Teaching |
2.1 |
The detailed requirements of each programme and course are provided in the on-line Calendar, in the relevant handbook and on departmental web pages. Students are obliged to complete all course requirements as specified in their degree regulations. |
2.2 |
Teaching at the postgraduate level will be a combination of lectures and seminars. The teaching method used will largely be determined by the size of the programme and the nature of the subject covered in a particular paper/course. |
2.3 |
Lectures are an important part of the teaching and learning experience. The structure and content of each course are set out in the on-line Course Guide. Lecturers must ensure that their teaching is consistent with this information. |
2.4 |
Lecturers are responsible for organising the seminar programmes for their courses, for liaising with seminar teachers to ensure that seminars are properly coordinated with their lectures, and for submitting course reading lists to the Library in good time for required books to be purchased. |
2.5 |
Seminars are the core of teaching and learning experience at the graduate level. The nature and format of seminars may vary depending on the subject material of the course and will be detailed in the course syllabus. Seminar sizes should not normally exceed 15 students. |
2.6 |
Seminars will normally give students the opportunity to participate in a discussion of material relevant to the course. The nature and format of these discussions will vary according to the subject matter of the course. |
2.7 |
Lectures and seminars start at five minutes past the hour and end at five minutes to the hour. Staff and students should make every effort to start and finish on time. |
2.8 |
Formative coursework is an essential part of the teaching and learning experience at the School. It should be introduced at an early stage of a course and normally before the submission of assessed coursework. Students will normally be given the opportunity to produce essays, problem sets or other forms of written work. The number of these pieces of work for each course will be detailed in the on-line Course Guide. |
2.9 |
Feedback on coursework is an essential part of the teaching and learning experience at the School. Seminar teachers must mark formative coursework and return it with feedback to students normally within two weeks of submission (when the work is submitted on time). Seminar teachers must record the marks, or the failure to submit coursework, regularly via LSEforYou. Students will also receive feedback on any summative coursework they are required to submit as part of the assessment for individual courses (except on the final version of submitted dissertations). They will normally receive this feedback before the examination period. Individual departments will determine the format of feedback on summative coursework, but it will not include the final mark for the piece. |
2.10 |
Some programmes require students to submit dissertations. Students will receive preliminary feedback on a draft chapter, section or detailed plan of their dissertations that they submit in good time prior to the final submission deadline. Individual departmental handbooks will set out the details of the dissertation process, including the deadline by which draft chapters, sections or detailed plans must be submitted to be eligible for feedback. A mark will not be included in this feedback. |
2.11 |
Seminar teachers must record student attendance on a weekly basis via LSEforYou. |
2.12 |
Seminar reports are an integral part of the School's monitoring system on the academic progress of its students. Seminar teachers must complete, via LSEforYou, full and accurate reports, including a general assessment of each student's progress, at the end of the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. |
2.13 |
All full-time members of staff and part-time and occasional teachers must have regular weekly office hours during term time when they are available to students to discuss issues relating to the courses they are teaching. These hours should be displayed outside their offices. |