<p>Do students recieve homework from the advising seminars or are the seminars purely for fun and discussion?
whats are the benefits of seminar based advising vs. traditional advising?</p>
<p>Some of the seminars give homework, but I think not all do. They are not generally a big time sink.</p>
<p>I think the major benefit of seminar-based advising is that you get to learn about something in which you’re interested, and you get weekly contact with your freshman advisor. You also often get free food.</p>
<p>Traditional advising takes less time out of your week, but you also don’t automatically get weekly contact with your advisor. Of course, it is also less touchy-feely and yay-you in concept than seminar-based advising, which some people (me) view as a feature.</p>
<p>Also, because it doesn’t take up space in your credit limit, traditional advising allows you to pursue a 6-unit activity, like a musical performance group.</p>
<p>As for having to do work in seminars, isn’t there that one that’s famous for assigning a lot of tough math problems as homework? Of course, that seminar is precisely geared toward the type of people who enjoy that sort of thing.</p>
<p>“traditional advising allows you to pursue a 6-unit activity, like a musical performance group.” you get credit for being in a musical performace group?</p>
<p>You can, and if you do, you can count two semesters of a performance group as a HASS.</p>