Unit Requirements and Expectations

Students must achieve an overall mark of 50% or above to complete this unit satisfactorily. They have to attempt all assessment tasks and perform satisfactory.

Group work marks will consist of 50% mark for individual work and 50% mark for team work.

Assignment submission

All written work must be submitted through the iLearn website. Please upload your assignment to the drop-box for the relevant week. Save your assignment as a pdf or a doc file (a pdf is best; please avoid docx).

All assignments must include the following at the start: Student name; Student Number; Assessment Task Title or Question. Assignment submitted without identification will not be marked.

Written assignments will be returned via the ‘turnitin’ tool on the iLearn Unit site, and will contain feedback from the marker within them.

Extensions and Special Considerations

Extensions can only be granted in exceptional cases and may only be sought in consultation with the unit convenor and with support of documentary evidence. If you anticipate any difficulty in meeting assigned due dates then it is important that you contact the course’s convenor as early as possible.

If you have an interruption of study lasting 3 or more days, you must file for special consideration, following the instructions below.

If you have a 1-2 day illness or interruption, please provide documentation, e.g. medical certificate. No extensions for voluntary activities will be provided. You may request an extension without documentation if you apply to the course convener a minimum of 7 days in advance. We will award these extensions at our discretion. Discretionary extensions will not be granted on the final project, as that would interfere with in-class activities.

Special Consideration Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html

Applying for Special Consideration Students applying for Special Consideration circumstances of three (3) consecutive days duration, within a study period, and/or prevent completion of a formal examination must submit an on-line application with the Faculty of Arts. For an application to be valid, it must include a completed Application for Special Consideration form and all supporting documentation.

The online Special Consideration application is found at: http://www.arts.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/admin_central/

Penalties

Written assessment tasks submitted after the due date without good reasons will be penalised by a deduction of 2% a day (including weekends) of the mark gained. After five days, a mark of 0% will be assigned.

Written assessment tasks submitted that are under or over the word length by more than 10% will be penalised with a 10% deduction. The marker will only read the listed word limit, i.e. if the word limit is 1000 words they will stop reading at 1000 words (plus or minus up to 100 words).

Written assessment tasks submitted without proper referencing, i.e. little or no page numbers or no bibliography will receive an automatic fail.

LATE PENALTY: Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Marking Rubric

The short writings and final project will be graded using a rubric, which can be found on the iLearn unit site. 

Note

The department has moved to include the following statement concerning all of its courses with respect to the marks you receive for work during the session: 'that the marks given are indicative only; final marks will be determined after moderation'.

Delivery

Seminar (Lecture and Practical)  Friday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - participation in the entire class is compulsory

Location  25a Wallys Wlk - 208 Tutorial Rm

Online units can be accessed at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au

PC and Internet access are required for those who wish to access iLearn. Basic computer skills (e.g., internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement.

Please consult teaching staff for any further, more specific requirements.

Resources

Selected readings will be posted on iLearn.

Recommended Texts (in order of relevance):

David, B., & Thomas, J. (2008). Handbook of landscape archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Kluiving, S.J., & Guttmann-Bond, E.B. (2012). Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Renfrew, C., & Bahn, P. (2013). Thinking about Landscape. In: C. Renfrew and P. Bahn. Archaeology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides). Taylor and Francis, pp. 156-159.

Fleisher, J. (2013). Landscape Archaeology. In: P. Mitchell and P.J. Lane (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, P., & Macphail, R. (2006). Practical and theoretical geoarchaeology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Science.

French, C. (2015). A handbook of geoarchaeological approaches for investigating landscapes and settlement sites (Studying scientific archaeology vol. 1). Oxford: Oxbow Books

Ashmore, W., & Knapp, A.B. (2000). Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Renfrew, C., & Bahn, P. (2016). Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (7^th ed). London: Thames & Hudson.