Each of the selected courses has a lecture and laboratory component; the laboratories are all taught by GTAs, who teach two or three laboratory sections per semester, and the lecture classes are all taught by PhD-level faculty (tenure-line or lecturers).
Lecture classes, on the other hand, are prerecorded.
Often they are more meaningful than sitting in lecture classes with 600 other students.
There are no large lecture classes at Nassau and the average class size is 20.
Because large lecture classes are cheaper for a college than seminars, freshmen are cheaper than upperclassmen.
Math, biology and chemistry are still taught through large lecture classes and small recitations.
Other lecture classes will include art by refugees and emigrants, folk pottery and collecting.
These lecture classes range in size from 25 to 425 students.
Online courses can enhance learning opportunities for nontraditional students and those not well served by lecture classes.
In addition, Mr. Berzolla said, smaller discussion groups usually attached to large lecture classes are held at Tower Club.
At colleges and universities, graduate-student teaching assistants are often the backbone of large lecture classes, especially in the sciences.
