Classes:

 Week 1 and the first hour of Week 2 will be lectures given by the unit convenor.  The remainder of the classes will be in seminar discussion format, with all students required to contribute to discussion weekly and sometimes to lead a week's discussion. The unit convenor will participate in discussion but will not necessarily lead discussion.

Classes will be held in each of the thirteen teaching weeks of Session 1 (commencing 3 March, with two weeks Recess from 14-25 April, and concluding on 13 June).

 Required Text:

 It is essential to buy this book, which will be stocked by the Coop Bookstore on campus:

 ·       Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, trans. Lewis Thorpe (Penguin; Harmondsworth, 1974)

 If you have a copy before beginning of teaching term, please start to read this text – we will read through the entire text throughout the term.

 Other useful books:

 The following two items are not required, but may be useful and are suggested for anyone looking for additional unit materials.  Please note that both contain substantial (though incomplete) translations of Gregory’s Histories. 

 ·       From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader, ed. and trans. Alexander Callander Murray (Broadview; Peterborough, 2000)

 ·       Gregory of Tours, The Merovingians, ed. and trans. Alexander Callander Murray (Broadview; Peterborough, 2006)

 Required Technology:

 Students will be required to have internet access to access the UNITS website for AHPG889 and the Macquarie Library Catalogue (for access to ebooks and other material) and eReserve/MultiSearch.

 Expectations of the student:

 ·       Attendance at classes: Students are required to participate in discussions in each of the 13 teaching weeks.  Contribution to each week's discussion is necessary but not sufficient to gain a mark for the ‘Participation’ component of the assessment; active participation, demonstrating preparation of readings and other tasks and informed engagement in discussions, is required to secure a mark.  As directed, students should be prepared to lead discussions in some weeks.

 ·       Preparation of weekly readings and tasks: Assigned readings (from Gregory’s Histories and other set readings), which will be detailed under the weekly tasks on the UNITS website for AHPG889, should be read and prepared in advance of class each week.

 ·       Active participation: Students are required to actively participate in discussion in all classes, and to lead discussions in some weeks.

 ·       Assessment: Students are also required to complete and submit on time all 4 assessment items listed under “Assessment Tasks” in the Unit Guide and described on the UNITS web site for AHPG889.

 Weekly work:

 Weekly readings and other tasks are described in detail on the the UNITS web site for AHPG889.

•  For detailed weekly schedule, see unit website.

Weekly Schedule

For External students, all written assignments must be submitted through the Centre for Open Education (COE).

For Evening (Internal) students, all written assignments must be submitted in hard copy through the Arts Student Centre (via the AHIS assignment box) on Level 1, W6A. Students must print and attach a completed coversheet to all submitted work.

 All students must keep a dated electronic copy of their assignments.