Do the readings and take notes. Midterm and final are open note and based mostly on the readings. Passionate teacher

Ikeuchi is very nice and a great lecturer. She makes the content of the course extra interesting and her outfits always eat. Only issue is the test format is sort of difficult but Ikeuchi and Xu gave extra credit and redemption opportunities. Also there are assigned readings which are alright. I recommend taking Ikeuchi's classes shes a great prof!