In many university departments (within certain fields), a typical course will consist of a series of lectures and then some additional lectures given by teaching assistants (TAs). Suppose that we are speaking about a math department, then one of these TA lectures may typically be the TA solving some exercises, while the main lectures mostly focus on going through the course material. My question is, what do you call these additional lectures? Where I'm active (where English is not the native language), I've seen things like exercise session, supplementary lecture, tutorial, problem solving class, etc. Is there a "proper" word for it? What are these "lectures" (they're not lectures, because they are quite different from the (main) lectures of acourse) called elsewhere?
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Here in Australia we have our lectures down by the lecturer, and then both workshops (which is similar to lectures but involves high amounts of student participation) and tutorials/labs (hands-on, practical work) conducted by the tutors/TAs.– JuliaCommented Sep 30, 2015 at 15:13
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1We called these 'recitations': I've got ECE203 at 8:00 and recitation at 2:00.– JimCommented Sep 30, 2015 at 15:28
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Possible duplicate of academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27415/…– miltonautCommented Dec 1, 2018 at 17:35
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A commonly used term in the US is recitation (noted by Jim in comments). In the general sense, it simply means to present already learned material in front of an audience. But in the university I attended, large math lectures were accompanied by smaller recitation classes.
In some academic institutions the term is used for a presentation by a teaching assistant (TA) or instructor, under the guidance of a senior faculty member, that supplements course materials. In recitations that supplement lectures, the leader will often review the lecture, expand on the concepts, and carry on a discussion with the students.
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