But as a steady diet in a college course, the seminar usually leaves much to be desired.
The seminar work of this subject is done in the College and the field work in company with and under the direct supervision of an Inspector of the Department of Health of the City.
Spring term, two seminar hours, one recitation and one inspection tour a week; counts 3.
Limitations of seminarmethod in undergraduate teaching= The college seminar is usually unsuccessful because few students have ability to hold the attention of their classmates for a period of thirty minutes or more.
A thorough investigation of such a course will soon convince the teacher that the seminar method, whatever its merits in university training, must be refined and diluted before it is applied to college teaching.
Much of the present research is done with small groups of students in a seminar where personal direction is given to investigations and where the methods of research are developed under direct supervision.
The Seminar in the Colleges," Journal of Political Economy, Vol.
Probably the seminar method, in which the subject is chiefly presented in themes prepared by the students, is never attempted in the introductory course.
For seniors and graduate students the seminar has been found most satisfactory in developing a keen interest in the problems of politics.
In the upper classes in college, mediocre students are often welcomed into a seminar course in order to help float an unpromising elective.
The remainder of the term is given over to seminar work: each student reads his paper and holds himself in readiness to answer all questions his classmates may ask on his topic.
The results of these pseudo-seminar courses are far from what was anticipated.
In the university only the student of tried worth is permitted to take a seminar course.
In the senior year the teacher will usually prefer to meet his classes in small sections, on the seminar plan, for informal discussion and the criticism of papers written by his pupils on questions suggested by their reading.
Fish and Wildlife Service convened a seminar on Oil Spill Wildlife Response Planning.
It was obvious from this seminar that the most comprehensive wildlife oil spill contingency plan had been developed by the State of California.
No method of instruction seemed more appropriate than the seminar plan of practical exercises based on concrete instances.
The first laboratory experiment was performed in the presence of a Seminar of seven H.
The seminarwas at Hotel Green Park and we set out for the venue early in the morning.
After lunch, I attended a seminar conducted by one of the students.
Since I knew that I would be returning to Goa alone at the end of the seminar in Kottayam I took care to be very observant about landmarks and other details so that I would not get lost on my return trip.
It so happened that my father was attending a seminar on organic farming in Kottayam and as he would also be visiting some organic farms he thought it a good idea if I came along.
She thought with longing of Miss Grammer and of the deep Seminar room at the library.
She was content to work as few students ever worked and to allow herself grateful thoughts during organ recitals and late in the evening when she sat on the window-seat in the Seminar room waiting for Miss Grammer to complete her longer tasks.
As a graduate student, Miss Grammer had access to a Seminar room in the library, and thither she took Ellen to spend the long evenings.
She crossed the deserted campus to the library, walking aimlessly, and descended to the cool corridor leading to the Seminar room.
After every one was settled, the man who was giving the seminartook a chair on a little platform in front of us, and began--not to talk exactly, but to drone.
They say that fellows who never look at a book or take a note in class often go to a seminar and, providing they have good memories, are able to answer enough questions on the exam paper the next morning to get through with colors flying.
As Berri remarked about the seminar we went to,-- "After a professor has earnestly expounded a subject for half a year, it must make him rather sore to have a cheeky parrot get up and do the whole thing much better in four hours.
The Fine Arts seminar was held in a huge room, almost a hall, in a kind of office building near the Square.
There, as many of you have seen, the stacks are distributed through a series of small rooms, the light side of which is supplied with tables and used for study rooms and for seminar purposes.
In connection with the palaeographical studies just mentioned it should be noted that a special seminar in palaeography, given by another professor, Dr.
The majority of the members of this seminar are the library volunteers who naturally are more numerous in Goettingen than at other Prussian university libraries.
It should be covered by special lectures by the representatives of the various sciences, connected by a theoretical course in the theory of classification, and followed by seminarwork in classification of books.
Dziatzko, stating that the real strength and power of the work consisted in the bibliographical seminar and the work with incunabula.
Beside these public lectures, Prof Dziatzko gives once a week a bibliographical seminar for a smaller circle.
This study should include seminar work in the handling of literary tools, in hunting up references on special questions, and in the preparation of bibliographical lists.
The fourth year work is in the nature of a seminar and is devoted to instruction in bibliography.
The remaining seminar hours are given up to reviews and papers by the members.
These papers are then discussed by the members of the seminar and sharply criticised by Prof.
A NOTE The following study is the outgrowth of investigations in the "Quantity Theory" of money, carried on in the seminar of Professor Jesse E.
I owe my interest in economic theory, and the greater part of my training in economic method, to the three years I spent in his seminar at Missouri.
In 1895 the second half of his psychological seminar was announced as "a discussion of certain theoretic problems, as Consciousness, Knowledge, Self, the relations of Mind and Body.
In this seminar I was deeply impressed by his judicious and often judicial quality.
Of all the services he did us in this seminar perhaps the greatest was his running commentary on the students' reports on such authors as Lombroso and Nordau, and all theories of degeneracy and morbid human types.
But the leaven was working, in two particulars especially; the seminar method of teaching and the development of the elective system.
The firstseminar was held by Professor Charles Kendall Adams in 1871 in some of his courses in history.
The International Position of the Dollar' was the theme of the Spring 1961 Seminar series.
In August, 1958, World Brotherhood held a seminar in Bern, Switzerland.
The briefings and the seminar lectures are consistently designed to elicit the support of businessmen for major features of Administration policy.
To these seminar rooms bring students, from every walk of life, to study under competent direction and to investigate subjects in which they are interested either from a material or cultural point of view.
In the negative the following advantages of the departmental system were emphasized: The importance of close connection with the classrooms, especially the seminar rooms.
Teachers and parents can meet in these seminar rooms and discuss school questions.
There should be provided graduate courses for the high school graduates, and other students of like qualifications in these seminar rooms, directed by the library staff.
The ideal plan would be for this room to adjoin the university library like a seminar room.
The school teachers and library staff can meet in these seminar rooms and discuss questions of common interest; and also pursue advanced studies.
Was there any report of the proceedings of the seminar prepared?
You say that you have reconstructed your recollection of your interview with Lee Oswald by thinking of the seminar that you gave; is that correct?
The only writings that would have been at the seminar would have been the reports that had been previously prepared by you and by the other members of the Youth House staff; is that correct?
How did it come that you gave this seminar on Oswald, to whom was it given, what was the general subject matter of the seminar?
We gave a seminar on this boy in which we discussed him, because he came to us on a charge of truancy from school, and yet when I examined him, I found him to have definite traits of dangerousness.
So, for instance, we gave such a seminar on Oswald.
From January to May he had a seminar only, as I remember.
The seminar was too large, really, for intimate discussion, so after a few weeks several of the boys asked Carl if they could have a little sub-seminar.
That year, as usual, he had a small seminar of carefully picked students.
So every Tuesday night about a dozen boys climbed our hill to rediscuss the subject of the seminar of that afternoon--and everything else under the heavens and beyond.
I remember Carl's seminar the following spring--his last seminar at the University of California.
One of the graduate students of the seminar wrote me: "For three years I sat in his seminar on Labor-Problems, and had we both been there ten years longer, each season would have found me in his class.
A report, for instance, which he read before Brentano's seminar was published by the University.
After seminarhours the group would foregather at our house to plot as to ways and means.
He had started with nine seminar students three years before; now there were thirty-three.
The use of the seminar rooms is restricted to professors and instructors and to students for whom the privilege has been requested by them.
Students failing to comply with the aboveseminar regulations are liable to forfeit seminar privileges.
Seminar room doors must not be left open, excepting when classes are being held in the rooms.
Books deposited in seminar rooms if needed elsewhere may be withdrawn by library attendants; in such cases the person who requested the deposit will be notified if book is to be away more than one day.
Books deposited in seminar rooms are classed as reserved books, and must not be removed from the room where shelved.
Books will be deposited in seminar rooms only at the request of professors or instructors.
Students must have written permission of the professor or instructor who placed book in seminar to borrow it for longer than over night.
Seminar rooms must be vacated by students when the library is closed.
Reference should be made to page 33 forseminar regulations.
