Graduate Course Definition
A graduate level course examines ideas in a more in-depth way than an undergraduate course. First, it focuses on key issues and topics which would be important to the professional in the field. Second, students in a graduate course will be required to become familiar with research literature about the subject. The third element of a graduate course is a substantial writing assignment, which demonstrates that students not only understand their subject in depth, but that they have intellectually engaged the most recent research and writing about their particular subject.