Seminar Tasks

How to Prepare for a Seminar

For each seminar you have been assigned a task. This is usually some reading and a question to think about, plus some exercises on qesx.

Step 1

Read the text set for the seminar. Make some notes on it. In making notes, focus on how the text provides evidence or argument that is relevant to the question or questions assigned for the seminar.

Step 2

Consider the question or questions set for the seminar. Think about which bits of the lecture material is relevant to them. Try to identify problems or objections.

Make some notes on anything that is unclear to you. If you can, sketch out an answer to the questions assigned for the seminar.

Step 3

Test whether you are ready for the seminar by completing the online exercises: qesx.

(This might lead you back to step 1 or 2.)

Step 4

Minimally, come to the seminar with a question or request for clarification.

Seminars and Assessment

Each seminar topic is linked to one of the essay questions on which you will be assessed.

Your work in preparing and participating in the seminar should help you in selecting which questions to write your essays on, and in writing the essays.

Please Check for Changes

At the end of each seminar, ask your seminar tutor to confirm the questions and any reading for the next seminar.

Seminar tutors may change the questions and any readings up to the week before each seminar.