This is a PSA to NOT take this class with this professor.
The content itself was interesting; there was a lot to memorize but you do get a cheat sheet. The professor was a decent lecturer. However, she refuses to post her slides with notes (which were kinda necessary because her slides were blank for us to take notes on) to like "motivate us to watch the Bruincast"?? Which wasted a bunch of my time jumping through videos to find the one slide I needed. She is also very condescending and unhelpful. She refuses to answer questions about discussion worksheets/homework, sounded irritated a lot, went on a long tangent in lecture about not using ChatGPT and told us that was why we did bad on the exam.
Besides the professor, there were weekly discussion worksheets where you get docked points for missing the tiniest details. Check answers with TAs and LAs to get most of the points.
Also, she uses iClicker, and lectures Mon, Tues, and Wed are mandatory while the Thurs tutorial and Fri office hours are not. You have to be there in like the first 3 minutes of lecture because there's an iClicker question which I found very annoying.
I liked the content of this class and think an A is achievable if you put in the work, but I did not like the professor or the grading of this class.

The actual content of this class was so interesting to me, so I wish the lectures had done it justice. The first midterm was about half multiple choice (of which some questions were REALLY easy and others were okay) and half free response. The second was more free response and less multiple choice, and was a lot more involved than the first.

Even though the first midterm was much easier, I did far better on the second one because I read the textbook and actually felt like I knew what was going on. I think that for this class, it's important to fully understand why something is happening/what the purpose of a pathway is instead of just trying to memorize what happens, which is where reading the textbook will help a lot. If you were to just rely on the lectures (which are pretty fast and don't clearly explain these "why"s) I think it would be much harder to answer the application/research-based questions that show up on exams and worksheets.

The weekly discussion worksheets weren't super hard but they were graded harshly sometimes if you didn't include the specific keywords they wanted. My advice would be to ask your TA and LAs as many questions as possible to make sure you have what they're looking for.

There's also a LOT of extra credit just from answering easy surveys after each midterm and from making "exam guides" (cheat sheets for midterms), so I think most people didn't need a super high score on the final because of all the buffering.

Overall, I think this class is reasonable in terms of grading, but you'll likely have to read the textbook if you want to fully learn the material.