avoid this teacher at all costs. Clearly does not care about students' mental health. Significantly harder than other IDS teachers. Is not helpful when you ask questions, makes you feel stupid. Harsh grader and 10x more work and assignments than other teachers assign.

I also took this class when campus was shut down Week 10 because of COVID-19 and he was pretty unclear about what the final would be like. A lot of people tried to get him to cancel it or reduce the questions but he was super vague and just said that everything would be fine. It was honestly pretty hard considering the situation and I don't think I did well at all, but I ended up with an A in the class. I therefore think they were VERY lenient on grading the final!! I definitely would have failed if we had to take the final in person LOL. I did ok on the midterm. I got a B- and it was curved. A lot of the questions on the midterm were the same as previous years' exams so definitely go to the test bank and study those! I only saw them right before the midterm so if I had real time to look at them and make sure my responses were more detailed, I probably would have done better. We had weekly memos to turn in for discussion and we had to answer two questions about the previous week's readings. That was pretty straightforward and you had to be concise since it was supposed to be less than 250 words total or something like that. Attendance in discussion was also counted. The midterm was 20% of our final grade, attendance and weekly memos were 40%, and the final was 40%.