<p>tk, did you check the title of those courses? LOL!!! </p>
<p>Let us see:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elementary Arabic II (five sections…all of them taught by the same instructors)</li>
<li>Intensive Elementary Arabic II (one section)</li>
<li>Intermediate Arabic II (three sections…all of them taught by the same two instructors, and one of those also teaches Intensive Elementary Arabic II)</li>
<li>Intro to History of Art</li>
<li>Beginning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II</li>
<li>Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II (two sections, both taught by the same instructor, who also teaches the Beginning class above)</li>
<li>Elementary Chinese I (4 sections, all taught by the same instructors)</li>
<li>Elementary Chinese II (7 sections, all taught by the same instructors, some of whom also teach the four Elementary Chinese I sections)</li>
</ul>
<p>The list goes on and on. Japanese, Korean, Homer, Mathematics for Economics, Writing Seminars, Hindi, Modern Greek, Italian, Race and the History of Racism in Brasil, Latin American Politics Through Film, Light In Artistic Expression, Art and Science of Motorcycle Design, Life on Mars or Maybe Not, Light, Camera, Action!, Social Contagion, The Evolution of Human Language, The Arthurian Legend in Literature and Film, Who Was The Last Samurai, Imagining Other Worlds, The Everglades Today and Tomorrow etc…</p>
<p>LOL!!! Those courses are adorable (vraiment, tres mignon), and I am sure they are very interesting. But let us be honest, even at Michigan or Cal, they would also enroll 10-20 students. Where are the intro and popular classes in Chemistry, Biology, Political Science, History etc…? From years of visiting campuses, attending lectures and talking to friends who attended other universities (some public, some private), I have not seen evidence that classes at most Ivies (certainly Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Penn) are significantly smaller than classes at top public universities such as Michigan, and when the classes were smaller, it did not usually enhance the learning experience.</p>