What is the difference between a lecture and a class?
All course participants attend lectures together as a single group. Lectures are usually presented by the Professor(s), and are, in the main, a listening and note-taking exercise. Participants on the course will be divided into smaller groups for one-hour classes of around 15 to 20 students, which normally take place in the afternoon. Classes present an opportunity to work through problem sets or case studies, present seminar papers and discuss them, and to discuss any problems arising from the morning lecture with a Teaching Assistant and classmates. Around the world what are called classes at LSE may be known as tutorials or seminars.
