Students are expected to attend all lectures and all tutorials for ICOM101. Lectures and tutorials are not optional: they deliver important content and are a central component of meeting the learning outcomes in this unit. Students who elect to not attend tutorials will miss out on unit content and learning activities, and do so at their own risk. To be successful in this unit, you need to actively participate in lectures and tutorials.  Marks will be awarded for active participation rather than physical presence.

The globalization assignment will be in weeks 3 and 4.  In week 3, you will be divided into groups. Each student of each group will individually research  an aspect of the history of globalization as outlined on p. 51 in your coursebook. In week 4, each group gets together and compares notes on the events, time periods, etc, then each group draws a timeline and presents their results to the other groups. Your individual findings need to be uploaded to ilearn before class, the group summary after class.  Your individual assignment is worth 20%, the group summary 5%.

Marks will be awarded for relevant, up-to-date information on your chosen strand of globalisation (10 marks), for presentation in writing (6marks), for referencing (4marks). The mark for the group  will be awarded for presentation in class (2marks) and for integration of team members' work (3marks).

Marking Criteria for the history of globalisation task

Fail

Pass

Credit

Distinction

High Distinction

Not attempted, information not relevant,

unable to contribute to group work

Some relevant info from reliable sources

some input to group assignment

participation in discussion

Thorough approach, appropriate info from a variety of sources

leadership in discussion and group work

Comprehensive results, good presentation of findings, leadership in discussion and group work, ability to include other students ideas

Late Submissions

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 (including weekends) after the original submission deadline, No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments - eg quizzes, online tests.

Choose a global problem and create a convincing poster that argues for paying attention and money towards your chosen cause. Possible topics would be global warming, promoting exercise against obesity, or promoting animal rights. Develop a poster on a ppt slide (there are plenty of examples on the internet about how to do this, for example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwOAlYJ5QT0. Save your poster in PDF before submitting. You will not have to present your poster in class, but image you will when you design it.

When you design your poster, think about the following:

what makes your chosen topic a ‘global’ issue?

what is the basic problem, how does this problem present in different countries?

why is this a problem, are there underlying drivers of the problem?

what needs to be done to solve this problem, to reduce the negative impact?

Please note that your poster needs to be referenced. A second page in the same document of the poster should be your reference list. The list needs to be in order of appearance in your poster, so it needs to be numbered. In your poster, you only use numbers, not in-text citations. 

Assessment criteria (total 35%)

Component

weighting

Criteria

Poster content

15%

• topic described and analysed  
• relevant and up to date information included for the topic
• content appropriate for academic audience (eg conference)
• a convincing argument for investment

Poster structure

5%

• material presented in a logical and easy to follow way.
• Topic includes introduction, background, main argument and summary sections

Poster presentation

10%

• a catchy title to draw the interest of the audience
• use of appropriate headers
• concise wording
• appropriate use of figures and pictures

Referencing

5%

• adequate number of references (minimum =5)
• appropriate use of citations within poster
• accurate representation of references in reference list

Late Submissions

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 (including weekends) after the original submission deadline, No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments - eg quizzes, online tests.

Compare and contrast 2 country's education systems, prison systems, health systems, or transport systems.

To start with, find a partner to work with. Together, decide on a topic and one particular aspect you want to focus on. Choose 2 countries, one high income country, one low or middle income country. Decide who works on which country, then find 5 articles for each country that would be useful for your comparison. Make sure that your articles are reliable, eg they are peer-reviewed academic articles. Briefly summarize each article (aprox. 100 words each). Use the guidelines on ilearn to do this systematically. In the end, you should submit one paper for both students. It should consist of 10 summarized articles, 5 for each country, so the whole document should be around 1,000 words. 

Although you are working in a team, your summaries will be assessed as individual contributions and worth 30% of your overall mark. The teamwork element for this assignment relates to the choice of system and countries.  Please follow the example in ilearn how to include your teamwork experience in the reflection assignment.

Marking Criteria Literature review

HD

D

Credit

Pass

Fail

relevance

most articles are relevant to the task. different aspects of the system presented.

not well structured, not close to word limit, not suitable to support comparison. 

referencing

correct referencing.

correct referencing.

largely correct referencing.

no references

Late Submissions

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 (including weekends) after the original submission deadline, No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments - eg quizzes, online tests.

Write a reflection of around 300 words about your work on comparing systems and upload it on ilearn. Your paper should address what you have learned from the exercis: have you leaned something about another country? Do you know more about your chosen system? How did you go about choosing literature? How did you go working with a partner? Your paper can have a less formal style than an essay and it does not need to be referenced. 

Marking criteria reflection: 

assesment of comparison task  (3marks)

includes thoughts about team work  (2 marks)

evaluation of content (3marks)

style and presentation of paper (2marks)