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As far as is practical, the Faculty will define its group teaching methodologies and associated group sizes as follows:
Lecture: organized, formal instruction, usually in the style of a talk, delivered by an academic and following a published weekly structure.
Lectures are the forum in which academic theories and concepts are introduced to students. While teaching staff are encouraged to make lectures as interactive as possible, the Faculty recognizes that the main focus of a large lecture is the dissemination of information to students.
Lecture sizes can vary significantly and the Faculty sets no formal lower or upper limit.
Faculty expectation is that lectures will normally be accompanied by small group tutorials. Faculty policy requires that lectures of greater than 60 students have accompanying tutorials.
Tutorial: a less formal and organized session of instruction than a lecture, usually involving a great level of contribution and interaction by a smaller number of students.
Tutorial instruction is not normally expected to introduce new theories and concepts but rather to examine and explore those theories and concepts which have been introduced to students in lectures.
Tutorials will not be run in isolation but will be associated with a lecture or seminar delivered to a larger group of students drawn from several tutorial groups.
Tutorial groups will not normally exceed 25 students.
Seminar: a teaching and learning environment in which smaller groups of students are guided through academic theories and concepts by a member of academic staff.
Seminar teaching may make significant use of guest speakers/presenters, student presentations and other group activities. Seminar teaching is most commonly used where advanced theories and concepts are being explored, particularly at honours and graduate student level.
Seminars are not necessarily required to have accompanying tutorials. A seminar will normally have less than 60 students enrolled.
Further, only group teaching that combines the formal elements of a lecture with the more participative elements of a tutorial will be classified as seminars.
Laboratory: a teaching and learning environment conducive to experimentation, investigation and/or observation which, in the context of business and economics, would normally require the use of technology to demonstrate or investigate theoretical or practical concepts.
Laboratory teaching is expected to introduce and explore theoretical concepts in a technologically enhanced environment. It is expected that students will have access to and use appropriate technologies during laboratories.
The normal expectation will be that each enrolled student has individual access to the appropriate technologies. For this reason, laboratory sizes will be determined by the availability of computing and other equipment.
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