As the timing assessment submission is largely chosen by students, no extensions will be granted. 

Students who have not submitted work prior to a stated deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task.

Accommodation will be made for grading purposes where an application under the Special Consideration Policy has been approved.

Specific details relating to assessment tasks will be made available via iLearn and discussed in tutorial meetings in Week 2.

Detailed explanations of assessment tasks are supplied on iLearn.

Classes

• 3 hours face-to-face teaching per week consisting of 1 x 2 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial (N.B there are no tutorial classes in Week 1)
• The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at:http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

There is no set text for this unit. A guide to available resources is provided on iLearn.

Technology Used and Required

• Standard teaching technology (Powerpoint, Lecterns etc).

• Technology requirements: standard (i.e. computer access for submission of assessments and use of iLearn).

Unit Web Page

Course material is available on the learning management system (iLearn)

Learning and Teaching Activities

Lectures cover the basic content of the unit. They do not, however, cover the entire content, which must be made up with extra reading and tutorial work. Tutorials consist of student presentations and class discussion. 

Students are expected not only to attend classes, but to prepare for them in advance (it helps to know what the class is about!). You are encouraged to ask questions in lectures. You are expected to ask questions in tutorials.

In order to demonstrate attainment of the learning outcomes to an extent sufficient to warrant a passing grade in ECON3056 as per the Assessment Policy you must:

• score an aggregate mark in excess of 50;
• demonstrate sufficient participation in all assessment tasks (i.e. submit at least 50% of the answers or contributions required in each)
• successfully complete (i.e. pass) at least two assessment tasks, including either the tutorial assignments or the personal reflective blog.

The rationale for these rules is that there is a minimum level of general performance required if a student is to be held to have achieved the Learning Outcomes, and the assessment tasks address different combinations of the Learning Outcomes. This means that doing extremely poorly in both of the assessment tasks that directly require reflection on the course material, and which involve higher-order reasoning of the content, is not consistent with demonstrating overall attainment of the Learning Outcomes. Some degree of 'make up' via the less reflective tasks is permissible, but this must limited to maintain the integrity of the grading process.

The Assessment Policy requires that students be given an additional attempt to meet hurdle requirements where failure to meet the requirements will result in a fail grade for the unit. Although no individual assessment task is a hurdle per se students who score at least 50 overall, meet the participation requirements and fail to meet the requirement relating to passing at least two tasks will be given an additional assessment task in line with the handling of hurdle tasks in the Policy. Students who do not meet the participation requirement will be deemed not to have made a serious attempt and so will not be allowed an additional assessment as per the Policy.