Do not take micro with this professor. He teaches the class completely differently than any other professor at UVA making it hard to learn through any sort of online help. The lecture itself is not the worst but he moves very quickly and is unorganized making it hard to get great notes. My TA was less than helpful. He had a hard time doing the homework problem sets and regularly did the problems wrong in discussion. He also barely spoke English and was very hard to understand. By far my least favorite class I have taken at UVA

Santugini is one of the best professors I've had at UVA. He cares about his students so much, and you can tell he loves to lecture about Economics. Super passionate about the material, and even more passionate about his students' success. Textbook optional, lecture MANDATORY. Gives tons of practice problems that really help you understand the material. Tests are very fair. Definitely not an easy A, but attainable if you do all the work and study a lot! Great professor and a standup guy!

I thought Santugini was great. He was very approachable and helpful during office hours. The only issue is that you have to motivate yourself to get there. His TAs are pretty bad. I don't know why. Discussion was pretty pointless each week, but getting the answers to the practice problems is very important because the exams are heavily based off of the practice problems. This class is significantly more math-based than with other Econ professors at UVA. This has its ups and downs. Yes, it can be very hard for students who do not do well in math, but also exams are graded much less subjectively than other professors' exams are. People complain about Elzinga's exams because they aren't graded fairly. With Santugini, it's pretty much all math and graphs, so there's nothing to argue about. Marc is a really nice guy too. I think the course will get much better as he gets more experience with the students at UVA and with UVA in general. Overall, I did not think the class was bad at all.

This was a very frustrating course for me and other students. It might have been poor mostly due to my TA (avoid Ramiro at all costs) who spoke little English, was unable to teach the material, or answer simple questions, but also due to Marc's teaching style. During class he would go through things in a basic manner that was relatively easy to understand, yet when one was assigned practice problems (make sure you do these), homework, or test, it seemed to have little to do with what he talked about in class. It is obviously an application of what we learned in class, but also a big jump. He has a lot of office hours but because many students go to office hours, he gives you about five minutes to talk to him and I felt rushed the multiple times I went to talk with him. I think Marc is below average for teaching/being a professor, but with a competent and smart TA it likely wouldn't be the worst. Do not recommend taking him though, especially if math is not your strong suit (Elzinga/Doyle are much more theory based/vocab).

This class was so hard. The exams and practice problems seemed easy until you got your grade back and failed it. Averages were around 60-70. Lectures were heavily graph-based and generally difficult to understand or take notes on. He does upload most of his graphs to collab but if you don't go to lecture you won't understand them. TA's are usually helpful.

Basically, no textbook required, no group work required, no writing required, and no homework grading!
It might sounds really ideal, but you have to attend ALL the lectures to not get lost in the materials. The materials are highly based on graph, so if you are comfortable with it, this should be a fine course. The tests are based on the practice problems a lot. I shall not say this is an inspiring course for econ, but it gives a lot of understanding about it.

AWESOME PROFESSOR! loved taking class with professor santugini, wish i could take another. takes time to make sure you understand things on a deeper level. reading unnecessary unless you're confused by something said in class.

I definitely made the right decision taking econ 2010 with Professor Santugini. I went to all of his lectures and I feel that he explained all of the concepts in a very straightforward way. The first test was very easy (average was a 96) and it was because the questions he asked were exactly like the ones from the discussion sections. The second test was very difficult (I think the average was a 65) because he asked trickier questions. At first I was really worried that my grade was tanked for the entire semester, but he has clicker points and 25 TA points. Additionally, there's dutch knockout in this course. I didn't think dutch knockout would help me, but I ended up getting an A- on the final and ended with an A- for the class which is better than my grade without the final. My tip would be to go to every single lecture and do all the discussion problems. If you don't feel that your TA is helpful, try and switch to another TA's class. I had Moogdho as my TA and he gave us tons of practice during class. I think his students were the most prepared compared to the other TAs. Overall, I think Professor Santugini is a good professor for econ 2010.

Although some viewed the difficulty in this course uneven, I thought that the tests had a similar level of difficulty. All the tests, the 2 midterms and 1 final, required you to understand problems gone over both in class and in discussions. There were plenty of opportunities to seek help with those you didn't understand. If you could do the discussion problems, you could do the tests. I recommend this class to those even if it's not required. It is good to understand economics, and Professor Santiguini presents the material in a organized, clear way. Also a great guy.

HARD. The first test was really easy and everyone did really well so the professor thought it would make sense to make the second test UNREASONABLY difficult (average was 60-65)... ridiculous and totally unnecessary. Final was also hard.
Professor was helpful if you went to office hours.
It's hard. If you don't have to take it then DON'T