Unit Requirements and Expectations

• Students will be expected to attempt each of the assessment tasks and will need to achieve an overall mark of 50% or above to complete the unit satisfactorily.
• Please talk with me if you miss more than two of the quizzes and/or two of the tutorials.  A very large emphasis will be placed on your participation in the tutorials and the weekly quizzes.  Note that it is your active participation in the tutorials that will be evaluated, not simply whether you attend or not.
• Please make sure your written assessment tasks do not go under or over the word length by more than 10%.  Writing more than the set length will not help your mark!
• Written assessment tasks should be submitted with proper referencing, i.e., with footnotes and a scholarly bibliography.  We will talk about how to go about this in tutorials.

The essay assessments will be graded using rubrics, which I will post on our iLearn site.

I also want to say that even if you are not a student of the ancient world, or if you have limited experience of history or humanities-based study, I am certainly happy to have you in this course! I want to share this knowledge with everyone. You can let me know, if you like, if this type of study is new to you.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON FINAL MARKS:

• Please note with respect to the marks you receive for work during the session, that the marks given are indicative only; final marks will be determined after moderation.

Assignment Submission and Access

• All written work must be submitted through the turnitin tool on our  iLearn website. Make sure to save your assignment on your own computer just in case! I will also give you feedback on your essays through turnitin.
• All written assignments must include the following at the top of your paper: Student name; Student Number; Assessment Task Title or Question; and Word Count. Do not forget the Word Count!  Word counts include footnotes but not bibliography.

• The Artifact Study and the Research Essay are expected to be formal written presentations with references (footnotes and bibliography) listed according to the Ancient History Style Guide, which will be posted on our iLearn site. You may include images if you think it is helpful to make a point clear, but again make sure you provide a reference for the images you use.
• The quizzes will also be set up on our iLearn site. You will find their links within the relevant week's section.

Extensions and Special Considerations

If you anticipate any difficulty in handing in either the Artifact Study or the Research Essay it is important that you contact me as early as possible to let me know, and, most importantly, file a Special Consideration with the University. The Faculty policy is the following:

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

At this link you can read about and apply for a Special Consideration:

Special Consideration Policy:   https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration

I am pasting in some of the information provided by the University at that link. The introductory material reads as follows:

The University recognizes that students may experience events or conditions that adversely affect their academic performance.

If you experience serious and unavoidable difficulties at exam time or when assessment tasks are due, you can consider applying for Special Consideration.

Five Essential Factors of Special Consideration

You need to show that the circumstances:

1. were serious, unexpected and unavoidable
2. were beyond your control
3. caused substantial disruption to your academic work
4. substantially interfered with your otherwise satisfactory fulfillment of the unit requirements
5. lasted at least three consecutive days or a total of 5 days within the teaching period and prevented completion of an assessment task scheduled for a specific date.

Delivery:

• Lecture:  Mondays, 11 am –  1 pm.    Location: 17 Wally's Walk, Collaborative Forum

 I want to say that I really welcome your thoughtful questions and ideas during the "lecture" time. The more interaction the better.

• Tutorials: Thursdays, in one of three one-hour blocks, whose starting times run from 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm.  Location: 29 Wally's Walk, room 321 - the seminar room of the Museum of Ancient Cultures

For External Students: Online Forums will be posted in each Week's section on our iLearn site. These will be open from the evening after the Lecture until the following Sunday at 11:59 pm.

 Resources:

• ​Required Text: W. Biers, 1996. The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction, Cornell University Press.
• We will be reading articles and chapters from sources other than the required text, which will be posted on the course's iLearn site within each relevant week.
• Very often there will be separate readings for the lectures and the tutorials. The quizzes will cover both!
• I will also upload the Powerpoint for each lecture to that week's section.
• Additional resources, including the recorded lecture and additional instructions will also appear there.
• We will use the Museum of Ancient Cultures itself and the artifacts that it holds for several of our tutorials.  We are so lucky to be right next to the Museum!

Please see our iLearn site for the schedule of Lectures and Tutorials.