Late submission penalty

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day to late submissions, up until the 7th calendar day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. 

Important to note:

• Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs) will be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application.
• Students should not request an informal arrangement from their tutor, lecturer or Unit Convenor (or equivalent).
• Where an application for Special Consideration is approved and the outcome is an extension to the due date of a task, submissions that are received after the new due date will be subject to late penalties that are calculated from the new due date. This only applies where the outcome is an extension to the due date – see the Special Consideration Policy for a schedule of all possible outcomes.

GenAI/ChatGPT

In this Unit, and unless notified otherwise in writing by the Unit Convenor, substantive assessment content that has been generated by AI will be regarded as not the student’s own work and potentially in breach of Academic Integrity standards. This applies to all assessments, including online forums. In submitting assessments all students will be required to confirm their agreement with the following:

In submitting this assessment, I certify that this submission is my own work and demonstrates my own understanding, analysis, research, reflection, critical thinking, and writing. I am not submitting anything that I cannot myself fully explain and defend, if called upon to do so. I understand that if my teachers have concerns about whether this submission is my own work or an AI-generated output, I may be required to attend an interview with the Unit Convenor/Integrity Officer/academic staff to verify my research methods, my understanding of the content, and my close familiarity with all sources I have cited. If I am found to have submitted work that is not my own, my work will be further investigated, and I may be found to be in breach of the MQ Academic Integrity Policy.

Further details about assessment

For further details about assessment please see the unit iLearn.

Lectures will run weekly from weeks 1-12, and will available live online via Echo360 and recorded. Recordings will be made available via Echo/iLearn.

Full descriptions of assessment tasks will be available via iLearn.

Readings will be available via Leganto.

Forum participation for external students is weekly from week 2 through 12 inclusive, via iLearn. There is no forum engagement required in Week 10.

Part 1: Moral Psychology. (Weeks 1 - 4)

Lecturer Prof Mark Alfano.

• Indicative text: Moral Psychology: An Introduction by Mark Alfano

Part 2: Evil. (Weeks 5 - 8)

Lecturers Prof Mark Alfano and Dr Katrina Hutchison

• Indicative texts:
  • On Evil by Adam Morton;
  • "Standing between Us and Our Grave Wrongdoing" by Bat Ami Bar On
  • "Evil and Forgiveness" by Kathryn Norlock.

Part III: Ethics, Emotions and Reason. (Weeks 9 - 12)

Lecturer Dr Katrina Hutchison

• Indicative texts - we will read a selection of philosophy papers, such as:
  • "The Uses of Anger" by Audre Lorde
  • "Freedom and Resentment" by Peter Strawson
  • "Introduction:(Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about empathy" from Empathy and morality by Heidi Maibom
  • "On the Value of Acting from the Motive of Duty" by Barbara Herman
  • "Autism, empathy and moral agency" by Jeanette Kennett