• 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://students.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.

There are three contact hours for this unit. These will be taught as two one hour lectures and a tutorial. Lectures and tutorials will be delivered, face-to-face, in the new Active Learning Space 01CC 214. Two seminar slots have been booked between 12-2:00pm on Tuesdays and 3-5pm on Wednesdays. The first hour of the Tuesday seminar will be a lecture (12-1pm) and the second hour will be a tutorial (1-2pm). The first hour of the Wednesday seminar (3-4pm) will be a repeat of the Tuesday tutorial. The second hour of the Wednesday seminar will contain the second lecture (4-5pm). Lectures will be recorded but tutorials will not be recorded.

Students need to sign up to one of the tutorials and should attend a full (2 hour) seminar each week. Students are welcome to attend both seminars but are not expected do the tutorial twice. If the total number of students of enrolled students drops below 25, one of the tutorials will be cancelled.

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

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.

The schedule of lectures and assessments be in i-learn.