Looking at some of the older reviews, Ravetch must have changed the layout of this class because I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The lectures are primarily guest speakers who have some sort of insight into the weeks topic, which makes asking questions and getting further clarification very easy. Some of the material gets pretty complicated and involved but there was no tests besides weekly quizzes online which only count for 10% of the grade. Some of the assignments were pretty ambiguous, but as long as you hit the basic criteria he provides you'll do well on the assignments. Our course had material assigned weekly so you can kind of work at your own pace. Overall, I felt that Ravetch cared about our actual understanding of the class materials so that we could have experience dealing with these financial situations later on in our lives. Ravetch himself was a great professor with much more personality than most other lecturers, I would definitely recommend this course.

I would like to preface this by saying that I am a straight A student and I am not afraid to put a little work into getting an A but man this class is something else. Weeks before the class even started I was getting bombarded with emails from David and I just knew I was not going to be there long. David relies on a McGraw Hill textbook to do all the teaching, he himself probably knows nothing. What is the point of paying for UCLA and learning from a teacher like David if all he does is use the textbook? I can then easily save myself a couple thousand by buying the textbook on my own instead of listening to some washed up clown like David. The guy cannot teach at all: he is unclear with grading, unclear with assignments and just all around all over the place.

If I knew what I had known know I would not have wasted my time listening to David's drivel and I would have just not enrolled in the entrepreneurship minor as a whole. David is just one clown in the circus that is known as the entrepreneurship minor as a whole.

I would like to preface this by saying that I am a straight A student and I am not afraid to put a little work into getting an A but man this class is something else. Weeks before the class even started I was getting bombarded with emails from David and I just knew I was not going to be there long. David relies on a McGraw Hill textbook to do all the teaching, he himself probably knows nothing. What is the point of paying for UCLA and learning from a teacher like David if all he does is use the textbook? I can then easily save myself a couple thousand by buying the textbook on my own instead of listening to some washed up clown like David. The guy cannot teach at all: he is unclear with grading, unclear with assigments and just all around all over the place.

If I knew what I had known know I would not have wasted my time listening to David's drivel and I would have just not enrolled in the entrepreneurship minor as a whole. David is just one clown in the circus that is known as the entrepreneurship minor as a whole.

One of the few classes I've taken that I would NOT recommend. I found the course material mostly interesting and definitely practical/useful, but the organization of the material, assignments, and class in general ruins it. The assignments are not challenging at all, but it is incredibly unclear what you're supposed to be doing. Everyone does pretty well, but final grades are significantly curved down. For Spring 21, 97+ was an A, 94-97 was an A-, 92-93 was a B+, and 73-92 was a B.