Requirements to Pass This Unit

To pass this unit, you must

• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50% across all assessments.

Attendance and participation

Regular engagement in all learning activities of the unit is crucial for your success. These activities provide opportunities to deepen your understanding of the material, collaborate with peers, and receive valuable feedback from instructors, to assist in completing the unit assessments. Your active participation not only enhances your own learning experience but also contributes to a vibrant and dynamic learning environment for everyone.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern. This grace period will be applied automatically, and no notification to unit staff is necessary. For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted

• Project report - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment.

Project report: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the project report in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through connect.mq.edu.au.

Test/Oral examination: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to attend the in-class test or oral examination, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through connect.mq.edu.au.

Classes

In weeks 1-6:

• There is one two-hour class each week, which is a mixed content delivery and problem class.
• There is one hour of pre-recorded videos to watch per week. These will be made available via iLearn.

In week 7, the two-hour class will be your mid-semester test.

In weeks 8-13:

• There is one two-hour class each week, which is a workshop-style class in which you can work on your projects together with guidance from the unit convenors.

There are various different classes you can enrol in on eStudent; this is an artefact of the timetabling. it's not important which you choose so long as you are enrolled in one of them.

Focus areas

There are two possible focus areas that you can choose in this unit:

• Nonlinear dynamical systems
• Algebra - rings, geometry and elliptic curves

The focus area you choose will determine the content stream that you are part of in the first six weeks of semester, and the potential topics you may choose for your project. We will ask you to choose between the two streams in week 1.

Suggested textbooks

Please see iLearn for suggested textbooks.

Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email or through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to your lecturers from your university email address.