Whats the difference between a tutorial and a seminar?
Seminars are plenary classes for all the students taking a course, and indeed anyone else that wants to attend. Some are convened by two or more members of the Faculty together. They vary in size according to the number of students taking the course and/or interested in the topic. Typically, they involve interaction between the convenors and the students with the latter contributing ideas and volunteering comments. Tutorials, in Oxford parlance,are small interactions between a single tutor and a few students (not more than five, more typically two). They are arranged directly with the students concerned and normally involve the production of written work which tutors then comment on in detail. The provision of tutorials on the BCL/MJur is one major difference between these programmes and LLMs at other law schools.
