I never really got the "massive lecture size" thing. My university had ~20,000 students (about 15,000 undergrad), which I thought was mid-range as far as American universities go, but I never had a lecture with more than about 100 people in it. As far as I know, there weren't lectures that large anywhere in the university; I can only think of one hall large enough to accommodate lectures that large. It was used for administering tests for classes that had several hundred students (but all of those classes were split into several different lectures, often with separate instructors who worked together on the class.)
Is the massive lectures thing predominantly a state school phenomenon? Maybe my university being real-estate bound had something to do with it.
To be honest, I preferred large lectures and suspect I would prefer massive lectures for the same reason: smaller lectures are more prone to inane interruptions from students (typically students that had been skipping lectures).
Is the massive lectures thing predominantly a state school phenomenon? Maybe my university being real-estate bound had something to do with it.
To be honest, I preferred large lectures and suspect I would prefer massive lectures for the same reason: smaller lectures are more prone to inane interruptions from students (typically students that had been skipping lectures).