Current students?? Is UF too big?

glasswright
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:51:20 +0000

well, I am not a premed or science major, so I haven’t taken any of those classes, but basicaly any class that holds assembly exams, where there exam is administered to everyone in that class at the same time, but in various rooms on campus, is either online or the class is huge. so, that would probably include all of the premed classes, since I have seen those classes have assembly exams. but I couldn’t tell you exactly how big those classes are. I wanna guess maybe 300 per prof? but don’t quote me on that, I could be entirely wrong.

the way online classes work os: the prof gives the lecture in a semi large class that could hold 50 to 100. this is recorded, and put on sakai/elearning. then if you didn’t go to the live class, you watch it online. you can go to the live one, but they will only ask for questions every once in a while, and they won’t let questions slow up the whole lecture. it’s not that online classes are mandatory, it’s just that those classes are usually only offered as online, so there is really no option to take it any other way.
I can’t tell you how many are online, there are too many to count. but I can confirm all beginning tracking business classes are in this format, so if you are going into business, you might as well go to a cc. as I mentioned stats is one, and also some sections of the chemistry’s and calc’s, but their online format is a little different, I don’t think there is a live lecture they can opt to go to. but there are probably many more that I just don’t know about since they are not in my major.