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Old 11-30-2006, 09:26 PM   #191
Alexandre
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GoBlue is correct. Math 115 and 116 (Calc I and II) are the only math classes I know of that are taught by GSIs. Math 215 (Calc III) is almost always taught by a professor. Other classes sometimes taught by GSIs are English 125 (intro college writing) and some 100 level foreign languages. Those are the 3% of the classes that are taught by GSIs. And I did not make up the number. It is a fact published by the university. Maybe Hoedown can find it, I personally haven't had much success finding it.

At any rate, very few classes are taught by GSIs. I personally skipped out of intro foreign language and Math classes, so I never had a GSI teaching me. All my contact with GSIs were as discussion group leaders, never as lecturers. Not that I would have minded. Most of the GSIs I had were awesome. 2 of the 7 I had got their PhDs months after leading the discussion group and immediately joined major faculties at Columbia and WUSTL.
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