<p>Must a course always have both lectures and discussions? I'm not exactly sure how the scheduling would work for the two categories.</p>
<p>No, not always. Some courses are small seminars, and some are lectures without discussion sections.</p>
<p>When you enroll in a course, you’ll see if it’s comprised of a lecture, a seminar, or both. If it includes both, you won’t be able to enroll without enrolling in both a lecture and a discussion section.</p>
<p>Does a “discussion” period count as a seminar?</p>
<p>@Islander4 what do you mean by seminar?</p>
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A course doesn’t always come with a lecture and a discussion section. There are courses without discussion sections. There are courses with lectures and labs and no discussion.</p>
<p>What I meant is that some classes are simply small groups, like the FWS’s…those are called seminars. Other classes are large lectures without small groups (Psych 1101 comes to mind). Many classes are lectures with discussion sections, which usually meet once a week, but those discussions sections are not seminars.</p>
<p>So if a lecture also had discussions, I would have to enroll in both the lecture and a discussion? Also, if a seminar had discussions, I would have to enroll in both the seminar and a discussion?</p>
<p>If a lecture has mandatory discussions, you will have to enroll in both. </p>
<p>A seminar wouldn’t have a discussion section. Discussion sections are meant to break large lectures down into smaller groups, but seminar classes are already small in size.</p>