The classrooms in the College of Pharmacy reflect an innovative design intended to foster interaction between students and professors in the classroom setting. The design is hexagonal in shape, with the podium being in the center of the classroom. This minimizes the physical distance between the instructor and all students. Six projection screens scroll down from the central area of the classroom such that all students have an unhindered view of the visual material being displayed to the students by the instructor. Each permanent class seat has a LAN connection to the University computer system so that the student may download lecture notes and/or view on-line presentations during each class. Laptop computers are a prerequisite in the Pharmacy program. Each large classroom is surrounded by a number of smaller "breakout" rooms, in which students are required to participate in group discussions or team activities in between formal lecture hours (each class is broken down into a number of assigned teams). Each of the Pharmacy classrooms has a similar design.