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[concordancia]

The most influential class I took in undergrad was a class with undergrad/grad students. The graduate students had extra requirements of course. Experiencing the class with them, help me to understand what graduate school was like and motivated to work harder to keep up with them.

I believe the course had 2 different numbers for graduate students and undergraduate students.

I also learn what pedagogy meant after a PhD student was nice enough to tell me. Whenever I hear that world I think of her.

My first course in what is now my area (it wasn't even my major until much later) was a split level course.* I might never have dropped out of school if I had been allowed to skip straight to advanced coursework in more areas.

*This is not universal, but I consider "split level" to be a grad/undergrad enrolled course. "Cross listed" refers to a course that can count in more than one department/discipline, like a Latinas in Politics course that can count as Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies or PoliSci.

[dale1]

I am familiar with how one top-50 research university in the midwest handles this.  They simply do not allow any combined sections or "split level" courses.  Our department asked about this and was flatly denied.  On the other hand, the other top-50 research university in the midwest (also in same state), does this routinely, both allowing undergrads to take graduate level classes and split leveling them, so that students in both UG and GRAD designations can take the same course.  It's more work for faculty but more efficient in terms of class space, faculty load balancing, and so on.