Professor Tyrrell was a super cool professor! To get a passing grade in this class all you need to do is read the articles given and follow along with lectures! Just make sure to fully understand the concepts behind them because you have to explain them in the midterm and final.

Update to my other comment: The pre recorded lectures WERE NOT LONG! There was a typo. WERE NOT LONG!

This was the first course I took ever at UCSB. I took his class during a summer session at UCSB. Around July 2020. Super laid back, chill,cool guy to talk to. He had pre recorded lectures then and were super long. He then had office hours to ask any questions on lectures and/or just talk. I still refer to the material I learned in this course a lot