What is a 'lecture course'?

What is a 'lecture course'?

A lecture course is very much how it sounds. The faculty member stands at the front of the course, and the course is usually taught in a very large lecture hall that can seat as many as a thousand students, depending upon the size of the school and the student body. Lecture courses are many times only offered in one direction. The instructor stands in front of the class and shows diagrams and speaks from notes, and often because of the size of the class, it's very difficult to ask questions or to do any interactive learning experience. Because of this, lecture courses are often introductory level courses, what we call a survey course that is lower division, and the goal is to bring in a large number of students to learn about a subject and eventually to be able to determine whether or not they're interested in it based upon the lecture.