Sonia Pereira

Sonia is an angel, a sweet person, a mom figure which is nice. The class admittedly is pretty disorganized, but if you are willing to put in the work you will be ok. She tries to make this class very applicable to the world in terms of relating stuff to climate change, global issues, etc. As much as I appreciated it I think it is why we struggled to get through a substantial amount of the actual. pertinent course material. The midterm was extremely late (like 2nd week of November), and the weeks between the midterm & final were a frenzy. The class can be difficult to pay attention in mostly because she allows students to have opinions (which is great except when they become distracting...) The problem set answer keys were riddled with errors, so my biggest advice is be your own advocate. Hunt down the TA and continue emailing Professor Pereira if you think you are right. Professor Pereira is extremely understanding and tries to help people understand. Her office hours can be the golden ticket to understanding concepts. Attend office hours with both the professor and TA to do well on problem sets. I think your grade in this course really depends on your dedication in hours and meetings.

Professor Pereira is one of the nicest professors you will ever encounter. It was her first semester teaching theoretical foundations and in my opinion she did a good job. She made the best out of the boring material. She is very cute and funny and most importantly approachable, if you ever need an extension she will more than likely give it to you. I found it refreshing to have a professor who truly cares about her students and not her research! Anyways the class itself is easy and not demanding. Prof. Periera gave us 6 questions for the final to study for and chose 3. Luis the TA grades the papers and finals and he's pretty chill with grading- if I'm not mistaken a large percentage of the class got As on their papers.

Sonia is very nice, but she sometimes does have trouble answering questions. Overall, I found her to be helpful. She was much more responsive than the TA and more understanding. I went to her office hours a few times and thought they were useful. The class is not hard, but the lectures can be tedious. Sitting through powerpoint slides in the dark is never fun. But she does try to engage the students which not enough professors do. I would take a class with her again and she is not as horrible as some of these reviews make her out to be.

I found Sonia very engaging. She goes by slides but still manages to generally make an argument, which with you can choose to agree or disagree. Although the class is often oversimplistic, it was generally very thought-provoking and interesting. If you are interested in an economic interpretation of public policy, this class is for you.

Sonia is a really, really nice lady, but a horrible professor. She never responded to emails and would get confused when you asked her for the answer in class. I'm not sure if she knows Economics, but she really is passionate. She's extremely disorganized and would pace her class terribly and always show up late. None of the things on her midterm review list were actually on the midterm, which made it tough, but she curved nicely. However, I would not recommend her as a professor to anyone.

I found the material to be very interesting but Professor Pereira, plainly said, is a boring lecturer. Her notes on the board are incomprehensible and the information on the slides are grammatically awkward. Also, there is an attendance sheet for each class and you are required to participate once out of the two days we meet a week. The upside is that she is a very easy grader. It is not difficult to write an A paper but still, going to class is a pain..and mandatory.

I read her reviews on culpa before arriving on campus my freshman year (last year) and thought, she can't be that bad... Well, she can. My experience with Pereira taught me to always trust in culpa (except Dalton deserves a gold nugget!) -- she the worst teacher I've had here. Granted, I have based all my class choices since on culpa reviews (only choosing teachers with a shadowy gold nugget or higher), but she was even worse than high school teachers! I must warn you that I rarely read the book and have little interest in the subject, I took it to try out the subject. Her lectures were straight out of the book, and if you want to understand the material I recommend you just stick with the book and skip the class. I didn't want to do the reading and so I hoped that I would absorb the material in class through osmosis while doing other homework. I ended up with a B+, although with a little more effort I probably could've gotten an A.

This class is a waste of time to attend - the lectures display intellectual laziness (data from 1995) and the tone is far from scintillating. And it's taught like no one in the class has any economic background whatsoever. But as long as you go through the tedium of outlining the answers to the midterm/final essays (conveniently given out as pass/fail assignments before the tests), you will get an A. Easily. You might even learn a couple interesting facts.

Sonia is a bit disorganized, but she is kind and willing to answer any question in detail; she hands out detailed study guides and practice problems, for example. When we argued that her midterm focused on material we did not go over in class, she changed our final so that it would be much easier on us. She also curves our exams very generously, so I'm sure I am not the only person who got an A in the class. Problem sets are pretty easy too.

Some professors are very sweet and nice but just cannot teach..Sonia is one of them. She cannot answer you questions in class, so don't ask her because u'll get her even more confused! she'll say she cannot answer ur question at the time and will email u the answers to ur question. She posts all the slides on courseworks after the class is done (but in the middle of the semster, she posts them b4 class.) But many ppl who did not come to class did well just reading the text book and the slides. Her lectures are extremely boring and tedious and most ppl just fall asleep anyway. her exams are long but not too hard..also with very generous cures. she always gives review materials the class b4 the exam and forgets to put some info there...HW set and exams take extremely long to be graded because there's only on TA.