<p>IU is a fairly big school and i was directly admitted into Kelley and i am also doing the honors college. generally, which classes will be the big lecture halls and about how big are those classes? is it difficult to keep up? or is it one of those situations where as long as you do your work you’ll be fine?</p>
<p>I’m a Freshman business major and the biggest classes I’ve had were Microeconomics (300ish), Finite (300ish), K201 Lecture (300ish), M119 Calc (400ish), Criminal Justice (400ish) and Accounting A100 (200ish) </p>
<p>The biggest lecture hall at IU only holds just over 400 people so none of the classes are THAT overwhelming. It’s usually pretty easy to keep up if you do the readings and actually go to class. Its hard to get to office hours sometimes, though. </p>
<p>If you do what they tell you to, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>collegelove, since you are in Hutton Honors College, you can avoid some of the 300+ student I-core prerequisite classes that non-Hutton Kelley majors have to take. Take Kelley honors classes K204 and X202 instead of K201 and X201, and you will have sections with only 25-30 students each and lots of chances for extra credit and grade inflation. And take the Kelley honors classes A205 and A207 instead of A201 and A202 to get smaller classes that meet only twice a week instead of three times weekly, including two very large lecture sections. Also, think about taking finite math at a cc during the summer and just transferring the credit to IU rather than risk a low grade for your gpa.</p>
<p>Also, you can take Hutton Honors classes for distribution option credit. These classes are less than thirty students each with very high grade inflation. The HON H203 and HON H204 classes will give you credit for A&H and S&H distribution option classes, respectively. Very easy grading for these classes, as the grade distribution for last Fall shows:
[Bloomington</a> Campus Grade Distribution Report](<a href=“http://www.iub.edu/~registra/gradedist/4108_report1a.html#BL-HONR]Bloomington”>http://www.iub.edu/~registra/gradedist/4108_report1a.html#BL-HONR)</p>
<p>Take the four Kelley honors classes I mentioned and three of the HON H203/4 classes and you will see lots of very small classes with high grade inflation. These seven classes will also make you eligible to receive the honors notation on your diploma, if you have a 3.4 cumulative gpa at graduation.
[GHN</a> Requirements for Students Who Entered the HHC Fall 2005 and After](<a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~iubhonor/faq/05.php]GHN”>http://www.indiana.edu/~iubhonor/faq/05.php)</p>
<p>You can also take the small section honors versions of micro (Fall semesters only) and macroeconomics (Spring only), but avoid Glomm for any of these as he is a brutal grader. And, as a direct admit, you can take the direct admit version of G202, which is much smaller than the non-direct G202; but only take the direct admit version if Kreft (not Mafi-Kreft) is teaching it, as there is a lot more work in these sections but Mafi-Kreft is a harsh grader.</p>
<p>Some classes are big, but that just comes with the the territory when you’re at a school of 40,000 students. The largest classes I’ve had so far have been a little bit under 200 students. Some of them are broken off into separate discussion groups one day a week so that you get more personalized attention, which is nice. But for the most part you are on your own; don’t be afraid to go to professor’s office hours though. They’re underutilized for the most part and I’ve learned through experience that they really are beneficial.</p>
<p>Most of the huge lecture classes are 100-level intro courses which aren’t too difficult to begin with. Last semester as a freshman 2/5 of my classes were lectures; the other 3 had less than 25 students each. This semester I am enrolled in 4 classes; one of them is an intro-level journalism course with 100 students and the other is finite mathematics with 80. So contrary to popular belief, you won’t be stuck in huge lecture halls for the entirety of your freshman year.</p>
<p>^ Your finite only has ** 80 ** people? How?</p>
<p>^ It’s A118, which is finite for biological and social sciences. That’s why I have less people in my class. It’s supposedly easier, but to me, it’s just as odd and obnoxious as M118.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore in Hutton and the journalism school, and my largest class was probably about 120 people. Smallest was 16.</p>