All requests for special consideration, including extensions, must be submitted via ASK.mq.edu.au and provide suitable supporting documentation

Late Assignment Submission

• Late submissions without an extension will receive a penalty of 3% of the total mark available for the assessment task per day including weekend days (i.e. this is 3% of the total marks possible for the task – NOT 3% of the marks the student received. For example, if the assessment task is worth 100 marks and the student is two days late their mark for the task is reduced by 6 marks.)

• Late submission of an assessment task without an extension will not be accepted at all after the date on which marked assessment tasks have been released to the rest of the class. Any student with unsubmitted work at this date will receive a mark of 0 for the assessment task.

• Extensions will only be given in special circumstances, and can be requested by completing the Special Consideration request at ask.mq.edu.au and providing the requisite supporting documentation.

• Extensions that will result in submissions after the assessment task has been returned to the class will require a separate assessment task to be completed at the unit convenor's discretion.

• For more information on Special Consideration, see the university website https://student s.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration\

• If a student fails the unit due to non-submission of an assignment or non-attendance at an exam, an FA grade will be applied in accordance with the University's Assessment Policy.

• Unit convenors have the discretion to determine whether or not students should fail a unit on the basis of lateness penalties alone if other learning outcomes of the unit have been met.

The unit is taught as 1 x 2 hour seminar plus a 1 hour lecture, per week .

The seminars are on Mondays @11:00am in 14SCO Tutorial Room 264. The lecture will also be in 12SW Tutorial Room 229, on Wednesdays @ 1:00pm.

There is no set textbook for this unit. A list of readings will be made available via Leganto. See the i-learn site.

Material covered in this will include the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics of Australian languages and the linguistic prehistory of Australia. There will also be lectures on social and organization kinship, language and the land, multilingualism, language shift and language maintenance, contact induced typological change (including pidgins, creoles and mixed languages), language revitalization and reclamation, Aboriginal sign languages, Aboriginal song, Aboriginal conversation and narrative, language and the law, Aboriginal languages in Education and first language acquisition.