No matter your education level

[novapsyche]

What was the largest class size you had to endure? the smallest you enjoyed?

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[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

350 lecture. 25 seminar. 35 classroom. This was at college level.
In high school classes of 40 were common, but 25 was standard. I had the misfortune of being in the 'bulge' class all the way through my school years. My 4th and 5th grade class often topped 35 students.

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

Smallest class was 11, but I didn't enjoy it. It was AP Calculus BC. Smallest that I enjoyed was prolly about 17, in an upperclassman discussion course about sex and gender.

Largest class was undoubtedly a freshman college core class, but that's a blur to me now.

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

Largest class? Psysch 101 lecture, 100-odd. Generic classroom? 40+ was not at all uncommon in high school core classes. Even my AP Calc classes had 30+ students in them. Smallest class? Several of my classes in Grinnell were 5 or 6 students.

Overall? I definitely prefer smaller classes, but even the Giant Psych Lecture wasn't too bad. In terms of liking the actual classes, size had very little to do with my enjoyment of them. Mostly had to do with (a) subject matter, and (b) instructor.

*shrug* FWIW.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Largest was about 30 in secondary school, which worked ok.

Smallest was 1 - the standard method of teaching at Oxford (for arts subjects) is a weekly one-on-one tutorial, so it was just me and the tutor. You learn a lot that way, but it can be rather intimidating.

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

350 for intro Chemistry in college. Typical for a lecture was 40-50. For a writing workshop it was 12. For a senior seminor on religious plurality, it was 5.

In high school, almost every class was 30 or so.

[brendand.livejournal.com]

I'd say 300 in a couple large lecture halls at EMU. Smallest? Probably a dozen in some upper level Econ classes.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Largest: Freshman Chemistry lecture: It filled a 300-seat auditorium. Nevertheless, it was an excellent class, because of the instructors.

Smallest: An AP Social Studies course (I forget the exact title) focusing on social sub-groups in Michigan. I couldn't keep up with the reading and eventually dropped the course.

Okay, maybe I'm not the person to ask. :-)

[chai-tease.livejournal.com]

largest was in 11th grade. i was at the most crowded school in texas, my history class was done in lecture style, almost 400 in the class.
smallest was my senior year of hs, i was in a school of 60 people from 8-12 grade. my AP humanities class was me, mrs haynes and sean. one of the most amazing classes ive taken because seh loved to teach and we both loved what we were learning. we neded up making an entire illuminated manuscript of the curriculum by hand. fun!

[brendand.livejournal.com]

I like your username.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

giant lecture halls full.

smallest class was 2. but it wasn't really enjoyable.

[laureth.livejournal.com]

Largest was the usual lecture-coliseum, EMU style. It was impersonal, but much better than tiny classes, only because I'm the sort that likes to blend in (at least in that situation).

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I took some entry-level courses (like Phil 101 or similar) with 200-ish people. I thought it was fine. The professor was very interactive and generated a lot of discussion.

I also loved my creative writing classes, which were always limited to 17 or less people.

The smallest was probably 8-10 students in some of my grad classes in Philosophy, and that was good for discussion, too.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I think we had over 200 people in my oceanography course, and it was a good class. Psychopathology was of similar size. My only problem with that one was it was early, had a hard time staying awake.

Some of my grad courses in counseling psych were around 10 students.

[childe.livejournal.com]

400 in lecture at MSU.
7 in a Shamanism class at the same university.