Written components to each of the assignments should be submitted through the Turnitin portal for each assignment. For the Literature Review and the Essay, this means the complete assignment is submitted this way. There is a short descriptive component to the Creative Work Assignment which should also be submitted via Turnitin. Other aspects of the Creative Work Assignment may take different forms and submission/performance details will be discussed in-class.

Late Submission

Please note that the University and the Faculty of Arts have launched a new assessment policy effective as of 1 July 2021. This new policy particularly affects LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS.

The Faculty policy in relation to late assessment submissions is as follows:

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted seven days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests, etc.

To be very clear:

• Unless you have applied for special consideration and had your application approved, for each day your assignment is late, 10 marks will be deducted. For example, if you submit your assignment 7 days late, 70 marks will be deducted, which means you will fail that assignment.
• If your assignment is more than 7 days late (including weekends), you will get 0 for your assignment.

These are serious penalties that will substantially alter your final grade and even determine whether you pass or fail this unit. Please make every effort to submit your assignment by the due date.

If you find you cannot submit your assignment on time, please apply for Special Consideration through AskMQ. Make sure you read Macquarie University's policy regarding Special Consideration requests before you apply: 

https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/special-consideration

Delivery

The lecture for this unit will be delivered online as either a prerecorded presentation or as a Zoom live session. The first lecture for the semester will be an online Zoom lecture and students should plan to attend this zoom session live. The link for this session is provided in the Week 1 Block within iLearn and will occur at the scheduled time of 10 am on Friday 30 July. Subsequent lectures for the rest of the semester will mostly be pre-recorded and available online from about Wednesday of each week. Lectures may be viewed when available at any time before  the tutorial sessions for each week. Students should access the weekly content (including recorded lectures, tutorial instructions/resources and special resources) through each weekly block provided in iLearn. 

Tutorials begin in Week 1!

Students should sign up for one tutorial session of their choice as usual through the e-student system. The Thursday 3pm tutorial is an online zoom session. Friday tutorials are presently scheduled as Face-to-face sessions. Because of the nature of online delivery, learning strategies and procedures for the online tutorial will be slightly different to the in-class Face-to-face tutorials. Naturally, learning topics, readings, assessment tasks and learning outcomes will remain the same for all students.

Feedback

Feedback in this unit is available in multiple forms: informal feedback in lectures and tutorials; face-to-face consultations; formal general comment, rubric, and/or in-text comments attached to assignments marked in Turnitin.

There may be some adjustment to the following list of topics depending on availability of guest lectures and specialised sessions. The following list provides an overview of the topics for the semester. Detailed descriptions and content is provided in iLearn:

First Half of the Semester

• Week 1: Introduction to the Unit: Ways of Thinking and Talking about Music in a Global Context

• Week 2: Music, Musical Instruments and Global Exchange

• Week 3: The Guitar Travels the World

• Week 4: K-Pop

• Week 5: Music in South Asia

• Week 6: Latin Lines around the World

• Week 7: New Economies of Distribution and World Music

Mid-Semester Break

Second Half of the Semester

• Week 8: Classical, Folk and Indigenous: What's in a Tradition?

• Week 9: Commodification

• Week 10: Indonesian Music 1

• Week 11: Indonesian Music 2

• Week 12: Festivals and "Festivalisation" of Music in Australia and around the World

• Week 13: Yes there are classes this week and these may be used for assessment. Alternatively, there may be an added topic this week. Watch iLearn for instructions

Content in relation to processes of music production and distribution in a global context has been added since the previous offering. In addition the options listed as topic choices within the essay and the final creative work task have been modified.