "review" sessions are lies: nothing reviewed or that he says you need to know is on the exam, instead everything else not covered or mentioned once is. Expects you to "intuition" out mathematical equations. STAY AWAY
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: ECON401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a really nice guy who really cares about the students who attend class, but the class is not easy it is very quantitative, and the test are very hard, I would say about 25% of the people ended up dropping the class, but if you survive him your micro understanding will greatly be improved.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: ECON401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A good guy and a pretty good professor. Lectures are organized and is very systematic in his approach, but there is so much information to cover that he often glosses over things. Still, I never usually had trouble following him in class. Homeworks were somewhat tedious and the rest of the grade was based on only 2 very hard exams.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: ECON401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Soks' 401 is the most demoralizing thing to happen to me as an econ major. His teaching method is to put up an equaion and the solution, while ignroing how to solve the equation mathematically in addition to completely glossing over the economic concepts. This class did nothing for my economic understanding and he is a terrible professor. Stay away
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: ECON402
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
no strong feelings about him. tough class, average teacher. wasn't impossible to follow, but didn't make it interesting either.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: INTTRADE
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
kim is a cool guy, pretty solid teacher but the tests were really hard. got a B and put medium effort into it.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: ECONHIST
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The class was interesting, but the grade was based only on two finals and one large research paper. Grade received was equal to the effort put into the class.
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