Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. I hope that your stats will
help me lobby for a more manageable course.
Dawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Irish" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Policy statements on class size
> Dawn:
>
> This comes up about twice a year, I think. I did a survey of Can and US
> schools, about two years ago. I got responses from 29 schools. The
> average class size in Canada (even considering several stupidly large
> classes like U of T's) is 65, but if we rule out the massive lecture
> courses at UT, UBC and Waterloo, the average drops to 29. All of those
> large courses have tutorials of ~20. In the US, where composition is
> better entrenched in the academic culture, the average is 21 and none of
> the 16 US schools has stupid large lecture sections.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Rob Irish
>
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