Great class with a great professor! This class is straightforward and well-organized as it's divided into three modules with an exam for each. Professor Yeritsian explains concepts clearly and is always willing to answer any questions. You can tell that he truly cares about his students and their success. Make sure to complete all the readings and take thorough notes during lecture. To study for exams, I suggest creating a study guide using the key terms and organizing your notes around them. It's a very fair and doable class if you are willing to put in the effort. Highly recommend taking this class with Professor Yeritsian.

By no means is this class going to be easy, no one should expect an easy A in any kind of theory class especially where the material can be super heavy and sometimes feel intangible. However, Professor Yeritsian is very fair and very helpful whenever students feel stuck or need clarification in certain areas of the material. This class, and all his classes, are made up of three modules (assessments) which makes the exams and studying for them less overwhelming because the content is not as heavy as a class that might be made up of just a midterm and a final. The readings are also essential to the classes and the exams, and I promise you if you take the time to do the readings that are an hour at most that they will make the lecture more cohesive and you will be successful on the exams and quizzes. I think that Professor Yeritsian's class structure has set me up for success in all my other classes as well, and that if you engage with him during the lecture and outside of class with him in office hours you will do just fine. He is always willing to go over concepts again whenever something is unclear or needs to be expanded upon which is great. If you took 101 with him then I would recommend taking 102 with him again because the class structure being the same is also extremely helpful.

Insufferable professor. He was consistently late to lectures and once had the TAs step in to cover for him, which I’m pretty sure violates TA contracts. He also had trouble operating basic technology and once yelled at a TA for accidentally resetting the projector.

The class structure was based on three exams, section participation, and pop quizzes. While I did well on the quizzes, I found some questions unfair—such as asking us to memorize the number of pages in the reading, which seemed completely irrelevant to the actual course material. There were no study guides provided, and the exams were difficult, though I did okay overall.

The professor was often rude to TAs/students, delivered lectures at a fast pace, and the slides were disorganized—if they were even provided at all. Sometimes, he just wrote outlines on the board.

Overall, I would suggest taking this course with another professor, like Speer or Sigmon, who are much more organized and engaging. Luckily, Yeritsian hasn’t taught this course since winter 2024 and I hope it stays that way for the sake of future students.