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to college life or a course designed to introduce students to available majors. College seminars offered at intervals throughout the calendar year may focus on a global issue like The South African Apartheid or How Your College Campus Can Go Green. College seminars are frequently offered on a pass or fail basis but at least one college credit is awarded upon completion. Students are usually limited to one seminar per semester.

College professors are sometimes asked to conduct seminars on a rotating basis. If you teach history, consider a seminar that focuses on a contemporary issue that has a historical basis. If economics is your forte, then consider bringing in a marketing analyst who can talk about trends in America's economy.

Seminars in the University setting may occur with regularity, featuring the different chairs of each department and even guest lecturers. Papers are frequently distributed that contain necessary content to stimulate discussion that occurs after each lecture. If you have distinguished yourself in your department, are tenured, or chair your own department, you will have greater latitude to bring in lecturers and orchestrate seminars.

Colleges and Junior Colleges often open their seminars to students from other schools and even community members. Advance registration is almost always a prerequisite. Seminars that are offered to the community will generally provide the opportunity for certain populations to receive continuing education credits in conjunction with accrediting agencies within the same field of study.

Local colleges are always looking for ways to impact the community in hopes of generating gifts and endowments as well as procuring new students. The best way to become recognized by your college administration as a faculty member with the resources and background to hold seminars is to volunteer the first few times. When you've proven that you can do a job and have received positive feedback, you may just get the opportunity to teach a seminar and actually get paid for doing it.

Most university seminars offer at least one credit toward graduation unless the seminar is being offered as a prerequisite introduction to a department, in preparation to declaring a major.

Newer technology has made it possible for colleges and universities to offer seminars over the internet. Adult learners and non-traditional students can participate in university life via the virtual classroom without ever leaving home. Students can watch

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