Emmy talks about the Academic Climate at University of Iowa
Lectures can be scary when you're in a class with 300 of your closest friends. But don't worry, Iowa has discussion sections for each lecture where about 20 students from your lecture meet up to discuss what you've learned. The discussion is ran by a teaching assistant who is there for any and all questions!
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I'm a sophomore here at the University of Iowa. Uh, I'm a skater in criminology, Major and a German minor. Uh, can I have you talk about some academics here? University? Yeah. They always will help you out with whatever you need. If you go to their office hours, I'll help you out. If you have any questions, always answer them for you. There's always someone around to help you out if you need it. Um, so for the bigger lectures and even release some of the medium and apply smaller ones, they have discussion sections, Which is like, So you all have a lecture together, but then you, like, break off into smaller discussion sections. I'm talking about what you want to lecture and clarify things if you have any questions. You know, you'll study for tests on help each other out with that and papers and stuff, and then who teaches these discussion section the teeth a's teaching assistants grad students there.