<p>Are teaching assistants prevalent at Case, or are classes taught mostly by professors?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>All lectures are taught by professors or instructors (there are a few excellent lecturers who do not have a PhD, but have been teaching at Case for ~20 years). On very rare occasions professors will have graduate TA's substitute for them when they have to be out of town.</p>
<p>Recitation sections and labs on the other hand are typically run by TA's. Some of the freshman math classes and engineering core classes have undergraduate TA's (typically seniors or juniors who did well in the class). Most other engineering/science classes have at least one graduate student as a teaching assistant who helps with grading and runs extra review sessions.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, Ctheflute.</p>
<p>Are the professors very accessible?</p>
<p>Son is a freshman engineering student and I'm sure would agree with Ctheflute.
The issue of TA's vs. professors teaching core classes factored into his decision to choose Case. He has commented on a number of excellent faculty ranging from his math to SAGES classes. Also, although I can't be sure of numbers, the lecture type classes have much fewer students than other schools he had looked at. His math class is not even a lecture as in many other schools but has about 30 students in it.</p>
<p>All profs/lecturers offer office hours and can be reached by email. All of my profs seemed very open to making appointments too. Basically if I ever need to see one of my profs, All I had to do was stop by their office during office hours, asked them after class, or shoot them an email. </p>
<p>Lectures for your Math, Physics, Bio, Chem/Orgo 1 and 2 classes always have lots of students in one of the two big lecture halls on campus. Most others classes I've had have 30 or less like Second Spring has said.</p>