Tutorials

[dr_whom]

The three universities I've been affiliated with have different names for the mini-classes taught by TAs within a large lecture class: "sections", "recitations", and "tutorials". Of these, "tutorial" is obviously the best; "section" is really vague and "recitation" is bizarrely off-target.

Comments

[q10.livejournal.com]

i remain sort of offended by how people just assume you're supposed to know what ‘recitation’ is intended to actually mean.

[picklepikkl.livejournal.com]

jumping into this comment thread for to express icon love.

Which of the three does UT use?

[dr_whom]

"Tutorial".

[q10.livejournal.com]

image source (tragically reformatted since the original posting - should see if i have an archival copy of original).

quote source (video).

[silkspinner.livejournal.com]

Columbia called these events, when they occurred, "roundtable."

Occasionally, we held them in the seminar room where the table was actually a large oval.

[theevilgenius.livejournal.com]

Princeton has "precepts" led by "preceptors." I still don't really know what these words mean.

[dr_whom]

…I think "precepts" might be worse than "recitations", but I'm not sure.