<p>my college requires (or strongly recommends) that every first year take a seminar. i was wondering what this was exactly? does it have a lot of homework? thanks for your help</p>
<p>seminars aren't required at my school, but i loved mine so much first semester, i signed up for another in the spring. there's a ton of reading, a lot of in-class discussion, and very few assignments, which is nice because the focus is on learning rather than grades. a lot of seminars have just one cumulative assignment, like a big paper at the end, and most at my school have no final exam.</p>
<p>my college requires freshmen to take a seminar. A seminar will generally have a fair (or large) amount of reading to go with it, and class will probably run in a discussion format instead of a lecture. May or may not be heavy on assignments that are turned in for a grade... but showing you read the material will probably count. Also, the topics for the seminars are probably fairly specific, so you will look in depth at a narrow topic, rather than attempt to learn a little bit about an entire field (read: psych 101)</p>
<p>I took a seminar in a subject I wasn't interested in and really enjoyed it. There was about 200 pages of reading per week, and the class met once a week for three hours. There were three assigned papers of increasing length. The biggest difference between a seminar and another course is how it's taught (discussion vs. lecture).</p>