<p>Class sizes vary from school to school and department to department. Your daughter is probably looking at the College of Arts & Sciences, so she will have some lectures in her schedule. Wahoomb does make a good point about these classes…she’ll be surrounded by bright, hard working students and is likely to feel as though she is among her academic peers. </p>
<p>The use of Socratic Method would depend on the professor, not necessarily the size of the class. I experienced it myself in a very large law class in graduate school. By the way, you might be interested in the book Becoming Gentlemen by Lani Guinier. It’s about gender and the use of Socratic Method in the classroom.</p>
<p>Your daughter might be interested in the Media Studies department at UVa…</p>
<p>[University</a> of Virginia | Media Studies](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/]University”>http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/)</p>