Swapan Dasgupta - Dalhousie University

Professor: Swapan Dasgupta

Department: TBD

College: Dalhousie University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECON2200
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

he is literally the worst prof i ever had. his writing is so messy that you wouldnt understand a single word. His explaination is not clear and i strongly recommend whoever taking his class to drop it.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECON2200
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Has a tendency to leave things inconclusive.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECON2201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

If you have him make sure to read complement lectures with reading text before hand. If you don't you will probably miss a lot

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Do not take his class. It's crazy. His lecture is really boring, Exams are hard af. Assignment is ok.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECON2201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Nearly impossible to understand him. He started the class off in the middle of chapter 19 of the textbook even though no one knew what he was talking about. He fails to explain effectively. I had him last year too: by far my worst prof. I ended up dropping the course. If you can avoid having him as a prof you should.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I've never had a harder time relating to what a person is saying.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible Professor. Assignments were terribly written, exam and midterm both had multiple errors on them. If you have to take this course pray you do not have him.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dasgupta took an interesting and potentially easy class and made it into something nearly impossible. Once you get past the fact that he doesn't speak very good english, what he is saying makes no sense, and is not taught clearly whatsoever. Every single lecture he gets corrected by a student.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: 1101
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This guy pretty much rants all class and then tells you to read the textbook. He has referenced movies and TV shows to the point of confusion (Talking about Friday doing things. How am I supposed to know "Friday" is a person in a TV show?"). Don't take his classes if you rely on teachers to teach. Hope you like reading textbooks!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

It can be hard to learn from his lectures as he just stands up in front and talks while writing all over the chalkboard in random places.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The worst prof I have ever had. Is not clear during lectures and writes different examples all over the place. You have no idea what he is saying during lectures and the PowerPoint slides are more helpful than he is.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ECON4200
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

worst experience at dalhousie. he mumbled on and on. you cant even read his notes, the textbook is useless. assignments were easy then the midterms were ridiculously hard and unclear. definitely dont take this class for fun, and if you are an econ major, pray that someone else is teaching this class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECON4420
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Its a challenging class for sure. A lot of theoretical underpinnings. If you focus on really understanding the material, it becomes interesting. Also, you begin to appreciate how slowly prof. Dasgupta introduces new material. Hard material, but the profs expectations are reasonable. hes very approachable and wants to help.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ECON4420
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class taught by Professor Dasgupta is such a difficult class. Some people were say this class is even harder than the master level microeconomics. the text book is from 20s, which gave me a hard time to read it. The half of the class materials is dealing with linear programming. if you dont have enough background of mathematics, dont take this

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ECON2200
• 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:

Learning from Dasgupta was not at all a pleasant experience. Lectures were not well organized, notes served more as informal outlines for his lectures than for study purposes. Text is purely theory while tests and assignments were numerical - poor choice on his part. Little feedback provided. Language barrier present, though not to a grand scale.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ECON2200
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Good Guy, Sorta Funny, Hard.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ECON1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

nice, but a bad prof, doesn't teach well at all......use the textbook instead

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ECON2201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

get out of the class if you're in it. Hands down the worst teacher I had in four years. Expect at least a letter drop from what you're use to. He hates getting asked questions.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECON1010
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I changed classes and so should you... very nice guy but wasted a lot of time just chatting in class. Other econ profs have notes to guide you along and he was really behind on that. For some people hes great, but just not my style.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MICROSECT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Has one of those indian accents but surprisingly is easily understood, changes his tone of voice which definitely keeps you awake in class. He's a cool Prof wouldn't mind having him again