Not as bad as what other comments say. Meliha is helpful and accepts after-class meetings and long office hours unlike other professors, and cares about students' feelings. The course scheme is indeed disorganized, but that is because it is impossible to squeeze the very concept of corporate finance in a quarter--MBA students spend a year on the same concepts.

Personally, I've had 10+ misgraded quizzes and a misgraded midterm, but in the end they were all fixed. Do come to the class for the last three weeks, as Bond value is a crucial concept on the final. Otherwise, just go along the schedule so one would expect him/herself to be fine. Remember to find a bunch of above average group members in advance. (this is a comment based on experience rather than discrimination. if you took the class you would know that half of the students do not study for the materials at all. I had a group of 5 with 2 people spending 2 days writing a 100-word summary, 1 copying the company description and analysis from preexisting documents, and 1 applying simple arithmetic average to the stock price over 5 years to demonstrate that its variance is large.)

As a previous reviewer mentioned, this class is a really strange one. Mel is a really smart and approachable person in person and in office hours, but she is extremely disorganized in lectures and structuring the class. Homework assignments are the most original problems, so don't put your hopes on finding solutions easily. The best way to tackle this class especially when you have no economics or finance background is to find a good TA and stick with them in office hours. You can brute force your way through the material and possibly find understanding, but Mel often has little details written into the problems (sometimes not written at all...) and she assumes everyone is on the same page.

She does do a Piazza board, but she is not very responsive/responsive in a timely manner. The TAs don't have access to the board, so Piazza was pretty unreliable. The group project isn't bad at all. It's a good grade booster if you do it well.

Midterm was alright, and final was challenging. She provides a few old exams for both the midterm and final, and she usually will tell you the structure and content of the exams.

A bit disorganized, but overall Mel has good intentions and class isn't too difficult. Very generous grading policy where > 85 % = A

The topics aren't too difficult, but tests were a little tricky with ~ 70% midterm average, ~ 60% final average. Midterm grading was a bit harsh.

Worst professor I've ever had, took ENGR 110 and 111 with her, she's the most disorganized person, instead of helping you understand the material she will confuse you more with her explanations, HW graders take points off for insignificant things, exams are way harder than class examples or hw, it feels like she doesn't care about the class and you have to learn everything on your own. She sometimes even gives you formulas to solve problems and you have to check the formulas on the book because she makes so many mistakes during lecture.

TLDR: This class isn't too difficult, but it could definitely be much better organized.

Pros: It isn't too hard to end up with an A of some sort, since according to Mel's grading scale, 85% and up is an A. There are many opportunities for you to boost your grade, such as quizzes, discussion posts, and the group paper due at the end of the quarter. As for the exams, I thought they were pretty fair and more or less reflect what Mel taught in lecture or assigned for homework. The exam averages were surprising low in my opinion: 78% for the midterm and only 66 % for the final. It makes me wonder whether people really learned from the homework assignments, since people could work on HW in groups.

Cons: The class felt disorganized throughout. Maybe it's due to the transition back to in-person classes, but I felt the organizational aspects of this course was lacking. Mel never replied to any emails I sent her, so it was extremely difficult to contact her outside of class. Her expectations on the group homework were not very clear. In the beginning of the course, she sent out a google spreadsheet where we could form our homework groups. However, if you forgot to write down the names of every group member on the homework assignment during submission, even if the names were on the google spreadsheet, the missing names would earn a 0. I didn't think this was quite fair, since Mel never clarified this in lecture.

Quizzes were also quite annoying. Every lecture, Mel would have us to do 2-3 mini-quizzes on our phones. The quizzes were password protected, so lecture attendance was mandatory. Sometimes, Mel would lose track of time, so we sometimes had to do the quizzes immediately after class (with a 3 minute deadline!). I felt sorry for those who have a class right after this.

This class is one of the easier ones to take, but needs to be way more organized.

I'm surprised there hasn't been any reviews on this professor yet. So here goes...

Basically, from what I've heard she's better at teaching Engineering 111( Finance) than 110, so I would probably recommend that if you can. I took Eng 110( Economics) with her, and although I remember the subject being more straightforward back when I took it in high school, she made the class frustrating at times. Her lecturing style and organization of topics is sort of disorganized, and she always calls on students without really hearing out what they have to say. HW and exam questions also worded poorly sometimes. That being said however, she is a lenient grader, very helpful if you ask the right questions during office hours and generally does make a good effort to relate class material to real world examples.

I took both ENGR 110 and 111 with this professor. And she was my favorite professor in my undergraduate time at UCLA.

I thought this class on Macro Economics was great. It isn't a masters level course or anything, but I felt like I came away with a solid foundation and understanding of the subject. From what I remember, there were meaningful exercises, and the reality is that I learned more useful skills in this class than I did in my other major related courses. The professor is really approachable and helpful if you care about her class and subject. Her lectures were entertaining and involved discussion despite being held in large sessions. I remember real world examples being brought up regularly, giving lectures a sense of practicality, which I felt was lacking in many of the 'math intensive' courses.

I would recommend this course and the program to anyone.

I took both ENGR 111 and 110 with this professor. Great lecturer, my favorite at the school.

This class focuses more on micro economics from what I remember. And I thought it was a great start to the subject, I learned plenty of practical skills. Balancing my finances, etc. It isn't really sold as a practical knowledge course, but it definitely provides some of that.

The lectures were clear and concise. Sometimes they would feel long, but its just the nature of the subject, sometimes it can be less than exciting. The professor knew when the material would be boring and tries to counter that, which I appreciated, especially since the lectures were usually in the evening, so as not to conflict with the major related courses. And she was pretty good at keeping things entertaining, by including students in discussions related to relevant current events she brought up, and most hilariously, calling out snoozing students (myself included).

Don't listen to the haters, this class is rad. Also try to take this class with a couple buddies, the group projects are way less of a drag that way.

Let's be clear. I learned a lot in class and would have learned a lot more had I gone to every lecture. My biggest problem was that it was at 6-8pm, and that got in the way a lot.

Other than that, though, this is great class to take. It's a useful class that will help prepare you for a lot of other econ classes. Mel is a good lecturer too, and keeps you engaged throughout the class. If you go to her lectures and pay attention, you'll be fine for anything that comes your way, whether it be the tests or homework. I had trouble on the midterm and a few homework assignments only to find that she went over everything I needed to know in class.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that if you go to class, she'll reward you for it. Not only is it a somewhat easy class to take, she keeps you up to date with economic events throughout the world and teaches you pretty valuable information that you'll need once you're out of college. Just make sure you make it to class. She does post lecture slides, if I remember correctly, but trust me, going to class is much better.

I would definitely recommend her class to anyone considering the tech management option as their tech breadth.

She's one of the most charismatic professors I've had. Even though there were a lot of broad concepts to cover, she was able to explain them well given the time frame and the nuances of economics.
The time value of money is difficult the first time round, but she gives a lot of examples. Do your homework, don't copy others. Talk to your TAs and professor if you're stuck on something.