<p>No, I think language classes are capped at 18 or so. Then some have conversation groups (like recitations) where you show up just to talk, and those are 10, but usually less.</p>
<p>Lol I know what you’re saying about it being good to have some large lecture classes…in fact, for Fundamentals of Economics with Abdullah, I sort of just STOPPED going to lecture after the first month. It was easier to just read the chapters and show up to recitation to take the quizzes, and find out when the exams were from the 3029841938 other people I knew taking the class, lol. I got an A-.</p>
<p>Big lectures can often be what you make of them. In any big lecture, there will be those who raise their hand and make comments, and those who don’t trouble to do so. If you make yourself known, the prof will remember you. I was always surprised that Vickie Sullivan, for example, whom I had for Western Political Thought I, always knew the names of the kids raising their hands - after asking them once, she remembered. But there were like 100 people in the class, and only about 15 of them would speak up, so those were the 15 she knew. </p>
<p>Besides, some lecturers are fantastic in a large-class environment. I took Public Opinion and Foreign Policy with Eichenberg, which was a big class (not like a hundred, more like…50?), relatively, and he went ot such great lengths to learn who everyone was, I loved it. At the beginning of the semester he had everyone write out their name on an index card, and an interesting fact about themselves. At the start of each class, then, he’d read through about 20 index cards and say things like, “Where is Bethany?” Bethany would raise her hand. “Bethany, you got bitten by a COUGAR?” It made everyone easy to remember. And he encouraged lots of participation, even though sometimes that’s annoying b/c it helps get off track, lol.</p>