Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.

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  • noun A seminar that is open to (and accessible to) upper level undergraduates; contrasts with a graduate seminar (for graduate students only), which assumes more background.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[pro– + seminar.]

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pro- (“earlier, rudimentary”) +‎ seminar

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Examples

  • They, in turn, would invite me to join a proseminar where I spent a semester developing a dissertation on American bandit crime with Eric Hobsbawm.

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  • We have proseminar now for our bachelors and it may be efficient to ask students review papers of others.

    technology-with-sense petrushyna 2009

  • We have proseminar now for our bachelors and it may be efficient to ask students review papers of others.

    Archive 2009-02-01 petrushyna 2009

  • They, in turn, would invite me to join a proseminar where I spent a semester developing a dissertation on American bandit crime with Eric Hobsbawm.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Tenured Radical 2009

  • Monday morning, I sent the project proposal to my advisor and spent most of the day extending that essay into my final paper for my developmental proseminar class.

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  • Monday night, I began our take-home final for the developmental proseminar.

    This week at the cognition and language lab josh 2008

  • Health Policy proseminar for Miami freshmen; biochemistry research on an enzyme is involved in cellular detoxification; Marshall Scholar.

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  • Monday night, I began our take-home final for the developmental proseminar.

    Archive 2008-01-01 josh 2008

  • Monday morning, I sent the project proposal to my advisor and spent most of the day extending that essay into my final paper for my developmental proseminar class.

    Archive 2008-01-01 josh 2008

  • I experienced the result of this first hand in my honors proseminar class, where all but one student was female.

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