If at all possible, do NOT take this class with Shawn Russell. He's not a bad person, but you will not learn anything aside from a very surface level overview of the course content (and NOTHING about the actual applications of the course). The lectures consist of Prof. Russell scribbling on a pdf in barely legible handwriting, at a pace way that's way too quick to copy, for 50 minutes. The course started off by following the book (Signals, Systems, and Transforms - Prentice Hall) up to Laplace Transforms, and then we seemingly started covering random topics in systems modelling. Taking notes is almost useless. I highly suggest going to the YouTube channel that has been mentioned in another review and learning the class from there. The only good things I can mention about this class are that the material we covered wasn't too hard, and that the midterm and final were take home. #tCFF23

Take this class with Knospe if you can. His youtube can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@KnospeUVA. Russell is just not good at teaching. His handwriting is illegible, and he taught topics in an order which made no sense. #tCFFall23