Her math is HORRIBLE. Plus, her grammar is nightmare. Just avoid her.

I was a little intimidated to take this course as the reviews on here aren't the most comforting. I thought it would be a really tough course and in some ways it was but I actually enjoyed the class and the professor. I think the lectures are a little daunting sometimes but the information and examples on there really are helpful for the practice and exams. There was 1 midterm, 1 final, and 2% extra credit for completing Evaluations. The curve she has for the class is very generous that an 84% is an A-. I can't remember exactly but I believe the cuttoffs are something like A+: 100-97, A: 96-91, A-: 90-84... Because the exam is open notes as long as your notes are good you can definitely pull off good scores. Even if there is something that you don't really understand from the lecture write it down because you can ask the professor to clarify later and it's likely that it will be helpful during the exam. I think the exams were graded fairly and I enjoyed learning about different economic theories from an unbiased source.

I took this class during Spring 2020, meaning that everything was entirely online. I took this class as an engineering major who needed to take an upper-div econ class (as part of my sci-tech requirement), but was looking for something easier than the core upper-div econ classes (like 101 or 102). Overall, I found it pretty dull but easy.

The course material for the first few weeks was very uninteresting to me. I had to force myself to pay attention while watching the lectures, and I found it difficult to stay engaged enough to continue taking notes. That said, taking detailed notes really paid off on the midterm.

The lecture slides were helpful but cryptic. The professor mainly just reads off the slides, so towards the end of the quarter I started to just skim the videos at 2x speed rather than watching them thoroughly.

The midterm exam was pretty easy in my opinion. Since it was online, it was open-book, open-notes. I found it easy since I could just search my typed notes for whatever the question was asking for. I ended up finishing it pretty quickly, and got a good score.

Professor Ozler was kind enough to make the final optional due to the difficult circumstances at the time; I chose not to take it, so I can't comment on its difficulty.

Overall, I thought this class was a bit uninteresting, but it was easy to do well in, so if that's what you're looking for, then go for it.

I'm not really sure if the people who gave her positive reviews actually went to lectures. Professor Ozler makes me cringe at least twice in every class. Before I had this class, I didn't realize professors had the right to be so rude to students. She's probably the rudest person I've ever seen, and she blames it on her being tired or whatever but uh, yeah, who isn't? Every time she does attempt to apologize to students she's rude to, it's pretty half-assed and she's even said, "I already apologized, what do you want me to do?" If you ask her about a concept, she'll either repeat exactly what she had in the powerpoint slide or rudely tell you to go back to the slides yourself.

As for the material itself, it's rightfully dense. Still, I thought it'd be a comparatively easier elective but it's actually a huge pain in the butt with Ozler as the professor. Yes, you can drill the fundamentals through her study questions and study all her lecture notes but she'll still manage to pinpoint the most specific, minute details to ask about on the exams. Sometimes her exam questions are extremely broad and yet she'll have such specific answers on the key so the graders will still mark points off.

I studied for this class more than I have for any other class, and I got a raw B, curved to an A- on the midterm. It's not worth it at all for the amount of work you have to put in to organize all the material yourself and memorize every single word from lectures. Don't do it. It doesn't matter that she eliminated the department curve and now you're "competing with yourself"; not really. You're competing with the vicious professor and exams. Just do yourself a favor and avoid this class at all costs.

It's hard to describe the exact reason why you shouldn't take this class. There isn't one specific thing that makes it so bad - it's the culmination of a lot of little things that made it the worst Econ class I've taken at UCLA.
The first thing out of Professor Ozler's mouth was "I am combative." Not a good sign, right? She then proceeded to present disorganized lectures in mildly broken English and expected us to understand every single piece of information she gave.
The exams were my least favorite part of the class. The final was cumulative, so we were expected to know an ungodly amount of information about a WIDE variety of topics. She actually told us that we needed to know everything we had learned in class. Literally everything (?). But once I actually saw the final, it became clear that she was only testing us on MAYBE 10% of the material covered in class, and she wanted SPECIFIC answers. These were subsets to side sections to additions to lectures-type answers - quite vague and seemingly useless compared to the main points outlined in the course.
This was truly the biggest waste of my time. If you want to learn about Globalization, take a Global Studies class. If gender, take a gender studies class. Unless someone else teaches this, don't waste your time in a class where the material is made so incredibly over complex that it drives you crazy.
Rant over, but seriously, would not recommend.

I don't get why there are so many negative reviews on bruinwalk. Professor Ozler cares about students' learning and always encourages questions. She never had a problem with repeating something or explaining it in a different way. She always asked us what she can do to make the class better and really cares what students think of the class. There is a lot of material but if you just take the time to really review the slides and take good notes in lecture you will be fine on quizzes/midterms and I also don't think she asked overly hard questions on the quizzes/midterms like a lot of the reviews suggest like if you read the slides and pay attention in lecture you're going to know the answers. I'd take the class again

Learned absolutely nothing. Worst class I have ever taken at UCLA. Does not come to class prepared and makes the students do the lectures. What is she being paid for?

An embarrassment to Ph.D holders around the world.

TAKE THIS CLASS. Professor Ozler is one of the best Econ professors I have had at UCLA. She is an extremely intelligent person and highly engaging lecturer. Your grade is 45% midterm and 55% final. There is no reading so you just need to remember what she speaks about in lecture. She reviews the material at the beginning of every class, provides practice problems, and old exams. She even changes the material based on what people enjoy learning about.

She has terrible reviews because people are intimidated by her. She speaks very loudly and has a strong personality. I have never had a class where the students complained that the professor spoke too loudly or had too strong of a personality when the professor is male, however, because this professor is female people view her negatively. Females in the professional realm have faced this paradox for years. In a male dominated industry like economics, she had to learn to speak up so as to not be ignored.

People say she doesn't care about her students, but is was not true in my experience. She asks the class if we understand after every new concept is introduced. She reiterates the important points, she encourages questions and answers every single one, and she even passed out anonymous surveys to get feedback and suggestions on how she can improve.

This professor makes an enormous effort to connect with her students in the hopes that everyone learns from her. Make a small investment in this class because she will make a huge investment in you.

Avoid taking this class at all costs. The professor is horrible, the material is extremely boring and you’re very unlikely to learn anything in the first 5 weeks. Even for feminists in the class the material is bad, statsistics are 20 years outdated if at all present. Furthermore no methods or sources are given for statistics that are presented. This class is a true waste of time.

Very little econ involved. I look at it as a gender studies/women's studies class. It's supposed to be a lax course but beware of the graders who are not always generous with points on exams. Many students were unhappy with their midterm grades because everyone expected an easy A but instead got B+/B's. I understand why students might think she's unprepared/"lazy" (she has trouble with the projector/laptop/media and thus wastes class time & oftentimes shows videos instead of lecturing), but I really think she has good intentions and cares about her students. She always asked for our opinions as to whether the videos/readings helped and sometimes cancelled some readings. 1 midterm & 1 final + participation grade.