[anuragramdasan]

Quickly glanced through the syllabus and this seems like it covers mostly the advanced aspects of Reinforcement Learning and assumes you know the basics concepts such as MDPs, and training models etc.

For those interested in this, would strongly recommend David Silvers intro to RL[1] before beginning with the above course.

1. http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

[kleiba]

Everything you say (including the David Silvers recommendation) is already stated on the course website under "Prerequisites".

[mehrdadn]

Yes, the basics of MDPs, value/policy iteration, etc. are covered in the undergraduate Artificial Intelligence class (CS 188).