Western Kentucky University / Z / David M. Zimmer

Zimmer is good teacher but this is a hard class overall. How he does his grades it what killed me. You have 6 homework assignments that only count for 10% of your grade and the other 90% is 3 tests including the final. That's a lot of information on one test. The tests have 6-7 problem questions that are similar to homework problems. Each part of a question is usually worth 4 points so it adds up pretty quickly. If you're a good test taker and good at stats I recommend Zimmer. If you're not a good test taker and like to have other things to bring up your grade, this is not the class for you. I have a 3.7 GPA and I'm very worried about getting a C in there.

Exceptional class. The honors class was like 8am MWF so we had 7 people, but only 5 showed up. He is the future of the economics department.

Zimmer was by far one of my favorite professors. He breaks down all topics so students can understand it easily. He continually builds on previous notes, so while attendance isn't mandatory, I would highly recommend going to every class. If you attend class, take notes, and ask questions, there is no reason why you shouldn't get an A.

Great professor. Zimmer made the class easy and actually kinda interesting and from what i heard it wasn't. the book isnt required you could buy it if you wanted to but i didnt and still got an A. Come to class everyday take notes and you will do fine. We had 3 tests including the final that was not cumulative and two homework assignments before each test. The homework isnt bad at all if you took notes and the test is basically the exact same as the home work but with different numbers. You dont have to know any formulas they are all on the test so that was a plus. There is no extra credit but seriously you dont need it. go to class take notes an its an easy A. Take Zimmer!

Dr. Zimmer is a great prof, really interesting a great grasp of what he is teaching. He is also more than willing to help you through any difficulties you have in the course. Unfortunately, this class is insanely difficult if you haven't had much math recently. I felt like I didn't learn much and just repeated what I had from my notes. If you take notes exact like Dr. Z, you'll score 100% on the first exam and score around 50% on the second exam. The final, I'm not sure what my score was...but half the students scored an A, the other half scored B, and that was it. It's required for the MA, so have fun. :)

While attendance isn't mandatory i would strongly recommend going to class because learning Economics is not something easily done from the textbook. There are 3 exams and a few homework assignments, the exams are made up of 6-7 world problems. This class is pretty challenging but Dr. Zimmer is more than willing to help if you ask for it. I lost my notes 2 days before the final and he helped me out when i emailed him and was able to pull out the B. I would recommend him for 202 or 203.

The class start of pretty basic but eventually gets a little more complex. There is a lof math involved (duh it's statistics) but it is doable. His test are usually only seven questions long and he assigns homework assignments that he is willing to help with if you meet with him. Great teacher, although he does make mistakes on assignments, good and bad.

He is a pretty good teacher. I did well but the downfall is there is vitually no homework so if your not a good test taker this might not be good for you. Each test only has 6 or 7 questions on it.

This class was not very exciting at all to be honest. Luckily it was not very difficult either. He laid everything out straightforward for you. Tests had 7 problems usually and he told you the exact format the class before the test. You also get to use a formula sheet on the test. Attendance not mandatory and it is pretty boring, easy though. Zimmer is probably the most proper person I've met in my life, very articulate in his speaking, but a really nice guy.

I thought the course was interesting and Zimmer did a good job, although there were a few concepts along the way that were hard for me to grasp. Zimmer is fairly dry most of the time, but will surprise you with a funny comment sometimes. He is very accessible outside class and was always willing to talk to me when I went to his office.

There were three tests. The final was not comprehensive. The tests were primarily working problems with very few questions related to theory, which surprised me. Zimmer was somewhat lenient grading the exams. If your answer was a little off but you showed you knew how to work the problem, he usually gave full credit. If you really screwed up the math, he counted off once but then gave credit for the rest of the problem if you worked it the right way.

The test problems were similar to homework problems which were similar to problems in the text. Only a few homework assignments were given throughout the semester. I sometimes had difficulty with the problems even though I thought I understood them when he worked examples during class. I recommend you pay close attention when he works problems. I also recommend working some of the problems in the book for extra practice.

Overall, it was a good class and Zimmer was a good teacher.

Dr. Zimmer is a good professor. In this class all you had to do for the most part is show up to class, take the notes and you will do fine. The grades were based on a mid-term, paper and a final. The mid-term was worth 25% of the grade, the 5-8 page paper was worth 50% of the grade, and the final was forth the remaining 25% of the grade.

Both, the midterm and the final, were take home exams in which he gives you 2 weeks to complete. The questions come straight from the book, around 10 question total. However they are time consuming, and take about 1 notebook page per question. The class notes are really helpful when it comes to the test.

The paper had to be anything that is related to Healthcare. As long as you put some effort in it, you will receive a good grade. 5-8 pages.

Overall, it is a easy class, but you do have to put in some time into the mid-term, final and paper in order to receive an A. Which takes up about 5 days of the total semester. Really worth it, if you need a upper level class and want to boost your GPA.

Very nice teacher, but the class is pretty difficult. He gives the homework over stuff that you haven't gone over in class yet. It's not that bad though because he gives a lot of time for homework and gives 5 problems (at the most). Attendance isn't mandatory, which makes it even more difficult because you have to FORCE yourself to go to class. His tests are only 7 word problems, but under each problem is about 3 or 4 more questions about that problem. In the end, he ends up with about 25 questions and each count four points. He gives all the formulas on the test, but this doesn't make the tests EASY, by any means! He doesn't give extra credit. The final is not cumulative. He is not extreme on notes, and he's very well prepared. He's also pretty good about letting his students out early. Nice Guy, Hard Class.

I think that he doesn't really like to teach, because he let class out early quite a bit (which was annoying only b/c if I knew my 8 am class was only going to last 15 minutes, I would have stayed in bed. . .). If you do the homework problems (and there aren't very many of them, we had 6 total homework assignments and each one had about 5 problems) then you will know the test - he basically uses homework problems but changes the numbers. He also gives you a formula sheet for the test, so you don't have to memorize much, just know how to use the formulas. The homework problems are from the book, and you use some charts in the book, but that's about all I used the book for - he went over in class everything you might need to know for the tests. He also told us exactly what kind of questions were going to be on the tests. I really don't know how anyone didn't do well in this class, since we pretty much knew the whole test ahead of time and were given a formula sheet. All you had to do was look over those types of problems in your notes/homework, and you could go talk to him outside of class if you were confused at all. He let us out early on the days before (and after) the tests, so if you had any questions about what would be on the tests (or what you missed on the tests), you could stick around and ask.

I liked him as a person, but as a teacher he was a bit boring and he does not explain the material very well. He just lectures. We rarely do problem solving until the test. However he does give you homework before the test. The homework has the same type of problems that will be on the test. He is always willing to help you out if you have questions. the reason i did well in this class is because i studied myself and that's how i understood the concepts. I like economics but this class was boring and I don't feel like I learned as much when C. Strow was my teacher(she's awesome). He's a nice teacher and helpful if you go talk to him.

He is a very good teacher, a little over the top. I think he has not adjusted to the fact that most in his early class are only freshman or sophmores and he teaches on a graduate level. But overall he is a great person, not very humorous at all, and his motto is that he isn't here to take roll and make sure you are in class, he is not a babysitter.