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robk@gecko.biol.wits.ac.za (Rob Knell) writes:

>
> Sorry, a bit of confusion here. By 'practical' I mean a session of
> practical work: when the students all get together in a lab and do
> some exercise which they then write up. Maybe you'd call this a lab; I
> can't think of any other words people use here.
>

OK, so this is just lab experience. The way they do it at the
University of South Carolina is, they break the large 100-student
lecture up. Students go to lecture for 3 hours a week (usually 2
90-minute or 3 60-minute classes), and then have a 3-hour long (once a
week) lab each week, worth 1 credit (vs. 3 credits for lecture). Each
week they do various things in lab, but the labs are only 20 students
per lab, so there are 5 taught every week (usually by grad students
rather than professors). So almost all of the exercises I know of work
in a small setting. How you'd do that with 100
students... hmm... that'd be really tough.

SV

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