<p>i love my engineering course for freshman year. freshman year is pretty much broken up into quarters as far as content of the course but you are graded by the semester. for the first 7 weeks of school i sat in a lecture hall of about 70 and we used a book to learn basic information. we did one microproject a week that was interdisciplinary. the course was not difficult, and focused more on practical engineering projects, working in teams, and allowed us to see what each of the different disciplines would entail. then at mid semester, we put in for our top 3 miniprojects. you were assigned to one depending on your rankings of the different projects. you worked on this project for 7 weeks. now in the second semester, we got to pick another project to work on for 7 weeks. after this project we will work in our disciplines, but i am not exactly sure what we will do. </p>
<p>engineering was big in the beginning but you worked in groups of 7-8 so it never felt that way. each project class is made up of about 20 students who then break down into groups.</p>
<p>my calc class had 20 in it which was perfect.</p>
<p>my chem class had about 70 in it for a lecture 3x a week then broke into a group of about 20 for recitation 1x a week</p>
<p>my theology had about 30</p>
<p>acs had 16</p>
<p>chem lab had about 40 but you do the experiments on your own and TAs assist so size didnt really matter.</p>
<p>any more questions?? hope this helped!!
overall, i never felt the classes were too big. professors were always available for help in office hours, after class, email, or phone.</p>