Course Organisation

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Images of Asia is assessed on the basis of 50 percent coursework / 50 percent examination. Coursework consists of:

• non-graded, but required, participation in DELNA assessment;
• one information and short writing assignment, worth 10 pts;
• one major written assignment, an essay worth 20 pts;
• weekly tutorial assessments (10 pts); and
• one multiple-choice test administered in your tutorial section during week 11 of the semester (10 pts, 24-28 May 2004). 

All coursework should be completed, so that students arrive at the examination with the best possible reward for their efforts in the weeks of the course. Students who fail to complete the coursework place themselves at a serious disadvantage for the examination and will inevitably receive a lower final grade.

Information & Writing Assignment

One of the important focuses of Images of Asia is to help students develop their research and essay writing skills. For that reason two assignments are scheduled, one a short library-based exercise in information gathering, the other an essay of moderate length. A hard copy of this assignment is due at the School of Asian Studies office, 58 Symonds St., Rm. 523, no later than 4pm on Monday, 4 April 2005. An electronic version must also be submitted for vetting to http://www.turnitin.com at the same time. (Turnitin.com is an automated academic service that we use to check for plagiarism.) See pg. 9 for further details on this assignment.

Main Essay

 You will earn one fifth of the mark for this course by writing an essay of about 2000 words (roughly 6-8 pages of double-spaced Microsoft Word document text using a 12 pt font like Times New Roman). It is due at the School of Asian Studies office, 58 Symonds St., Rm. 523, no later than 4 pm on Monday, 16 May. An electronic version must also be submitted to http://www.turnitin.com at the same time. Please check Cecil (and see ahead, pg. 11) for instructions on selecting an essay topic, together with further advice and information. 

Cecil Test

A self-assessment exercise will be posted on the Cecil site for each lecture given during the semester. You are encouraged to visit the site in preparation for each tutorial, upon completion of each tutorial, and whenever you wish to review the ideas and materials from previous lectures and tutorials. In week 11 of the semester you will sit a multiple-choice test during your regular tutorial hour. The questions that will appear on this test will be taken directly from the pool of self assessment questions. Regular and careful use of these self assessment tools should guarantee a good result on the Cecil test. Each tutorial session will have a different printed version of the test.

Weekly Tutorial Assessment

There will be nine weeks of tutorials during the semester. No tutorial is planned for the first week; the second week's tutorial will be devoted to library orientation; and week eleven will feature a test rather than the usual work and discussion. You will receive one mark for each tutorial session that you attend AND ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO. The assignment of this weekly mark is meant to encourage attendance at, and participation in, discussions and other tutorial activities.

Examination

The final examination for this course, consisting of shorter and longer essay questions, is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 June 2005, from 09.15 until 12.30. No notes, books, or other materials of any kind will be allowed in the examination room.

Academic honesty.

From the Departmental Handbook: The School encourages students to read widely and then to express their own views and ideas in their written work. When a student simply copies sentences, phrases, ideas, and even paragraphs from another writer, this is plagiarism and will not be tolerated in the School. Plagiarism is the theft of another person's words or ideas. Staff will penalise severely any work containing plagiarised portions.

Students may use the words and ideas they find in books and other writings, provided quotation marks ("...") are placed around the used passages and a footnote or reference citing the source is included. The note should include the author, title, publisher, place and date of publication, and the page reference. Likewise, when a student puts into his or her own words an idea or view found in a book or other writings, a note should indicate where the idea or view came from.

Assignments, such as those in language classes, should be completed by the student working alone. When assignments are found to have been a group effort, the students involved will have their marks reduced. Cheating in tests will not be tolerated. Intellectual honesty is a prized quality in all places of learning, including this School.
Following these guidelines will ensure that students are assessed fairly and properly according to the development of their own skills and knowledge. Students may be unfamiliar with a new subject or unhappy with their own ability to write an English essay. They should seriously consider English language classes available and other forms of assistance that the University offers. These classes may not offer credit towards the degrees, but the investment in time will be amply rewarded in greater ease with English in all their programmes.

Students should also feel free to talk over their uncertainty with their teachers, who may suggest other ways to overcome these difficulties.