STUDENTS HAVE TO PASS ALL FOUR ASSESSMENTS IN ORDER TO PASS THE UNIT.

Research essay is the most challenging assessment in the unit and those students who have inadequate essay writing skills should seek additional training and help with their writing skills. The University offers a wide variety of academic writing workshops both for undergraduates and postgraduates as well as other types of support in this area  (see under Student Support, Policies and Procedures below). You are strongly recommended to take those workshops, in particular if you are not a native speaker of English. Students who have inadequate writing skills in English are most likely to fail in this unit.

There is a two hour lecture and one hour tutorial in this unit. Attendance to both is compulsory for day students.

The evening students have a tutorial in the evening at 6 pm but no evening lecture: the taped lectures are accesible through iLearn (see below)

The lecture powepoints will be available on the unit’s webpage a day before the lecture.   

Lectures are taped and are accessible via iLearn to all students.  Three lectures: week 2, 11 and 12 are flipped - you will watch pre-recorded videos and discuss their content in class (lecture class).

Each weekly topic will have a required reading. The list of readings will be posted on the unit webpage. The readings will be available at the Reserve or E-reserve of the Library.  

There is no single textbook. The book that is used most often is in the required readings is: 

Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in the Divided World.Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamella Aall. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008.

 A separate list of sources for the research essay will be posted on the unit webpage.

The following is the list of the weekly topics.  Each of those topics has required readings, the list of  which will be posted on the unit iLearn page. You are asked to read the required texts before the class.

Classes in week 2, 11 and 12 will be flipped: this means that you will watch videos at home and read the required material (including the written lecture in week 11) and then we shall discuss what you have read and seen in the lecture class (instead of the lecture).

Introduction of flipped classrooms and changes in the content of several standard lectures.

It is obligatory for you to read carefully the Univeristy Academic Honesty Policy at: http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html. If in any doubt whether you are following the academic honesty policy, please contact the unit convenor or MIR convenor before submitting your work. Sometimes students breach the rules of academic honesty policy unintentionally ( without intention of breaching them) simply because they are not clear as to what the rules are.

There were several cases in the past in which students were penalized - including failing the whole unit  - for the following offenses:

- Submitting an essay or a take home examination/test written by someone else (whether paid or unpaid)

- Copying paragraphs, sentences or clauses from books/journals or from web pages without quotation marks and without the proper acknowledgement of the source. This is also passing the work  of someone else as your own.

- Copying parts of your own essay/examination already submitted in another course. The assessment you submit for this unit must be written for this unit only and cannot contain parts of what you have written for another unit.

Any part of your assessment that is not written by you or is written for another unit, without  proper acknowledgement of the source and without using quotation marks to distinguish it from your own work, will not be assessed (because it was not written for this unit) and your over-all mark will reflect this. This kind of offense may be also reported to the Faculty Academic Honesty Committee.