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[sparkofcreation]

Okay, so in university, you often have two types of class meetings per week. One in a large group, one in a smaller group. In language courses, those are called "lectures" and "drills" respectively.

What are they called in science or math classes?

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[meridiani]

I've had "lectures" and "recitations". There are also "labs".

[sparkofcreation]

I think it's recitations, because labs are separate courses. (And in courses with labs, the main course has 3 lectures/week and 0 recitations, and the lab has 0 lectures and 2 recitations. Whereas a course without a lab may have 3 lectures and 1 recitation.)

[sparkofcreation]

Oh, and thank you!

I never really took science or math classes in college, so I can't remember what they were called.

[elegantelbow]

Lecture & lab.

[archaicrete]

The smaller groups I've had were generally led by TA's, and were often called discussion sections.

[sparkofcreation]

For context, I was working on a transcript, and the number of class meetings per week was in two categories, lectures per week and X per week. Some courses had both (Cellular Biology 3/2); some had a separate lab, so for example
Organic Chemistry I: 3/0
Organic Chemistry I Lab: 0/2

I finally called them "Lectures per Week" and "Practical Sessions per Week."

Were the small-group sessions that went along with (for example) calculus also called "labs"? Weren't they called something like "homework sessions"?