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English101 in the most elite Ivy League will probably be a very different course than English
101 in an urban community college weekend class for working adults.
A professor may teach the same course year after year or more commonly they will teach
more than one section of the same course. Professors often talk of the number of preparations
they have, meaning number of unique courses that they are teaching. In a typical American
college or university, a teacher may teach four courses a semester, three sections of Introduction
to Chemistry and one section of O ɝ