SEMINARS A Collection of Materials on Seminar Approaches and Evaluation StrategiesResources on SeminarsA hallmark of many learning communities is the seminar. It is NOT a seminar in graduate school sense, where individuals or teams of students prepare research presentations and receive critiques. Rather, it is a focused collaborative group discussion of a text or another common academic experience. Often but not always, the faculty member takes a back seat in seminar, and asks that students deve