<p>At the undergrad lvl? At the grad lvl? Undergrad does matter as well (I know PhD students in my dept who are taking undergrad courses for background)</p>
<p>I love journal article courses!</p>
<p>Please define ‘journal article course’.</p>
<p>I think OP means classes where primary literature, like journal publications, are read and discussed. </p>
<p>I think many departments (both in the sciences and humanities) would have 1000-level courses that are literature-based. The exact percentage is rather department-specific, I would presume. Bottom line is these classes are frequently available if you feel so inclined to take them, though I would say that due to their structure, many of these courses do have enrollment limits.</p>
<p>One thing I was consistently struck by when talking to friends at other schools (and looking at my sister’s work) was how much they used a traditional looking textbook. Sure, the introductory level material has that, but virtually everything beyond the introductory sequence tends to be either journal-based or university press published scholarship.</p>
<p>The 1000-level course in most departments (depends on culture) will typically not use a traditional Pearson/McGraw-Hill published book. In science it’s probably more likely you’ll get a “textbook”, in other areas much less. Chemistry had at least 5 or 6 upper-level courses that were entirely article-based (all of the 1560 courses), though virtually all 1000 level courses (except maybe PChem) had a long paper that involved extensive literature review.</p>