Recitations (and I’m in college right now, FTR.)
At UC Berkeley, they were called “discussions.”
I didn’t have lecture TAs as an undergrad (only labs), and when I was a TA it was for labs, so there were no extra sessions… are these for additional material, or to go over already-taught material? If it’s the second, as a student we called them “revisiones”, which means “review sessions”.
Precepts.
Eff you both. I wanted to make that joke!
On a more serious note, I never had any of these sessions. Are they a grad school thing?
Offically, they were called ‘lab sections’ or just ‘labs’. In the one class i had that used them we called them "a living hell’ as it was run by a Chinese grad student TA who could bearly understand us and whom we could bearly understand, who had all sorts of problems trying to explain anything to us.
No, it was an undergraduate thing in my experience. At my school, the core classes were taught in a 500-person lecture hall (Darrin Communications Center Room 308, for RPI grads), which is too big for personal attention. So the recitations are held in small groups of under 20-30 so that you can get questions answered.
Never mind. We had labs. I didn’t realize we were talking about those - we got credit for them (1 hour I think).