SEMINAR

Seminar (from the the Lat. seminarium - seed plot, movable - school) one of the basic is specific training practical training, that consists of the consideration by the students of communications, reports, abstracts, executed by them according to the results of training studies under the management of the instructors. Seminar are used and as the independent form of the subject training exercises, not connected with the lecture courses. The seminar form of instruction arose in the Ancient Greek and Roman schools, where the communications of students were combined with the debates, the commentaries and the conclusions of the instructors. Further development seminar underwent at the universities of West Europe, where with 17 Century. they were intended mainly for the work of the students on sources (as a rule, in the humanities) From the beginning 19 Century the seminar studies are introduced in some departments at the Russian universities. From the beginning 20 Century university s. they began to contribute to the expansion of the general scientific horizon of students, to their acquaintance with key problems and studies in the chosen branch of the science. There are 3 basic types Seminar.:s. which facilitate the intensified study of the specific systematic course, s. on the study of the separate basic or most important themes of course and s. (or special seminar) of research nature with the not dependent on the lectures thematics.