Faculty of Arts

School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication

History of Media and

Communication BCM301
Subject Outline: Spring 2009
Credit Points 8
Pre-requisites 36 credit points at 100 level
Face to Face teaching hours

Subject Coordinator Chris Moore

phone 4221 5459
e-mail chrism@uow.edu.au
office 19/2018
consultation times Friday 9am -12pm by email appointment

Seminar: Tuesday 15:30-17:30

Location: 67-104
Tutorials: 17:30- 18:30
Locations: 19-1002 ,41-202 ,19-2003

Tutor Colin Salter

phone 4221 4540
e-mail csalter@uow.edu.au
office 1069
consultation times Tuesday 5.30pm-6.30pm

for Arts Enquiries staff contact details

Arts Central timetable
room 19.1050 assignment coversheets
Monday–Friday, 8.30am–5.30pm handbooks
phone 4221 5328 assignment submission
www.uow.edu.au/arts administrative forms
fac_arts@uow.edu.au general information

NB: Arts Central is closed Tuesdays 10am-11am for a team meeting

Spring Session 2009

BCM301 Subject Schedule – Please note: Faculty of Arts semesters runs with 13
weeks lectures and 12 weeks tutorials/seminars
Week Week Beginning Lecture Tutorial

1 27 July Introduction No Tutorials Week 1

2 3 August Assumptions of History Guest Dr Kate Bowles

3 10 August History 2.0 Guest Dr Kate Bowles

4 17 August User-Generated Histories

Annotated Bibliography
5 24 August Tag You're It due Tuesday August 25,
by 3pm.

6 31 August Googleolopy?

Uncovered: Storming the

7 7 September
Museum
The Public Domain: pirates and
8 14 September
plundering the past
Music History: The Amen Guest Dr Andrew
9 21 September
Breakbeat Whelan

28 September MID SESSION RECESS

Punks, Pranks, Freaks and

10 6 October
Geeks

Commons: past, present and

11 12 October
future
Open Publishing, History 2.0
12 19 October Guest Dr Colin Salter
and Click-through activism
Presentation of
13 26 October Conclusion Collaborative History
Projects in class.
Collaborative History
14 2 November STUDY RECESS Project individual report
due Monday by 4pm.
15 7 November EXAM PERIOD
Public Holidays during session: NB: No classes are run on public holidays
Monday 5th October – Labour
Day

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Subject Description

Through a study of user-generated cultures, this subject traces the influence of media and communication
forms throughout history: from orality and print culture, to music, the screen and the web. The subject
examines communication technologies and media practices from present, past and the near future.
Uncovering the practices and trends of regulation, preservation and disposal of media and communication
technologies is central to the critical approach developed. The subject concludes with a comprehensive
and nuanced understanding our contemporary digital media culture from the context of historical
antecedents.

Class Contact Details

Formal class times and locations are available from the University’s home page Please note that
tutorial times on the timetable are provisional.
Modes of delivery: the three hour face-to-face session scheduled will involve lecture content,
1hr tutorial and practical exercises and review sessions.
Contact details for the subject co-ordinator can be found on the title page. Contact details for any
other staff teaching the subject will be announced in Week 1.
Consultation times will be announced in Week 1.
Students should have enrolled in tutorials via SOLS before the start of session.
Those with time tabling difficulties should see the Subject Co-ordinator.

Subject Requirements
Attendance requirements:
This subject requires an 80% attendance at all classes unless this is unavoidable on medical or
compassionate grounds and evidence of this is provided through SOLS. Attendance that falls below the
80% requirement, irrespective of the cause, may require you to complete additional written work to
complete the subject. If in doubt, consult either the subject co-ordinator or your tutor.
Completing the subject: To pass this subject you must meet the attendance requirements and
students are required to complete all assessment tasks.

Failure to meet these requirements can lead to a technical fail in the subject.

Textbook and Subject Reader Information

The readings for the subject are available via access to online journals through the library
database and some will be made available via e-readings. Further reading suggestions will be
made available during the course, in lectures, tutorials and other online resources. The
recommended readings are not intended as an exhaustive list – students should use the Library
catalogue and databases to locate additional resources.

Learning Outcomes / Graduate Qualities

As part of the core Bachelor of Media and Communication Studies program, this subject continues
to prepare graduates for an informed engagement within the field of media and communication
with an emphasis on the continued development of practical and critical skills relevant to the
fields of Communications, Media, Advertising and Journalism.

Overall objectives of the course include:

1. On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to understand and critically
analyse media and communication technologies and practices through history.
2. Engage with the concept of user-generated history and understand the debates surrounding the
implications of previous media and communication technology and theory.

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3. To identify the traditional and institutional modes for the regulation of media and
communication and critically analyse their transformation on contact with new technologies and
practices of use.

4. To recognise and communicate the economic, cultural and political involvement in the concept
of history and how this is reconfigured by the principles of participation supported by new media
and communication technologies.

5. To encourage students to explore the use of media and communication technologies in

reinterpreting and reimagining the concept of history and develop an appreciation for the role of
history in the development of new media.

Faculty Graduate Qualities

Informed - Have a sound knowledge of an area of a disciplinary study or interdisciplinary area of study
offered by the Faculty of Arts through its majors with an understanding of its current issues, their contexts
and developments over time.
Independent Learners - Engage with new ideas and ways of thinking, enquiry and critical analysis of
issues and research through a sequence of subjects that culminates in the ability to reflect broadly on their
field of study. Acknowledge the work and ideas of others.
Problem Solvers - Take on challenges and apply the relevant skills required to respond effectively to the
central issues raised. Be flexible, thorough and innovative and aim for high standards.
Effective Communicators - Articulate ideas and convey them effectively using a variety of modes.
Engage collaboratively with people in different settings. Recognise how culture can shape communication.
Responsible - Understand how decisions can affect others, and make ethically informed choices.
Appreciate and respect diversity. Act with integrity as part of local, national, regional, global and
professional communities.

The Faculty Graduate Qualities can be found on the following website:

http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/current/FacultyGraduateQualities/index.html

Changes to subject content

This subject will run for the first time in 2009.
Assessment Tasks – in detail

Task Length Due Weighting

1. Annotated bibliography 15x150 words Week 5, Tuesday August 25, by 3pm 30%
2. Group Presentation (see description) Negotiated Week 2 30%
3. Major Project (2000words)
Presented in tutorials Week 13, Tuesday October 20 40%

1: Annotated bibliography
due:Week 5, Tuesday August 25 by 3pm
weighting:30.00%
length:15 x 150 words
Compile brief annotations of 15 web sites on the theme of History 2.0, however interpreted.
Credit will be given for the coherence of the collection, and the useability of the tags. Students
can use this task to begin their preliminary investigation for their major project. Delicious
entries are limited to 1000 Characters per entry (140-150 words).

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 2: Group Presentation Project: Building the Collection
due:Negotiated with Tutor in week 2
weighting:30.00%
length:negotiated
The group project is a short, critically informed and informative creative interpretation of the
week's general theme. The project should feature primary, secondary and tertiary sources in
some form. Example length: video 1- 2.5 minute video posted to YouTube (or similar site);
audio podcast 3-5 minutes (hosted online); blog entry or other textual presentation online
(1000-1500) words. The production is then presented in tutorials.

3: Collaborative History 2.0 project

due:Presented in tutorials Week 13, individual written report due Monday November 2, Week 14
weighting:40.00%
length:Group Varies + 2000 word review (individual project report)
Students will develop a major work on the topic of engaging with media and communication
history, examining any historical topic of your choice (negotiated with your Tutor).
The project will demonstrate an understanding of issues, concerns and concepts we have
examined during the semester. The final version of the project can combine various online
sources – wikis, blogs, social networking sites, individual web pages and other online
resources. Accompanying each project, students will provide an individual participation and
reflection report outlining the aim, method and any outcomes of the project and detail the
experience and results of the group project. The report should include analysis of original
primary research, relevant secondary sources and referenced tertiary material.

Codes of Practice, Rules and Guidelines

The University has in place codes of practice, rules and guidelines that define a range of policy issues on
both educational and student matters. Students must refer to the Faculty Handbook or online reference
which contains a range of policies on educational issues and student matters. Some of the policies
relevant to the Arts Faculty are listed below:

Academic Grievance Policy (Coursework & Honours Students):

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/studacgrievpol.htm
Acknowledgement Practice/Plagiarism: http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/plagiarism.html
Code of Practice Teaching & Assessment:
www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/teaching_code.html
Code of Practice Honours: www.uow.edu.au/handbook/honourscode.html
Code of Practice Students: www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_students.html
Code of Practice Student Conduct: http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/generalrules/StudentConductRules.pdf
Code of Practice – Practical Placements: http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_pracplace.html
Course Progress Policy: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/courseprogresspolicy.pdf
EEO Policy: http://staff.uow.edu.au/eed/eeopolicy.html
Human Ethics Research Guidelines: www.uow.edu.au/research/rso/ethics/
Intellectual Property: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/ippolicy.pdf
Non-Discriminatory Language Practice & Presentation:
http://staff.uow.edu.au/eed/nondiscrimlanguage.html
Occupational Health and Safety: www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/ohs.html
Academic Consideration Policy: www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/studentacademicconsiderationpolicy.pdf
Intellectual Property Policy: http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/generalcourserules/UOW028651.html
Student Conduct Rules and accompanying Procedures:
http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/generalrules/StudentConductRules.pdf

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Tutorial Guide: Tutorials and Lectures are run as part of the three hour seminar.

Week 1 - Week beginning 27 July

Lecture: Introduction
Tutorial: no tutorials running in week 1.

Background Materials:
Wesch Mike, 2008,'Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance', Education Canada, Canadian
Education Association, (available: http://www.cea-ce.ca/media/en/AntiTeaching_Spring08.pdf)
date accessed June 19, 2009.

Week 2 - Week beginning 3 August

Lecture: Assumptions of History 1.0
Tutorial: Historical chronologies and their political contexts. Challenging the histories written by the
winners and re-examining teleological event histories and their focus on the temporality of innovation
and political economy, rather than the spatiality of diffusion. Tutorials will contrast global timelines of big
media transitions with various forms of national, regional and local incompatibility.

Background materials on the digital anthropology of media and communications technologies with a focus
on YouTube: Wesch, Mike 2008, The Machine is Us/ing Us, Youtube.com,(available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g ) and Wesch, Mike 2009, An anthropological introduction to
YouTube, Youtube.com, (available: http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch)

Week 3 - Week beginning 10 August

Lecture: History 2.0: the diffusion of historical authority
Tutorial: In the tutorials this week we examine the key characteristics of History 2.0? What might it look
like? Who writes it and how do we trust it?

Background Materials:
Burgess, Jean and Green, Joshua 2009, Chapter 5: YouTube's Cultural Politics, Online Video and
Participatory Culture, Polity.
Mihm, Stephen, 2008, 'Everyone's a historian now', The Boston Globe, Mayb 28, 2008 (available
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now/?page=full
Patricia Lange (2007), ‘Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube’, Journal of
Computer Mediated Communication, vol. 13. no. 1, pp. 361-380.
Warschauer, Mark and Grimes, Douglas 2007, 'AUDIENCE, AUTHORSHIP, AND ARTIFACT: THE
EMERGENT SEMIOTICS OF WEB 2.0', Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, vol. 27, pp. 1–
23.

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Week 4 - Week beginning 17 August
Lecture: User Generated Histories
Tutorial: What are the media and communication traditions and antecedents that have converged in the
practice of blogging, wikis, and social network sites? We contemplate the effects of the shift to online
modes of communication and participation and examine what legacies of previous forms they appropriate
and adopt. In discussing the development of Wikipedia, we examine the historical role of the gatekeeper
and the possibilities of the future of access to knowledge.

Background Material:
Boyd, Danah and Ellison, Nicole (2007), ‘Social Networking Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship’,
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, vol.13, no.1, pp. 210-230. Rheingold Howard
"Participative Pedagogy: For a Literacy of Literacies" http://freesouls.cc/essays/03-howard-
rheingold-participative-pedagogy-for-a-literacy-of-literacies.html
Rosenzweig, Roy 2006, 'Can History Be Open Sourced? The Future of the Past', The Journal of American
History, vol. 93. no1. pp 117-146. available: http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42 (dated
access July, 6, 2009)

Week 5 - Week beginning 24 August

Lecture: Tag You're It: Organising Knowledge and Information
Tutorial: Expanding our understanding of the processes and structures for ordering and classifying
knowledge and information we explore the rise of folksonomies and look to the influence of previous logics
and systems of classification. We further consider the history of public participation and other forms of
media and communications technologies that support unpredictable forms of cultural production.

Background Material:
Susan Murray, 2008, Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics,
'Journal of Visual Culture vol. 7 no. 2. pp 147-163.
Thomas, Sue 2006, The End of Cyberspace and Other Surprises, 'Convergence: The International
Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.383-391.
Daniel H. Pink, "Folksonomy," New York Times (December 11, 2005)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas1-
21.html?_r=1&ex%1291957200&enP937f27a0973e6e&eiP90&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Week 6 - Week beginning 31 August

Lecture: Googleocracy or Googlearchy
Tutorial: What is the effect of Google's dominance of online search and services? Does Google's search
methodology lead to a reduction of information and cultural diversity? What is its effect on the power of the
network public sphere? Given Google's capitulation to censorship, its use of personal information, and the

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farming of our online search practices, how significant is Google's contributions to the history of media and
communication?

Background Material:
Anna Munster 2008, 'Welcome to Google Earth', Critical Digital Studies A Reader, edited by Arthur Kroker
and Marilouise Kroker, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Batchelor, Bob 2009, 2009, Google and the End of Wisdon, PopMatters, July 10, 2009, (available:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/107954-google-and-the-end-of-wisdom July 14, 2009).
Hindman, Mattew, Tsioutsiouliklis, Kostas, Johnson, Judy, A. 2003, ' "Googlearchy": How a Few Heavily-
Linked Sites Dominate Politics on the Web, available:
http://seneca.uab.es/antropologia/jlm/ars/googlearchy--hindman.pdf (last accessed July, 6,
2009).
Jim Naughton, "Google Pays Small Change to Open Every Book in the World"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/02/google-books-scanning-libraries

Week 7 - Week beginning 7 September

Lecture: Uncovered: Storming the Museum
Tutorial: A range of questions to be asked this week. What happens when access to obscene, offensive,
disturbing material is no longer able to be regulated by access to physical property? What new forms of
cultural capital are in play? How do we encounter and construct history 2.0, and what does the privacy of
our browsing mean for history's pedagogic vision? Ethically, what should and shouldn't be kept? What
policies are out there, and what principles should be followed in terms of preservation and access for
"educational purposes".

Background Materials:
50 Banned Books:http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-everyone-should-
read/
Illegal Art: http://www.illegal-art.org/print/index.html
Post-Secret Archives - Secrets in Public: http://postsecretarchive.com/category/secret-archives/
SmartHistory – collaborative multimedia art and art history web-book: http://smarthistory.org/

Week 8 - Week beginning 14 September

Lecture: Pirates and the Public Domain: plundering the past
Tutorial: The public domain remains one of the largest depositories of human creativity, culture and
information. This week we interrogate the notion of intellectual property as it has changed over time, and
by examining its effect on media and communications technologies we consider the transition to the
digitisation and digital distribution of content.

Background Materials:
Boyle, James, 2008 The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Yale University press,
available (in full) at http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
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Deuze, Mark 2006, 'Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital
Culture The Information Society: An International Journal, 1087-6537, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages
63 – 75 available: http://www.andredeak.com.br/pdf/Digital+Culture+06.pdf July 4, 2009.
Decherney, Peter 2007, 'Copyright dupes: piracy and new media in Edison v. Lubin (1903),' Film History,
vol. 19, no. 2, pp.109 – 125.

Week 9 - Week beginning 21 September

Lecture: Histories of Music (Guest Lecture: Dr Andrew Whelan)
Tutorial: How do online musical subcultures reconstitute (musical) history 1.0 through their practices?
What do these practices reveal about contemporary creativity and its relations with copyright law? How
is 'music 2.0' impacting on the traditional industry, and in what ways, if any, does it differ from that
industry? What sorts of things might the aesthetics around the amen indicate about contemporary
culture? How does sampling as a form of musical creativity relate to ideas around gender and ethnic
identity?

Background Materials:
Whelan, Andrew 2009 ' The ‘Amen’ Breakbeat as Fratriarchal Totem' Dichotomies (forthcoming: available
via Delicious.com tag search)
Delicious.com Tags: amen breakbeat musichistory amenbreak music copyright sampling

Week 10 - Week beginning 5 October

Lecture: Punks, Pranks, Freaks and Geeks
Tutorial: This week we examine the history of media and communication from the perspective of sub-
altern cultures, renegades, and independents and consider the approach of various fandoms. We look
at how these cultures – particularly geeks and hackers (and their historical counterparts) – have helped
to shape the use and regulation of media and communication technologies.

Background Materials:
The History of Hacking, The Discovery Channel,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5464925144369700635,
Francesca Coppa, 2006, 'A Brief History of Media Fandom', Fan fiction and fan communities in the age
of the Internet: new essays, McFarland, pp.41-60. (available via Google Books)
Naomi, Klien, 2002 Farewell to 'The End of History': Organisation and vision in Anti-Corporate
Movements, (available http://socialistregister.com/socialistregister.com/files/SR_2002_Klein.pdf )
Wiltse, Ed 2004, Fans, Geeks and Nerds, and the Politics of Online Communities, Proceedings of the
media Ecology Association, vol 5. (available: http://www.media-
ecology.org/publications/MEA_proceedings/v5/Wiltse05.pdf )
McArthur, J. A. 2009 'Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style,' Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol.
33, no.1, (available http://jci.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/1/58)

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Week 11 - Week beginning 12 October
Lecture: Commons: past, present and future
Tutorial: The revival of the metaphor of the commons brings with it complex social and regulatory
experiences. This week we look to earlier incarnations of the commons, its uses and its critics, we then
extend this approach to consider the reimagined role of the commons in the digital environment. From
the academic and scientific commons to the activities of online gamers establishing new commons-like
formations, we look to the look to the rewriting of the boundaries and regulation of intellectual property
regimes that have disrupted traditional logic of market-based incentives.

Background Materials:
Coombe, R, Herman, A (2004) 'Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the
World-Wide Web', Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 77. no. 3, pp. 559-574.
Davis, P (2003) 'Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Librarians, Publishers, Faculty and the Demise of a
Public Resource', Libraries and the Academy, vol.3, no.4, pp. 547 – 562.
Dolsak, Nives and Ostrom, Elinor (eds.) 2003, The commons in the new millennium challenges and
adaptation Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.
Hardin, Garrett, 1968, The Tragedy of the Commons, Science (December 13)
(available http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_the_commons.html)
Levine, P (2002) 'Symposium: Democracy in the Electronic Era', The Good Society, vol.1. no.3. pp 3-9.
Linksvayer, Mike 2008, ‘Facts about Beyond Open Source Software - Open Culture’, Beyond Open
Source Software - Open Culture, Stanford Open Source Lab (un)Conference, Available:
http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/cc-stanford-open-source-lab-unconference-presentation (July 1, 2009)
Moore, C. 2005, ‘Commonising the Enclosure: Online Games and Reforming Intellectual Property
Regimes’, Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, vol. 3, no.2, 2005,
Also: Building an Australasian Commons (full book PDF) produced by Creative Commons Australia to
highlight case studies from the Australasian region. Available:
http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/Building_an_Australasian_Commons_book.pdf

Week 12 - Week beginning 19 October

Lecture: Open Publishing, History 2.0 and Click-through activism (Dr Colin Salter)
Where are the roots of open publishing located? Are these roots fundamental to the notion of History 2.0
as user-generated histories? We will explore the contexts in which open publishing emerged, how it
was mobilised and for what perceived ends. In discussing the roots of open publishing and its (original)
activist orientation, we reflexively consider the implications of the shift to an online public sphere. Are
barrier to participation being broken down and actions becoming more effective through broader
possibilities to participate? Is this participation effective or are these methods leading to
cyberbalkanization, fragmentation or isolation?

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Background Materials:
Monica Hesse (2009) Facebook's Easy Virtue: 'Click-Through Activism' Broad but Fleeting, Washington
Post
Thursday, July 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103936.html
Delicious.com tags: clickthruactivism, facebook, twitter, activism, web2.0, advocacy, history2.0

Graham Meikle (2002) Future active : media activism and the internet Pluto Press/Routledge. Chapter 4:
Open Publishing, Open Technologies
Delicious.com tags: Indymedia, openpublishing, activism, advocacy, alt.media, catalyst, history2.0

Week 13 - Week beginning 26 October

Lecture: Conclusion: The Future of History2.0
Tutorial: Presentation of the collaborative history 2.0 projects.

Conventions Governing Written Work

Consult the relevant School and Program on the Faculty of Arts website for the appropriate referencing
system used for this subject at

www.uow.edu.au/arts

OR

http://www.library.uow.edu.au/resourcesbytopic/UOW026631.html#electronic

Presentation
• assessments must be laid out in 1.5 line spacing (minimum) or in double spacing
• use A4 paper
• leave a margin of no less than 4 cm
• strongly encouraged to print on both sides of the paper
• all assessments should be word processed
• all assessments must be page numbered, including bibliographies or works cited (not including
coversheets or title pages).

Submission of Assignments: Wollongong Campus

Unless your tutor or lecturer asks you to do otherwise, submit all assignments by depositing
them in one of the three School slots opposite the Enquiry Centre (19.1050 in the Arts building).

All assignments deposited in the School slots must have a cover sheet attached. Ensure that
all sections are filled in including your tutor’s name, the assignment question and sign the
plagiarism declaration. Coversheets can be found above the bench opposite the Enquiry
Centre. You can also download a coversheet from the Faculty’s webpage at:
www.uow.edu.au/arts/coversheets/index.html - Make sure you download both pages.

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Receipts are not mandatory (you can just drop the assignment in the box if you wish), but if you
want a receipt for your assignment, just fill out the bottom section of the coversheet and ask the
person to whom you submit the piece of work to sign the form or date-stamp it for you.

Students must keep a copy of all work/assignments handed in.

Assignments sent by fax or e-mail will not be accepted unless by prior agreement between the
lecturer and student.

Submission of Assignments: South Coast and Southern Highlands Campuses

Unless your tutor or lecturer asks you to do otherwise, submit all assignments following the
procedures set out on your campus.

All assignments must have a cover sheet attached. Ensure that all sections are filled in
including your tutor’s name, the assignment question and sign the plagiarism declaration. You
can download a coversheet from the Faculty’s webpage at:
www.uow.edu.au/arts/coversheets/index.html - Make sure you download both pages.

Students must keep a copy of all work/assignments handed in.

Assignments sent by fax or e-mail will not be accepted unless by prior agreement between the
lecturer and student.

Return of Assignments: Wollongong Campus

The University’s Code of Practice Teaching and Assessment requires that at least one
assignment be assessed and returned before Week 9 of session.

Assignments submitted during session will be returned to you by your lecturer or tutor. The
Enquiry Centre does not hold any assignments during session.

Assignments submitted at the end of session will be held at the Enquiry Centre until the end of
Week 6 of the following session. After this time, assignments will be disposed of. Please take
your student card with you when collecting your work. During this period, assignments can be
collected: Monday-Friday between 11.30am-12.30pm and 3.30pm-4.30pm.

Return of Assignments: South Coast and Southern Highland Campuses

The University’s Code of Practice Teaching and Assessment requires that at least one
assignment be assessed and returned before Week 9 of session.

Assignments submitted during session will be returned to you by your lecturer or tutor.

Assignments submitted at the end of session will be held at your campus until the end of Week
6 of the following session. After this time, assignments will be disposed of. Please take your
student card with you when collecting your work.

Academic Consideration

Students who miss a deadline, or fall below the minimum attendance requirements, or otherwise find their
work in the subject affected by illness or serious misadventure should lodge a formal request for
Academic Consideration via SOLS. The procedures for lodging a request are available at:
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http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/studentacademicconsiderationpolicy.pdf

Penalty for late submission of work:

Late work (i.e. any work required for assessment that has not been given an extension) will be subject to
a 10% penalty per day. The penalty is applied to the original mark awarded. Work submitted after seven
calendar days will not be marked and will be given a mark of 0.

Plagiarism

Students are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without plagiarising or cheating,
abiding by the University’s policy on plagiarism as set out in the University Handbook under Universities
Policy Directory and in Faculty Handbooks and subject guides. Plagiarism has led to the expulsion from
the University.

For full details about the University’s plagiarism policy see:

www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/plagiarism.html

Faculty Handbook

The Faculty issues a Handbook free of charge to all students enrolled in an Arts Subject. It contains
information on the structure of the Faculty’s degrees, the majors offered, the more important University
policies and other matters that may affect your time as a student in the Faculty.

Grievance Procedures:
The term "academic grievance" refers to a complaint by a student concerning an act, omission or decision
by a member of staff that adversely affects a student's academic experience. Some examples of a
grievance include the following:
failure to assess work in accordance with specified criteria;
administrative error in the collating or recording of marks;
failure to address requests for Special Consideration in accordance with the Special
Consideration Policy;
failure of a member of staff to adhere to General Course Rules or requirements of a relevant
Code of Practice;
failure to adhere to Faculty assessment or examination requirements.
The University and the Faculty of Arts have formal Student Academic Grievance Policies that are to be
used only after informal approaches have been made to the relevant staff member. If the informal
approach has an unsatisfactory outcome the student should follow the procedure outlined in the Faculty of
Arts Student Grievance Form.
This form can be downloaded from the UOW website or a copy may be obtained from the Arts Central,
Level 1, Building 19, Room 1050.
For more information: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/current/stgrievance

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Support Services

Both the Faculty and the University offer support services to its undergraduates.

Arts Central University Library, including the Faculty

Building 19 Room 1050 Librarian
phone: 02 4221 5328 fax: 02 4221 5341 Building 16
Mon – Fri: 8.30am to 5.30pm phone: 02 4221 3545
Email: fac_arts@uow.edu.au uba@uow.edu.au
www.uow.edu.au/arts
Student Equity and Diversity Liaison Officer
Sub Dean Viv McIlroy - Room 19.1075
to make an appointment to see the Sub Dean, contact the Phone: 4221 3635
Sub Dean’s Assistant, Mark Hutchings, at Arts Central: The Student Equity & Diversity Liaison officer
Location: 19.1050 provides support when dealing with:
Email: mark_hutchings@uow.edu.au - student welfare, both domestic & international;
Ph: 4221 4838 - EdStart (grants for financially disadvantaged
students);
Course Readers and Textbooks - Liaison for the Disability program, Counselling,
UniShop – Building 11 Learning Development, Careers etc.
phone: 02 4221 8050 fax: 02 4221 8055 - Developing social networks for students within
unishop.uow.edu.au faculties.

Student Administration Learning Assistance

Student Central – Building 17 Learning Development Resource Centre – 19.G102
phone: 02 4221 3927 fax: 02 4221 4322 phone: 02 4221 3977
e-mail: askuow@uow.edu.au www.uow.edu.au/student/services/ld
www.uow.edu.au/student
Careers Service – Building 11
phone: 02 4221 3325
Woolyungah Indigenous Centre – Building 30 careers@uow.edu.au
phone: 02 4221 3776 fax: 02 4221 4244
www.uow.edu.au/wic/ Counselling Service – Building 11 (level 3)
phone: 02 4221 3445
StudentServices@uow.edu.au

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