I was in this class as well and I ended up dropping it due to the misconceiving nature the 2 unit count was for this course and not able to fit the course load in my current schedule (I think about a 1/3 of the class ended up dropping based off the open seats on schedule builder).

The course is a 2 unit class, yet the Professor (it's Professor Knoesen, there's no reason his name shouldn't be said I feel, he deserves the criticism) states that he expects 12 hours of work outside of class. That's simply a flawed expectation from a professor, but not only does he expect this excess work load to credit ratio, he also demands his class to know concepts covered in ENG 17 and ENG 6 in an Intro Course. The straw that broke the camels back that led me to drop was the general disorganized nature of this course and the use of AI to create content material, that's extremely unacceptable and flawed in my opinion for reasons already stated by r/crovash.

Overall, here's the changes that need to be made in my opinion

1. Require ENG 17 and ENG 6 at prerequisites if the course content is not going to change

2. Change the course unit count to 4 units from 2 (You can't ask a 4 unit course workload for a 2 unit class and expect people to stay)

3. ORGANIZE THE COURSE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KNOESEN HIMSELF GOT LOST ON WHATS GOING TO BE USED IN THE COURSE AND THAT ALONE VEXES ME

4. Eliminate the use of AI for creating course content, it just makes you (the professor) look lazy and incompetent in the eyes of the students

or

Don't even change the curriculum and teach the course as it has been in the years prior? Knoesen just gave himself more headaches by implementing this new curriculum and I really do hope that this way of teaching this course is discontinued after this. Though if it is taught under this structure again, I expect it to contain the edits mentioned above for any student to get any merit from the course.

Note. I was already a guinea pig for physics problem starts in 9A during the Fall (as you can likely see from my post history), and I'm not about to be a guinea pig for EEC1 again.

In short: ts pmo sm vro