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In the big "weed out" classes you usually have 200-300 students in a lecture hall, and that is taught by a Prof with TAs leading the corresponding discussion groups.
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No one is disputing that, but that's not what you said. You said that:
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One graduated in 2002 with a degree in Aeronautical engineering. He responded -- –first couple of years that's mostly what i had (TA’s)
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And I was wondering what courses your nephew took in his first two years in college.
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With a lot of my math classes though (Calc 1-3, etc.) the classes were smaller (40-50 students) and they were taught by TAs, usually non-American. I can only talk on the math and science stuff though.
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Your nephew has faulty memory...either that or he just chose to remember the bad experiences. Calc 1 and 2 are indeed taught by GSIs, and some unfortunately do not speak good English. Calc 3 (Math 215), Diff Equations (Math 216), Linear Algebra (Math 217) and all upper leveal courses are taught by professors. You can look it up in the Winter 2007 time schedule (
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_resul...40&iPageNum=4). All the sections are taught by professors.
May be your nephews can be more specific than saying just "math and science stuff"? Which of his engineering courses were taught by TA's?
I went back to the department during homecoming in 2004. All the Chem Engineering courses are still taught by professors.
Btw, many of the CC'ers in engineering can place out of Calc 1 and 2, thus avoiding non-English TA's if necessary. That's what changed since my time. In the good old days, all my calculus classes were taught by professors, so I could just skip to another section if I didn't like my TA.