填空题
There are 3 types of university courses in the U. S. A..
The first one is called a lecture course. If you’ re an undergraduate in almost any field or major. You can expect to spend between four and six hours a week attending lectures for each class. Lecture courses are often held in very large rooms because undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Psychology or Introduction to Economics can have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. During a lecture, the professor talks and you have to take notes. And this is very important because the information in a lecture is not the same as the information in your books, and you can expect to have questions on your exams that are based on the lectures. So it isn’t enough just to read your textbooks, like it is in some countries: here you have to attend lectures as well, and you have to take notes.
Now, in a typical week, for every class you’re taking you’ll also have a class called a discussion section. This class meets one or two hours a week, and what it is, it’s a small class with maybe only twenty or thirty students. This class is where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and go over the homework. In large universities discussion sections are taught by graduate students who are called teaching assistants, or TA’s.
The third kind of class I want to mention is the lab class. If your major is chemistry or physics or any other science, you’ll have to spend several hours a week in the lab, the laboratory. This is where you do your experiments. Now what this means is that science majors spend more time in various classrooms than nonscience majors do. But on the other hand, people who major in subjects like business or anthropology usually have to read and write more than science majors do.
College Courses
Types of courses
1. lecture
· hours a week: (46)
· class size: (47) students
· lectures given by professors
· note-taking is important
2. Discussion section
· hours a weak: 1 ～ 2 hours
· class size: (48) students
· purpose: ask questions
· taught by (49)
3. (50)
· science majors spend more time in class than nonscience majors