The class is terribly unorganized. The lectures are useless, but the material can be learned quite well by the textbook. Most importantly, there is 0 communication with the professor as she never responds to emails. The midterm wasn't terribly difficult, but it felt like she often gives some conflicting information about the material. In lecture half the class would fall asleep as well.

While I liked this class overall, like many of the other reviews say, Mel is an extremely disorganized teacher. Her notes are posted online, but are quite unreadable. This class is also extremely scattered with Mel jumping around between many topics. This was one of the things that disappointed me about the class, with everything seeming to just be glossed over, making the class feel like a watered-down econ class that only gives you a surface level understanding of topics. It is also extremely focussed on microeconomics with macroeconomics only coming up in the last week of class.

Mel does have an extremely lenient grading scale with anything over 85% being an A. She is also very generous with partial credit on exams. This is definitely not a difficult class and will give you an intro to economics if you have never taken it, but is a bit disappointing in the lack of depth in the topics taught.

After having taken 110 and 111 with Mel, I can now conclude that Mel is a terrible professor, but a good person. Classes are alright, but she tends to go on long tangents and the important topics aren't often gone into with much depth. She uses UCLA's online poll for participation. Half the time, you can't even sign into it or get it to load, but she doesn't care.
The tests aren't that hard so you can definitely get a good grade in the class, but that requires her actually posting the grade. That brings me to the worst part of this class: the utter lack of communication. It was impossible to get any response from Mel in the last couple weeks of the quarter, which in itself was masked with uncertainty. I can understand struggles to adapt to an online format, but I will never understand why she signs every email with "Please let me know if you have any questions", if she refuses to respond to ANY emails. Moreover, she started having Q&A forums for the homework, but she would seldom respond before the homework's DUE DATE. What's the point in answering the questions that students had on the homework after it's due?

All things being said, the class isn't that bad, but I would never take a class with this professor again because it's very difficult to be in a class where there is little to no communication with the professor.

First off, don't expect lectures to be that helpful. Mel is super disorganized and not a great lecturer. Unfortunately, you still have to attend because she has online poll questions and only gives the passwords to do them in-class. Don't think about having a buddy text you the password because she might literally take attendance to ensure no one does that.

THAT BEING SAID... Mel is a VERY NICE professor. I went to her office hours after the midterm and raised some questions about problems that I'd gotten wrong. Mel was nice enough to give me 6 EXTRA POINTS (which saved my grade from a B+ to an A-) just because she felt that I'd been graded too harshly. That really tells you about someone's character. Mel is an amazing and friendly professor!

PRACTICAL TIPS: Focus on discussion sections, homework problems, and practice exams. Those are the things that'll help you do good on the midterm/final. There's a group project but it's pretty easy — don't stress too much about it. Overall, this course is relatively easy-to-moderate difficulty. If you need a small GPA boost, this will do the trick!

Mel herself might be a nice person, but she is extremely unorganized for teaching. She didn't post assignments/lectures on time and suddenly asked students to do those works after the end of the course.

Mel is a little disorganized like the other reviews say, but I feel that she is much better this summer quarter. Perhaps she's adapted more.

Lectures were pretty focused and homework is *mostly* straightforward. There are in class poll questions.

She taught the material fairly well and completely, and it is not hard to get an A if you listen in class (she covers all the material you need to know in her slides) and put in some work. 85% + was and A when I took it.

This class is super easy - group homework and weekly current event forum posts on CCLE - but the lectures are extremely boring, and you have to attend lectures because she has mandatory online polls that count for 10% of your grade. I don't think I learned very much but it's an easy A, I recommend this if you want to boost your GPA without much work

Mel is not a great teacher and is a terrible communicator. Slow to grade, answer questions/emails, and cannot concisely convey material. Waste of a tech breadth unit - would not advise anyone to take this class again. Not worth the workload, especially as lectures are required for her annoying online polls.

The professor is so bad and disorganized you could write a sitcom about her and nobody would believe it. She did not follow the grade distribution she said she would in the syllabus so I and multiple others received grades lower than the ones we calculated following HER grade distribution. She never once answered a single email and never followed through on anything. Literally, emailing her was a meme in our groupme because she would never respond. Every concept is half taught and half explained so that questions all seem familiar but you were never really given the tools to actually solve anything. Grading is pretty harsh and there is never any feedback, we had a piazza but most questions went unanswered. I'm a cs major and would literally take another Eggert class over this, cause at least Eggert doesn't blatantly lie to you. Don't take this professor, this class had so much potential to be interesting but it was just awful.

The content and lectures are interesting. Only problem is that quiz/exam questions tend to have very confusing wording. So your grade may depend more on whether you can interpret the problems correctly instead of just understanding and applying the material. If you're interested in learning finance for engineers, maybe just read the textbook instead. If you want an easy A, take a class with business majors instead. Lectures are recorded though.