All assignments must be submitted via Turnitin to the unit iLearn site.

Lectures and Discussions:

 Week 1 and part of Week 2 will be lectures given by the Unit Convenor, recorded during the Internal version of the unit, and will be available through Echo360.  The Unit Convenor will record some short sections in other weeks also, which will also be available through Echo360.  The remainder of the classes (Weeks 2-13) will be in seminar discussion format, with all students required to prepare weekly tasks before class and to contribute actively to discussion each week, and sometimes to lead a week's discussion. The Unit Convenor will participate in discussion but will not necessarily lead discussion. 

 Required Text:

 It is essential to buy this book, which will be stocked by the Coop Bookstore on campus:

 ·       Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, trans. Lewis Thorpe (Penguin; Harmondsworth, 1974)

 If you have a copy before beginning of teaching term, please start to read this text – we will read through the entire text throughout the term.

Please be careful to buy this edition -- there are several other translations available, but they are not the complete text, and it will be difficult to conduct discussions unless all students have the same text.

There is also a Kindle version of this text, which has useful searchable features.  Should you wish to buy the Kindle version, again please be careful to get the Lewis Thorpe/Penguin translation (there are other translations on Kindle also).

 Other useful books:

 The following two items are not required, but may be useful and are suggested for anyone looking for additional unit materials.  The Coop Bookstore on campus has been asked to stock a limited number of copies.  Please note that both contain substantial (though incomplete) translations of Gregory’s Histories.  Although only partial, these translations by Murray are in fact the best English version available.  The first book contains much other material; the second provides a useful 'reader's guide' to Gregory's Histories.

 ·       From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader, ed. and trans. Alexander Callander Murray (Broadview; Peterborough, 2000)

 ·       Gregory of Tours, The Merovingians, ed. and trans. Alexander Callander Murray (Broadview; Peterborough, 2006)

 Required Technology:

 Students will be required to have internet access to access the iLearn website for AHPG889 and the Macquarie Library Catalogue (MQL; for access to ebooks and other material) and MQL iShare and MultiSearch.

 Expectations of the student:

 ·       Participation in seminar discussions: Students are required to prepare weekly tasks before class and to contribute actively to seminar discussion each week, and sometimes to lead a week's discussion, from Weeks 2-13.  Contribution to each week's seminar discussion is necessary but not sufficient to gain a mark for the ‘Participation’ component of the assessment; active participation, demonstrating preparation of readings and other tasks and informed engagement in discussions, is required to secure a mark.

 ·       Preparation of weekly readings and tasks: Assigned readings (from Gregory’s Histories and other set readings), which will be detailed under the weekly tasks on the iLearn website for AHPG889, must be read and prepared in advance of class each week.

 ·       Assessments: Students are required to complete and submit on time all 5 assignments (in addition to Discussion Participation) listed under “Assessment Tasks” in the Unit Guide and described on the iLearn web site for AHPG889.

 Weekly work:

 Weekly readings and other tasks are described in detail on the the iLearn web site for AHPG889.

•  For detailed weekly schedule, see unit website.

Weekly Schedule

Weekly activities have been adjusted to allow for two public holidays.

A second Structural Analysis assignment has been added (to compensate for one public holiday).

The Research Essay Proposal has been made an assessable item.

Word length and weighting of the Research Essay has been decreased (because of additional Structural Analysis assignment).

All assignments must be submitted via Turnitin to the unit iLearn site.

All students must keep a dated electronic copy of their assignments.