Please note: these can be provided by the professor OR done by students

Duplicate course notes. The word polycopié is still used, rather than photocopié. I THINK it originally involved that foul-smelling process with purple inks, back in the 1970s.

I don't know what current practice is in France. Sara's "course packet" (consisting of all sorts of notes, syllabae, reprints of articles or parts of books, etc.) is certainly au courant in the U.S., and the photocopy store chain "Kinkos" makes a *bundle* off of putting these together.

There was a somewhat different tradition which I saw around the Sorbonne in the late '60s, which was the actual "publication" of the professor's lectures --or abstracts from his lectures-- (I'm not sure, but probably *after* he had given them) which, at that time, were in the form of *very* fuzzy memeographed pages (quite a few of them) of very thick, equally fuzzy (sometimes colored) paper. These could be purchased at Guibert's and the other librairies nearby.

This latter practice probably goes back to the Middle Ages (using a somewhat different technology), when lecture halls were every bit as crowded (on the occasion of a hot prof speaking) as they are now.