<p>Somebody was telling me how most lectures don't have an attendance requirement, so you can go to any lecture for the same class during the day, even if it's not on your schedule. Is this true, for the most part?</p>
<p>yea, if the prof doesn’t take attendance, you can attend any lecture you want</p>
<p>You are pretty much free to attend whichever lectures you want. This is particularly useful if you don’t like your professor and would like to try out a different one. However, some classes take attendance through iClickers, so I would be careful if that is the case.</p>
<p>Do anyone know if phys 2213 does the clicker thing?</p>
<p>It will depend on your professor. Krasicky used it when he taught in spring 2008, but the only thing that mattered was that you clicked in at some point during the day. It probably won’t matter if it’s one professor teaching multiple lectures. </p>
<p>Also, you’ll get a clue when you receive your book list. If it says 213 requires an iClicker, there’s a chance they’ll use it for attendance (or they might never use it for anything, it really depends).</p>
<p>I just stopped going to my only class that was in a lecture hall last semester. Found it to be a waste of time since entire lecture slides ended up on blackboard and professor basically just read them during class and nothing else of substance, although I went to discussion section with TA b/c attendance was taken. Unfortunately missed the day when professor wore a dress to class for a lecture on social norms to show how to break one. Was hilarious when taking exam though because there were literally about double the number of people there than during a normal lecture (and this class only had one lecture and one professor teaching it).</p>
<p>You wouldn’t be able to do this for a discussion session, though, right?</p>
<p>Probably not, at least in engineering classes. When I took ECON courses, however, attendance was not mandatory for discussions, so it did not matter which sections I went to (or whether I went at all!).</p>