<p>My D has a friend who is attending Penn State as a freshman and said that the majority of her classes are 600 person lectures for which there are no recitation sections. That didn't sound right to me, all of the other schools we have visited require recitations when the lecture is large (100 or more). </p>
<p>Can someone tell me whether Penn State has recitations, or not?</p>
<p>That is novel since the usual complaint is that too many classes are taught by TAs and a TA would not be teaching a 600 person lecture. Yes, Penn State has recitations.</p>
<p>no complaints about TAs that I know; just the large lectures with no recitations. Do all courses offer recitations, or just some?</p>
<p>I don’t know specifically, but would guess they really only make sense in some courses. In chem or math, for example, you would do things like review problem sets ([PSU</a> Chem 110: Recitations](<a href=“http://courses.chem.psu.edu/chem110fall/class/recitations.htm]PSU”>http://courses.chem.psu.edu/chem110fall/class/recitations.htm)). In an intro history course I’m not sure if it would make sense to rehash the lectures each week; if a student had questions they could take them to the prof during office hours (or read the text).</p>
<p>It depends on the class. I have 3 classes right now that are in lecture halls. 2 (art history and biological anthropology) have “sections” and 1 (psychology) does not.</p>
<p>thanks willow. How are you finding your classes so far as a freshman?</p>