<p>for you veterans, what happens to classes that have, for example, 300 slots and 150 filled? and a number of discussion sections have 1-5 people... are the discussions sections generally cancelled and merged with another one? what number is enough to warrant a discussion section</p>
<p>yah i'm also interested in this question...
i signed up for EandSS 8 and they added a 2nd lecture, but only 50 (out of 162) spots are taken.
my discussion has 8 people, but some of the other ones have 1-3...
i suppose it's a good sign my lecture was finally assigned a professor, right?</p>
<p>my guess is that they'd merge discussion sections, but this quarter i checked out a random history class and it was sections of 4-5 people... FLOPSY?</p>
<p>Yes, they merge discussion sections that are less than 20% occupancy. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>So...does that also mean a course is cancelled entirely if less than 20% of the en cap is filled?</p>
<p>I want to know this question too. BUMP this thread so we can get rid of the noobie threads.</p>
<p>I don't know the answer to that. I've never enrolled (or wanted to enroll) in any course with less than 20% total enrollment across all discussion sections. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I've had one experience with this. What they did was cancel 6 of the 8 discussion sections and forced the other people into either making room in their schedule for the only 2 remaining sections or just not taking it at all. They also changed the classroom to a smaller room</p>
<p>Low enrollment is usually the case for brand new courses, but like flopsy said, I wouldn't want to enroll in that course if it had low enrollment to begin with (unless it was a new course that sounded interesting or it was something i had to take)</p>
<p>i take it all the discussion sections had under 10 people?</p>
<p>around 150 slots, around 30 enrolled</p>
<p>I would think that the # students enrolled would increase between now and summer. My math class has only 30 students right now, and if half didn't attend lectures just like in the regular school year, then a class of 15 students ...</p>
<p>even better attention than High school. :)</p>
<p>for summer classes the # will definately increase. many high schoolers are still undecided about enrolling, i know i didnt until may when i did summer sessions. also, last minute student decisions.</p>