I believe it's a mandated state required course, but it is terribly performed. No real lectures, just textbook and short youtube videos. In the syllabus the professor even argues this point ahead of time and that you shouldn't complain he doesn't even teach the content. Good amount of work every week and the homework is very hard if you only use the textbooks as they are only conceptual. Then the youtube videos don't explain how to do problems yourself, just the solutions to a few of the problems. It's just not a well designed course

The concepts are quite useful, it's just they are not taught well. Well, technically they are not really taught at all you learn them from the textbooks, but still. There is no option for a lectured section, so I'm not sure what the point is.

Professor Galli is alright, although he doesn't like being emailed or messaged (very explicitly in the syllabus) and instead just likes to use the discussion boards on WebCourses which you'll maybe get a response from. Not a bad professor per se, I think it's his first semester he taught the course, but there is just so little interaction between professor and... well the course so.

It's not hard to complete, most of the homeworks are easy enough to follow along with the videos and then some of the exams are based on it, but if the class was actually tested on their knowledge and comprehension the class average would maybe be a 5%.