As one of the flagship courses for MIMG, I hoped for a stimulating and interesting class.

Lily Yang and Tim O'Sullivan co-teach this class

The lectures were very difficult to comprehend due to poor video quality and audio quality. At points, the video was incomprehensible and required a separate audio only file to be made. I felt that the lectures were also poorly organized. In other words, the professor jumped around a lot going over content and often repeated information covered previously, which made things confusing. I also felt that substituting lectures for office hours was inappropriate. The professor did not hold any additional office hours outside of the designated lecture times. The problem with this is that if students have questions outside of lectures or from different lectures, we cannot discuss that during “office hours” because they only discuss content from that day’s lecture. This makes their “office hours” very restrictive and not practical.

The midterm/final review sessions were also inadequate because they replaced “office hours.” The professors held the midterm review session on the same day as the midterm. During the final review session, 15 minutes were wasted because the professor wanted us to fill out the evaluation forms. This is not appropriate because it takes away the already limited time we have with the professor to review content. Furthermore, the practice quizzes in lecture do not nearly correlate with the difficulty and complexity of exam questions. I felt that the professor was not very engaging or enthusiastic about helping students

Overall, the class content is doable and within reasonable limits. However, the poor execution and minimal teaching of course content makes this course difficult for students with little research experience.