<p>He teaches one or two a year. This fall he taught Societies of the World 19 and this spring he taught History 1965. I'd love to hear something from somebody who's taken a course with him.</p>
<p>Societies of the World 19: <a href="http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63344%5B/url%5D">http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63344</a></p>
<p>History 1965: <a href="http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k67248%5B/url%5D">http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k67248</a></p>
<p>Also, I wouldn’t mind hearing a suggestion or two about great Econ/Math professors that I should take a class with freshman year (or even later on during my time at Harvard). If not Econ/Math professors, I’m sure there are other great professors many of you would like to mention.</p>
<p>You’ll be able to read the student comments of the Q-ratings soon. And shop classes before taking them. So I would not rely on CC for advice on individual courses.</p>
<p>Also, if you place out of Ec10 and want to take higher-level Econ courses, then you will have to complete the year long intermediate economic theory sequence (1010/1011). These classes are pre-requisites to most upper-level classes. Without them, your choices will be very limited.</p>
<p>I’m reading the Q guide for Fall 2009 right now - generally, will the Fall 2010 classes more or less offer the same ones as for Fall 2009?</p>
<p>Ec 10 is taught by Gregory Mankiw, so I don’t know whether I want to place out of it. Thanks anyway; I guess I still have a lot of time to decide.</p>
<p>To quote my roommate’s response on the Q Guide for Ec10:</p>
<p>“Please comment on this person’s teaching. (Gregory Mankiw)
Answer: What teaching?”</p>
<p>I haven’t taken the class but I hear he only lectures like 6 times a semester.</p>
<p>Niall has a massive ego, according to one of my friends who had him as a thesis advisor.</p>
<p>I’d really recommend taking an Ec class from David Laibson - he does behavioral econ and is a rising star. He cotaught a class with the infamous Andrei Schliefer when I was at Harvard, and I liked Schliefer as well.</p>
<p>brilliant professor does not mean good teacher. While I can’t say anything definitive about Niall, all the top academia at the University of Chicago don’t give a crap about their undergrad/grad courses.</p>