LEARNING GUIDE School of Social Sciences and Psychology · Changing Nature of Criminal Justice Consider the changing international context for crime and criminal justice along with

Unit Name Session

102037­Perspectives in Criminology Autumn 2014

LEARNING GUIDESchool of Social Sciences and Psychology

Please read this document and the accompanying SSAPguide very carefully for everything you need to know about the unit. If you need help, check both (and your unit vUWS site) first. If you still need help, please contact us as per Section 2.1 of the SSAPguide.

Unit Weekly Schedule Follows on next page for your convenience

Section 1: Unit Information

• Unit code and name• Unit coordinator• Credit points• Teaching session• Welcome and key contacts• Consultation arrangements• Requirements other than those listed below• Improvements made recently to unit• Delivery: How unit is delivered• Attendance requirements• Textbook• Essential readings• Other resources• Referencing requirements

Section 2: Assessment Information

• Course learning outcomes• Unit learning outcomes• How unit outcomes relate to course outcomes• Assessment summary• Assessment details: Full details for each assessment item

Section 3: Learning and Teaching Activities See Page 2

Section 4: Learning Resources See Section 1 for Texbook, Readings etc.

• Literacy and/or numeracy resources

Section 5: Expectations Of and By You See SSAPguide

UNIT REQUIREMENTS

Internet Access: You must have internet access for this unit, preferably high speed broadband (or use University facilities)vUWS: You must access the unit vUWS site at least twice a week to check for any new content or announcementsiPad: Owning an iPad is strongly recommended, as some units are optimised for iPad

FREE ADOBE READER: This Learning Guide is an Adobe PDF document with internal attachments. To access attachments you may need to download and open it in latest FREE Adobe Reader, available at http://get.adobe.com/reader/You MUST use free Adobe reader app to access attachments on iPad.

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Unit Weekly Schedule(Link to Handbook and timetable for unit: http://handbook.uws.edu.au/hbook/unit.aspx?unit=101184.2)

Week Starts Lecture Tutorial Reading And Assessments

124/2/2014

Introduction to Perspectives in Criminology No tutorials in week 1.

Garland and Sparks (2000)andGarland (2001)

23/3/2014

Globalisation and the Changing Nature of Criminal Justice

Consider the changing international context for crime and criminal justice along with key terms and concepts.

Gillespie (2006) andAas (2013)

310/3/2014

Neoliberalism, Responsibilisation and Shifting Forms of Crime Prevention

Explore neoliberalism and its impact on crime and criminal justice.

O'Malley (2008)andMuncie (2005)

417/3/2014

Sovereignty, Transnational Crime and the Impact of its Counter­measures

Focus on the extent, nature and impact of transnational crime. Evaluate counter­measures used to combat transnational crime.

McCulloch (2007)and Pickering (2004)

524/3/2014 Law and Order Trends Discuss police paramilitarisation and law and order politics.

Kraska (2007)andHogg and Brown (1996)

631/3/2014

Corporate Crime and Crimes against the Environment

Consider the different state responses to coroporate and environmental crimes.

White (2005)andFriedrichs (2007)

77/4/2014

Crime, Space and Social Exclusion

Discuss the nature of crime in the context of city­space and the exclusionary practices which are often a bi­product of state crime­prevention policy.

Young (1999)andMartin (2011)

ASSESSMENT 1: Research Exercise due 5:00pm on Friday 11 April, 2014. Submit via Turnitin.

814/4/2014 SESSION BREAK NO LECTURES OR TUTORIALS

921/4/2014

State Crimes, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

Focus on nation­states as violators of human rights in an international framework.

Grewcock (2008)andGreen and Ward (2004)

1028/4/2014

Torture and Detention Without Trial

Consider the use of torture in an international context. Describe the nature and impact of global prison trends and the movement towards indefinite detention of prisoners.

Stanley (2008)andPratt (1995)

115/5/2014

Privatisation and the Growth of Criminal Justice

Explore the contemporary trend towards the privatisation of policing and prisons.

Pratt (2008)andLoader (2000)

1212/5/2014

Terrorism and Counter­terrorism

Explore the 'war on terror' and discuss what it has meant for the nation­state and criminal justice agencies. Can you see the emergence of any particular ideologies in state­responses? What agenda might rest behind their emergence?

Michaelson (2012)andMcCulloch and Pickering (2009)

1319/5/2014

Global Criminal Justice Administration

Consider the role and function of the International Criminal Court and War Crime Tribunal and their effectiveness.

Findlay (2008)and Kwon (2007)

1426/5/2014 No Lecture No Tutorials

ASSESSMENT 2: Research Essay due 5pm Monday 26 May, 2014. Submit via Turnitin.

152/6/2014 STUVAC Student exam study vacation

16­189/6/2014 FORMAL EXAMINATION PERIOD

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SECTION ONE: Unit Information

Unit Number 102037

Unit Name 102037­Perspectives in Criminology

Unit Coordinator Phillip Wadds

Credit Points 10

Session Autumn 2014

Key ContactsContemporary criminological knowledge typically concerns explanations of offending, victimisation, prevention and safety, but debates about these matters also reflect unequal power, social division and exclusion. The unit will focus on the criminological concern with individual offenders and the implications of this for responses to crimes including those of the powerful. Additionally, it will analyse the impacts of the blurred lines between the public and private, the national and global, citizens and aliens, as well as evidence about the expansion of more intensive forms of policing and surveillance in contemporary societies.

Consultation Teaching staff:Lecturer: Dr. Phillip WaddsTutors: Dr. Phillip WaddsBridget MottramChris JoyceContact and Consultation: Student consultation is by appointment via email with Dr. Phillip WaddsLocation: Bankstown Campus (room 1.G.35)Email: [email protected]

ImprovementsPlease note that your feedback is important – you will have an opportunity to help us improve this subject by providing feedback at the end of the semester.

Requirements

Delivery The unit is delivered by means of:

Lecture: 1 hour per week online (except for week 1)Tutorial: 1 hour per week face­to­faceOnline Activity: 1 hour per week

AttendanceStudents are expected to watch all online lectures and attend all tutorials, to have completed all readings and required activities prior to class, and to participate actively in all tutorial activities,. Failure to do so may seriously undermine a student’s ability to complete the unit satisfactorily. Attendance records may be consulted in the assessment of any requests for extensions or Special Consideration. You should advise the Unit Coordinator or your tutor if you are unable to attend a tutorial due to illness or misadventure.

A professional standard of behaviour is required at all times in tutorials.

This unit is worth 10 credit points, indicating that success in the unit requires at least 10 hours work per week. Three hours will be lecture/tutorial time and the remaining 7 hours should be devoted to reading and study, assessment preparation, and revision.

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Textbook Given the breadth of content in this unit, no single text will be used this semester. Instead, a list of readings will be provided on vUWS.

Readings

Other ResourcesAdditional Readings:

Agamben, G. (1998) ‘The logic of sovereignty’, in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 4­46.

Brown, D. (2008) ‘Giving Voice: The prisoner and discursive citizenship’, in T. Anthony and C. Cunneen (eds), The Critical Criminology Companion, Leichhardt: Hawkins Press, pp 228­239.

Christie, N. (2000) ‘Dangerous States’, in M. Brown and J. Pratt (eds) Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and social order. London, Routledge.

Cohen, S. (2006) ‘State Crimes of Previous Regimes: Knowledge, Accountability, and the Policing of the Past’, Law and Social Inquiry, 20(1): pp. 7­50.

Findlay, M. (1999) The Globalisation of Crime. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Foucalt, M. (2003) ‘Security, territory and population’, in P. Rainbow and N. Rose (eds) The Essential Foucault. New York, The New Press, pp. 259­261.

Foucault, M. (2003) ‘Confronting Governments: Human Rights’, P. Rainbow and N. Rose (eds) The Essential Foucault. New York, The New Press, pp.64­65.

Garland, D. (1996) ‘The Limits of the Sovereign State: Strategies of crime control in contemporary society, British Journal of Criminology, 36(4), pp. 445­471.

Lister, S. (2008) ‘Painting the Town Blue: The pluralisation of policing’, Criminal Justice Matters, 63(1): pp. 22­23.

Hills, S., and Berger, R. (2009) ‘A paramilitary policing juggernaught’, Social Justice,36(1): pp. 25­40.

Hubbard, P. ‘Fear and loathing at the multiplex: everyday anxiety in the post­industrial city’, Capital and Class, 27: pp. 51­7.

Massari, M. (2003) ‘Transnational organised crime between myth and reality­ the social construction of threat’, in F. Allum and R. Siebert (eds) Organised Crime and the Challenge of Democracy. New York, Routledge, pp. 112­126.

Michalowski, R. (2009) ‘Power, crime and criminology in the new imperial age’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 51(3­4), pp. 303­325.

McCulloch, J and Tham, J. (2005) ‘Secret State, transparent subject: The Australian security intelligence organisation in the age of terror’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(3):pp. 400­415.

Sudbury, J. (2000) ‘Transatlantic visions: Resisting the globalisation of mass incarceration’, Social Justice, 27(3): pp. 133­149.

Wood, J., and Kempa, M. (2005) ‘Understanding global trends in policing: explanatory and normative dimensions’, in J. Sheptycki and A Wardak (eds),

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Transnational and Comparative Criminology. London, Glasshouse, pp. 287­316.

Zedner, L. (2003) ‘Too much security’,International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 31 (3): pp. 155­184.

ReferencingThe referencing requirement for units in Social Science is the Harvard style. Full details on the Harvard style of referencing can be found at: http://library.uws.edu.au/FILES/cite_Harvard.pdf

Unit Number 102037

102037 Section 2 >>>

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SECTION TWO: Assessment Information

Course Outcomes Click on this link to see the course­level learning outcomes (or graduate attributes) you need to have attained when you graduate: http://tinyurl.com/ssapclo 

Unit Outcomes After successful completion of this Unit, students will be able to: 

1. Apply a critical understanding of the recent perspectives in criminology to related debates about power and exclusion;

2. Demonstrate knowledge of white collar, corporate/transnational, state crime and crimes against nature/the environment;

3. Describe and use different theoretical models of understanding state power and criminal justice.

Unit to Course This unit and its unit outcomes relate to the learning outcomes of the course as shown in the relevant Table of the Course Outcomes link above. 

Assessment Assessment Overview: Assessment Worth Length Outcomes Threshold

1   Research Exercise 40% 1,000 words 1, 2  No

 2 Research Essay 60% 2,000 words 1, 2,3 No

Unit Code 102037

Assessment 1 >>>

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ASSESSMENT ONE

A1 Assessment RESEARCH Exercise (1,000 Words) Worth: 40% 

A1 Due BEFORE Friday 11 April, 2014, 5:00 PM 

A1 SubmissionSubmission:

This assignment is to be submitted and will be returned via the Turnitin link on vUWS. There is no hardcopy submission.

Late Penalty:

If the assignment is submitted (without an approved extension) after the due date and time, it will attract a late penalty of 10% per day (including weekends) up  to a maximum of 10 days, at which time the penalty will be 100% of what the assignment is worth. Assessments will not be accepted after the marked assessment task has been returned to students who submitted the task on time.  Also see section on Extension, Special Consideration, and late assignment penalties in attached Social Science Student Resources document.

Is assessment compulsory?

Yes, you must complete this assessment in order to be eligible to pass the unit (as explained in Section 5) regardless of the aggregate mark you achieve across assessments.

A1 Description  Select one of the following recent crime issues and answer the related question.

1. Alcohol­related violence and one­punch killings 

a) How can public debate and political action relating to these offences be seen as related to neoliberal ideology? Discuss in relation to concepts of risk and responsibilisation.  

2. International people smuggling

a) How can this issue be seen as related to processes of globalisation? Discuss in relation to permeability of national borders and contemporary anxieties about national identity.

References / Readings: 

• Please note that for this assignment you are required to cite at least 6 academic references. Note: Wikipedia, lecture notes and media articles are NOT academic references. If you do use media articles, these will be considered in addition to your required references.

• Students are strongly encouraged to extend their research to additional readings. Please visit the library website for literacy resources. 

• Assessment guidance will be provided in tutorials.  

A1 CriteriaMarking rubric, standards & criteria

Your work will be marked according to the following criteria: 

• Your ability to address the essay question;  • The clarity and sophistication of argument;  • Evidence of having read and understood relevant literature;  • Evidence of critical thinking and engagement with theory;  • Ability to write clearly and reference appropriately to university standards. 

Style & Presentation – Some Dos and Don’ts

1. ESSAY PREPARATIONS AND RESEARCH:

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• You need to relate your essay to the specific topic provided in this Guide. You cannot create your own topic. It is essential that you read the instructions for your assignment. 

• You are expected to have basic knowledge about how to do academic research (both online and in the Library). If you would like help, or are unsure about how to research academic material, please ask either your unit coordinator or tutor for help. If you do require help, please ensure that you that approach your teaching staff well before the assignment due date.

• Wikipedia is not an academic source!  • Make sure you follow the Harvard referencing style guide from the UWS Library website.• Preparation is key to good writing. The more time you spend mapping out your assignment, 

the more likely it is that you will produce a coherent and convincing argument.

2. ESSAY STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND PRESENTATION:

• Your essay should be 1.5 or double spaced.• Your assignment should be sufficiently titled so as to indicate the question you have selected.• Your reference list must be included at the end of your essay. Failure to include a reference 

list can result in an automatic failure and can constitute serious academic misconduct.• Avoid overly long sentences and . Simple is better.

3. BEFORE SUBMISSION:

• You need to read your essay prior to submission. If it doesn’t make sense to you, it won’t make sense to your marker either. 

•  RUN A SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECK.• Make sure all your references are fully and properly acknowledged (including page numbers 

for direct quotations).

For more guidance, please see the Assignment Writing Guide in the Assessments tab on vUWS.

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ASSESSMENT TWO

A2 Assessment RESEARCH Essay (2,000 Words) Worth: 60% 

A2 Due BEFORE Monday 26 May, 2014, 5:00 PM 

A2 SubmissionSubmission:

This assignment is to be submitted and will be returned via the Turnitin link on vUWS. There is no hardcopy submission.

Late Penalty:

If the assignment is submitted (without an approved extension) after the due date and time, it will attract a late penalty of 10% per day (including weekends) up  to a maximum of 10 days, at which time the penalty will be 100% of what the assignment is worth. Assessments will not be accepted after the marked assessment task has been returned to students who submitted the task on time.  Also see section on Extension, Special Consideration, and late assignment penalties in attached Social Science Student Resources document.

Is assessment compulsory?

Yes, you must complete this assessment in order to be eligible to pass the unit (as explained in Section 5) regardless of the aggregate mark you achieve across assessments.

A2 Description

Write an essay answering one of the following questions:

1. Citing examples, discuss the relationship between neoliberal ideology and corporate crime.

2. Discuss recent public concern surrounding outlaw motorcycle gangs in relation to law and order politics? Has a ‘law and order commonsense’ been produced in public and media discourse? How and to what effect?

3. Discuss how the process of privatisation can be seen as related to risk, fear and insecurity using the example of the growth of the private security industry.

4. The International Criminal Court receives criticism for being unable to fulfil its mandate. Critically discuss the contradictions that its goal of “global justice” raises in relation to issues of sovereignty.  

• Please note that for this assignment you are required to cite at least 10 academic references. Note: Wikipedia, lecture notes and media articles are NOT academic references. If you do use media articles, these will be considered in addition to your required references.

• Students are strongly encouraged to extend their research to additional readings. Please visit the library website for literacy resources. 

• Assessment guidance will be provided in tutorials.   

A2 CriteriaMarking Rubric, standards and criteria:

Your work will be marked according to the following criteria:

• Your ability to address the essay question;  • The clarity and sophistication of argument; • Evidence of having read and understood relevant literature; • Evidence of critical thinking and engagement with theory; • Ability to write clearly and reference appropriately to university standards. 

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Style & Presentation – Some Dos and Don’ts

Same as for your Assessment 1 – please see the section above.

Please note:

Final marks and grades are subject to confirmation by the School and College Assessment Committee which may scale, modify or otherwise amend the marks and grades for the unit, as may be required by University policies.

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ASSESSMENT FOUR

Section 3 SECTION THREE: Teaching and Learning Activities

For your convenience the Learning and Teaching Schedule is on the second page of the Learning Guide.

Section 4 SECTION FOUR: Learning Resources

For your convenience the following are listed in Section 1 with other Unit Information:• Textbook• Readings• Any additional resources• Referencing requirements.

Literacy

Section 5 SECTION FIVE: Expectations of You, and By You

See SSAPguide for:• Expectations of students• Expectations of UWS staff• Raising concerns • Links to key policies.

Unit Number 102037

102037

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School of Social Sciences and Psychology (SSAP)

SSAPguide The companion to all unit Learning Guides

SECTION 1 SOURCES OF INFORMATION

1.1 vUWS 1.2 UWS Website 1.3 UWS Policies 1.4 School Hub Sites

SECTION 2 COMMUNICATING WITH THE SCHOOL

2.1 Email 2.2 Offices 2.3 School Website 2.4 Facebook

SECTION 3 MANAGING UNITS AND GETTING HELP

3.1 Tutorial Registration 3.2 Unit Workload 3.3 Getting Help 3.4 Feedback - Student feedback on units

SECTION 4 ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR UNITS

4.1 Assessment - General School procedures 4.2 Submission - Submitting assignments 4.3 Cover Sheet - Cover Sheet for Hard Copy submission 4.4 Extensions - Extensions on assessment due dates 4.5 Late Penalty - Penalites for late submission of assessment without extension 4.6 Return - Procedures for return of assignments 4.7 Re-marking - Procedure for re-marking an assessment item

SECTION 5 ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING

5.1 Definition 5.2 Copying - Direct copying of material is plagiarism unless properly quoted 5.3 Other examples of plagiarism

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SECTION 1 SOURCES OF INFORMATION

1.1 vUWS Your unit vUWs site is accessed from this link: https://vuws.uws.edu.au/

All the information necessary for successful completion of units in the School is to be found in the vUWS site for each unit, starting with:

• the Learning Guide and any attachments to the Learning Guide• a copy of this SSAPguide, which is part of the Learning Guide for each unit

Further information on vUWS can be found on the Current Students webpage (see section 1.2).

1.2 UWS Website The UWS Web Site Student Page is at this link: http://www.uws.edu.au/uws_students

This takes you to the UWS Students page – make sure you explore all the drop down menus so you are aware of all the services and support available to you, and all the things you are required to know about as a student.

1.3 UWS Policies The UWS Policies that are most relevant for students are at this link: http://policies.uws.edu.au/students.php

They include:   

• Admissions Policy • Advanced Standing Policy • Assessment Policy ­ Criteria and Standards­Based Assessment • Complaint Handling and Resolution Policy • Course Transfer Policy Enrolment Policy • Examinations Policy • Library Loans Policy• Misconduct ­ Student Academic Misconduct Policy • Misconduct – Student Non­Academic Misconduct Policy• Progression and Unsatisfactory Academic Progress Policy • Review of Grade Policy • Special Consideration Policy • Student Code of Conduct• Teaching and Learning ­ Fundamental Code 

1.4 School Hub Sites In addition to vUWS sites for all units, the School of Social Sciences and Psychology provides student hub sites on vUWS for all students. 

The hub sites have lots of information about studying psychology or social science disciples at UWS, including information on course structures, and frequently asked questions. 

You will gain access to this site automatically when you are enrolled in a psychology or social sciences unit. If you don't have access to the site but believe you should, email the vUWS helpdesk  ([email protected]).

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SECTION 2 COMMUNICATING WITH THE SCHOOL

2.1 Email  The email contact for all matters to do with the administration of your course or units is:  [email protected]

(Note: Please advise us if you find any errors or broken links in this SSAPguide)

2.2 Offices School Reception offices for all matters to do with your course or units

Bankstown 9:00am – 5:00pm weekdays 

• Ground Floor Foyer of Building 24 • Telephone: 9772 6491

Penrith, Kingswood 9:00am ­ 5:00pm weekdays

• Ground Floor Foyer of Building P  •  Telephone: 4736 0196 

2.3 School Website  Information specific to the School is found at the School Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/ssap

2.4 Facebook   The School also runs Facebook pages that are updated regularly with information. 

• Psychology Facebook https://www.facebook.com/psych.uws• Social sciences Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/SocialSciencesUws

SECTION 3 MANAGING UNITS AND GETTING HELP

3.1 Tutorial Registration For all units (unless advised otherwise) you must register for a tutorial in Platform Web and must attend the tutorial for which you are registered.  There will be no deviation from this policy.  Students who are not registered for a tutorial cannot attend tutorials. 

All enquiries about tutorial registrations should go to the email or contact addresses in Section 2.1, in the first instance.

3.2 Unit Workload A unit's workload is indicated by its credit point value. One credit point equates to 1­hour of required study per week over 15 weeks (i.e., 15 hours per semester). 

Most units are worth 10 credit points, indicating that success in the unit requires an average of 10 hours per week of study or 150 hours in total over the course of a semester. In addition to the hours required for lectures and tutorial, much of this time is student self­directed study to read and study textbooks and other materials, prepare for and complete assessments, and revise for examinations.

A unit worth 20 credit points, for example, would require double this workload (20­credit­point units are usually yearlong.).

Students completing summer session units or any with irregular timetables need to plan how they will accommodate the 150 hours over a different timeframe.

Individual differences:The workload guidelines are tailored to the “average” student, but we are all different, and work at different speeds. If you are lucky and can read and absorb material quickly, you may be able to achieve success in less time. If you need more time to read and absorb material – and there is nothing wrong with this – you may need to allocate more time to your units. Each student needs to make their own assessment of how they work and how much time they will need to devote to study. 

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Consult the University Counselling Service if you need help in making this assessment, or if you feel you need help to develop better study habits or better time management skills. Effective time management is critical to success at University or anywhere – especially as everything in life, not just at University, moves more and more online. 

The convenience of material online can be a trap, as it can be too easy to put things off until later, not to mention how easy it is to become distracted by other things online. Control of your online activity and of technology generally (e.g., texting, tweeting etc.) is vital to time management, and to your mental wellbeing.

3.3 Getting Help If you require help with a unit, please ensure you have first met your responsibilities by following the steps and guidelines below:

Step 1: Read this SSAPguide, the Unit Learning Guide, and any attachments very carefully to see if the help youneed is already provided.Step 2: Check the unit vUWS site for the information you need. Step 3: Direct your enquiry to [email protected] or contact the School as explained in Section 2.1 

We expect you to have searched for answers to any administrative questions as explained in Step 1, before contacting any member of staff. Staff may not respond to emails, questions, or requests for help where answers are readily obtainable in the Learning Guides, or through links provided to other sources of information.For advice regarding unit content, consult your tutor during class time, or consult with the Unit Coordinator as per their Consultation details. Students are expected to be adequately prepared when they seek advice from teaching staff, having done sufficient background work themselves, and with clear questions rather than vague requests about what to do.

It is very important (especially for first year students) that in the first week of semester you set sufficient time aside to read your Learning Guides fully and carefully. You need to ensure you are completely familiar with the requirements of your units and all the support services and sources of information available to you.

You must also be aware of the key UWS policies and information affecting students (see Section 1.3).

First year Students:

First year students experiencing difficulties, or needing assistance or support to adjust to University life, should consult with the First Year Advisor. 

Make sure you are an informed adult­learner:

If you are a new student coming straight from school, please understand that being a university student is verydifferent to being a school student. Your first day at University is the start of your professional career where you take responsibility for yourself as a professional adult learner. 

To give yourself the best chance of having a satisfying University experience, and to maximise your prospects for success, you need to take control of your own learning. This means ensuring you are as informed as possible at all times and not reliant on asking for help from others ­ except, of course, when you have exhausted all other options.

3.4 Feedback Student feedback on units is important for improving the quality and educational effectiveness of UWS units, and in ensuring academic staff keep in touch with the student experience. At the end of each semester you have the opportunity to complete an online Student Feedback on Units (SFU) questionnaire to provide your evaluation of each unit. 

Lecturers or tutors may also elect to distribute a Student Feedback on Teaching (SFT) questionnaire to obtain feedback, not on the unit itself, but on your experience of the staff member’s actual teaching of the unit.

It is important to provide constructive feedback, and to make considered comments, rather than just venting any frustrations you might have.Unit Learning Guides list recent changes made to units in response to student feedback.

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SECTION 4 ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR UNITS

4.1 Assessment  These requirements apply to all units taught in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, unless a variation in specified in the Unit Learning Guide:

• All the assessment items in a unit are compulsory and must be completed before you are eligible to pass the unit, regardless of how many marks you accumulate. In addition, to pass units, you must obtain a minimum overall mark of 50%, aggregated across all weighted assessments.

• There is no resubmission of assessments in the School.• Final marks and grades are subject to confirmation by the School Assessment Committee which may 

scale, modify, or otherwise amend the marks and grades for the unit, as may be required by University policies. This only applies when there is evidence of a highly distorted distribution of grades (i.e., exceptional number of extremely high or extremely low marks) due to some anomaly. 

4.2 Submission Submission requirements for assessments are detailed in the Learning Guide for Each Unit. Electronic submission using Turnitin will apply unless otherwise specified in the Learning Guide.

What is Turnitin and what does it do?

Turnitin is a tool to help you avoid inadvertent plagiarism, and to help us detect instances of plagiarism. However, before you begin to write an assignment, make sure you have read the next section on Academic Misconduct: Plagiarism and Cheating.Turnitin compares your work against publicly accessible internet sites, journal databases, and all other student papers that have been submitted to the system from around the world. You will be able to view a report showing the text that has been matched in your document and the source that it matches. As a result of this you may need to check your referencing of materials, paraphrase what you have written, and/or research more widely for additional sources of information.

Turnitin is not the only source of information that we can use to check for plagiarism. For example, one of the suggested references for your assignment may not be part of the database that Turnitin uses to check for text matches. If you chose to copy sections of text from that reference, Turnitin would not necessarily detect the plagiarism and you would pass its check. However, your markers will be aware of that reference, and you will be penalised for plagiarism. We provide Turnitin simply as a tool to assist you in avoiding plagiarism, but you must still learn what plagiarism is and take responsibility for avoiding it by referencing correctly. 

Instructions for Submitting Your Assignment Through Turnitin

• You may submit as many versions as you would like until the due date and time of the assignment. At that time, the most recent version that you submitted will be taken as your final assignment.

• Email submissions will not be accepted other than by prior arrangement with the Unit Coordinator, or under the specific circumstances listed below.

• You must submit your file using the “file upload” method (do not use the cut­and­paste method). Your submission should consist of a single file in Microsoft Word or Rich Text (rtf) fformat. 

• Especially if new to Turnitin, follow the instructions provided on the UWS Libary Page:  http://library.uws.edu.au/uws_library/guides/turnitin, making sure to access the Student Instructional Guide PDF from the link on this page. 

• IMPORTANT: When you submit an assignment to Turnitin be aware that you are also making the electronic declaration below.

Electronic Declaration

When you submit electronically through Turnitin , an assignment Cover Sheet (see next Section)  is notrequired, however, BE AWARE that by submitting your assignment to Turnitin you will be certifying that:

• I hold a copy of this assignment if the original is lost or damaged;• No part of this assignment has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source 

except where due acknowledgement is made in the assignment;• No part of the assignment has been written for me by any other person;

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• I have complied with the specified word length for this assignment;• I am aware that this work may be reproduced and submitted to plagiarism detection software 

programs for the purpose of detecting possible plagiarism (which may retain a copy on its database for future plagiarism checking).

4.3 Cover Sheet A Cover Sheet is Required for any HARD COPY Assignment Submission

Should your unit require submisssion in hard copy form, the assignment MUST be accompanied by a signedAssignment Cover Sheet. Cover sheets can be found as attachments to your unit’s Learning Guide. For each hard­copy assignment, print out a copy of the completed Assignment Cover Sheet and staple it firmly to the front of your assignment.

Please ensure you have filled in ALL fields on the Cover Sheet, especially your name!!You MUST also sign the DECLARATION and tick all the declaration boxes, as per the example below.

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4.4 Extensions Forms to apply for an Extension on the due date of an assessment (or for Special Consideration) are located onthe Student Administration forms webpage: http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/student/forms/ under the Assessment heading.A student may apply for an extension of the due date for an assessment task if extenuating circumstances outside their control, and sufficiently grave in nature or duration, cause significant disruption to their capacity to study effectively. To apply, complete the Extension Request Form and submit it, with supporting documentation, to the School of Social Sciences and Psychology email or reception office on your Campus (see Sections 2.1 or 2.2). This form must be lodged no later than 3 working days prior to the due date of the assessment task. After that, you must apply for Special Consideration.An application for an extension does not automatically mean that an extension will be approved.Extensions cannot be granted past the date that a marked assessment task has been returned to students whosubmitted the task on time.

Special Consideration

Applications for Special Consideration to request accommodations in the nature or date of submission of a specific assessment task must now be completed online through your MyUWS account. An application for Special Consideration does not automatically mean that it will be granted. Furthermore, there may be misconceptions that if Special Consideration is granted a student will have marks added to assessed work, or will automatically pass a unit. This is absolutely not the case in in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. The only options available are:

• extensions on the due date of assessments or accommodations in things such as attendance, • completion of an alternative assessment (including supplementary exams), or • no action – if there is no clear evidence that the student's adverse circumstances warrant special

consideration.

Full details on Special Consideration can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/SpecialConsideration

4.5 Late Penalty Except where an extension has been approved for the submission of an assessment task by the unit coordinator, or in line with the University's Special Consideration Policy (see http://policies.uws.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00205) a student who submits an assessment task after the due date for submission will be penalised by 10% of the assignment’s worth per calendar day for up up to ten days (i.e., marks equal to 10% of the assignment's worth will be deducted as a 'flat rate' from the mark awarded for each calendar day the assignment is late for up to ten calendar days, at which point the penalty will equal 100% of the assignment’s worth). Saturday and Sunday each count as one calendar day.

The assignment's worth is the weighting for assessment item, not the mark you would otherwise have received. For example, if an assessment is weighted at 30%, and your mark for it is 15/30, a 1­day late penalty of 10% would be 3 marks not 1.5 marks, and your final mark for the assessment with the late penalty would be12/30

Late assignments cannot be accepted for marking after the marked assessment task has been returned to students who submitted the task on time. However, many units require assessment items to be submitted in order for you to be eligible to pass the unit, in which case you may need to submit a late assignment after this date even though it will not be marked.

4.6 Return Please check your unit Learning Guide for confirmation on the assignment return procedure.

Electronic submission: Normally your assignment will be returned with comments, electronically through vUWS.

Hard copy submission: Your tutor/lecturer will return assignments in class once all assignments have been marked. If there are no classes (in the case of an end of session assignment or a unit taught in an online format), the lecturer or tutor will give the class a time and venue when the assignments can be collected.

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If you do not collect your assignment at this time, an appropriately sized, self­addressed, stamped envelope can be attached to your assignment upon handing it in (or made available to us later), and your marked assignment will be returned to you by post. Otherwise, uncollected assignments will be kept for 3 months and then destroyed.

4.7 Re­marking Assessment iems are not normally re­marked for units in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. Students will be provided with criteria and standards for each assessment task prior to the task being undertaken. Upon receipt of their marked assessment task, it should be clear to the student, based on their performance against the assessment criteria and standards, why they achieved the mark/grade given, and how they could have achieved a better mark/grade. If a student does not receive a passing mark for an assessment task and wishes to discuss their result with the Unit Coordinator, the student should review the quality of their responses against the assessment criteria and standards prior to arranging a meeting with the Unit Coordinator. Normally, a meeting with the Unit Coordinator should take place no later than one week after the marked assessment task is available for collection by the student.

• If, at the end of the meeting with the student, the Unit Coordinator agrees that one or more of the student's responses to the assessment criteria and standards require re­marking, the re­marking will be undertaken by the unit coordinator or similar level academic. The student must accept the revised mark whether it is higher or lower than the original mark.

• If, at the end of the consultation, the Unit Coordinator does not agree that a re­mark is justified the student will be advised that the assessment task will not be re­marked. No further action will be taken, the original mark will stand and the work will be returned.

SECTION 5 ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING

5.1 Definition The School of Social Sciences and Psychology has a zero­tolerance policy when it comes to inappropriate referencing and Academic Misconduct (i.e., plagiarism, cheating etc.).

Appropriate referencing is a criterion for all assessments, and all instances of inappropriate referencing, whether deliberate or inadvertent, will result in a loss of marks, and may come within the scope of the university’s Academic Misconduct Policy.

For the full definition of academic misconduct and the consequences of such behaviour, see the full Academic Misconduct policy: http://policies.uws.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00051The following is an extract from this policy, as downloaded on 2/10/2013. Always be sure to check the actual policy in case there have been changes since this date.Note that in respect to sections 8e and 8f, individual work is always required unless the unit Learning Guide specifies otherwise.

Section 2 ­ DefinitionsWhat is Student Academic Misconduct?(6) Student academic misconduct is one or more of the following.

Plagiarism(7) Plagiarism occurs in a student's work when he or she submits work in which ideas, words or other work are taken from a source (for example, a web­site or computer program, another student's essay or presentation, a book or journal article, a lecture, a performance piece or other presentation) and presented as if they are the student's own, without appropriate acknowledgement of the original author. In this definition of plagiarism, it is the act of presenting material as one's own without appropriate acknowledgement that constitutes plagiarism, not the intention of the student when doingso. 'Appropriate acknowledgement' is defined as the conventions of citation recognised as acceptable to the University. [Referencing Styles Policy].

Cheating(8) Cheating in assessment tasks (including examinations, assignments, practicals and tests) includes, but is not limited to:

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a.communicating in an examination, or other test, with other candidates, or bringing into the examination room any textbook, notebook, memorandum, other written material or mechanical device or any other item not authorised by the person who set the examination or the Examinations Supervisor in Charge or other supervisor of a test;

b.using an electronic device (including mobile phones) contrary to the directions of the Examinations Supervisor in Charge and contrary to the Exam rules [Information on Academic Registrar's web page];

c.writing an examination answer, or consulting any person or materials, for an examination answer, outside the confines of the examination room, without permission to do so;

d.attempting to read other students' work in an examination, or, in other circumstances, without their permission;

e.where individual work is required, making available notes, papers or answers related to the content of an examination or assignment (in whatever form) to others, without the permission of the Teacher of the Unit;

f.where individual work is required, receiving answers, notes or papers related to the content of an examination or assignment (in whatever form) from another student, or another source, without the permission of the Teacher of the Unit; and

g.not following the directions of the Examinations Supervisor in Charge including seating location and movement about the examination room.

Collusion

(9) Collusion is when two or more students, or a student and any other person(s), act together to cheat, plagiarise or engage in academic misconduct, or incite others to do so.

Any Other Academic Misconduct

(10) Other academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

a.tampering, or attempting to tamper, with examination scripts, class work, grades or class records;

b.failing to abide by directions of a member of academic staff regarding individual responsibility for the submission of assessable work, including that for any group work submitted;

c.acquiring, or attempting to acquire, possessing, or distributing examination materials or information without the approval of the Teacher of the Unit;

d.impersonating another student, or arranging for anyone to impersonate a student, in an examination or other assessment task;

e.falsifying or fabricating clinical, practical or laboratory reports;

f.altering group assessment work that has been agreed as final by all participating students prior to submission without the collaborating students' consent; and

g.use of taped, recorded or videotaped lectures, tutorials or other classes in a way that infringes another person's privacy or intellectual property rights ­ for example, by publishing or distributing a recording without permission from the Teacher of the Unit.

5.2 Copying Direct copying of material is plagiarism unless properly “quoted”

There is sometimes confusion in that students believe it is acceptable to copy material word­for­word from a source provided that source is referenced. This is still plagiarism unless there is proper referencing to indicate a direct quotation.

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When quoting material word­for­word from any source, quotation marks need to enclose the material, and the reference and page number(s) must be cited immediately after the quotation.

For Psychology units, where APA Referencing Style applies:

Here is an example of a direct quote, and is material copied word for word, from the Publication Manual of theAmerican Psychological Association. Often referred to as the APA Manual, this is the style manual for all writing in psychology:

“If the quotation comprises fewer than 40 words, incorporate it into text and enclose the quotation with double quotation marks. . . . If the quotation comprises 40 or more words, display it in a freestanding block of text and omit the quotation marks” (American Psychological Association, 2010, pp. 170­171).

Note that the 3 dots (. . .) are used to indicate that some of the material from the source has been omitted.

You are strongly advised to read this section of the APA Manual on quoting and paraphrasing.

As with all referencing, the full reference would need to appear in the Reference List at the end of your work, as:American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6thed.). Washington, DC: Author.

For most Social Science discipline units, where the Harvard referencing style applies:

When quoting material word­for­word from any source, quotation marks need to enclose the material, and the reference and page number(s) must be cited. Long quotations of more than 30 words use a “block quotation” format. Refer to the Harvard style guide available in the UWS library at http://library.uws.edu.au/FILES/cite_Harvard.pdf for details on how to quote correctly.

5.3 Other Other examples of plagiarism, as developed by the St James Ethics Centre for the University of Newcastle and adapted by the University of Melbourne, and University of NSW, include:

• direct duplication of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying material, ideas or concepts from a book, article, report or other written document (whether published or unpublished), composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, web site, Internet, other electronic resource, or another person’s assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;

• paraphrasing another person’s work with very minor changes keeping the meaning, form and/or progression of ideas of the original;

• piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;• presenting an assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in

collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor; and• claiming credit for a proportion a work contributed to a group assessment item that is greater than

that actually contributed.

Submitting an assessment item that has already been submitted for academic credit elsewhere may be considered plagiarism.

Knowingly permitting your work to be copied by another student may also be considered to be plagiarism.

Note that an assessment item produced in oral, not written, form, or involving live presentation, may similarly contain plagiarised material. Copying material from the internet is a common form of plagiarism.

Copying from lecture notes or units handouts is also plagiarism if you fail to properly acknowledge the source.

The inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution appropriate to the academic discipline doesnot amount to plagiarism.

See the library resources on correct referencing practices: http://library.uws.edu.au/citing.php

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