Question

美国大学研究生课程中 授课形式有哪些 是有seminar, teaching。。。吗？

美国大学研究生课程中 授课形式有哪些 是有seminar, teaching。。。吗？
对于转专业的学生是否应该选择teaching形式授课的院校而非seminar?

Answer 1

The seminar (despite larger numbers and generally shorter timetabling slots) is still - alongside (and usually supplementing) the lecture - a dominant pedagogic genre in English Studies. At most universities, the chances are that a large proportion of your face-to-face interaction with students will take place in seminars.

The object of these pages is to explore ideas about seminar teaching, largely (though we hope not exclusively) in the English Literature domain. We do not intend to be prescriptive. But we hope that these pages will be found useful by recently-appointed lecturers and others in thinking about and developing their own seminar teaching.

In these pages you will find, first, a short discussion of the principles underpinning seminar teaching, followed by a series of suggestions for structuring a seminar discussion. These range from brief general suggestions to more specific and focused activities, and some detailed activity ideas kindly provided by Barbara Bleiman and Lucy Webster of the English and Media Centre. We next provide specimen checklists for the peer-assessment and self-assessment of your teaching. Finally, you will find some suggested ‘ground rules’ for group activity.

Literature teachers have much to learn from colleagues in adjacent practices of Creative Writing (e.g. workshopping) and English Language (e.g. structured, skills-based tasks).