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Large Lecture Classes Having left the confronting atmosphere of home schooling or typically small high school classes, college freshmen's find it difficult to adapt to large lecture classes. There classes are varying in size from 50 to 200. In my fall class, Chemistry 1301, Professor Dr. Young teaches approximately 70 students every morning. Typically, classes like Chemistry 1301 at Baylor University contain 70 to 100 students. Numerous problems arise in these outsized lecture classes. First, large lecture classes prevent students from asking questions, about matters they do not understand. Students are inhibited from asking "dumb" questions. They are left thus prevented from understanding the material and cannot further develop ideas about the material being taught. In my case, asking questions has become very difficult, because I feel that my inquiry is irrelevant and unimportant to the subject a hand. Asking a question has become a rarity...

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