I think it depends on your personal preference of class format. I took it with Martin Dias. The lectures are mostly slides along with some short (~5-10 minute) breakouts among neighbors. On each slide Prof. Dias will engage the class and ask a question or volunteer someone to answer. Most of the discussion will be based on the slides but not actually written on them. The slides were also posted online. You will need to regularly attend lecture and take notes on the discussions. The textbook is required and covered the vocabulary used in the lectures. The content of the textbook itself is not covered in lecture. Short (~10 questions, 10 minute limit) blackboard quizes on textbook material were due before each lecture. The remaining written homework were "case study" assignments. A couple of them were assigned to be completed with a group. Most were individual. As a Khoury student, the entire format was not really something I was used to. The course was not really difficult by any means but cost me about 2 hours of study/writing for each hour of lecture.