<p>As first year students, are you in many large lecture classes?</p>
<p>That really just depends on which courses you're taking. Intro courses and prereqs for sciences and stuff are generally big (like Chem 33 or neuro), but you can always try for a first year seminar. and some lecture classes break up into discussion sections during the week.</p>
<p>I think most intro level classes tend to be large, and a lot of more popular lecture courses (Modern Architecture had hundreds of students). I personally liked having one class that was huge and somewhat impersonal. It made a nice change from the smaller discussion classes.</p>
<p>how big are they?
like specifically.. how mani ppl?</p>
<p>merci</p>
<p>my Chem 33 section had like 200, i think it was the largest of the 3. I think Neuro is like 400 kids right? I don't know for sure. You can also take First Year Seminars (FYS) which are classes open only to freshman and all are capped at 20 kids or less.</p>
<p>Basically, balance your schedule. You can be in all classes with 20 or less and all with 200 or more. If you don't want large classes it's not that hard to avoid them. The exception is Chem 33 if you're going to be a science major (they almost all have to take 33 if I recall).</p>
<p>My first semester freshman year, I had one big lecture (~170 people) and three small classes (about 22, 18, and 12 students each). A lot of the intro classes are big, like at any school, but with the open curriculum, it's easy for a freshman to find smaller classes too.</p>
<p>I think modern arch had like 400 kids, my bio class had 85, my classics course had about 50, and my greek class had 11. If you don't like large classe sit's not hard to avoid them.</p>
<p>I had about 200 in chem, 15 in calc, 17 in creative fiction, and about 35 in my sociology class.</p>