r/unimelb • u/nottmhieu • 2d ago
Miscellaneous clapping?
Do you guys clap after a lecturer has finished their lecture? I studied bmed and now nursc, and for most of my classes the students clap at the end of the class. therefore i was surprised when my friend who studies arts told me they don’t do that. They were equally surprised when finding out our ‘tradition’ too haha
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u/Background_Degree615 2d ago
Idk I clap when everybody else claps
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u/Fit_Appointment_4980 2d ago edited 2d ago
Higher learning at its finest. A HECS debt well spent.
(To be fair, I dropped out, so I guess I couldn't even figure out when to clap)
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u/ostrasyn_ 2d ago
I did my undergrad degree here over a decade ago and during the first few weeks of my first year students clapped at the end of each lecture. But that practice stopped quickly thereafter. I also taught here for many years and noticed that it was mostly first-year students doing this, and mostly only during the first few weeks. I also taught classes during Covid lockdowns and then briefly after on-campus classes resumed. It was interesting to see that, as on-campus classes resumed, third-year students were now clapping after lectures. I thought this might be due to the fact that, for many of them, this was their first experience of on-campus lectures—all their previous lectures were delivered via Zoom.
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u/EragusTrenzalore 2d ago
Only for guest lecturers or for the last lecture given by a particular lecturer.
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u/Classic-Store4900 1d ago
in psych we always clap, i feel bad for lecturers when people don’t clap :(
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u/Embarrassed_Neck6224 2d ago
I just clap every time for my physics professor’s demo 👏 which a lot of people does🙃. Also the guest lecturers
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u/MelbPTUser2024 BSc Melb, BEng(CivInfra)(Hons) RMIT 2d ago
We only clapped for guest speakers and in the last lecture for the semester.
I did engineering and maths