Assessment

There are 2 areas of assessment in the subject:

To pass the subject overall, it is necessary that you pass in both areas of assessment.

If you have any queries or concerns about these assessments, contact your tutor.

Forums

The weekly discussion forums are for your discussion of questions posed during a particular week of study. The questions will be provided to you (and are at the end of each week's notes); and you are expected to provide answers by the Wednesday evening of the particular week, and then replies to other people's answers by the Saturday evening.

Each week your contributions will be marked out of 2, where:

and the criteria for determining the mark will be:

  1. the intellectual and academic quality of your answers,
  2. the intellectual and academic quality of your replies to other people's answers, and, most importantly,
  3. the degree to which your answers and replies engender and encourage further discussion and debate amongst your classmates.

Note also that you are expected to use the discussion forums ethically at all times. Material posted should be relevant to the purpose of the forum and should not contain material which is:

You should also be conscious of unnecessary noise brought about by frivolous discussions.

Assignments

There are 2 assignments in the subject:

Your assignments should use the Harvard referencing system.