I've never seen so many people drop a class. Materials are EXPENSIVE: ~$90 for the textbook, $42 for a bunch of pdfs, and $10 to use the software for one of the assignments. Attendance is graded, there's a participation grade (for lecture participation), and lectures are very hit or miss. Some guest speakers were really engaging and you could learn from them, others got defensive when you asked questions / came off quite out of touch. Prof Shawn LOVES to talk about how he uses chatgpt all the time but doesn't actually teach us how to be better at using AI. I also personally did not enjoy my interactions with him as he came off as condescending and unhelpful.
Since enough people convinced him to move the midterm and final online, scores were really high and the cutoff for an A-/A was way above 90/93. The entire class is graded on a bell curve / where you stand in the class distribution which makes it extremely competitive, and you have to constantly aim to be above the average.
Overall: Avoid this class if you can. I personally feel that his personal finance class would be a much better option, as he comes off much more engaging and helpful in that domain.

Perfect class if you want to hear weekly presentations with pretentious millionaires complaining about how hard their life is. It's like listening to an unhelpful podcast of useless finance jargon that won't help you unless you are already the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.