Phil/HPS: How are your courses structured?

[711fanatic]

How are your graduate philosophy/history and philosophy of science courses structured? Do you have lectures in classes that are not split with undergrads? Or is class led by student presentation? Etc. etc.

 

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[TorreAttack]

Im at Pitt HPS. There is some variety, usually a mix of small lectures and grad student presentations liberally sprinkled with discussion. There are classes with no undergrads in them. I personally have only seen in Pitt HPS grad classes taking maybe one grad seminar per semester. The history courses I've taken so far are almost entirely discussion based centered around weekly readings.  

[Stencil]

I'd say that the majority of graduate seminars where I am are focused on discussion, but there are also seminars that involve heavy lecturing and seminars that involve different students doing presentations on the course readings each week. It really varies a great deal from professor to professor. A very small percentage of courses available to graduate students are split with undergraduates, although graduate students are typically welcome to audit undergraduate courses on subjects that they're less familiar with.