<p>i had to schedule a resusitation for each class. I never really understood what these are, if i have to go to them, or if i should make it to everyone</p>
<p>Do you mean "recitations?" If you're taking a foreign language, oral language practice with your classmates, recitations, is often required... This is in addition to the regular scheduled class. (You get practice speaking and conversing in the language.)</p>
<p>If you are going for the EMS degree, I would definitely try to make it to every resusitation.</p>
<p>As far as recitations, those are small groups that meet to discuss lectures. Like if you're taking Intro to Psychology, you're lecture class will probably have around 200 students. A recitation is a group of 15-20 students from that class that meet with an instructor to go over questions and stuff about the class. Attendance at most aren't required, but it's up to the professor to decide that. It's definitely helpful, though.</p>
<p>Based on my experience, it is most helpful to attend. Attendance is taken and counted. If you cannot make a scheduled one, you can often attend another one led by the same teacher/facilitator. Attendance is expected and "required".</p>
<p>Even though attendance is not technically required, it is best to go. After all, you paid for it! Sometimes you will have a class that gives quizzes in recitation, so you definitely don't want to miss those.</p>
<p>Recitations are classes that are basically used to either A) review the material presented in the actual lecture class that week, B) to collect homework or give quizzes C) go over homework and help with it D) get your tests back E) extra credit stuff (rare)</p>
<p>i have to agree with nurse123. attendance IS required in many (at least 1/2) of classes, but it really depends.</p>
<p>In math classes you almost always HAVE to go, as they give quizzes manytimes then, or collect homework.</p>
<p>In science classes, they are usually more if you want to go or not, they may or may not help you.</p>
<p>In other classes, you just have to go to teh first one to see if you need to go to all of them or not. Sometimes, the prof will tell you on the first day of lecture whether recitations are required or not, and what really happens in them.</p>
<p>my advice is go to the first one, and listen carefully to the first lecture, and read the syllabus. you will get all the info from that</p>
<p>Are recitations mandatory? No. Does it benefit you greatly to go to them? Yes. </p>
<p>To reiterate, recitations are offered for larger classes, breaking up the class into smaller groups for a more intimate and attentitive approach to learning. They're nice because, while the professor does not generally teach them, teaching assistants do, and are able to provide the one on one assistance that is often lacking with a large lecture class. </p>
<p>Honestly, many disregard these classes, and if I am ever sick, or am doing well in a class, they are fairly tempting to skip. That said, I would go to them early on, at least before the first test, and get acclamated with the class. They can be very useful, and coincidently, those who perform poorly tend to be the ones who skip them.</p>
<p>Our student is enrolled in an Intro to Psychology course with numbers, I believe over 200. Are we reading it correctly that there are 3 large lectures, MWF but no recitations?</p>
<p>Next questions: In another course the website lists a recitation with an enrollment of 140+. Can we assume that that large group will be divided up at the beginning of the semester and TA's assigned accordingly?</p>
<p>I'd suggest you call the department directly with your concerns. For example, we were looking at an Intro Sociology course, and what was on the website was the recitation, not the class. (This was not clear.) There's a different number for the class which wasn't on the website... (My D's not taking it anyway - but it's a cause for confusion for students.)</p>
<p>There are no recitations for the Intro to Psych class...I don't know why the abnormality, but it's always been like that.</p>
<p>Haha, I remember not having a recitation for Intro to Psych confused me when I first scheduled it. I think it's because 99.9% of people take it that it would just be too ridiculous to break it up into so many groups.</p>
<p>And yes, that recitation will be broken up.</p>