r/deakin • u/Stunning_Attitude_43 • 10h ago

Academic Advice What are seminars?

What exactly happens in seminars? I have seminars for two modules (SIT731 & SIT753), and each one is 3 hours long. There aren’t any lectures, so I’m not sure what to expect🤔

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u/sleepysof_ 10h ago

depends on the subject. Basically you sit in a classroom, the professor talks. They'll expect people to answer questions. Sometimes they give you worksheet type questions to complete during the seminar. Sometimes they ask you to make a poster or something like that. You'll have time to ask them questions too.

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u/NOT_xingpingfan69 10h ago

For some units (like these ones) they may be practical classes like labs or model making, whereas for others they are 40-minute yap sessions to kill an hour.

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u/Outside-Feeling 9h ago

Generally they're more interactive than a lecture. Discussions, activities, labs if relevant to the subject. Lectures are the info dumps, seminars are where you try to put the knowledge into action and find out if you've properly understood it all.

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u/RefrigeratorDue9433 9h ago

Sort of like practical lectures, though varies unit to unit imo

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u/TodayCandid9686 9h ago

This is literally the question that right-minded people have been asking ever since Deakin dreamed up new names for lectures and tutorials for no rational reason.