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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A 500 person class is basically YouTube.[/quote]

What school has a 500 person class?[/quote]

Haha. Lots of schools! I was in a class my first year at Harvard with about 900.[/quote]

That sounds miserable.  [/quote]

It's considered  the best class in the country, and regularly attended by non students, because the lecturer is incredibly talented as a writer and speaker.

Most large classes aren't that good, especially outside of humanities, over in subjects where being a brilliant researcher has nothing to do with writing or speaking abilities. [/quote]

I am the PP who took "Justice" my first year. Sounds like the last PP took it, too! To be fair, the grad student who lead my weekly section/discussion class wasn't great. I learned to pick these better over the years. I LOVED my big lecture classes at Harvard but I was incredibly selective. I chose the great lecturers and the classes were riveting. But I also was in a tiny concentration that was all intense seminar classes with 4-15 students. I think a mix of lectures and seminars is ideal. I would not have been happy if my major requirements had all been large lectures. I definitely was challenged more and learned more in the seminars where I was pushed to participate and couldn't ever get a way with being unprepared for class.

Agree with others that anything over 50 is pretty much the same. The professor is only going to get to know a small number of more motivated students.

Most academics/professors in both large and small universities want their own kids to go to small liberal arts colleges.  [/quote]

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