Important: Be sure to keep a copy of all your work submitted. Keep these copies until the unit is over and you have received your final grade from the University. 

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 (including weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submission will be accepted for timed assessments -- e.g. quizzes, online tests etc.

Assessment Standards

All work submitted for this unit will be graded according to standards outlined in the following table.

Remark Policy

The Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies has an assignment remark policy. Please find the relevant information/application form here: http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download/?id=167914

The unit will run as a weekly one-hour lecture and one-hour tutorial. Both the lecture and the tutorials will be held on Tuesday 11-1 in room 210, 4 Western Road.

Lectures begin in week 1; tutorials start in week 2.

Remember to check on the day of the first class to make sure that there are no last minute room changes to the lecture and tutorial venue!

Class Attendance

Listening to different perspectives and actively discussing important and provocative issues and ideas is an essential component of MCCS3240. It is something we value highly and we think you will get a lot out of it too. For this reason, regular ongoing face-to-face attendance of weekly lectures and tutorials is essential if you are going to get the most from the unit.

Keep in mind, that in ‘Active Participation’ (assignment 1), you will be assessed on the quality of your ongoing contributions to class discussion and activities. So attending regularly throughout the semester will give you the best opportunity to undertake this assignment task.

Required and Recommended Readings

It is essential that you come to class prepared (by having done the readings) and ready to participate in class activities and discussions.

The readings are chosen to be engaging and challenging. If you find some sections tricky, when you first do the reading don’t worry, there will be lots of opportunity in the lectures and tutorials to unpack  things further. Often it is helpful to reread pieces you find particularly interesting, difficult or provocative after the weekly tutorial and lecture, to gain a deeper understanding.

Accessing Readings and Resources

All reading will be available online via the Leganto link in Ilearn,

The schedule of lectures will be made available via ilearn. However, here are some of the topics that are likely to be addressed in lectures: what is culture? What is nature?; thinking beyond the culture/nature binary; nature before and after Romanticism; the environmental humanities; the Anthropocene; thinking about climate change; animal rights and worlds; Indigenous perspectives; ecomedia, etc