Students praised this course for covering a “wide range of topics at very good depth” and appreciated how the instructor crafted a class that was well organized and in sync with the course’s textbook. However, some students found the course covered too much and too quickly during lectures making it hard to fol ow along. Suggestions for improvement included a desire that the instructor spend more time during lectures going over sample problems with students to make sure they understood the concepts. Prospective students should know that students found the course chal enging and time consuming, but that by the end of the semester they had learned a lot.

Students in this interactive class praised it for being a challenging course with an instructor who was eager and willing to help students understand the course material. Perceived issues in the course included a belief that the homework load in the course could be somewhat heavy. Suggestions for improvement included a request from multiple students that the instructor spend additional time going over homework problems and example problems in order to makes sure students understood the solutions.