Farewell lecture
A farewell lecture (“last lecture”) is a last lecture given by a teacher at a university . This tradition of the “last lecture”, cultivated by many universities in the United States , has already existed in isolated cases at European academic institutions, but it has only been increasingly practiced by individual faculties and departments of German universities since the 1960s.
As a rule, the lecture lasts 45 minutes (the academic hour unit) and offers - after a greeting and introduction by the dean - reflections from the lecturer's teaching and research activities on a topic of his choice. The event usually ends with a reception for the professors, assistants and staff, students and invited guests.
The literal “last lecture” by computer science professor Randy Pausch ( Carnegie Mellon University ), which he gave shortly before his death, achieved particular fame .
Individual evidence
- ↑ such as at the Charité , farewell lecture by Otto Heubner , Berlin 1913
- ↑ for example at the universities of Augsburg , FU Berlin , TU Dresden , Düsseldorf , Erlangen , Freiburg , Jena , Magdeburg , Mannheim , Marburg , Saarbrücken , Trier , Tübingen , as well as at the universities in Geneva , Leiden , Vienna or Zurich .
- ↑ Cf. Gregor Peter Schmitz: " Farewell Lecture: A terminally ill professor stirs America " (Spiegel report): "Many US universities maintain the tradition of 'last lectures'".