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Unit Outline
English & Cultural Studies

Meaning & Medium

ENGL1401
6 Credit points
Semester1, 2015
Campus Crawley & Albany

Unit Co-ordinator
Associate Professor Ned Curthoys
Tutor and Guest Lecturer
Amy Hilhorst
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Contents
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Unit Description
Learning Outcomes
Unit Rules

Contact Details

UNIT STRUCTURE and CONTENT

Lectures and Tutorials

Learning Management System
Set Texts
Information Services
Recommended Reading
Information Services
LECTURE SCHEDULE
Required and Recommended Readings
General Guidelines For Writing Essays
Referencing Your Work
ASSESSMENT
Assessment Summary
Assessment Details
Assessment Criteria
Improve Your Academic Writing and Research Skills
ETHICAL SCHOLARSHIP, ACADEMIC LITERACY
AND ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
Appeals Against Academic Assessment
Use of Student Feedback
Charter of Student Rights And Responsibilities
Student Guild Contact Details

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UNIT DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Meaning & Medium, ENGL1401, is a level 1 unit (6 credit points) that you can study as
part of a degree-specific or second major in English and Cultural Studies;
a Category B broadening unit in the Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science or
Bachelor of Design;
or as a level 1 elective.

Unit Description
This unit examines how the medium' of a text, its material form and its genre, is an
intrinsic part of its significance, the way it conveys meaning. Novels, poetry, feature
films, television shows, graphic novels, abstract art, interactive internet fiction, all
make different demands of their audiences depending on the medium in which they
are presented. Readers of these creative texts are often interested not just in what is
represented but in how a text innovates upon an existing genre or form, encouraging
them to participate in the construction of that text's meaning. By analysing a variety of
contemporary fiction, from novels to graphic novels and feature films, this unit
enables students to explore the proposition that the medium of a creative work is an
intrinsic part of its message', its capacity for imaginative expression.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
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understand the ways in which different media act and interact to produce meaning;

formulate discriminating responses to creative works including new media;

express ideas concisely and clearly in both oral and written formats;

identify a range of different reading strategies important in theory and culture;

begin developing university-level skills of analysis, reasoning, interpretation and

research, including engaging with secondary critical material rather than merely
quoting from it; and

understand English as a discipline and its methodologies through an introduction to

the major in English and Cultural Studies. For further detail on the English and
Cultural Studies major see http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/majors/bp001/mjdegcst

Unit Rules
http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/engl/engl1401

CONTACT DETAILS
Unit Contact
Unit Co-ordinators
name:

Senior Lecturer Ned Curthoys

email:

ned.curthoys@uwa.edu.au

phone:

6488 2107

Room:

Arts G.38

consultation hours:

Tuesday 11-12pm

Tutor (Crawley)
name:

Amy Hilhorst

email:

Amy.hilhorst@research.uwa.edu.au

phone:

6488 2076

room:
consultation hours:

Arts 1.29
10am-11am Wednesday

Tutor (Albany)
name:

Dr Warren Flynn

email:

Warren.flynn@uwa.edu.au

phone:
room :
consultation hours:

The Albany Centre

Please contact Dr Flynn for an appointment

UNIT STRUCTURE and CONTENT

Lectures and Tutorials
Meaning & Medium (ENGL1401) is offered by 2 lectures per week, Tuesday 10:00 am and
Wednesday 11:00 am, commencing in week 1, and 1 tutorial per week, commencing in week
2. Students will need to enrol in one tutorial per week. Lectures are not repeated; Lectures
will be uploaded to the UWA Learning Management System (LMS), usually within 3 hours of
delivery. A PowerPoint file of the lecture, when delivered, will be available through LMS:
please consult the LMS frequently for course materials and announcements.
Lectures are scheduled for 1 hours duration. Lecturers will begin on the hour; deliver a 45minute lecture; and aim to finish 15 minutes before the next hour to enable students to move
to their next location. Tutorials, similarly, are scheduled for 1 hour and will be 45 minutes
duration. Please ensure you arrive promptly, repeated lateness to a tutorial is considered
disruptive and inappropriate behaviour.
Lectures aim to provide a variety of materials and interpretive frameworks relevant to your
exploration and analysis of texts. These materials will vary according to the set texts and
required reading week by week. Lectures and related materials will be available online, after
the lecture, through LMS.
Tutorials are active workshops and provide an opportunity for you to discuss your reading
and your understanding of the material covered in lectures. Useful (and enjoyable) tutorials
depend entirely on the quality of the discussion: please ensure you prepare thoroughly by
completing the set fictional texts and mandatory secondary readings for that tutorial. We take
tutorials seriously and so attendance and participation are a significant part of the
assessment.

Learning Management System (LMS)

www.lms.uwa.edu.au
For assistance with the LMS select the LMS Help: STUDENTS link at www.lms.uwa.edu.au
or contact SISO at support@student.uwa.edu.au or 6488 3814 or in person at the Reid
Library and the Science Library.
Or, browse answers online anytime or ask a question through askUWA available at:
http://ipoint.uwa.edu.au
Please make sure you use LMS and check it regularly. Information, updates, essay
topics, etc will all be posted on LMS.

Essential Set Texts

Film
Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan), Warner Bros, 2010 (available from Reid High Demand,
Level 1)
Prose Fiction

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2010 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid
High Demand)
Shaun Tan, The Arrival, 2006 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid High Demand)
Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance, 2010 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid High Demand)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, (Project Gutenberg E-Text version available
through UWA Information Services: enter through OneSearch, find the Project Gutenberg E-book
version, and read the html version online)
Online Series/Television Drama
House of Cards, series 1, Netflix, 2013 (copies in Reid High Demand)
Graphic Novel
Art Spiegelman, Maus, A Survivors Tale, vols 1 & 2 2003 (available from Crawley Co-op and
Reid High Demand)
Poetry
A selection of experimental poetry will be accessible through topic week 11 of the LMS site in
pdf documents.

Recommended Reading
Critical readings will be recommended through a range of sources including by individual lecturers
in the course of their presentations; through CMO [Course Materials Online]
http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/information-resources/cmo now available through OneSearch; through
documents or url links on the LMS unit. Students should make sure to check these places: we will
be looking at the range and quality of your reading when we evaluate your assessment.

Information Services
Please ensure that you are familiar with the Current Students page on the UWA website
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/. You will find an introduction to Information Services at
http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/current-students and it is important that you are familiar with these
services.
We recommend that you visit the Subject Guides page at http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/currentstudents/guides where you will find the Subject Guide for English and Cultural Studies. The
Subject Guide is your introduction to research skills in your discipline and provides access to a
wide diversity of resources.

LECTURE SCHEDULE: please note lectures are every

Tuesday at 10am and Wednesday at 11am in the
Woolnough Lecture Theatre, Geology and Geography
Building. Lectures start on the hour exactly so be
punctual.
Week

Lecture Topic

Lecturer

# &
date

1 24
Feb

25 Feb
23
Mar

Tutorial
Topic

Introduction to ENGL1401:

Ned Curthoys

The medium is the message, on

medium & meaning

Ned Curthoys

Narrative theory

Ned Curthoys

Inception as puzzle film

Ned Curthoys

Reading literature/texts critically

Ned Curthoys

The Yellow Wallpaper and

psychological literature
Genre and Intertextuality

Ned Curthoys

House of Cards and the

convergence of media
From tv screen to e-platform

Ned Curthoys

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the

Goon Squad, 2010
The postmodern novel

Ned Curthoys

Writing Essays

Ned Curthoys

No tutorial

Introductory
tutorial

4 Mar
3 10
Mar
11 Mar
4 17
Mar
18 Mar
5 24
Mar
25 Mar
6 31
Mar
1 Apr
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Apr

Ned Curthoys

Ned Curthoys

Ned Curthoys

Easter Study Break

Inception

The Yellow
Wallpaper
House of
Cards
A Visit from
the Goon
Squad

No tutorial

8 Apr
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14 Apr
15 Apr

Graphic novels: words & images

Ned Curthoys

Art Spiegelman, Maus, A

Survivors Tale, Vols 1 & 2, 2003-

Ned Curthoys

No face to face
tutorial. ONLINE
POST &
DISCUSSION via
LMS forum in
topic week 7,
both posts
completed by
5pm Friday
17th April.
Instructions

20 Apr
24
9 27
Apr

NON-TEACHING WEEK ESSAY DUE

Literature and Trauma

Ned Curthoys

Shaun Tan, The Arrival. A Story

Without Words, 2006

Ned Curthoys

28Apr
10 5
May

An introduction to Experimental
Poetry

Amy Hilhorst

6 May

Automatic Poetry - Cordite

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May

Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance,

and Indigenous Literature

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May
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May

History and Fiction: on the

historical novel
Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance
and Intercultural Contact

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May

What is postcolonial writing and

criticism?

13 26
May

Reflections on the medium as

message

27
May

Examination preparation: useful

tips

No tutorial
Maus

The Arrival

Amy Hilhorst
Tony Hughes DAeth
Ned Curthoys
Tony Hughes-DAeth
Ned Curthoys

Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys and
Amy Hilhorst

Experimental
Poetry

That
Deadman
Dance
Debate on
History
Tutorial,and
Reflective
Discussion
and Q and A

Required and Recommended Readings

Required and Recommended Readings

In addition to reading the set texts, you should also read the critical
scholarship available through Course Materials Online through
OneSearch or the URL weblinks provided. Readings below
highlighted in red and marked with an asterisk* are mandatory
readings for the tutorial. Mandatory tutorial readings will be provided
as links on CMO (available through Onesearch) though note most
secondary readings are also available as a title search in
OneSearch or through a URL link directly provided below. Other
readings included here will be useful for tutorial participation and
assessments, they can be found either through on OneSearch or
sometimes through documents posted on the LMS.

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Christopher Noland, Inception (film), 2010

*Dreaming, Creating, Perceiving, Filmmaking: an Interview with writer-director

Christopher Nolan. Nolan, Christopher, and Jonathan Nolan. Inception: The shooting
script. Insight Editions, 2010, 14-27.
http://UWA.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=679718
*Mark Fisher, The Lost Unconscious: Delusions and Dreams in Inception, Film
Quarterly 64:3 (Spring 2011): pp. 37-45.
Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell,Inception, or, Dream a Little Dream within Me,
August 6th, 2010, (http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2010/08/06/inception-or-dream-alittle-dream-within-a-dream-with-me/). Web.
*The Editors Totem: An Elegant Solution for Keeping Track of Reality, in Johnson,
David Kyle, ed. Inception and Philosophy: Because It's Never Just a Dream. Vol. 43.
John Wiley & Sons, 2011, 1-10 . Web. E-book available through UWA Information
Services.
Ian Alan Paul, Desiring Machines in American Cinema: What Inception tells us about
our experience of reality and film, in Senses of Cinema 56 (2010)
http://sensesofcinema.com/2010/feature-articles/desiring-machines-in-americancinema-what-inception-tells-us-about-our-experience-of-reality-and-film/.
(4) Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Golden, Catherine; Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Captive Imagination : a Casebook
on The Yellow Wallpaper. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New
York, 1992. Print.
*Davison, Carol Margaret. "Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets
in The Yellow Wallpaper." Women's Studies 33.1 (2004): 47-75.
Lanser, Susan S. "Feminist Criticism," The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of
Color in America." Feminist Studies 15: 3 (1989): 415-441.
*Treichler, Paula A. "Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in" The Yellow
Wallpaper"." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 3.1/2 (1984): 61-77.
(5) House of Cards, Series 1, Netflix, 2013
*Crace, John. Netflix's House of Cards, episode one review. Guardian 1 Feb
2013. (http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/01/review-house-of-cardsepisode-one-netflix)
*Nussbaum, Emily. Shark Week. House of Cards, Scandal and the Political Game.
The New Yorker 25 Feb 2013.
(http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/02/25/130225crte_television_n
ussbaum)

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*Spacey, Kevin. "House of Cards." Interview with Wolf Blitzer & Kate Bolduan.
February 1, 2013. (You tube clip embedded in LMS topic week 5).
(6) Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2010
*Kelly, Adam. Beginning with Postmodernism. Twentieth-Century Literature 57.3 &
57.4 (Fall/Winter 2011): 391-422.
*Mishra, Pankaj. Modernitys Undoing. Review of Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the
Goon Squad. London Review of Books 33:7 (31 March, 2011): 27-30. Print.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n07/pankaj-mishra/modernitys-undoing.
*McKenna, Max. Jennifer Egan and the New Heroism. Full Stop, 28 August 2012.
Web. http://www.full-stop.net/2012/08/28/features/essays/max-mckenna/jennifer-eganand-the-new-heroism/.
Williams, Jeffrey J. The plutocratic imagination . . . Review of A Visit From the Goon
Squad et al. Dissent 60.1 (2013): 93- 95. Print.
(9) Art Spiegelman, Maus. A Survivors Tale, Vols 1 & 2, 2003
*Chute, Hillary. The Shadow of a past Time: History and Graphic Representation in
Maus.Twentieth Century Literature 52: 2 (Summer, 2006): 199-230. Print.
Doherty, Thomas. "Art Spiegelman's Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust." American
Literature 68:1 (1996): 69-84.Print
Ewert, Jeanne. "Art Spiegelmans Maus and the Graphic Narrative." Narrative Across
Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. University of Nabraska
Press, 2004. 178-93. Print.
Hirsch, Marianne. "Family pictures: Maus, mourning, and post-memory." Discourse
(15.2 1992): 3-29.Print
Huyssen, Andreas. "Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno." New
German Critique 81 (2000): 65-82. Print
Levine, Michael G. "Necessary Stains: Spiegelman's Maus and the Bleeding of
History." American Imago 59.3 (2002): 317-341. Print.
*Rothberg, Michael, and Art Spiegelman. "We Were Talking Jewish: Art Spiegelman's
Maus as Holocaust" Production." Contemporary Literature 35:4 (Winter 1994): 661687. Print.
Art Spiegelman and Kevin Huizenga. TCJ Conversations 300. 7 Dec 2009. Web.
http://classic.tcj.com/tcj-300/tcj-300-conversations-art-spiegelman-kevin-huizenga/.

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(10) Shaun Tan, The Arrival

*Johnston, Rosemary Ross. Graphic trinities: languages, literature, and words-inpictures in Shaun Tans The Arrival. Visual Communication 11: 4 (2012): 421441.
*Yang, Gene Luen. Stranger in a Strange Land. Review of Shaun Tan. The
Arrival. New York Times. Sunday Book Review. 11 Nov 2007. Web.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Yang-t.html.
(11) Experimental Poetry
#all reading (mandatory) available through topic week 11 as pdf documents or url
links.
List of Readings

Primary:
Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro"
William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Charles Bernstein "american boy with bat"
Toby Fitch "Valleys"
Omar Musa "The Old Rooster"
Queen Chan's "The Rooster" (Graphic adaptation, after Omar Musa)
Secondary:
"Conceptual Writing: A Modernist Issue" (Interview with Marjorie Perloff)
Robert Creeley "Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself?"
Oscar Schwartz "A Turing Test for Poetry"
Charles Bernstein "The Truth in Versions"

(12) Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance, 2010

*Scott, Kim, and Ann Brewster. Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via
Regional Indigenous Roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That
Deadman Dance. Cultural Studies Review 81:1 (2012): 228-46. Print.
*Brewster, Anne. Whiteness and Indigenous Sovereignty in Kim Scotts
That Deadman Dance. The Journal of European Association of Studies on
Australia 2.2 (2011): 60-71. Print.
*Hughes-DAeth, Tony. The Case for Kim Scotts That Deadman Dance in The
Conversation, 14 Feb. 2014. Web. http://theconversation.com/the-case-for-kimscotts-that-deadman-dance-22162.
Hughes-DAeth, Tony. For a long time nothing happened: Settler colonialism,
deferred action and the scene of colonization in Kim Scott's That Deadman
Dance. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2014, pre-print, 1-13. Print.
Gleeson-White, Jane. Capitalism versus the agency of place: an ecocritical reading of
That Deadman Dance and Carpentaria. JASAL 13:2 (2013):1-12. Print.

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Mead, P. 2012. Connectivity, Community and the Question of Literary Universality:

Reading Kim Scott's Chronotope and John Kinsella's Commedia. In Republics of
Letter: Literary Communities in Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press, Australia.
E-book Library. Web, 135-155.
Ravenscroft, Alison. The Strangeness of the Dance: Kate Grenville, Rohan Wilson,
Inga Clendinnen and Kim Scott. Meanjin 13:12 (2013). Web.
(http://meanjin.com.au/articles/post/the-strangeness-of-the-dance-kate-grenville-rohanwilson-inga-clendinnen-and-kim-scott/).
Neumeier, Beate and Kay Schaffer. Eds.)Decolonizing the Landscape. Indigenous
Cultures in Australia. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2014. (Scott and P Mead
contributions). Print.
(12) History and Fiction (Readings useful for debate in week 12)
*Clendinnen, Inga. The history question: who owns the past? Quarterly Essay No. 23.
Black Inc., 2006,1-72.
Kossew, Sue. "Voicing the Great Australian Silence: Kate Grenville's Narrative of
Settlement in The Secret River." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 42.2 (2007):
7-18.
*McKenna, Mark. "Writing the past. History, literature & the public sphere in Australia ".
Public Lecture, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, 2005. Web.
http://www.humanitieswritingproject.net.au/Mark_McKenna.pdf.
*Grenville, Kate. "The Question of History: Response." Quarterly Essay 25 (2007): 66.
*Pinto, Sarah. "Emotional histories and historical emotions: Looking at the past in
historical novels." Rethinking History 14.2 (2010): 189-207.
McGonegal, Julie. "The Great Canadian (and Australian) secret: The limits of nonIndigenous knowledge and representation." ESC: English Studies in Canada 35.1
(2009): 67-83.

Readings on theories of narrative

Roland Barthes, S/Z: Image, Music, Text
H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
Gerald Prince, A Dictionary of Narratology
Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse
----- Narrative Discourse Revisited
David Lodge, The Art of Fiction

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General Guidelines for Writing Essays

1. Try to find a question or topic that interests you.
2. Present a coherent argument addressed to the question or focused on the topic.
3. Support all claims with evidence and argument.
4. Read widely, inform yourself about the field or topic of enquiry, but dont simply
parrot the views expressed in published sources.
5. Be selective in the material that you use. Dont just cram everything into an essay.
6. The main argument should reflect your own ideas, but draw on or respond to other
arguments or sources of information where relevant.
Essays should observe the word limit.
Students must keep a copy of all written work submitted.
Acknowledge all your sources in your essays. Append a bibliography citing the
editions of works and primary and secondary works consulted. Give full in-text or
footnote references when using secondary material in your essays.
Please consult the ECS Essay Guide posted on the LMS site for this course for
further guidance with essay writing and citation.

Referencing Your Work (very important)

Referencing or citing your sources is an important part of academic writing. It lets you
acknowledge the ideas or words of others if you use them in your work and helps
avoid plagiarism.
When books, journals, official publications, newspapers etc. are used to
reinforce ideas in an essay, you must give credit to these sources.
Referencing also demonstrates that you've read relevant backgound literature and
you can provide authority for statements you make in your assignments.
Every scholarly discipline has a preferred format or style for citing sources. Our
preferred style for citing sources is the MLA documentation style. The following guide
(http://guides.is.uwa.edu.au/mla) explains how to use this system, however, if you
require further information consult the MLA handbook for writers of research papers.
Remember too that Reid Library runs daily drop-in sessions from 1012pm to assist with doing research, preparing material for essays and
using reference citation styles.
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/learning/studysmarter/writesmart/write
smart_drop-in

ASSESSMENT
Summary
Item

Due date

Weight

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Tutorial attendance
and participation;
2x300-word (10%)
online post on a
secondary reading in
week 8; in-class
debate in week 12.

Cumulative

20%

Critical essay 2000

words (10%)

Wednesday 22 April
by 5pm, online
submission on LMS

40%

Examination

During formal
examination period

40%

Friday 17th April

Week 12 tutorials

Assessment Details

Tutorial attendance and participation. Students will be expected to attend tutorials and
participate in discussion.

The 2x300-word posts on LMS will encourage research skills and facilitate tutorial
discussion .

Marking criteria will be specified in the rubric for each piece of assessment.

The 2000 word critical essay should be submitted electronically through the LMS site
for 1401 Meaning and Medium by 5pm on Wednesday the 22nd of April. Submissions
after 5pm count as a day late.

Please note that any essays that are submitted late without an approved extension or valid
extenuating circumstances will receive a mark without extra comments on the marking
rubric.
Extension and late submission
To apply for assignment extensions a student should submit a Special Consideration
application to their Allocated Advising Student Office. Late submissions without special
consideration will incur a penalty of 2% per day. Assignments will not be accepted after the
end of the exam period unless a student has been granted an extension by their Allocated
Advising Student Office."

Assessment Criteria
For Critical Essay
Essays will be assessed according to the following criteria:
a) Engagement with topic does the essay demonstrate understanding of question
applied to the text concerned; does it show the strength and range of your ideas?
b) Structure design of argument i.e. does it develop logically and clearly?
c) Support of argument with reference to the primary text/texts does essay have the
right balance between analysis and evidence, i.e. it doesnt quote too much or too
little?
d) Presentation use of bibliography and referencing e.g. grammar, punctuation,
style and clarity of writing

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e) Extent and application of reading outside primary text/s if required by the

assessment
More advice will be given with the essay questions and in lectures and tutorials
Tutorial participation
The tutorial participation mark will not reward attendance only but is designed to
recognise the contribution of students to the learning process in tutorials.

Criteria include:
Active involvement: participating constructively in discussion
Relevance: not straying off the topic
Engagement with ideas/ building on discussion: constructive, coherent responses to
ideas raised by other students
Listening attentively and respectfully
Preparation: evidence of having thought about material in light of ideas raised by
course and preparing relevant questions/discussion points before coming to class.
Improving Your Academic Writing and Research Skills
Highly Recommended!
The StudySmarter UWA workshops are free to UWA students and are an excellent
resource centre. There are three sets of resources: WRITESmart (writing, research
& study skills); mathsSmart (Maths & Stats) and GETsmart (Online resources).
Details are here: www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au.

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ETHICAL SCHOLARSHIP, ACADEMIC LITERACY AND

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
[Ethical scholarship is the pursuit of scholarly enquiry marked by honesty and integrity.
Academic Literacy is the capacity to undertake study and research, and to communicate
findings and knowledge, in a manner appropriate to the particular disciplinary conventions
and scholarly standards expected at university level.
Academic misconduct is any activity or practice engaged in by a student that breaches
explicit guidelines relating to the production of work for assessment, in a manner that
compromises or defeats the purpose of that assessment. Students must not engage in
academic misconduct. Any such activity undermines an ethos of ethical scholarship.
Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to cheating, or attempting to cheat, through:
Collusion
Inappropriate collaboration
Plagiarism
Misrepresenting or fabricating data or results or other assessable work
Inappropriate electronic data sourcing/collection
Breaching rules specified for the conduct of examinations in a way that may compromise
or defeat the purposes of assessment.
Penalties for academic misconduct vary according to seriousness of the case, and may
include the requirement to do further work or repeat work; deduction of marks; the award of
zero marks for the assessment; failure of one or more units; suspension from a course of
study; exclusion from the University, non-conferral of a degree, diploma or other award to
which the student would otherwise have been entitled.
Refer to the Ethical Scholarship, Academic Literacy and Academic Misconduct policy.

Appeals Against Academic Assessment

If you feel you have been unfairly assessed, you have the right to appeal your mark by
submitting an Appeal Against Academic Assessment form to the Head of School and Faculty
Office. The form must be submitted within twenty working days of the release of the formal
result. It is recommended that you contact the Guild Education Officers to assist you in the
appeals process. They can be contacted on +61 8 6488 2295 or
education@guild.uwa.edu.au. Full regulations governing appeals procedures are available
from Academic Policy Services, available online at
http://www.aps.uwa.edu.au/home/policies/appeals

Use of Student Feedback

Students will be invited to participate in a formal feedback process online : Students
Reflective Unit Feedback (SURF). We value your feedback and actively use it in revising and
amending units.
Information about SURF is available at http://ipoint.uwa.edu.au/app/answers/detail/a_id/1566

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Charter of Students Rights and Responsibilities

This Charter of Student Rights and Responsibilities upholds the fundamental rights of
students who undertake their education at the University of Western Australia.
It recognises that excellence in teaching and learning requires students to be active
participants in their educational experience. It upholds the ethos that in addition to the
University's role of awarding formal academic qualifications to students, the University must
strive to instil in all students independent scholarly learning, critical judgement, academic
integrity and ethical sensitivity.
Please refer to the website the full charter of student rights and responsibilities, located at
http://www.secretariat.uwa.edu.au/home/policies/charter

Student Guild Contact Details

The University of Western Australia Student Guild
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Phone: (+61 8) 6488 2295
Facsimile: (+61 8) 6488 1041
E-mail: enquiries@guild.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://www.guild.uwa.edu.au

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