He resists scepticism about American creative courses and describes how he banishes critical theory texts about texts from the seminar room, preferring, instead, to conduct his class through a line-by-line reading of the classics - Pride and Prejudice, Daniel Deronda, The Portrait of a Lady.
Among those who did have tickets last week were students in Columbia University's Text and Performance seminar who are studying the play and seeing the revival and the HBO film.
Experienced instructors can readily detect "bullshit" comments from students who have not read the seminar text.
In practice, you are probably only going to read a few chapters from each text for any particular seminar and then need a completely different book the next week.
"The way companies currently communicate information around benefits, performance management, compensation, etc. is through paper and seminars and text, and if you think about how people get information out in the consumer world, it's through multimedia and mobile and we want to get companies to change to that too".
The questionnaires contained four main sections including: pre-course questions, lectures and small group seminar feedback, free text comments and post-course feedback.
This may consist of any combination of lectures, seminars, practicals, web pages, or text handouts.
Although most of the seminar was focused on Plato's text, Professor West often made references to the modern world, and this was one of them, as he acknowledged that the real world could be many different things.
Apart from organizing underground meetings and seminars, the group has used cellphone text messages and social networking sites to spread its message.
In all the five seminar courses, different sections of the texts were assigned to different students or student pairs for presentation in Japanese in class.
