SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
Undergraduate Student Handbook
2014–2015
FILM STUDIES
DISCLAIMER
Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information contained in this
Handbook and in all other documentation provided by the School is correct at
the time of publication, the University does not accept liability for any
inaccuracies.
The Handbook does not replace the entries in the University Regulations, which
are authoritative statements. In the case of a contradiction or other discrepancy
between information in this Handbook and the Regulations, the Regulations
shall be authoritative, unless approval has been given for a variation. We would
however, be grateful to you for drawing any sources of contradictory information
to our attention.
The statements of policy in this Handbook are made in good faith. In exceptional
circumstances the University reserves the right to vary programmes,
procedures, and other arrangements at any time. It may be helpful to remember
that Schools sometimes operate different procedures and you are advised to
refer to the relevant School Handbook for modules being taken in another
School.
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CONTENTS
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Film at Keele Introduction
Film as Part of a Joint Honours Degree
Where are we?
Contacting Us
Staff Contact Details and Administrative Roles
How We Contact You
Personal Tutors
Director of the Film Programme
Online resources: Blackboard (KLE), SCIMs,
E-Vision, Personal Tutors
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Chapter 1: Your degree: modules assessment and feedback
Undergraduate Degree Structure
Teaching and Attendance
Assessment
Feedback
Publication of Results
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Chapter 2: Written Work: Guidance and Advice
Rubrics
Student Learning and Support
Research and Resources
Essay Writing Guidelines
Referencing
Further Guidance in Writing Essays
Exam Preparation
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Chapter 3: Academic Procedures
School of Humanities academic procedures
University Academic Procedures
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Chapter 4: Feedback to Us
Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching
Staff-Student Liaison Committee
Chapter 5: Study Abroad
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FILM STUDIES AT KEELE
Introduction
Welcome to Film Studies at Keele. We hope that you will very much enjoy studying
here, and that you will find the modules we teach stimulating and interesting. The
aim of this handbook is to give you all the information you will need during your
time at Keele, and particularly during your first year.
Film Studies is a wide-ranging and challenging discipline to study at undergraduate level.
It aims to expose you to many texts that you would not encounter otherwise, and to
stretch your thinking in relation to texts with which you may already be familiar. Film is an
intrinsically interdisciplinary subject, drawing on areas including media, English, history,
sociology, psychology, drama and politics. It is therefore highly suited to Keele’s focus on
joint honours degrees.
You will probably find that the levels of reading are higher than you have been
accustomed to at A-Level or in your access course, and that you are expected to study
them in greater depth at a greater speed. We are here to guide you through this process
and to help you to reach your academic potential, through lectures, tutorials and
seminars, but also through feedback on your essays and exams and through individual
meetings in consultation hours. Help and advice are available from many people as part
of their job: course tutors, module convenors, personal tutors, the Director of Film
Studies, Erasmus and Study Abroad tutors, administrators, student representatives, and
the Head of School.
Film Studies is part of the School of Humanities, which is in turn part of the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences. The Head of the School of Humanities is Professor
David Amigoni and the Head (or Dean) of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences is Professor David Shepherd. The programme director for Film Studies is Dr
Beth Johnson (see p.5 for contact details).
We hope that you will find most of the key information that you will need at the start of
your course in this booklet. A version of the handbook is available for you to download
or consult online. You can access it at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/filmstudies//handbooks or
on the KLE page for the Reading Film module.
Film Studies as Part of a Joint Honours Degree
Students take Film as part of a joint honours degree, combining their programme of study
with courses in subjects ranging from history and music to psychology and biology. We
hope that you will feel that your work is being supported on both sides of your degree, and
that you will benefit from the interdisciplinary perspective that your studies will give you.
Where Are We?
Many of the Film tutors’ offices are located towards the end of Chancellor’s Building B
(CBB2: also known as the ‘banana’). Our administrators are based in the School of
Humanities Office (CBB0.072), which is in the lowest floor of the same part of the building.
Contacting Us
Do contact us if you have any concerns or queries. There are several ways of doing
this:
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In person at the School of Humanities Office (CBB0.072)
Many of your questions about administration, assessments and so on can be answered
in person by Mrs Christine Edge. They will also forward any written notes from you to
our pigeon holes.
Opening hours Monday to Friday 8.450am-5pm, closed 1pm-2pm for lunch during
vacations only.
In person at tutors’ rooms during consultation hours or by appointment
By far the best way to get hold of members of staff is by calling in on us during one of our
designated CONSULTATION HOURS. You will receive information by e-mail about these
times and, just in case you forget them, tutors have details of their hours posted on their
doors. Most tutors will have two consultation hours per week, but they will be happy to see
you at other times if you contact them to set up an alternative meeting time.
By phone
Please try to ring ON THE HOUR to avoid disrupting tutorials. You can leave messages for
us on our phones, or through the staff in the Humanities Office.
By e-mail
You can e-mail your tutor at the relevant Keele address. Please remember, however, that the
e-mail system is not 100% reliable and e-mails can go missing. If you have important
information to convey to your tutor, or a question you need answered, it is usually better, and
often a lot faster, to speak to them by phone or in person, or leave a phone message.
NEVER submit your work as an e-mail attachment, unless you have been given specific
permission to do so because of extraordinary circumstances.
Tutors’ rooms and contact details
Professor Joe Andrew j.m.andrew@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB2.058 Tel: 33291
Dr Beth Johnson b.l.johnson@keele.ac.uk Room: CCB2.054 Tel: 34576
Programme Director for Film Studies
Dr Nick Bentley n.bentley@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB2.057 Tel: 33304
Professor David Amigoni d.amigoni@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB1.038 Tel: 33398
Head of School
Dr Neil Archer, n.archer@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB1.051 Tel: 33202
Dr. Mark Featherstone m.a.featherstone@keele.ac.uk Room: CBC0.014 Tel: 334179
Professor Oliver Harris o.c.g.harris@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB1.053 Tel: 33016
Mrs Kath McKeown k.c.mckeown@keele.ac.uk Room: CBBO.076 Tel: 33203
Senior School Manager
Mr Will Davies w.j.davies@keele.ac.uk Room: Warrilow Rm CBBO.019 Tel: 33036
Dr Ceri Morgan c.m.morgan@keele.ac.uk Room: CBB0.055 Tel: 34076
Dr. Nick Reyland n.w.reyland@keele.ac.uk The Clockhouse, Room: CKF08 Tel: 33297
Dr. Nicholas Seager n.p.seager@keele.ac.uk CBB1.041 Tel: 33142
How We Contact You
For information regarding Film Studies please check the KLE.
 You will be provided with a Keele email address which you should check on a daily
basis.
 KLE. We will also be posting material on the University’s e-learning server, KLE, so
please try to check for module information on these each week.
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Help and information on KLE is available at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cc/kiwi/students/
Personal Tutors
You will be notified of your Personal Tutor for this year. Personal Tutors offer regular
opportunities for Progress Reviews and consultation. They are available to discuss your
academic progress, any problems that may affect your academic progress, or any issues you
do not want to discuss with a current tutor. You can contact and communicate with your
personal tutors electronically through the SCIMS eVision system which you can access here:
https://scims.keele.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_lgn
You will need your Keele username and
password to log in.
Director of the Film Studies Programme
The Director of the Film Studies programme this year is Dr Beth Johnson. She oversees all
the undergraduate courses within the discipline of Film and is responsible for the
implementation and development of the School’s learning and teaching strategy and general
student welfare. If you have any concerns about a particular module or general questions
about your degree programme, you can go along to one of her consultation hours or make
an appointment.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Blackboard
Blackboard is the Keele Learning Environment (KLE) used by Keele to provide every
member of staff and each student with a personal teaching and learning workspace that
can be accessed through the Internet.
It gives students access to information, activities and resources associated with the
modules they are studying. These might include, for example, lecture notes and slide
sets, pictures and other material together with interactive features such as discussion
groups.
SCIMS and eVision
SCIMS (Student Course Information Management System) is an acronym used to
describe the University’s “student records system”. SCIMS holds the university’s
definitive official record of the activities, contact and processes from when the student
first enquires through to their graduation and beyond.
eVison provides Web access to the SCIMS system for both staff and student.
Personal Tutors
A Personal Tutor has responsibility for general academic advice and provides help and
guidance at particularly important times throughout the students’ undergraduate degree
programme. In addition, Personal Tutors can act as first port of call in relation to non
academic problems and will refer students to the relevant source of support and
guidance.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/media/keeleuniversity/policyzone/paa/Revised%20Code%20of
%20Practice%20for%20Undergraduate%20Personal%20Tutoring%20Revised%20July
%202013.pdf
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Chapter 1: Your Degree: Modules, Assessment and Feedback
Undergraduate Degree Structure
The table below sets out the pattern of courses that make up the Keele Undergraduate Film
Studies degree.
Not all courses will run every year, and some courses will run in different semesters to
those advertised here.
YEAR SEMESTER 1
1
2
SEMESTER 2
FIL-10001 Reading Film
FIL-10002 Approaches to Film
FIL-10003 - Popular British Cinema
from the 90s to the present day
FIL-10004 - Introduction to European
Cinema
ENG-10026 - Reading Literature
AMS-10024 - New York, New York: An
Introduction to American Culture
ENG-10028 - Telling Tales: An
Introduction to Narrative Fiction
ENG-10027 - Becoming a Critic
MDS-10008 - Mediated World
MDS-10010 - Understanding Culture
MDS-10009 - Digital Video
MDS-10011 - The Photographic Message
FIL-20001 - Gender and the
Cinematic Gaze
FIL-20002 - Film Genre, Narrative and the
Star
FIL-20005 Science Fiction Cinema
FIL-20003 – French Cinema
ENG-20036 - Twentieth Century
Novels into Films
FIL-20004 – Politics and Cinema
AMS-20061 - Alfred Hitchcock’s America
MDS-20024 – Teenage Dreams:
Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film
and Theory
MDS-20031 – Researching Media,
Communications and Culture
MUS-20047 – Unheard Melodies
FIL-30001 - British Society through
the eyes of British Film: 1960s to
the present
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FIL-30006 – Representing the Self,
Family and Society on
Contemporary British and
American Television
FIL-30004 – British Women Directors
ENG-30053 - Postmodernism: Fiction, Film
and Theory
ENG-30074 – Cinematic Modernisms
AMS-30037 – Film Noir
ENG-30070 – Shakespeare on
Film: Adaptation and Appropriation
FIL-30002 Dissertation in Film Studies (Semesters 1 and 2)
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Teaching Formats
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Lectures
For the level 4 core modules, you will attend one lecture a fortnight with the rest of the
students on your course. Lectures are designed to provide you with information and
academic arguments about the main texts and theories covered by each module.
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One Hour Tutorials / Seminars
You will also attend a one-hour tutorial once a week with around 15 students. Tutorials
give you the opportunity to ask questions about lectures and texts and to share your
ideas with your tutor and the tutorial group. In addition to reading the text for the tutorial,
you will probably be asked by your tutor to prepare some additional work.
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Other teaching methods
Fortnightly film screenings are also compulsory on core modules and elective modules in
Film where specified.
You are also encouraged to seek individual advice from your tutor as often as you need it.
You can drop in to visit tutors during their office hours, or drop them an e-mail. Office-hour
times are to be found on the doors of tutors’ offices.
Attendance
Tutorial and seminar attendance at all levels is compulsory. You must, therefore, provide a
satisfactory explanation for any absences. ‘Satisfactory’ explanation in the case of illness or
personal difficulties means notification of absence, or intended absence, to the tutor or to the
Humanities School Office on or before the day of the tutorial or seminar (either in person or
by a nominated party), and the completion of a self-certification form by the end of the
following week AT THE LATEST. The form must be completed before the end of the last
week of the teaching session.
It is understood that in certain circumstances, such as bereavement, you may not always be
able to notify your tutor before the tutorial or seminar, but in such cases you should contact
your tutor or the Office as soon as possible after the event. E-mail or telephone notification
MUST be followed up by the completion of a self-certification form for the files. Selfcertification forms will be held centrally and will be seen, recorded and initialled by the
relevant module tutor.
Non-attendance at seminars/tutorials will, in the first instance, attract a letter or email from
your tutor. Failure to respond to this communication or continued non-attendance will result
in a warning from the Director of Undergraduate Programme to which you should make an
immediate response. Failure to satisfy the conditions of this warning will result in the nonattending student being served with an official University Warning (see Chapter 3).
Assessment
Students are assessed formally and informally. The formal assessment, a combination of
course work and timed examinations, will play its part, from level 5 onwards, in determining
your class of degree. The informal assessment – a formative exercise and the tutor’s view of
your commitment to the course, and contribution to tutorials and other group activities which
is kept on your individual student record – will come into play when tutors write references for
employers, other universities, and other agencies.
There are variations between modules in the way that they are assessed, and final-year
dissertation modules in particular, are distinctive. However, the general pattern for
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assessment for double or joined modules is as follows:
Formal assessment
Most modules in Film Studies are assessed in part by essay, KLE test or examination, with a
short formative exercise, or by a two-hour examination.
Assessed essays
 The target length for these will be specified on the essay list and in your module
handbook.
 Essay questions will be provided well in advance of the submission date, which will
be recorded on the question paper.
 Please note the exact time and day of submission from your question paper. There
are penalties for late submission, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as
illness.
 You MUST submit your essay by the advertised date and time to the School Office.
This copy will be annotated with feedback comments and returned to you.
 A second copy must also be submitted through the university’s virtual Learning
environment, KLE (see instructions below)
 At all levels, scripts are anonymous and you should submit your essay identified by
your student number only. This might be varied for formative exercises, where the
mark does not count towards the overall module mark.
 The essay must be accompanied by a declaration (on a form provided) that the essay
is your own work except where indebtedness is specifically acknowledged.
The instructions for submitting work through Turnitin on KLE are as follows:
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To submit a paper, locate the paper you want to submit on your computer by
clicking the "browse" button and enter a title for the paper.
Select an enrolled student using the student pull down to associate the
submission with a student and click the submit button to upload the paper. This
is even clearer when you look at the page itself.
Go to the main page of the [insert title of module] KLE page and click on the link
'[insert title of assessment, eg. Essay;] to see these instructions.
If the electronic copy is NOT submitted via KLE you will receive a mark of ZERO for the
work. Please take a few minutes to have a look at the submission information to ensure
there are no problems when you come to submit the work.
Examination
 This will be a written, TWO HOUR examination.
 For some modules this will be a seen paper; more often it is an unseen paper.
 Although examiners take account of the conditions in which scripts have been written,
they will expect high standards of lucidity, sentence structure, and paragraphing even
in timed examinations.
 If you have to miss an examination for any reason, you should write immediately (if
possible BEFORE the examination) to the Director of Undergraduate Programmes,
providing documentary evidence of the position.
 If you fail an examination, the re-examination will be by equivalent timed examination,
but this will normally be capped at 40, the minimum pass mark.
 Students who require special provisions for their examinations must submit a written
application to Planning and Academic Administration. The application must be
supported by documentary evidence, usually from a qualified medical practitioner or
other appropriate source. Special examination provision may be considered for a
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range of circumstances including dyslexia, visual, physical and sensory impairment or
chronic illness. The written application for special provision should be submitted by
the end of the fourth week of the First Semester or within four weeks of initial
diagnosis. Students granted special provision, usually sit examinations in a specially
designated venue.
Tutorial performance
Your tutor will assess your preparations for and contributions to discussion during the
semester. This will sometimes contribute up to 10% of your mark for module in Level 4 and
Level 5. This is not an attendance mark, but, obviously, if your attendance is poor you will not
be able to score very highly.
Informal assessment
Formative exercise
This might be an oral presentation, a draft essay, or a short written exercise such as a close
analysis of a scene. The mark for this exercise will not affect your final mark which means
you can try out innovative ideas and methods of working without fear of this affecting your
module grade.
Extensions for written work
Extenuating Circumstances
What are extenuating circumstances?
As you will have seen from earlier sections, work which is not submitted by the deadlines will
be penalised. Work submitted up to a week late will score a maximum of 40%; work
submitted thereafter, a mark of Zero. These penalties also apply to work not
submitted both in hard copy and via KLE.
As a student you will need to adhere to your assessment deadlines. Sometimes however,
circumstances beyond your control can affect your ability to submit work or attend an
examination and the University has a policy of taking into account some circumstances which
have affected students’ academic study. These “extenuating circumstances” are defined as,
‘A circumstance that is beyond your control and could not have reasonably been
foreseen and acted upon that will prevent you from completing an assessment at or by
the specified time or will have a significant negative effect on your performance in that
assessment.’
What is considered to be an extenuating circumstance?
The following are generally considered to be acceptable extenuating circumstances,
providing that they are supported by appropriate evidence:
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Acute illness or injury
Extended illness or injury
Acute Illness of another person
Bereavement
Significant domestic and/or personal problems
Court Attendance
Unforeseen Work Commitment (Part-Time/Distance Learning/PG Students only)
Unforeseen representation of County or Country at Sport
Active Exercise of Citizenship
Unforeseen Major Transport Difficulties
Victim of Criminal Activity
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Accepting an extenuating circumstances claim is at the discretion of the School
Extenuating Circumstances Panel.
What is not considered to be an extenuating circumstance?
There are a number of areas that are not considered as valid extenuating
circumstances. These include general pressure of academic work as you are expected
to have planned your work schedule, and personal computer/IT device problems, as
you are expected to have taken adequate precautionary measures e.g backups and
checking compatibility with University systems. Religious observance is not viewed as
a valid extenuating circumstance as such issues are not unforeseen; students should
instead discuss with the School whether a ‘special provision’ claim can be made for an
assessment.
How do I make a claim?
If extenuating circumstances occur and you anticipate that these will cause a delay in
submitting your work or prevent attendance at an examination, you will need to submit
an Extenuating Circumstances Claim and appropriate evidence to your School(s). You
should submit your claim as soon as you become aware of the problem and prior to
the examination and/or coursework deadline. The claim form can be downloaded
from
the
Planning
and
Academic
Administration
webpages
at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/paa/academicadministration/forms/
Claims may also be accepted after the coursework deadline or examination, providing
that they are submitted before the meeting of the relevant Discipline Examination Panel
(where marks are confirmed). Schools will provide you with its deadlines for ECs
submission by email.
Do not delay the submission of your form because you have to wait for a piece of
evidence if this means that you will miss the School’s submission deadline (though you
will need to tell the School when you will be able to hand the evidence in).
Claims submitted by the deadline will be considered by either the School Extenuating
Circumstances Panel or the University’s Sub-Committee on Examination Absences and
Course Work Extensions, depending on the nature of the claim. You will be informed of
the decision at the earliest opportunity once the Panel or Committee has met.
Further Information and Support
Detailed information on extenuating circumstances criteria, the claims process and
evidence requirements can be found in the “Extenuating Circumstances Guide to
Students” which can be downloaded from: www.keele.ac.uk/ec
Advice and support in making a claim can also be sought from your Personal Tutor,
School Office, Student Support and Development Services and ASK at the Keele SU.
Marking
All marking is to the scale below, which gives a classification and the numbers which are
used to indicate the position within the grade.
First 70-100
Third 40-49
Upper Second
Pass
60-69
35-39
Lower Second
Fail
50-59
0-34
The algorithm on which degree classification is based includes all the second and third year
module marks. Special algorithm arrangements apply to students writing dissertations.
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Assessment criteria
These notes are intended as guidelines only. The University expects that examiners will use
the whole of the marking scale, interpreting these criteria in the context of their subject.
CLASS 1
90-100%
An outstanding answer showing an excellent understanding
of the issues and methodologies; original, independent
thinking informs an answer based upon rigorous
argument accurately supported by evidence derived from a
wide range of source material; could not be
bettered at undergraduate level in the time available.
80-89%
An answer demonstrating an excellent level of understanding
of the issues and methodologies; the answer displays
independent thought, and strong and well organised argument,
using a wide range of sources.
A first class answer showing most but not necessarily all of the
above.
An answer demonstrating very good understanding of the
issues, with good and well organised argument
accurately supported by a standard range of sources.
As above with some shortcomings but no fundamental errors.
An answer which shows a satisfactory grasp of the main
issues, familiarity with the basic reading, some minor errors and
omissions of essential material. Faithful reproduction of
material without any significant critical judgement.
As above with a larger number of errors and/or the
inclusion of some irrelevant material.
An answer which shows a minimal understanding of some
of the issues raised by the question, but with substantial
omissions or irrelevant material, and limited use of relevant
material.
An answer showing barely adequate and limited grasp of
some of the issues, poorly conceived and poorly directed
to the question set.
Unsatisfactory, but will show skeletal grasp of some relevant
issues and necessary material and/or skills.
Shows some evidence of grasp of material and/or skills but
is not applied appropriately or where relevant; there may be
gross misconceptions which nevertheless show some
evidence of an elementary grasp of issues.
An attempt to answer the questions but without any
significant grasp of material or appropriate skills.
Shows some evidence of having benefited from the course.
No answer offered, or an answer which is totally
irrelevant, fundamentally wrong or plagiarised.
70-79%
CLASS 2:1
65-69%
CLASS 2:2
60-64%
55-59%
50-54%
CLASS 3
45-49%
40-44%
FAIL
35-39%
FAIL
30-34%
20-29%
10-19%
0-9%
A statement of the University’s assessment procedures, ‘General Regulations for University
Examinations and Assessments’, can be found in the Academic Regulations and Guidance
for Students and Staff 2014-15 at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/regulations/regulation8/
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Feedback
The marking of Film Studies assessed essays can be a time-consuming task, requiring care
and deliberation. Errors in essays are corrected and students are also provided with written
comments. Within the School these comments have frequently won the praise of External
Examiners for their thoroughness and helpfulness. We provide feedback as soon as we can,
and you will be informed of the time by email. This will vary from module to module according
to the week in which the essay is submitted. Exam feedback will generally be given early in
the semester following the examination period.
Essays will be returned to you with corrections and a comments sheet. These will point to
strengths and areas for improvement. Initially you will be given a sense of the essay’s
classification. All borderline scripts and a further representative sample are moderated; in the
final two years they are double-marked. When all internal marking, including moderation, is
completed, you will be informed of your provisional mark. The reason that it is provisional is
that all University disciplines have an External Examiner, to whom an agreed selection of
scripts is sent, and whose job it is to check that marking is fair and accurate. We do not wish
to wait, however, until the External has seen our marking, because we feel it is better to give
some response to the essay soon after it has been completed, rather than wait until the
student’s recollection is less vivid.
Any adjustments made by the External Examiner will be conveyed to the student.
Feedback is generally given by the marker since the marker will obviously have a detailed
understanding of the reasons for the mark. The marker will normally be the tutor, but this
cannot, for various reasons, always be the case. The feedback interview is also useful for
reviewing a student’s general progress. Assessed essays are returned to students by their
tutors in feedback sessions once the marking process has been completed. Exam scripts are
not returned to students but they are available at feedback sessions.
Publication of Results
You can expect to know the published results of assessments as soon as possible after the
examination board has completed its deliberations for your Level at the end of a given
semester. You will receive notification of your marks by e-mail and / or via the KLE. Normally,
at the end of the academic year, Level 6 results will be published first, followed by Levels 5
and 4. The timing of the publication of Finals results is determined by the University. All
results are subject to ratification by the University Senate.
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Chapter Two: Written Work, Guidance and Advice
Rubrics
Instructions for the completion of your assessed essay and exam will appear at the top of the
question paper. For essays, these will include:
 the required word length, the number of texts to which you should refer in your
answer
 the time and place you should submit your work.
For exams, you will be told:
 the number of texts to which you should refer
 whether there are any other particular requirements, for example about particular
work to be used (or not), and what the rules are about duplication.
You should make sure that you follow the instructions carefully as you will be
penalised if you infringe the rubric.
Learning Support
You are always very welcome to talk to your subject tutor (i.e. the person who runs your
tutorials) about any aspect of your work. If you cannot see them during a consultation hour,
contact them to arrange a meeting at another time. We aim to give you detailed feedback on
your essays and you can also get feedback on your exams if you consult your subject tutor at
the start of the following semester.
Keele also has a Centre for Learning and Student Support: http://www.keele.ac.uk/ssc which
offers Academic Advice Clinics, Drop-in Sessions (in which you can get advice on essay
writing, getting organised, preparing for exams and giving presentations) and a variety of
Workshops (on areas including essay writing, revision and exams, presentations, working in
groups and time management).
If you need general academic advice, or advice in relation to a non-academic problem, you
can also talk to your Personal Tutor. See also http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/class/pdp/
for further information about Personal Development Planning.
If you have any additional circumstances which are affecting your ability to work, you can
contact Disability Services: http://www.keele.ac.uk/ssc In the past they have helped us to
facilitate learning for students with dyslexia, with physical disadvantages, and with ongoing
health concerns.
Research and Resources
It is important that you undertake individual research when writing your essays and preparing
for exams. You will find that the information you acquire from lectures, seminars and your
own reading of the primary texts needs to be supplemented by secondary material taken
from critics and other sources.
Keele Library has books and journals relevant to all Film Studies modules. If you have any
problems accessing material, inform your tutor or the Library Liaison Officer for Film. The
majority of the library’s holdings in Film Studies can be found on the first floor; you should
also consult
the journals,
which are
kept
in the basement.
See
http://www.keele.ac.uk/library/ for the main library website and http://opac.keele.ac.uk/ for the
library’s online catalogue.
The library also provides a number of electronic resources. These can be accessed from
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any Keele computer, and you can also access many of them from off-campus using your
Athens username and password.
Finding material

Your first port of call should be the reading list provided at the beginning of each of
your courses. Material from the reading list will be found in the library or online.

Books and essays on your reading list will have bibliographies of their own. You can
use these to find additional material to supplement your reading.

Try searching the library catalogue. If a film or book is on loan, make a note of the
shelf-mark anyway and see if there are any relevant books on either side of it on the
shelves.
Essay Writing Guidelines
A step-by-step guide to writing an essay:

Choose your essay question carefully.

When you’ve chosen a question, re-watch/read the primary texts (i.e. the films and
theoretical notes) that you think you might use to answer it, keeping notes as you go
through. Then sketch out how you might answer the question, including the evidence
from the primary texts that you might use (i.e. quotations/examples and analysis of
those quotations/examples).

Think about what precisely the question is asking. Look at this example:
In Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954), is the character Jeff’s act of looking out of
the window and across the courtyard similar to our own act of looking at a film
and if so, in what ways? Please discuss and present arguments to support or
reject the indicated similarity.
Focusing on the film specified above, you are asked to consider: how in the act of
looking represented on-screen by the main male protagonist is similar to the
spectator’s act of looking at Rear Window. The essay’s structure could question if and
in what ways the two acts of looking specified are similar this, assessing the
importance of each of these looks in relation to looking as an act of power.

When you have your own ideas about the subject straight you can start doing some
wider research.
o
Depending on the length of the essay, select five or more critical essays or
chapters in books. Use the reading lists we give you and academic journals. Be
careful about which website material you use. If you’re having difficulty finding
material, talk to your tutor.
o
Scan through them quickly to see if they are useful and/or relevant to your topic.
o
From those essays select the ones that seem useful. Read them properly and
make notes from them. If none of them are useful, start again with another set of
essays.
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o
Your notes will be most useful to you if you (a) include the full author, title and
publication details, (b) put all quotations in quotation marks (so that you can tell
which bits you have summarised and which bits you have quoted when you come
back to the notes), and (c) make a note of the page numbers for any
points/quotations (the margin is a good place to do this).
o
Do these essays contradict anything you have already thought in relation to your
topic? Can you disagree with them? (Just because they have been printed it
doesn’t mean they are right; your own ideas are also very important!)
o
Have any of the essays helped you to deepen your understanding of the topic? If
so, it would be useful to include a quotation from that essay to show how it relates
to your argument and how it has affected your thinking.
o
DO NOT ‘base’ your essay on someone else’s – it won’t be your own work and
you could inadvertently plagiarise from that person’s essay.

Draft a plan for your essay. In order to present an argument effectively you need a
clear structure, and you should think carefully about this before you write the essay.
In some ways this is the most important part of the whole process!

Write the first paragraph of your essay, remembering that you need to state very
clearly how you’re approaching the question and what your argument is going to be.
Define any key terms in the question.

Write the rest of the essay.

You should normally include direct quotation from primary texts. These quotations do
not necessarily have to be very long – a line, a sentence, or even a phrase can be
enough if it illustrates the point you want to make. If you omit part of a quotation,
represent the omission by three spaced full-stops: ‘Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho
(1960) raises various critical questions about gender...relations’.

Short quotations (fewer than 40 words of prose or two complete lines of verse) can be
inserted into sentences. For example (in an essay on narrative in Groundhog Day
(Ramis, 1993):
In Bruce Klein’s description of the looping narrative strategy employed by Ramis,
he notes that ‘within the narrative loop, no exact beginning or end can be
identified, thus, such a strategy has the potential to cause confusion’ (Klein, 1997,
54).

Longer quotations should be separated from your text by a blank line and should be
inset from the left margin. They DO NOT need to be surrounded by quotation marks
as the insetting does the job and distinguishes them from your own writing.
Bear in mind that quotations don’t answer the question in themselves; they need to be
explained, contextualised, analysed and integrated into the answer as a whole.

You will also need to quote from critical material. You might present your discussion
like this:
Although Valerie Traub argues that ‘exchange – of bodies, of goods, of women –
provides the fundamental structure of the societies represented in filmic
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adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays’, this underestimates the complexity of the
society presented in Radford’s adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.
Always follow up a quotation with a discussion of its implications for the
primary text and/or an assessment of its usefulness.

Make sure that you include a conclusion. This is one of the most difficult things to do
well, and it’s all too easy to write a conclusion that too brief. A conclusion should
draw together the strands of your argument and reinforce the points that you have
been making. Returning to the main terms of the question in order to confirm your
response to them can provide a neat ending, and it also enables you to check that
you haven’t lost track of these terms.
Essay Presentation: A Checklist
Make sure you check that your essay conforms to each of these specifications:

Use A4 paper and one side of the paper only.

Essays should be double spaced.

Leave a margin on the left-hand side of at least 30mm.

Conventionally the first paragraph under a heading starts full left, but otherwise indent
the first word of a new paragraph by at least 20mm.

Write your student number, year, and tutor’s name at the top of the page. DO NOT
include your name.

Write out the question or title in full. When you are invited to discuss texts of your
own choice, it is a good idea to say which ones you have chosen (perhaps in
brackets).

Film, book, play, journal and newspaper titles should be italicised, e.g. The Third
Man; The Guardian; The Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare Quarterly.

Titles of poems, journal articles or chapters in books are given in ‘quotation marks’.
E.g.: ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’; ‘A Sense of Place in The Third Man’.
Grammar and Spelling: Some Common Mistakes

Misuse of apostrophes. Use an apostrophe to indicate possession of an item, not the
plural: ‘the book’s cover’, not ‘the book’s I have read’. Watch out for plural
possessives (‘the film’s form’ = the form of the film; ‘the films’ form’ = the form of lots
of films).

It’s (with an apostrophe) means IT IS. In an academic essay, you should never use it
because it is an abbreviation. Its means BELONGING TO IT.

Inconsistency between subject and verb. ‘The language and genre of the play
indicate that it…’, not ‘indicates’: ‘language and genre’ is the subject of the sentence
and is plural, so the verb (‘indicate’) also takes the plural form.
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Referencing
There are several ways of referencing an academic essay but in Humanities we have agreed
to use the Harvard (or ‘author/date) system, although footnotes or endnotes are also fine.
There is an online tutorial which teaches you how to use this at:
https://github.com/Informs/Informs-Open-Source/tree/master/informs
Please consult the guidelines listed below and follow them carefully when you write your
essay.
References in the text
It’s very important that each reference you make in your essay to another source (primary or
secondary) should be adequately referenced. In the author/date system all quotations must
be laid out in the following way (see Essay Writing Guidelines above):
 Film titles are written in italics like volume titles. The first time you cite a film you
should put the director’s name and date of the film in brackets e.g. Sense and
Sensibility (dir: Ang Lee, 1995). Films are listed separately at the end of your essay
under Filmography.
 All volume titles (book or play titles plus titles of poetry or short story collections)
should be written in italics e.g. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, Four Quartets,
Middlemarch (no quotation marks are needed).
 Quotations are followed by the information necessary to refer the reader to the
bibliography and to the page(s) in the book, essay, or article (surname, date, and
page numbers in brackets). For example:
Henry James himself was a pioneer, in both practice and theory, of the basic
ideas that authors are separate from their characters, that characters have
limited knowledge, and that stories can be presented from multiple points of view
(Stillinger 1991, 5).
And a quotation from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein would look like this (notice
that the full stop goes at the very end, after the bracket):
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have
affection for it for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were
but words, which found no true echo in my heart (Shelley 1818, 1997).
Debts to general ideas are recorded in a similar fashion. For example:
Stillinger (1991, 5) has argued that Henry James was one of the first to
reinterpret the relation between author and characters.
 There is no need to repeat the author's name in the reference if s/he has already
been mentioned. When a film or other specific text is the focus of your
discussion, you should give a full director-date reference on its first
appearance.
Further Important Guidelines:

Short quotations (less than 40 words) should be enclosed in single quotation marks
and run on with the main text e.g. Seamus Heaney’s claim that Ted Hughes ‘creates a
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primeval landscape where stones cry out and horizons endure’ (Heaney 1980, 151) is
particularly evocative.

Long quotations should be indented and therefore do not require quotation
marks (see above). A space should be left between your text and the beginning of the
quotation.

When citing theoretical arguments, always cite the date that the book or the edition of
the text was first published, unless it’s a translation or a new edition. Don’t cite the
date of a later impression of a much-reprinted book.

In your bibliography, use a hanging indentation so that the second and subsequent
lines of the references are indented (makes it easier to pick out a particular
reference). To produce a hanging indentation in Word, highlight the required piece of
text, and click on ‘Format’, then ‘Paragraph’: ‘Hanging’ is in the list of special
indentation formats on the right-hand side.

If you’ve cited more than one work by the same author, use a long dash or series of
short dashes before the title in the second citation and omit the author’s name. Put
the works in chronological order.

For a much fuller account of both systems see the MHRA Style Guide, which you can
download free here (see especially p.44 onwards):
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml
Bibliography and Filmography
The bibliography should be organized alphabetically by authors’ or editors’ names. For
essays you should include all works you have consulted (including all films), not only those
you have quoted from or referred to. Books, articles, essays, and web-sites are included in
the same list but they are styled differently.
Example of a film
With listings of films, the title comes first, rather than the director’s name. The country in
which the film was produced should also be included. Note that this does not
necessarily refer to the country in which the film was shot. For example, James
Cameron’s film Aliens was shot largely in Britain while Titanic was shot largely in
Mexico, but these are both US productions.
Bubble (2005) Steven Soderbergh, U.S.A.
Example of a TV programme
If known the episode number, episode title (where relevant) and broadcast time and
date should be included. The West Wing reference below includes both the production
date of the programme, and the broadcast date:
Newsnight, BBC2, 2004, 28 October, 22.00
The West Wing, Episode 2, ‘Post hoc, ergo propter hoc’, 1999, Channel 4, 2002, 15
March, 19.35
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Example of a book
Books are always listed in this format: author’s name / date of publication (in brackets)
/ title (in italics) / place of publication / publisher
Example:
Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. (2004) Film Art: An Introduction,
London and New York: McGraw-Hill
Example of a chapter in a book
If you are listing a particular chapter in a book (for example an edited collection of
chapters), you need to include the details of the chapter (including the pages) and the
details of the book:
McLuhan, M. (2004) ‘Visual and Acoustic Space’ in C. Cox and D.
Warner (eds.) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, New York and
London: Continuum, pp. 7-9
Example of an article in a journal
Here you have to include the volume and part no. of the journal, and well as the details
of the article. In this case the article listed is from Volume 11, no. 7 of the journal, Sight
and Sound:
Williams, L.R. (2001) ‘Sick Sisters’, Sight and Sound, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 28-9
Examples of websites and articles from online journals
For an article in an online journal, give the name of the author, the title of the article, the
journal name, the issue number, the date, the paragraph numbers (if any), the URL address
and the date on which you accessed the document. Take care to preserve case in URL
addresses, since it may be important. You can also break URLs across lines, but where
possible, arrange for breaks to occur at punctuation separators.
For example:
Ascheid, A. 2006. ‘Safe Rebellions: Romantic Emancipation in the “Woman's
Heritage Film”’, Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, 4 <URL:
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=4&id=124>
[accessed
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September 2006]
For a single website, provide the name of the author (if there is one), the title of the site, the
URL address and the date of the document or the date on which you accessed it. For
example:
Roth, B. 2001. ‘Jane Austen bibliography for 2000’, at JASNA: Jane Austen <URL:
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/opno4/roth.html> [accessed 20 September 2006]
For more details on referencing different types of on-line material, have a look at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/citation.htm .
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Example of a newspaper article
Newspaper articles such as leader columns sometimes don’t have authors’ names
listed. In that case you use the newspaper title instead of the author’s name.
Hensher, P. (2004) ‘There’s nothing liberal about atheism lessons’, The
Independent, 29 October, p. 41
Further Guidance on Writing Essays
Tutors are happy to advise students on the preparation of their essays and on revision for
exams. They will not read full drafts of assessed essays, but they are willing to read and
discuss plans or abstracts and offer advice on reading. They will offer detailed advice on
how the quality of work may be improved. The following factors will be taken into account in
marking:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Relevance
Analysis of primary material
Close-reading ability
Appropriate use of secondary material
Ability to develop and sustain a relevant argument
Range and use of reading
Relevant use of critical and linguistic terms
Presentation and the use of appropriate academic conventions.
Writing
During your years as a Film student you should aim to develop your skills and style as a
writer. Your writing is not something you are stuck with: it’s something you can shape,
model, roughen, or polish. The first task is to make sure you understand the basic structures
you are using and the conventions to which you are expected to conform. You should also
be prepared to spend time improving your writing by reading other writers, paying attention to
their style, and by writing frequently and self-critically yourself. There are some very good
books about writing university essays - sophisticated as well as sound - and time spent
reading them in the early stages of your course is time well spent. A good example is James
A.W. Heffernan and John E. Lincoln, Writing: A College Handbook, 4th edn (New York: W.W.
Norton, 1994). This is an American book, so you cannot trust its spelling, but you should find
it a helpful and liberating guide. An English (and shorter) alternative is John Peck and Martin
Coyle, The Student’s Guide to Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999). Remember that the
worst student writing is bad not because it is informal, but because it is pretentious and
inaccurate.
A dictionary is an essential guide to vocabulary and spelling. The Collins English Dictionary
(which includes many proper names) and the Concise Oxford Dictionary are both very good
value. However, if you are explaining terms in your essay you should use M.H. Abrams, A
Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th edn (London: Thomson Learning, 1998), or, for non-literary
terms, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Currently this is not available through the Library
website, but you should be able to access it from your local public library website with your
user number and PIN.
Many students have difficulty with punctuation. R. L. Trask, The Penguin Guide to
Punctuation (London: Penguin, 1997) is a clear and thoughtful introduction. Some older
books are well worth consulting: Ernest Gowers, The Complete Plain Words (London:
Penguin, 1973), B.A. Phythian, A Concise Dictionary of Correct English (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1979), and H.W. Fowler, Modern English Usage (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1978).
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Exam Preparation
Time and location of exams
The Academic Registry publishes the examination timetable on its website several weeks
before the start of the examination period. It is your responsibility to check the time, date and
location of your exam. Failure to attend an exam can result in failure of the exam.
Exam preparation and technique
Everyone has a different way of preparing for and sitting an exam, but here are some
suggestions about revision and exam technique.

Make sure you know the primary texts very well. You are not permitted to take filmic
texts into any examinations for Film Studies at Keele, so it is imperative that you have
a good knowledge of the texts. If you have the kind of brain that easily remembers
quotations, then learning a few can be useful. However, accurate knowledge of, and
reference to, scenes or specific moments from the texts is also acceptable.

You are also strongly encouraged to make reference to critical material in your
examinations. Try to read a few critical articles with the intention of making reference
to them in your exam answer. If you do refer to such articles in the exam, remember
to cite their authors and titles as well as their ideas.

Film examinations at Keele are usually two hours long and require you to write two
essays. Divide up your time carefully, giving one hour to each essay.

Think about the essay question. Most people get poor marks in their examinations
because they don’t properly answer the questions.

Write a plan to ensure that your essay has an argument, rather than just being a list
of your thoughts. It is a good idea to spend about ten to fifteen minutes thinking about
the question and working on your plan.

Spend about thirty-five minutes writing your essay. This will ensure that you have
some extra time at the end of the exam if you need it, either to finish off an essay or
to check your answers and correct them.

Try to write in good, grammatical sentences in clearly legible handwriting. Try not to
make spelling mistakes and make sure that you know how to spell characters’ names.

Make sure that both your exam answers have a concluding paragraph that draws
together the strands of your argument. Part of the skill of writing an exam answer is
doing so in the allotted time. Adding a list of bullet points at the end of an essay to
show where your argument would go if you had more time is not the way to achieve a
good mark.
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Chapter Three: Academic Procedures
School of Humanities Academic Procedures
Policy on plagiarism
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged reproduction of someone else’s work as your own. You
are plagiarising if your source is a book, an article or a website, if you reproduce it exactly or
paraphrase it, and if you reproduce large or small sections of your source. Stealing other
people’s words and ideas is theft and it is cheating. It is a waste of our time and a waste of
your time.
PLAGIARISM IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE.
Students who are caught plagiarising will not only RECEIVE ZERO for their essays, but
will be referred to the School Academic Conduct Officer.
If you quote an author ALWAYS put the passage in quotation marks, followed by the author’s
name, the date of the publication, and the page number (all in brackets after the quotation).
For further details, please consult the Essay Writing section in Chapter 2.
If you get an idea from an author, make this clear by means of a bracketed
acknowledgement in the text or a footnote.
Material and ideas taken from the Internet should also be acknowledged by placing the
author’s name, the name of the website, and its URL in brackets after the relevant quotation
or paraphrase. You should also add the date that you accessed the website.
Any student who remains unclear about what constitutes plagiarism is advised to consult
either their tutor, or the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 2nd Edition (New
York: MLA, 1984).
Students MUST keep a careful record of notes taken when working on an essay or
assignment since tutors may ask to see them for evidence in cases of suspected plagiarism.
This section comprises part of the University’s policy on plagiarism, which can be found
in the University’s Academic Regulations Handbook at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/paa/studentappealscomplaintsandconduct/studentacademicconduct/.
You can also find useful advice on how to avoid it at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/landt/links/plagiarism.htm
and http://www.kusu.net/index.php/plagiarism.html
Academic warnings
Attendance at, and preparation for, tutorials, seminars and lectures is compulsory, as is the
completion of both informal and formal written work. Failure to attend tutorials, seminars and
lectures, to adequately prepare for seminars, or to complete written work, may result in an
Academic Warning.
An Academic Warning can be issued at any time. The student is given four weeks to make
up lost work and perform to the satisfaction of the Director of Undergraduate Programmes. If
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the student does not meet the specific targets set in the warning s/he may be required to
withdraw from the University. A statement of University procedures for issuing academic
warnings can be found in the Academic Regulations and Guidance for Students and Staff
2014-15 at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/newacadregpages/warnings.htm
Failing a module
If you fail to complete your formative exercise or to submit your assessed essay you will fail
your module. Usually, you will be asked to resubmit the work (often with a capped mark of
40) in order to pass the module. In some circumstances, you might be required to retake the
whole module again.
If you fail an examination, you will usually be permitted to resit it at the next available
opportunity. You are allowed another attempt to retake the examination.
A statement of the University’s assessment procedures, ‘General Regulations for University
Examinations and Assessments’, can be found in the Academic Regulations and Guidance
for Students and Staff 2014-15 at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/regulationshandbook/reg8.htm.
University Academic Procedures
Complaints
If you have a complaint, do not hesitate to go to see the appropriate person connected to
your programme. If the complaint is not something you think your current tutor should deal
with, make an appointment with the Programme Director. Student representatives on the
Staff Student Liaison Committee for your year will also take up complaints on your behalf. If
you experience sexual or racial harassment, you should consult University Harassment
Policy which can be found at the following link:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/equality/downloads/Harassment Policy.doc.
Appeals
A statement of the University appeals procedure can be found in the Academic Regulations
and Guidance for Students and Staff at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/regulations/regulation7/
University Code of Practice for Staff and Students
The University’s Codes of Practice can be found in the Academic Regulations and Guidance
for Students and Staff at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/regulationshandbook/section5.htm
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Chapter Four: Your Feedback to Us
Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching
Just as we assess your progress, you may assess your experience of studying Film.
Modules are regularly evaluated by anonymous questionnaire towards the end of the
module. The results of the evaluation are presented to the Staff-Student Liaison Committee.
They are also discussed at the Film Learning and Teaching Committee which monitors and
oversees the maintenance and enhancement of teaching quality. Student feedback on our
courses has been both responsible and helpful in the past and we hope that you will take this
matter as seriously as we do.
Staff-Student Liaison Committee
This committee meets at least once each semester. It is chaired by a student and consists of
the Staff-Student liaison officer, Professor Joe Andrew, and two representatives from each
year (including postgraduates) who are elected at the beginning of the session. The
Students’ Union offers training for student representatives, known as STARS. See
http://keelesu.com/activities/stars/ for further information. The committee’s business is to
provide a forum in which formal discussion of matters of mutual concern can take place.
This is one of the places where you can bring to our attention ways in which we could
improve what we offer, and we discuss with you changes that we have in mind. The Liaison
Committee also receives copies of course assessment by students, for comment and
discussion. Members of the committee also contact other members of their year by e-mail to
gather suggestions for discussion at the meeting or to gather together opinion on particular
issues. The Liaison Committee has been a significant force for good in the past, and we
expect that it will continue to be so in the future.
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Chapter Five: Study Abroad
Studying abroad is a unique and, for many students, life-changing experience. It is also one
which can broaden your academic perspectives and improve your career prospects.
Keele has exchange arrangements with a number of overseas universities where you can
study for one semester in your second year (language students have different
arrangements). The list includes universities in Australia, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland,
the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the USA. The Centre for
International Exchange and Language (CIEL) website has an up-to-date list of which
universities are suitable for students studying Film.
There will be a Study Abroad Fair in November 2014, and information sessions in November.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/undergraduate/undergraduate_studentlife_studyabroad.htm
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/solcca/ciel/About/contact.html
Before you can apply to study abroad you must (a) attend an information session; (b)
research the universities that are most appropriate for your subject combination; and (c)
complete a budgeting sheet. When you have completed these requirements you should sign
up for an appointment with the Study Abroad Adviser who is, Ms Elissa Williams, Global
Education Manager, International Recruitment & Development, Marketing. Appointment
slots will be posted in the Walter Moberly building in mid-November. The deadline for
applications will be in early January 2015 and selection will take place in February-March.
You will need to be in good academic standing, and have finished all your Complementary
Studies modules at the end of the first year.
For further details see the Marketing and Communications website (above) or talk to the
Study Abroad Co-ordinator in Film Studies, Dr. Ceri Morgan c.m.morgan@keele.ac.uk Tel:
34076. Information files, including student questionnaires, are available for you to consult in
the Resource Room in CIED (Room WM0.05, Ground Floor, Walter Moberly Building). The
Resource Room is open from 9.00am - 5.00pm on weekdays. Peer advisers (students who
have been abroad and now work for CIEL) will be available in the Resource Room to provide
assistance from week 3.
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