You need to teach yourself a lot in this class. I primarily self-studied everything. She barely teaches you the topics on the exams and her lectures are all over the place. She's also known to not curve any class even though this is an elective class, which is usually curved a lot. 80% of your grade are exams. Nice person but beware of her classes.

Nice as a person but this class was an absolute MESS! Went through 2 ENTIRE chapters the lecture RIGHT BEFORE midterm and another chapter right before the final. The exams also don't entirely cover what's taught in class AND there is NO curve in her courses! I really wanted to enjoy this class, but I didn't. AVOID THIS CLASS, TAKE ANOTHER ELECTIVE!

Her lecture is really helpful in terms of helping students understand the content. She does ramdonly pick students to answer her questions but I think it's a good way of keeping up withe the content. Midterms and Final wasn't bad at all. Start early on the tax return and you will be good!

Required calling on students randomly in class and going around to solve a problem (introvert nightmare). Doesn't explain foundational 3A/3B concepts adequately for transfer success. Tests are difficult, lectures are anxiety-inducing and scattered. Nice person, but wait for a different prof for the 136 series, or prepare to self-study constantly.

Not a great teacher the teacher stucture is kind of a mess. I would recommend fulkerson or harmon instead for 136A. I averaged like 90 on the tests but the Wileyplus was single try and it was really unclear what you needed to know for the pop quizzes and i missed one entirely bc it was online without warning unlike the 2 prior. Good TA needed

(138A) Russell is point blank a bad teacher. She failed to set clear expectations as to the content we needed to know and threw two projects at us right before finals week. She gave a large volume of practice questions (with no solutions) that partly covered content we were never tested on. Avoid Russell at all costs/ take this through CC instead