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| Types of Seminars |  1. Follow-up discussion to a lecture.
Such a seminar is a chance to ask for clarification, raise issues and so on. Students should prepare or note points that were not clear from the lecture and take the opportunity to raise them.
This type of a seminar could take the form of, for instance, asking about the use of terms or definitions. Students may ask about difference between theories and strange notions. If some of issues discussed on the lecture are not clear to you, they are almost certainly not clear to others, so you will help them too.
It may also be helpful to make clear references for follow-up reading, check authors, titles or ask for extra references.
Lectures and seminar follow-ups are also frequently linked to a piece of writing, so if you are considering using information in your written work, also take the opportunity to check ideas, understanding. You can also ask about examples of applications of theories and so on. Asking helps the tutor to do his or her job and recognize your needs.
2. Presentation seminars.
Students are assigned based on reading themes and present the general idea to the group and raise issues, in turn.
Students may also research their present work in progress seminars regarding their specific area. Other members do not usually undertake definite training but would almost certainly be working in some related area and have some background knowledge.
Research students may also be asked to present reading based seminars in their first year, where many students may share core reading or overlap in their interests, so that the discussion of exacting theories may be relevant to a group. Yet again, background preparation is expected.
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