Subject Outline

[Policy check: JCU requirements for inclusion in subject outline are at http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/JCUDEV_016745.html]

Study Period 1, 2008

Townsville

[Policy Check: There is a new policy aimed at equivalence across campuses and modes that needs to be checked carefully. Essentially, we must have 80% same content and 80% same assessment for same code subjects - across locations and modes. See http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/coursemanagement/JCUDEV_006896.html and http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/JCUDEV_016741.html (section 9)]

SS1010: Australian People: Indigenous and Anthropological Perspectives

[Insert your subject code and name as in CSDB]

Subject Coordinator:

[Insert name of subject coordinator for SP1 in 2008 as in CSDB]

Prepared by [insert your name] for the School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University.

© Copyright 2008

This publication is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism, or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process or placed in computer memory without written permission.

SS1010: Australian People: Indigenous and Anthropological Perspectives [Insert our code and subject name as in CSDB]

Subject at a Glance

The following summary provides a quick reference to the most important aspects of this subject.

Please make sure that you read all the details of the entire subject outline.

Staff Contact Details [Policy check: Make sure consultation times are also displayed on your office door.]

	Name	Room	Phone	Email	Consultations*
Subject Coordinator
Lecturer
Tutors

• Other consultation times by appointment only.

[You may also wish to indicate times when you will respond to emails, or FAQs on LearnJCU.]

Class Times and Contact Details

In order to succeed at University you should allocate 10 – 12 hours per subject per week, which includes actual contact time as indicated below.

[Please also include here any special attendance requirements. Check class times from complete uni timetable at http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/itr/infosys/ttable/

Mention tutorial class sign-up, including facility for online sign-up, and when sign-up will be available.

Policy check - attendance per se cannot be required (or assessed) unless with specific approval of Head of School - often for professional accreditation purposes. Especially for first year subjects, you might give attention to monitoring attendance. Note that you can assess participation, with clear attention to criteria used.]

	Time	Day	Room
Lectures
Tutorials
Workshops

Assessment Summary [Keep in mind that students are likely to look here first!]

A summary of the assessable items is provided in the table below. Assessment details are presented later in this subject outline.

Assessment	Due date	Weight	Non/Invigilated
1. Assessment 1
2. Assessment 2
3. Assessment 3

[Give a brief description of each Assignment task, eg. Group poster; Annotated bibliography; Workshop participation; Critical essay; Fieldwork report; Short answer and essay examination.

Generally speaking, 2 or 3 pieces of well-designed assessment will allow students to demonstrate learning outcomes for a 3-unit subject. It's really useful to talk with colleagues and check other subject assessment tasks and due dates so that students are not preparing 4 annotated bibliographies for week 3, and 4 group seminars for week 12!

You may also wish to note briefly here any formative assessment eg online review quizzes, chapter summaries etc.

Policy checks: No one piece can be >70%; Group work cannot be >50%. Feedback on performance must be provided to students before census date (4/4/08), so first date has to be early. No test administered by a School and worth >30% can be held in the 3 weeks prior to scheduled exam period.

Non/invigilated: Invigilated to account for at least 50% - be creative here - not just formal exams. Students must achieve at least 40% average over all invigilated assessment to pass.]

Subject Description

[Insert official Subject Description as in CSDB.

You may wish to add comment on how this subject links to other subjects in course, or particular relevance of this subject.]

Subject Learning Outcomes

[Insert as in CSDB. These should be written in the language of outcomes, eg; “Students who successfully complete this subject will:

• identify key issues in contemporary society influencing …

• differentiate between biological and social influences..

• compare theories of explanation for …

• critically analyse …

• produce a report…

• justify a position on…

• contribute to a group seminar arguing…]

Teaching and Learning in this Subject¹

[Here’s your chance to invite and excite students by giving them a taste of the sort of teaching they can expect, and the sorts of learning experiences they will engage in.]

JCU Graduate Attributes Emphasised

[Insert ONLY those JCU graduate attributes that this subject will explicitly develop and assess - as nominated in CSDB. Choose from http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/JCUDEV_007031.html]

Professional Standards / Competencies

[If this subject forms part of a professional preparation course, indicate which professional standards or competencies will be developed and assessed in this subject. Consider providing link for students to check full set of professional standards.]

Subject Resources

[Indicate prescribed readings, (with costs where possible), and further readings. Please check that you are modelling the referencing system you use.

Include library reference codes where possible too.

Mention how you will use LearnJCU as a resource.]

Additional Student Support

Support Needed	Who to Contact
Information for Current Students	www.jcu.edu.au/student/
Accommodation	www.jcu.edu.au/accommodation/
Childcare	www.jcu.edu.au/student/JCUDEV_007404.html
Computers, IT, Library and Email	www.library.jcu.edu.au/InfoHelp/ Nicole Johnston in Tsv, and Bronwen Forster in Cairns
Equity and diversity, including students with disabilities	www.jcu.edu.au/studentequity/; www.jcu.edu.au/office/disability/
Indigenous students	http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/indigenous/indig_support.html
Employment	www.jcu.edu.au/careers/
Enrolment	Faculty Student Office www.jcu.edu.au/flbca/JCUDEV_003755.html
Exams	www.jcu.edu.au/student/assessment/
Financial	Student Loans www.jcu.edu.au/student/Loans/studentloans/
International Student	International Student Centre www.isc.jcu.edu.au/
Personal / Emotional Support	Counselling Service www.jcu.edu.au/student/counselling/
Spiritual Support	Multifaith Chaplaincy Service www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/chapel/
Study Skills / Language Help	Language & Learning Services www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/

Assessment Details

Additional information about all aspects of Teaching and Learning in SASS – especially about assessment – is located on the SASS webpage Teaching and Learning T&L Information for Students.

[Policy Checks: : JCU has lots of policies on assessment requirements. Check the new Assessment Practices Policy in policy library at http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/JCUDEV_016741.html, as well as Principles of Good Assessment - Guidelines for Teaching Staff at http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/JCUDEV_016746.html

For oral presentations, if >20%, you need to provide a means by which re-rank is possible, eg video- or audio-recorded or using two assessors.

If fellow students are assessing, maximum weighting is 10%.

Group assessment tasks cannot be >50%, and are to be assessed by means which allow the real contribution of each member of the group to be determined.

Indicate whether it is necessary to gain a pass in any or every component of assessment in order to gain an overall pass. You need HoS approval to require students to pass any specific item.]

Assessment 1	Subject Outcome/s	Related Content (Readings, learning activities, tutorials, lectures)	Graduate Attribute/s	Professional Competence/s
[Include number of words where relevant]

Due date:

Weighting:

Assessment 2	Subject Outcome/s	Related Content (Readings, learning activities, tutorials, lectures)	Graduate Attribute/s	Professional Competence/s
[Include number of words where relevant]

Due date:

Weighting:

Assessment 3	Subject Outcome/s	Related Content (Readings, learning activities, tutorials, lectures)	Graduate Attribute/s	Professional Competence/s
[Include number of words where relevant]

Due date:

Weighting:

Assessment Criteria

[You need to develop a Criteria Sheet for each Assessment Task]

SS1010: Assignment 1: Group Poster

[Insert Subject Code and Assignment Number and Description as in tables above]

[Policy Check: Provide clear criteria for awarding grades – this means identifying the dimensions of the task, and the standards for each dimension that will be used to judge the quality of the task. The rubric format below is one way to do this efficiently and provide good guides for students and make marking simpler and more reliable. You would simply circle the grade for each criterion. I will have a bank of these rubrics available on the SASS webpage shortly, and will email you to advise when they’re up.]

CONTENT (%)
	HD	D	C	P	N
	HD	D	C	P	N	.
	HD	D	C	P	N
ORGANISATION & PRESENTATION ( %)
	HD	D	C	P	N
	HD	D	C	P	N
WRITING SKILLS & REFERENCING ( %)
[I include the two criteria below as appropriate for a first year subject – helpful for students learning APA academic writing.]	HD	D	C	P	N
APA conventions are diligently followed when citing sources in text	HD	D	C	P	N	Sources not identified in text or are not presented using APA style
The reference list is presented alphabetically, using correct APA syntax	HD	D	C	P	N	The reference list is incomplete, references are poorly constructed or are not sorted alphabetically

Overall Grade: [Indicate how final grade will be determined.]

Comment:

Assessor’s Signature:

Note that no individual result on an assessment task should be taken as an indication of the final grade for this subject. Official subject grades are released after the exam period on scheduled release dates (see http://www.jcu.edu.au/student/studyperiods/JCUDEV_015032.html), through StudentsOnline or eStudent.

Submission and Return of Written Assignments

All written assignments for on-campus students are to be submitted in the appropriate SASS assignment box located in the following:

Townsville: outside Room 241 Floor of the Behavioural Sciences Building DA004

Cairns: outside Room 222A in building A4

Mackay: in the foyer at the Study Centre

You must complete a cover sheet and staple it to your assignment. Cover sheets are available adjacent to the submission boxes, and online at url tba.

The assignment boxes will be cleared at 5.00pm each day.

You should always retain a copy of all assignments submitted.

For more guidelines about assignment presentation, deadlines and extensions, please refer to url tba

[You may also wish students to submit assignments electronically, perhaps through Safe Assignment drop boxes on LearnJCU. You will need to indicate this at this point in the subject outline.

If students can fax or post assignments, you need to indicate this here, along with conditions and arrangements.]

Except under exceptional circumstances, assignments will be distributed in class no later than three weeks after the submission date.

Plagiarism, Referencing and Cheating

Referencing is a systematic way of acknowledging sources used. For a complete guide to the APA referencing style required in this subject, please refer to http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/LibraryGuides/apa.shtml

[Please check carefully if you are not using APA, and include link to the referencing system you use.]

Plagiarism occurs when writers claim ownership of written words or ideas that are not their own. Plagiarism is a form of cheating and any instances of plagiarism will be dealt with promptly according to University procedures. Please check http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/student/rights/JCUDEV_005375.html

Other JCU and School Policies and Guidelines Relevant to this Subject

Important policy information is available for all students at the following websites.

SASS webpage Teaching and Learning T&L Information for Students

and http://www.jcu.edu.au/policy/teaching/teaching/index.htm

Information is provided in relation to the following;

• General guidelines for formatting SASS assignments

• Email etiquette

• Extensions for assessment submission

• Penalties for late submission of assignments

• Assessment grades

• Absence from assessable activities

• Review of assessment (appeals) and student access to scripts and materials

• Accepted standards for documenting sources, ie Referencing

• Information about Exams

• Special Consideration, Supplementary, Deferred and Special Examination Requirements

• Assessment Practices Policy

Subject and Teaching Evaluations

Student feedback is one way of gaining recognition of subject and teaching strengths, and provides information on areas that may need further development or change. JCU provides two formal mechanisms for you to provide feedback about your subjects and instructors: Student Feedback about Teaching (SFT) and Student Feedback about Subjects (SFS). The SFT is paper-based, and is conducted at the request of your lecturer or tutor and usually occurs in the latter weeks of semester. The SFS is available to all students through StudentsOnline towards the end of each study period. You can view a sample of the SFS at www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/teacheval/SFSexample.htm. SASS staff value and appreciate student feedback as a source of evidence about the quality of our teaching and courses so you are strongly encouraged to provide considered feedback for each of your subjects.

Subject calendar

Week /Date	Lectures	Tutorials	Readings / Preparation
1	March 3
2	March 10
3	March 17 (Easter Friday 21)
4	March 24 (Easter Monday 24)
5	March 31
6	April 7
7	April 14
8	April 21 (Anzac Day Friday 25)
	April 28		LECTURE RECESS
9	May 5 (Labour Day Monday 5)
10	May 12
11	May 19
12	May 26
13	June 2

The sequence of some topics may change due to availability of staff, resources or due to unforeseen circumstances