Assignments 1, 2 and Portfolio should be downloaded individually from the online unit, completed and submitted prior to the due date electronically for assessment through Turnitin. Instructions for submitting Turnitin assignments can be found in the online unit.

The Oral Test will be conducted online via Zoom or in person, and students are responsible to book a time in advance with the lecturer. 

No on-campus sessions, however, students must attend an examination in Australia. This means that students must make themselves available to sit the pen-and-paper externally invigilated exam on the scheduled day at the nominated location during the exam period.

Please note that all assessment due dates and times are based on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).

Specific instructions, detailed grading standards (such as rubrics) and indicative examples of assessment tasks are provided in the iLearn unit. 

Electronic submission

Unless otherwise approved, all text-based assessment tasks will be submitted electronically using the University’s electronic learning management system.

Use of plagiarism detection software

Text-based work submitted by students for assessment will be subject to plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin or similar approved software, unless otherwise approved.

Plagiarism detection methods are to be used on a routine basis to check student work or when plagiarism is suspected.

Late Assessment Penalty

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.

Special Consideration Policy 

All assessment tasks are compulsory and must be submitted on time. Students unable to meet due dates must apply for 'Special Consideration' via ask.mq.edu. 

If a Special Consideration Application is either not submitted or not approved, the student will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task.

Prescribed Texts

The short stories are:

1. Bolesław Prus, 'Katarynka' (1880)

2. Henryk Sienkiewicz, 'Latarnik' or 'The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall' (1881)

3. Jerzy Szaniawski, 'O trudzie daremnym' (1962)

4. Maria Konopnicka, 'Dym' (1893)

5. Adolf Rudnicki, 'Buty' (1966) 

6. Miłka O. Malzahn, 'Piękne sny' (2014)

All short stories are available online in iLearn.

You may purchase a copy of Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories: An Annotated Reader and a Glossary, ed. Alexander M. Schenker (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970) which includes the short stories 3 and 5 above from the University Co-op Bookshop: https://www.coop.com.au/s/macquarie-university.

Apart from the prescribed texts, it is recommended that students either purchase from The University Co-op Bookshop or borrow from Macquarie Library the following texts:

1. PWN Oxford Polish-English-English Polish Dictionary (2 vols.). 

2. K. Janecki, 301 Polish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in all the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged, 2^nd ed. (Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2000).

3. D. Bielec, Polish: An Essential Grammar, 2^nd ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012).

4. L. Madelska and G. Schwartz, Discovering Polish: A Learner’s Grammar (Kraków: Prolog, 2010).

5. Czesław Miłosz, The History of Polish Literature, 2^nd ed. (1969; repr. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).

6. Edward J. Czerwiński, ed. Dictionary of Polish Literature (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).

7. Henryk Markiewicz, Pozytywizm (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2015).

TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED

Online Unit

Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/

Is my unit in iLearn?: http://help.ilearn.mq.edu.au/unitsonline/ to check when your online unit will become available.

Technology

Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.

For students attending classes on campus we strongly encourage that you bring along your own laptop computer, ready to work with activities in your online unit. The preferred operating system is Windows 10.

Students are required to access the online unit in iLearn by the end of Week 1 and follow any relevant instructions and links for downloads that may be required. If applicable, students are required to download the relevant language package prior to Week 2.

Please contact your course convenor before the end of Week 1 if you do not have a suitable laptop (or tablet) for in-class use.

• For central technical support go to:  http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/information_technology/help/
• For student quick guides on the use of iLearn go to:  https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/tools-and-resources/ilearn/ilearn-quick-guides-for-students

It is important that students work regularly at home using the Study Material and the set texts in order to cope with the unit workload. There are no on-campus sessions. Whilst it is quite possible to complete the whole unit externally without any interaction with the tutor, as has been demonstrated by a number of students in the past, those students who have regular face-to-face contact with the tutor and/or other students have proved to have higher academic achievements. 

Please note that there will be weekly Zoom tutorials every Wednesday at 4pm AEST for a maximum 90 minutes starting in Week 1 and running through to Week 13 excluding the mid-semester break. These tutorials are non-compulsory but are highly recommended. 

A change to assessment tasks: a pen-and-paper examination was introduced to align with session 2 requirements.

The unit aims at fostering language skills to level B2+/C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).