it was a small seminar-- I had groups of students proposing two novels actually for the end of the syllabus, and the exercise gets you to think very hard about what you think this period is all about.

是以小组研讨课的方式进行-,几组学生提出两本小说,作为教学大纲上最后一本读物，这样做的练习的目的是,让你去思考这个时期的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So on the one hand, the communal activity of teaching and exchanging ideas and the liveliness that comes about, particularly in seminars and some one-on-one conversations with the students and reading their writing.

因此，一方面，教学，交流的相互性,还有随之而来的生动性，尤其是在研讨会和一些一对一的,与学生的交流中，以及他们的作业中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选