FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT HANDBOOK BA IN FILM AND LITERATURE BA IN FILM STUDIES BA IN FILM WITH TELEVISION STUDIES 2015 - 2016 Table of Contents Page Nos. 1. The Department: General information - Location - Members of Staff - Communications - Personal Tutors - Mitigating Circumstances - The Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) - Student mentor scheme - Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 2. Resources (i) Departmental: - Undergraduate common room - Films and film projection - DVD/Video screenings - Booking departmental rooms - Health and safety 11 11 11 11 12 (ii) Outside the department: - The Library - DVD/Video collection - IT/computer facilities and training for students - Cinema provision on campus - The Language Centre 13 14 14 15 15 3. Curriculum - BA in Film and Literature: First year modules - BA in Film Studies: First year modules - Assessment - Essay submission - Essay extensions - Essay deadlines - Examination information - The BA in Film and Literature: Second year modules - The BA in film Studies: Second year modules - Option information - Dissertations - Assessment 16 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 24 25 26 27 Curriculum ctd.. 1 - Essay submission Essay extensions Essay deadlines Examination information The BA in Film and Literature: Third year modules The BA in Film Studies: Third Year modules Film Options Postgraduate Study Assessment Essay submission Essay extensions Essay deadlines Examination information 31 31 32 33 34 34 34 36 37 40 41 42 42 4. Teaching and Learning - Attendance and absences - Penalty essays - Monitoring Points - Mobile phone policy - Screenings, lectures, seminars and individual study - Reading and viewing week - Timetable 43 44 45 46 46 47 47 5. The University: summary of useful services - Student Support Services - University Senior Tutor - Residential Life Team - International Office (Immigration Team) - Counselling Service - Disability Services - Mental Health Team - University Health Centre - Chaplaincy - Student Funding - Security - Student Careers and Skills - The Students’ Union - Film Making - Lord Rootes Memorial Fund - Sexual and Racial Harassment - The University Website - Student Complaints Resolution Pathway 48 48 49 49 49 50 50 50 51 51 51 52 53 54 54 54 55 55 Appendix 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Dates of terms Guidelines for the writing of essays Exam writing skills Third Year dissertation guidelines Assessment criteria: guidelines Sick certification for students Assessed work cover sheet Mitigating Circumstances additional guidance Mitigating Circumstances Declaration Form 2 57 58 67 71 73 76 79 80 83 Cover still: Louis Jourdan in Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, USA, 1948). Courtesy BFI. The information in this handbook is as accurate and up-to-date as we can make it. Statements of departmental policy are made in good faith and are an honest attempt to describe current practices, but they do not replace entries in university regulations. In the event of uncertainty, regulations take precedence. 3 1. THE DEPARTMENT OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES The BA in Film and Literature and the BA in Film Studies are administered by the Film and Television Studies department, although modules are taught by staff from Film and Television Studies, English, French and German. This means that most administrative matters are handled by Film and Television Studies and all your personal tutors are from this department. The information below centres therefore mostly on Film and Television Studies, though at appropriate points references are made to matters that affect the literature departments (see, in particular, ‘staff’ and ‘curriculum’ below). Location The Film and Television Studies department is situated on the ground and first floors of an annexe to Millburn House. Staff offices, and most of the teaching and resources rooms, are between rooms A0.12 and A0.28 on the ground floor and between rooms A1.12 and A1.28 on the first floor of the building. Common Room facilities Within the Film and Television Studies annexe, room A1.23 has been designated as the Undergraduate Common Room. Free tea and coffee facilities are available for all students and this public space is for your own use and enjoyment - use it considerately, and remember to leave it clean and tidy. (If these reasonable rules are not followed, the use of this space may be withdrawn.) The whole of Millburn House is a no-smoking area. The nearest outlet for food is located in University House although vending machines can be found in Millburn House Theatre Studies Foyer. The Departmental Office (A0.13) The Administrator, Ms Tracey McVey, in room A0.13, plays a key role in answering queries, and the booking of rooms and keys (see section 2, Resources). Please note the office hours displayed on the door. They are normally: Monday 8.15 – 6.15 Tuesday 8.00 – 4.00 Wednesday 8.00 – 4.00 Thursday 8.15 – 6.15 Friday 8.00 – 12.30 The Film Booking Office and Departmental Secretary (A0.12) 16mm and 35mm prints of films for projection are delivered to and collected from this office, which is staffed by Dr Adam Gallimore and Ms Lynsey Willmore. Adam is responsible for collecting essays in addition to managing the teaching collection, and arranging video/DVD screenings. Adam’s office hours are: Monday – Tuesday 8.30 – 5.00 Thursday – Friday 8.30 – 5.00 There are two display boards in the corridor outside the office, with information of a general nature concerning events in the field of Film and Television Studies (e.g. 4 conferences). Watch general noticeboards, in the corridor, for announcements of open lectures by visiting speakers to the department or the university (also posted on http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/researchnews/seminars/) Members of Staff Full-time Academic Staff: Room No. Dr Alastair Phillips (Head of Department) A0.20 Mr José Arroyo (UG Admissions Tutor & Exams Secretary) A1.17 Professor Charlotte Brunsdon (Director of Research) A1.18 Professor Stella Bruzzi A1.19 Dr Jon Burrows (MA Admissions & Senior Tutor (Spring)) A1.20 Dr Catherine Constable (On research leave 2015/16) A1.21 Dr Ed Gallafent (Senior Tutor & on research leave Spring 2016) A1.22 Professor Stephen Gundle (Director of Graduate Studies) A0.18 Dr James MacDowell (on research leave Autumn 2015) A0.17 Dr Rachel Moseley (on research leave Spring & Summer 2016) A0.19 Dr Michael Pigott (on research leave Spring 2016) A0.21 Dr Karl Schoonover (on research leave Autumn 2015) A0.23 Dr Owen Weetch A0.15 Dr Helen Wheatley (Director of Undergraduate Studies) A0.22 Post-doctoral and Postgraduate Teaching Staff Dr Paul Cuff Matt Denny Claire Jesson Nike Jung Georgia Mulligan Barbara Ottmann Patrick Pilkington Dr Nic Pillai Isabel Rhodes Zoe Shacklock Charlotte Stevens Marta Wasik James Taylor Dr Lauren Thompson (Widening Participation Officer) Tel. No. 22434 22361 22791 22436 24645 50651 23662 28435 73041 73000 74318 50684 22703 73871 A0.15 A0.25 A1.09 (Autumn) A1.10 (Spring) A1.09 (Spring) A1.10 (Autumn) A1.09 (Autumn) A1.08 (Autumn) A1.08 (Spring) A1.09 (Spring) A1.10 (Spring) A1.10 (Autumn) A1.08 A0.25 Clerical Staff: Ms Tracey McVey (Departmental Administrator) A0.13 Ms Lynsey Willmore (Graduate & Admissions Secretary) A0.12 Dr Adam Gallimore (Departmental Secretary & Librarian) A0.12 23511 22689 24696 Further information on staff, including publications and research interests, can be found on the pages of the department’s website (www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/staff). 5 Communications Communication is an extremely important element of your relation to the department we need reliable means of contacting you and you need to know how and when to contact us. There are four main methods of communication: Emails, Noticeboards, Pigeonholes, Feedback and Advice Hours. Module information Noticeboards - Module information, timetable and, at the appropriate times, lists of essay titles are displayed on noticeboards in the corridor in front of the departmental office (A0.13). There is one board for each year and a general one with information concerning all BA students. Keep your eyes open: information soon gets out of date. Tutors may display notices on these boards concerning your modules. Student pigeonholes – These are also situated in the corridor in front of the departmental office (A0.13). Post is delivered to these each day - not just personal letters but university communications, for instance from the library and from your tutors. Get into the habit of checking your pigeonhole regularly. For matters affecting large groups, notices are posted on the boards opposite the pigeonholes, on the noticeboard in A1.23, or notes are put in the student pigeonholes. Email - All staff will use email as an essential mode of communication with students; for example, to alert them to additional module information. It is imperative that you check the Warwick email account which the university provides you with regularly. There will be no allowances made for students who do not check their Warwick emails regularly, and the consequences of failing to act on information or requests sent by email could be serious. Website – We use the website to advertise departmental events, and to give information about our courses/modules. Contacting tutors There will also be times when you will need to make contact with your academic tutors, or personal tutor (for the role of the personal tutor, see below). The most important form of this contact, and generally the most desirable, is face to face meetings. The simplest way of seeing your tutors is in feedback and advice hours, and all tutors regularly post a signup list on the board by their rooms indicating when they will be available. If you have an unavoidable clash and therefore cannot make any of the times available you should email your tutor or leave them a note asking for an appointment and indicating how best to contact you. Staff pigeonholes: all tutors have pigeonholes in the departmental office where notes can be left for them. Email: tutors will be happy to arrange times for face to face meetings over the email. When contacting your personal tutor using email at the weekend or in the evening, please be aware that they may not answer your email until the next working day. When emailing tutors bear in mind the following: 1. Emails are sometimes printed out and placed in student files. If your email contains sensitive personal information, please indicate this by putting the word “confidential” in the subject box. Your email will then be filed in a signed, sealed envelope. 6 2. Please be respectful of staff time and do not send copies of the same query by email to several members of staff. 3. Staff in the department will not answer queries about examinations or assessed work (such as essays) by email. If you have any queries, please make an appointment to see the member of staff in charge of the module. 4. The department will not send out examination results by email, unless there are exceptional circumstances. Telephone calls: we will be asking you to fill in a form giving your telephone number and your mobile number. However, normally we would not expect to telephone you, or for you to telephone us, except in an emergency. Do not expect staff to be necessarily available on a drop-in basis. In an emergency, it might be advisable to try and get an appointment through the departmental administrator. Departmental registration form: you will fill in one of these forms at the beginning of term. Please remember to keep the information updated; any change of details to be given to the departmental administrator. Personal Tutors Every student is assigned a personal tutor. The list of personal tutors is displayed on the notice board by the pigeonholes. Personal Tutors are academic members of staff based in academic departments, assigned to each student on arrival at Warwick. The role of a personal tutor is to provide academic advice to personal tutees on their academic and personal development including feedback on their academic progress; to give students help and advice about pastoral/non-academic matters and signpost students to Student Support Services for further professional assistance; and to assist students with induction into university life. Personal tutors are the first point of contact for help with concerns about academic progress; study problems; enquiries about course changes; general concerns about university life; and financial issues. The department also has a Senior Tutor with whom students can also discuss issues. On occasion your personal tutor may refer you to the Senior Tutor. The Department’s Senior Tutor in 2015/16 is Ed Gallafent for Autumn 2015 and Summer 2016 and Jon Burrows for Spring 2016. He has overall responsibility for the operation of the personal tutor system in the Department. You should consult him if you have queries about how the personal tutor system works, or if for any reason you wish to change the personal tutor assigned to you (you have the right to make such a request). He also consults with the University Senior Tutor, Stephen Lamb, regarding sources of help and support for students outside their academic department. You must contact the Department’s Senior Tutor if you need to apply for an extension to a deadline for an assessed essay in Film Studies. In his absence, the head of department, Alastair Phillips, can also grant extensions. Your personal tutor (and module tutors) can support such requests, but cannot grant extensions. Your personal tutor can be consulted on academic or personal matters, and may represent you at a formal assembly (such as the board of examiners). He or she has the right to give testimony on your behalf in disciplinary cases and is regularly consulted by both administrators and academic staff on matters that may concern you. You would normally expect to use your personal tutor as a referee both while at university (for housing and part-time work for instance) and after you leave. It is therefore important that you get to know each other. 7 Your personal tutor will arrange certain formal meetings with you, at least once per term: (i) There will be a meeting around the beginning of the Autumn Term to meet your personal tutor (1st years) or to catch up after the summer. (ii) Your personal tutor will expect to see you within the first three weeks of the Spring Term to discuss the content of progress reports written by your module tutors in the Autumn Term. (iii) Your personal tutor will also expect to see you within the first three weeks of the Summer Term to discuss Spring Term progress reports and (for 1st and 2nd years) option choices for the following year. (Please note that if you wish to study an option outside the department in the third year, such as a language centre option, you will need permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies). 1st and 3rd year students will also be expected to meet with their personal tutors in week 10 of the Summer Term to receive and discuss a full breakdown of their exam results. Please make sure you respond to all requests to see your personal tutor; failure to attend meeting (i), (ii) or (iii) will incur one or more Missed Monitoring Points (see section 4). You are welcome to consult your personal tutor at any other time in the academic year by making an appointment. Students may sign up to see any staff member (not just their personal tutor) in feedback and advice hours. Your tutor’s feedback and advice hours are there for you to discuss any academic concerns throughout the year (e.g. to seek advice about how you might address recurrent weaknesses in your essays identified by module tutors). Please note, however, that your personal tutor will not normally comment on draft versions of essays. It is vital that you see your personal tutor or the departmental Senior Tutor should you be experiencing any personal difficulties that affect your ability to attend and study. They will be able to offer advice and, in some cases, to help you put together a case for mitigating circumstances (see below). Further information about the role of the personal tutor and the responsibilities of personal tutees is explained at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/tutors/personaltutors/functions/ Mitigating Circumstances Defining mitigating circumstances Mitigating Circumstances are unforeseen events or circumstances which have a significant negative impact on your ability to successfully complete, or study effectively in preparation for, summative assessment tasks such as essays, written or oral examinations, assessed presentations or assessed laboratory work. If you want any such events or circumstances to be considered by the relevant Board of Examiners you are required to communicate formally (normally in writing) with your Department about them. Please note that while it is acknowledged that cultural attitudes to the disclosure of personal information may vary, students are expected to fully disclose all matters they wish to have taken into consideration by the Board of Examiners. If you are unsure whether something that has happened to you, or to someone close to you, is eligible to be considered as a Mitigating Circumstance, it is likely to be eligible 8 if it was unforeseeable or beyond your control and if it also had a significant impact on your ability to prepare for or complete the assessment in question. If you are in any doubt about whether something that has happened to you or someone close to you is eligible for consideration then you should consult your Personal Tutor or Student Support or one of the advisers at the Students’ Union Advice Centre. Even if the event or circumstance is not eligible for consideration in this way it may nevertheless be something for which you should seek support and the tables set out in appendix 8 indicate, in their final column, where to go to access that support. Submission of Mitigating Circumstances If you think you do have an eligible Mitigating Circumstance you should complete and submit a Declaration Form to your Department and submit it as soon as possible after the circumstance arises along with appropriate supporting documentation of the sort outlined in the ‘Supporting Documentation’ column of Table 1, below. This form can be found at the end of appendix 8. The University recognizes that it may be difficult to obtain supporting documentation in a timely fashion; however, you should still register the circumstance pending supply of supporting documentation. The final deadline dates for the submission of the Declaration Form are: First year students: Tuesday of week 8, 14th June 2016. Second year students: Tuesday of week 10, 28th June 2016. Third year students: Wednesday of week 9, 22nd June 2016. Outcomes Mitigating Circumstances can never result in the changing of marks for individual modules or assessments; however, they may affect your overall degree classification. For further information on the possible effects of your Mitigating Circumstances claim being accepted please see the separate PDF document ‘Mitigating Circumstances Process and Procedures’, which is available online. Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) The Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) provides a forum for discussing ideas and addressing problems; it forms the basis for students’ views to be considered within the department and on senior university committees and is a formal means of gauging student opinion on academic matters. As a rule, student representatives should seek the opinion of a significant number of students on issues to be discussed. These issues will vary greatly, but recurrent themes include: syllabus, examinations and assessment, library provision, computing and welfare issues. In addition, the SSLC views and discusses the external examiners’ reports on the undergraduate degrees and feedback from the National Student Survey in order to aid the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the formulation of an appropriate departmental action plan, which responds to the key issues arising. The SSLC also considers module feedback for all undergraduate modules across the year, utilising the module leaders’ summaries of questionnaires typically undertaken in weeks 5 and 10 of the Autumn and Spring terms. The SSLC consists of student representatives from each degree course in every year of study and three members of staff (the Head of Film and Television Studies, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, who liaises with the departments teaching the Literature modules [English, French, German], and the Subject Specialist Librarian). The SSLC meets twice a term to consider matters brought to its attention by students or staff; issues are solicited by means of short meetings at the end of a lecture and/or by notices on the SSLC notice board just past the main entrance doors on the right, and/or the online SSLC web portal and/or a special Facebook page. Second Year representatives 9 act as Chairperson and Secretary of the SSLC meetings and will also attend departmental staff meetings to discuss issues raised at the SSLC, where appropriate. Minutes are taken by the SSLC Secretary and should record in a concise form who was present, what was discussed and what decisions were taken. They should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (as soon as possible after the meeting) who will circulate them to all SSLC members as well as display them on the Common Room notice board. SSLC members may report back to other students in a slot before or after a lecture, but should inform the lecturer in advance to permit appropriate time-planning. A hard copy booklet about the SSLC, produced by the Students’ Union, is available from the Students’ Union and the Academic Office; it can also be downloaded at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/sunion/sslc/handbook/. The Students’ Union organises training sessions for SSLC representatives. Student Mentor Scheme As a result of a Student-Staff Student Liaison Committee initiative, the department has developed a student mentor scheme. Second year students have volunteered to act as mentors to first year students from the start of the autumn term. The date of the first mentoring meeting will be announced in the first week of term. Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) “More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given” Bertrand Russell The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence give students and colleagues the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellence in teaching and the support of learning throughout the nominee’s career at the University. The awards aim to: Recognise and reward members of staff who have had exceptional impact on the student learning experience. Enhance the profile of teaching excellence at the University. Award winners and commendees with funding to further enhance practice. All staff, postgraduates and post-doctoral students who teach or support student learning at Warwick are eligible to be nominated for an award. Winners will receive an award of £5000 and commendees receive £2000. Information will be circulated when nominations open and students can nominate staff members or teaching Post-doctoral or Postgraduate students. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/funding/wate/awards/studentnomination/ 10 2. RESOURCES (i) Departmental: Undergraduate common room Room A1.23 is for the use of all Film & Television undergraduate students. Enjoy it but please use the space considerately. Tea, coffee and milk are available, and the kettle can be refilled in the Staff Kitchen (A1.06). Do let Tracey McVey know if supplies are running low. Please leave the common room clean and be respectful of the offices and seminar rooms nearby. Films and film projection Films for module screenings (16mm, 35mm and DCP formats are available) are hired by Film and Television Studies and handled by our departmental projectionists, Frank Gibson and Richard Allen. Frank and Richard are responsible for celluloid and digital projection. DVD/Video screenings Screenings are usually either celluloid or DCP (Digital Cinema Packages). We also project off-air recordings on DVD or Blu-Ray when prints are unavailable. A week by week list of all module screenings is posted on the notice board to the right of the main entrance. You may attend screenings other than those prescribed for your module, provided there are available seats in the room - which you should check with the relevant tutor. The department owns a collection of about 100 film prints, mostly on 16mm, which you may borrow and screen on the premises. Please contact Dr Adam Gallimore, who has the list. Booking departmental rooms You may also book rooms for individual or small group screenings. The procedure for booking is described below. Rooms A0.26, A1.25 and A1.27 are used for teaching, but may also be booked for individual screening and/or viewing of film or video outside of teaching hours via the departmental secretaries (rooms A0.26 and A1.25 are centrally timetabled on Mondays and Fridays and should be booked through Central Timetabling). Rooms A0.28 and A1.28 can only be booked online through Central Timetabling (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/centraltimetabling). All of the teaching rooms have video projection facilities for DVD and VHS. Rooms A0.26, A0.28, A1.25 and A1.27 can also project Blu-Ray discs. Room A0.08 has a Steenbeck table for 35mm viewing and a 16mm projector. You can view DVD and VHS on a TV monitor in room A0.09, and there is also equipment in this room which enables you to make copies of such materials. Room A0.08 contains a PC with facilities for creating digital copies of still and moving images from VHS and DVD sources, along with an A4 scanner. Booking rooms and keys; looking after equipment and rooms Locally-timetables rooms are booked, and keys issued, by the secretary during office hours (see under ‘Departmental office’). Please make sure you are familiar with the system and plan your booking ahead. When you wish to book a room, check availability in the folder in the office, and enter your name in the relevant slots. Always enter the title of film(s) to be screened on the sheet when making the room booking. Rooms for 11 module screenings are already booked in the secretary’s records. (See above for booking procedures concerning rooms A0.28 and A1.28) Keys for weekend use should be signed out on Friday, and returned on Monday morning. Otherwise KEYS MUST NOT BE RETAINED FOR LONGER THAN 24 HOURS. You are personally responsible for keys issued against your signature. DO NOT hand them to anyone else. Keys must be returned to the secretary during office hours, and the earlier the better. Make sure that your return of a key is noted in the issue book by signing your name. VERY IMPORTANT: Never leave rooms for which you have been issued with a key unoccupied and unlocked, even briefly; we know from experience that thieves and vandals can work with amazing speed. Make sure that the video projectors (in A1.25, A1.27, A0.26, A0.28 and A1.28) are turned off after use. Please REPORT any damage to films or failure of equipment to the departmental office, as soon as possible and in the most clearly detailed terms. Things do go wrong; it is not necessarily anyone’s fault, but we need to know. Equally, report faulty video tapes or DVDs to the library when returning them. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SMOKING INSIDE ANY UNIVERSITY BUILDING. IF YOU DRINK COFFEE, TEA, OR WATER, PLEASE TIDY THE CUPS UP AFTERWARDS. DO NOT PLACE LIQUIDS NEAR OR ON EQUIPMENT. Health and Safety Health and Safety matters within the university are overseen by the Safety and Occupational Health Services. Their website (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/safety) provides a range of detailed information about Health and Safety issues and procedures. In particular, the documents collected under the title of ‘Safety in the University’ (SITU) focus on such things as Health and Safety Training, Risk Assessment, Disability issues, Health Promotion, Computer Workstation/VDU set up, Occupational Health and Stress Management, Accident Reporting etc. The Film and Television Studies department has a Health and Safety policy (hard copy in the department office) and safety and risk assessments are carried out on a regular basis throughout the year. Health and Safety concerns should be raised at Department meetings and/or brought to the attention of the Department Health and Safety Officer. Health and Safety Personnel Department Health and Safety Officer: Tracey McVey Film Studies First Aider: Tracey McVey Further Advice Director Safety and Occupational Health Services: Iain MacKirdy (Ext. 50824) Health and Safety Adviser: Julie Brannon (Ext. 75873) Senior Occupational Health Adviser: Jane Poole (Ext. 50082) Fire Safety Officer: Chris Mayfield (Estates Ext. 22561) Waste and Recycling Manager: John Watson (Estates Ext.50548) Warwick University Health Centre (Ext. 24888) Health and Safety Information 12 Health and Safety information can be found on the Safety and Occupational Health Services website noted above and (more immediately) on the notice board in the main entrance 1. If medical assistance is needed, university policy recommends the relevant services be contacted by dialling 999. The Warwick University Health Centre is available for consultation but is a GP practice not a walk-in centre. Their website gives you details of how to contact two out-of-hour surgeries (02476674123 and 02476228606) and provides maps for the closest Accident and Emergency provision at University Hospital in Coventry and Warwick Hospital. 2. Accidents in the department should be reported. Accident report forms are held in the Film and Television Studies office. In the case of Fire (See also SITU 22.4) Fire extinguishers are located in the Department corridor rather than in the teaching rooms, offices or projection booths. University policy in the event of fire is that you should evacuate the building as quickly as possible. The following procedures are recommended: On discovering a fire: Raise the alarm by breaking the glass in the nearest Break Glass Point which will be situated by main exit doors and along evacuation routes. Report the fire by ringing 999. On hearing a continuous ringing of the fire bells: Stop what you are doing. Leave immediately by the nearest fire exit. The person in charge of a class will direct students to the nearest available exit. Do not use lifts. Do not stop to collect personal belongings. Do not attempt to put out a fire. After any evacuation, stand well clear of the building you have exited from. You may be directed to specified fire assembly points by university staff who will monitor and attend any alarm in progress. Do not re-enter the building until told it is safe to do so by the Fire Service or university Security staff. Personal Evacuation Plan If there are reasons why evacuation from the building might present a significant problem for you personally, you should consult the SOHS website about working out a Personal Evacuation Plan and contact the department’s Health and Safety Officer. (ii) Outside the Department The Library The library plays a crucial part in your studies. It is important that you become familiar with it as soon as possible, in order to make the best possible use of its extensive resources. Training sessions in Term 1 are arranged by Richard Perkins, the Film and Television Studies Subject Specialist. Richard is available to help you right through your degree course. The best way to contact him is by email at r.perkins@warwick.ac.uk . He is usually in the department on Mondays in room A0.08. You can make an appointment 13 in advance or drop in if you need help with finding resources. Please contact him immediately should there be any problems with library resources for a specific module. Richard also covers Theatre and German. The Subject Specialist Librarian for English and French is Kate Courage (kate.courage@warwick.ac.uk). Locations Most Film & TV books are on Floor 3 of the Library, classified in the range PN 3220 – PN 3279. There should be multiple copies of core texts, and most required seminar reading is available in PDF form on the Library website at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/electronicresources/extracts Material which is in heavy demand is kept in the Short Loan Collection on Floor 1. This includes the large collection of DVDs. At any one time you may borrow 2 books and 2 DVDs from Short Loan in addition to your normal allocation of 15 books. In order to give everybody the chance to use this material, the loan period is very short, and the fines for late return very heavy. Items are always due the next morning by 11 a.m. (or Monday morning if borrowed Friday to Sunday); the fine rate is £1 per hour overdue! Short Loan items can be booked in advance via the Library catalogue (Encore) for a specific day or weekend slot. We advise that you do this for important DVDs, as the collection is also used extensively by students from other departments. DVD / Video collection As stated above, most films are kept in Short Loan, but there are many titles not currently being taught on modules which are held in the Store (with a longer loan period). These can be requested via the catalogue. Items are made available for collection on a daily basis (items requested Friday to Sunday arrive on Monday morning). If you need to view films in the Library there are DVD / VHS players on Floor 1. Ask at the Help Desk if you need headphones. The collection is a key educational resource; many DVDs and tapes are irreplaceable and should be treated them accordingly. Please report any faults to the Help Desk. Study Space The Library provides a range of study options. Floors 1 and 2 are designed for social / group working, and the atmosphere is relaxed. Floors 3-5 are more traditional spaces for individual, quiet study. If you prefer to work in complete silence there are two silent reading rooms on the Floor 2 Extension, near the science books. The Library is open every day (including weekends) from 8.30am to 12.00am. Closer to Millburn House you will find The Learning Grid, a space run by the Library in University House. This is open 24/7, and caters for group working. IT/Computer Facilities and Training for Students IT Services provide the essential resources and support necessary to give all members of the University access to information technology for research, teaching, learning and administration purposes. If students have problems using the facilities or systems provided by IT Services, they can go to the Helpdesk located on the ground floor of the Library building, telephone 024 765 73737 or email helpdesk@warwick.ac.uk. 14 Every student is entitled to register to use the services provided by IT Services, which can be accessed from anywhere on campus. Information on setting up an account, accessing the network from on and off campus, printing and purchasing computers is available on-line at http://warwick.ac.uk/its. IT Services also produce information on acceptable use of University IT facilities for students and staff: http://warwick.ac.uk/regulation31. A student handbook produced by IT Services will be available at the Film and Television Studies induction session. Links to internet based research resources relevant to Film and Television Studies can be found on our website (www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/resources/internet/). Cinema Provision on Campus The Arts Centre Cinema, on campus, shows on average eight different films a week (with two different screenings every evening). Films and special study days (to which members of the department occasionally contribute) are widely publicised on campus. Module tutors may draw your attention to specific films, but we strongly urge you to keep up with new releases beyond specific recommendations. Students may work as ushers in the cinema (enquire with the Arts Centre). The Students’ Union Film Society also shows a substantial programme of mainstream and independent films. Only industry standard equipment is used, playing 35mm, 70mm and DCI compliant movies in L3 on the Science Concourse. Membership (as of 2014) is £3.50 and ticket prices thereafter are £2.50. For programme information or to join the Film Society visit: http://www.warwicksu.com/societies/filmsoc or email: info@filmsoc.warwick.ac.uk The Language Centre The Language Centre supports the University's commitment to the increased provision of foreign language learning opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff across the University. It is equipped with digital language classrooms and seminar rooms, with data projection and electronic whiteboards. There is also a multimedia open access suite with satellite TV, computer-based learning, and DVD players. There are a number of choices available for acquiring a new foreign language or brushing up language skills: (i) Modules for credits on the academic programme These can usually be taken as part of an undergraduate degree course, but this must be agreed with student’s home department before enrolling. More information available online from: http://warwick.ac.uk/languagecentre/academic/ (ii) Academic modules not for credit The same modules as those available for academic credit are also available to take in addition to degree studies. A fee applies to these modules. Further information is available from the Centre’s website. (iii) Lifelong Language Learning (LLL) Courses A programme of language courses for students, members of staff and the public. More information is available from: http://warwick.ac.uk/languagecentre/lifelonglearning/. The Language Centre (http://warwick.ac.uk/languagecentre) is located on the ground floor of the Humanities Building and can be contacted by email: language.enquiries@warwick.ac.uk. 15 YEAR ONE CURRICULUM You will have received advance information on these modules. Detailed programmes and reading lists will be handed out by module tutors at the first session. BA IN FILM AND LITERATURE: First year modules for 2015-2016 (for assessment see section below) FI106 Film History Module tutors: Stephen Gundle (Autumn), Stella Bruzzi (Spring) with Paul Cuff (Autumn) and Isabel Rhodes (Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) FI107 Film Criticism Module tutors: Alastair Phillips (Autumn), José Arroyo (Spring) with Claire Jesson (Autumn) and Paul Cuff (Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) EN122 Modes of Reading Module convenor: Gemma Goodman (English) 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) FR109 Aspects of Modern French and German Literature Module tutors: Autumn: Siân Miles (French) and Spring: Susan Beardmore (German) 2 lectures per week Seminars as in module handouts BA IN FILM STUDIES: First year modules for 2015-2016 (for assessment see section below) FI106 Film History Module tutors: Stephen Gundle (Autumn), Stella Bruzzi (Spring) with Paul Cuff (Autumn) and Isabel Rhodes (Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) FI107 Film Criticism Module tutors: Alastair Phillips (Autumn), José Arroyo (Spring) with Claire Jesson (Autumn) and Paul Cuff (Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) 16 FI108 Theories of the Moving Image Module tutor: Nic Pillai (Autumn), Karl Schoonover (Spring) with Marta Wasik (Autumn) and Zoe Shacklock (Spring) 1 Screening per week 1 Lecture per week (1 hour) 1 Seminar per week (1½ hours) FI109 Visual Cultures Module tutor: Michael Pigott, Owen Weetch (Autumn), and Helen Wheatley (Spring) 1 Screening per week 1 Lecture per week (1 hour) 1 Seminar per week (1½ - 2 hours) ASSESSMENT The Assessment System: conventions and procedures Throughout your studies, you are assessed through a combination of essays and unseen examinations, which take place at the end of each year. At the end of the first year, you need to achieve an overall pass mark of 40 in each module in order to proceed to the second year. The actual marks obtained will not count towards your final degree classification. However, they are an important indication of your progress and it is important that you do your best from the very beginning. (N.B. employers sometimes ask for academic referees to comment on 1st year performance as well as degree results.) Final degree classes for the BA are awarded by the Final Year Examination Board. The scale of marks equivalent to classification is as follows: 70 and above 60-69 50-59 40-49 39 and below First 2.1 2.2 3rd Fail 17-point marking scale Where an assessment or exam is a single piece of work, or a small number of long exam answers, work will be marked using the 17-point marking scale outlined below. (The descriptors in the following table are interpreted as appropriate to the subject and the year/level of study, and implicitly cover good academic practice and the avoidance of plagiarism. We publish more detailed departmental marking criteria in Appendix 4.) With the exception of Zero, the descriptors cover a range of marks, with the location within each group dependent on the extent to which the elements in the descriptor and departmental marking criteria are met. Class First Scale Descriptor Exceptional work of the highest quality, demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, Excellent 1st organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. At final-year level: work may achieve or be close to publishable standard. 17 High 1st Mid 1 st Low 1st Upper Second (2.1) High 2.1 Mid 2.1 Low 2.1 High 2.2 Lower Second Mid 2.2 Low 2.2 Very high quality work demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Work which may extend existing debates or interpretations. High quality work demonstrating good knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Competent work, demonstrating reasonable knowledge and understanding, some analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. High 3rd Third Mid 3rd Low 3rd Fail High Fail Work does not meet standards required for the appropriate (sub stage of an Honours degree. There may be evidence of some Honours) basic understanding of relevant concepts and techniques Fail Low Fail Zero Work of limited quality, demonstrating some relevant knowledge and understanding. Poor quality work well below the standards required for the appropriate stage of an Honours degree. Work of no merit OR Absent, work not submitted, penalty in some misconduct cases Zero For calculating module results, the points on this marking scale have the following numerical equivalents: Class First Upper Second Lower Second Third Fail Zero Point on numerical scale equivalent st Excellent 1 96 range of marks for work marked using all points on 0-100 scale 93-100 High 1st 89 85-92 81 78-84 Low 1st 74 70-77 High 2.1 68 67-69 Mid 2.1 65 64-66 Low 2.1 62 60-63 High 2.2 58 57-59 Mid 2.2 55 54-56 Low 2.2 52 50-53 High 3rd 48 47-49 Mid 3rd 45 44-46 Low 3rd 42 40-43 High Fail 38 35-39 Fail 25 19-34 Low Fail 12 1-18 Zero 0 0 Mid 1 st 18 So, if an essay or exam answer is awarded the grade ‘Mid 2.1’ this means that it will count as a numerical mark of 65 for the purpose of calculating your final grade for the relevant module. Further information about examinations may be obtained from your module tutors, your personal tutor, or the department’s Examinations Secretary, José Arroyo. The First Year Examination Board meets at the end of the summer term. Further information about this Board, the regulations which govern it, and the procedures it follows is available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/examinations/fyboe/guide/ In each case the Board will make one of three recommendations: 1) To allow you to proceed to your second year of study. 2) To require you to take further exams in September, and/or to present further written work for assessment, before a further Examination Board meets in late September. 3) To recommend that you withdraw from your course of study. (Students in this category may, if they wish, take further tests in the summer vacation.) Your personal tutor will be able to give you a full breakdown of your marks following the board. If you are not able to be present but would like to be sent your overall module grades, please give Tracey McVey a self-addressed envelope, and remember to see your personal tutor at the beginning of your second year to discuss your results. Do not request marks by email or telephone. Examinations test your understanding of critical and theoretical issues and your coverage of the syllabus, as well as your ability to write concisely and at short notice (see appendix 3 guidelines on preparation for and writing under examination conditions). Assessed essays give you the opportunity to display your command of close textual analysis and historical research, and your ability to collect and organise evidence. They develop your analytic, rhetorical and writing skills (see appendix 2 guidelines for the writing of essays). They also allow you to learn from comments and corrections by tutors. You may not repeat material from your assessed essays in any examination, (though you may repeat material from unassessed or formative essays). If in doubt about this, consult module tutors or your personal tutor. Essays will normally be returned to you within four weeks (20 university working days), with an agreed internal grade and detailed comments from the marker. You will find in appendix 5 guidelines for the assessment criteria in operation in the department. All modules are examined at the end of the first year. The detail of proportion of essay and exam work in the first year is as follows: – FI106 Film History Assessment: Essay 1 x 3,000 words Essay 1 x 3,000 words Examination: 2 hours 19 30% 30% 40% FI107 Film Criticism Assessment: Essay 1 x 1,500 words Essay 1 x 1,500 words Examination: 2 hours 30% 30% 40% FI108 Theories of the Moving Image Assessment: 1 x essay, 2,000 words 1 x essay, 2,000 words Examination: 2 hours 30% 30% 40% FI109 Visual Cultures Assessment: 1 x essay 1,500 words 1 x essay 1,500 words Examination: 2 hours 30% 30% 40% Modes of Reading (EN122) Assessment: 2 essays (3,500 words each) 100% Aspects of Modern French and German Literature (FR 109) Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) Examination: 3 hours 40% 60% Essay Lengths You must provide a word count at the end of your essay. 10% variation on the required length, in either direction, is acceptable. Essay Titles Essay titles will be published at least 4 weeks before the essay deadline. Essay Submission All essays should be submitted by 12.00 noon on the day stated below. All 1st year Film essays must be submitted both in hard copy form and in electronic form via the esubmission system. Hard copies of Film Studies essays should be handed in to the Film and Television Studies departmental secretary (room A0.12), French Literature to the French department (room H4.42), German Literature to the German department (room H2.05) and Modes of Reading to the English department (Reception 5th Floor Humanities Building). Film essays must not be submitted by fax or email. N.B. When it comes to deadlines which fall in the first weeks of the Christmas or Easter vacations, if you are not able to submit your essay hard copy in person you may hand it in before the end of term (but check ahead that there will be someone available in the office if you plan to submit it on a Friday) or send it by first class signed-for mail. If you do submit an essay hard copy due in week 11 by mail, it must arrive by 12.00pm on the deadline day. For Film and Television modules, the electronic version of your essay must be submitted though Tabula at Start.Warwick: https://start.warwick.ac.uk The deadline for electronic submission is exactly the same as for the hard copy: 12.00pm on the day stated below. Full instructions on how to upload your essay are 20 provided on the department’s e-submission web-page. Please remember your essay will not be considered to have been submitted until you have handed in your hard copy AND uploaded your essay via the e-submission system. Failure to do either by the specified deadline will mean that your essay is LATE and you will be subject to the appropriate penalties (see p.22). All hard copies of essays should be accompanied by a securely attached and fully completed front sheet (see appendix 8). This sheet can also be downloaded from our website (www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/undergrads/). Copies of the sheet are available from the departmental office, and should be collected in advance – not filled in when you arrive to submit the essay. The cover sheet only asks for your student number so that the essay will be marked anonymously if you wish. Normally students hand their essays in personally. If for any reason it is not possible to hand in the work in person, you are advised not to leave the submission to the last minute, and to ask the student entrusted with the task to phone you to confirm that the essay has been signed in. But it should be clear that you are taking the risk of an arrangement going wrong. Retrospective extensions are not given where the essay has been handed to a third party and has gone astray. Mark and comment sheets will be attached to essays when they are returned. These are usually computer generated, but some module tutors may ask you to attach hard copies to your essays before you hand them in. These are also available from the departmental office. Students diagnosed with Dyslexia should register with Disability Services. They will assist in providing yellow stickers which should be attached to the front of assessed essays to alert the tutor. Visit www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/tutors/disability for further information. Essay Extensions If there are circumstances which prevent your handing in an essay by the prescribed deadline, you will have to apply for an extension. The conventions which apply depend on the department teaching the module, and are as follows: For Film Studies modules: the only person who can grant extensions is the Senior Tutor. You will need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula through Start.Warwick. If the extension is agreed, you will be provided with a new deadline. Extensions are given in the case of significant illness, accompanied by a medical note, or comparable difficulty. They are not given to cover transport difficulties, poor time management or mistaking/forgetting the time of deadlines. They are not normally given for computer failure unless this is fully documented. Involvement in extra-curricular university activities are never grounds for an extension if you could reasonably have planned ahead and organised your time accordingly. You may wish to use email to alert your module tutor and/or the Senior Tutor if you are aware that circumstances are arising which may cause you to require an extension. You will still need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula. For English modules: extension requests for English modules should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dr Sarah Moss). For French and German modules: extension requests should be directed to both the Director of Undergraduate Studies in German (Dr Jim Jordan in Term One; Prof Mary 21 Cosgrove in Terms Two and Three) and the Senior Tutor of Film and Television Studies. In some circumstances in which you have not been granted an extension you may still be advised to complete the assignment and hand it in. In these cases the work will be marked and the mark reported to the appropriate examination board. The board will consider how, if at all, the mark is to be taken into account. Penalties for Late Submission without an Extension When work is submitted late and no formal extension has been granted, there is a penalty of 5 percentage points reduction of the mark per (working) day late. Feedback The department places great importance on maintaining teaching of the highest quality. To help achieve this, at the end of the Autumn and Spring term, module leaders will ask you to fill in an anonymous questionnaire, in which you are invited to reflect on various aspects of the teaching of the module. Please be frank and constructive in your replies as these responses play an important part in enhancing the quality of modules. Issues raised through module feedback are discussed at SSLC meetings. ESSAY DEADLINES TERM ONE 2015 Monday 2nd November Tuesday 3rd November Monday 9th November Friday 13th November Monday 23rd November Tuesday 24th November Monday 14th December Return Date (Wk 5) (Wk 5) (Wk 6) (Wk 6) (Wk 8) (Wk 8) (Wk 11) Visual Cultures Modes of Reading Film Criticism Theories of Mov. Image German Literature Modes of Reading Theories of Mov. Image 1,500 words 30th November Formative 1,500 words 7th December Formative Formative Formative 2,000 words 18th January TERM TWO 2016 Monday 11th January (Wk 1) Tuesday 19th January (Wk 2) th Wednesday 10 February (Wk 5) Monday 15th February (Wk 6) Monday 29th February (Wk 8) Monday 7th March (Wk 9) Return Date Film History Modes of Reading German Literature Film Criticism French Literature Visual Cultures 3,000 words 8th February 3,500 words 16th February 2,500 words 9th March 1,500 words 14th March 2,500 words 30th March 1,500 words 6th April TERM THREE 2016 Monday 25th April Tuesday 3rd May Wednesday 4th May Monday 16th May Return Date (Wk 1) (Wk 2) (Wk 2) (Wk 4) Film History Theories of Mov. Image Modes of Reading French Literature 3,000 words 24th May 2,000 words 1st June 3,500 words 2nd June 2,500 words 14th June * Hard copies of essays due in after the end of term (Week 11) can be sent by post provided they are sent First Class Signed For (http://www.postoffice.co.uk/signed-forfirst-class) to arrive by 12.00 noon on the submission day. Examination information 22 The syllabus on which examinations are based will be made clear to you by each module tutor in the revision sessions in the summer term. If in doubt, please consult module tutors in the first place, or your personal tutor. Copies of past examination papers (set within the last five years) are available online at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/exampapers Exam rubrics are posted on the noticeboard by the pigeonholes in the summer term and will be explained by module tutors in revision sessions. First year examinations are often scheduled to begin in week 6 of the summer term, but exam timetabling arrangements are not made by the department and cannot be guaranteed. The department provides examination feedback in the form of generic feedback, which is made available to first and second year students after the exam boards have taken place. This feedback shows a breakdown of the range of marks across the exam as a whole as well as each individual answer (assuming more than one person attempted the question). The generic feedback delineates the common problems of weak answers as well as key elements of good answers. 23 YEAR TWO CURRICULUM BA IN FILM AND LITERATURE – 2nd year film modules for 2015-2016 (for assessment: see section below) You will have received advance information on these modules. Detailed programmes and reading lists will be handed out by module tutors at the first session. Core module FI102 Hollywood Cinema Module tutors: Ed Gallafent (Autumn) and James MacDowell (Spring) with Paul Cuff, James Taylor (Autumn) and Owen Weetch, James Taylor (Spring) 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) And one of either FI204 National Cinemas Module tutors: Stephen Gundle (Autumn) and Karl Schoonover (Spring) with Owen Weetch (Autumn) and Nike Jung (Spring) 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) OR FI203 Silent Cinema Module tutor: Jon Burrows (Autumn & Spring) 1 Screening per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) BA IN FILM STUDIES - 2nd year film modules for 2015-2016 Students on this degree take Hollywood Cinema and National Cinemas (core modules) - see above. Optional Core Modules (choice of a maximum of two) FI205 Television History and Criticism Module tutors: Rachel Moseley (Autumn) and Charlotte Stevens (Spring) 1 Screening per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week AND/OR FI203 Silent Cinema Module tutor: Jon Burrows (Autumn & Spring) 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) 24 AND/OR TH237 Audio-Visual Avant Gardes (15 CATs Autumn term only) Module tutor: Michael Pigott 1 screening per week Lecture and seminar schedule varies each week, use the link below to access the weekly schedule: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/current/undergrads/outlines/avag FI329 Screenwriting* Module tutor: Lee Thomas 1 screening per week Lecture/Seminar and workshops *limited number of places. Details of optional English modules outside the Department can be found at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/o ptionsmarket IATL (Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning) offer the following modules: IL001 Forms of Identity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (15 CATS) IL002 Navigating Psychopathology (15 CATS) IL004 Creative Writing Across Genres (15 CATS) IL005 Applied Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (15 CATS) IL006 Challenges of Climate Change (15 CATS) IL007 Human-Animal Studies (15 CATS) IL008 Reinventing Education (15 CATS) IL009 The IATL Undergraduate Research Project (15 CATS) IL508 Foundations of Mathematics (15 CATS) IL509 Obscenity, Libel and Press Regulation in Britain, 1660-today (15 CATS) IL510 Product Design and Development (15 CATS) IL511 Twentieth-Century Popular Culture (15 CATS) IL512 Strategic Investment and International Business Environments [SIIBE] (15 CATS) Choice of Option modules for Third Year BA in Film and Literature In your third year you will take one core film module (FI301: Film Aesthetics) and at least one literature option module. The remaining 60 CATS you need to take in your final year can be made up of film or literature modules, or a combination of both. However, if you wish to take a Language Centre module or a module not listed in the Faculty of Arts Option booklet, you will require the approval of the Head of Film and Television Studies. BA in Film Studies In your third year you will take one core module (FI301: Film Aesthetics). Of the remaining 90 CATs, at least 30 must come from film options and the remainder can be chosen from film or from the options available in the Faculty of Arts (booklet will be available on-line) 25 Dissertations The opportunity exists for students to write a dissertation in place of one of their final year options. The dissertation is a 10,000 word piece of original research, and you can apply to write on any topic in film and television studies. The decision to permit a student to write a dissertation will be taken by the Head of Department. He will consider [i] your background in the proposed subject area [ii] your record, particularly the marks for assessed essay work, so far in the degree [iii] the suitability of the topic as an undergraduate dissertation [iv] the availability of suitable supervision. Students writing dissertations are required to attend all the lectures and meetings listed below. The procedures and timetable are as follows: Second Year: Spring Term Week 7 Lecture/workshop: ‘Formulating a Dissertation Topic’. All those considering this option must attend this. A form on which the project is to be outlined will be given out at this meeting Week 10, Friday Deadline for return of forms. These forms should be submitted to Dr Adam Gallimore in hard copy and will be logged in, in the same way as an assessed essay. Summer Term Week 2, Monday Notice indicating successful applications and naming supervisors is given. Week 9 Lecture/workshop: ‘How to Research and Structure your Dissertation’. All those doing the dissertation option must attend this. The workshop will outline how to structure the dissertation and address ways of researching and writing up the literature review, which will be undertaken over the summer holiday period. Weeks 9 and 10 Following the lecture/workshop, contact your supervisor and arrange a meeting to discuss your dissertation and proposed work over the summer holiday period. First Supervisory Meeting Third Year: Autumn Term Week 2, Monday Review of Literature and draft structure submitted to supervisor Second Supervisory Meeting Week 4, Date to be confirmed Workshop on presentation skills with Edward Gallafent in preparation for the Symposium in week 8. Students must attend one skills workshop in either week 4 or week 5. 26 Week 5, Date to be confirmed Workshop on presentation skills, Edward Gallafent. Week 7, Monday Draft chapter submitted to supervisor. Discuss any issues arising with the forthcoming presentation. Third Supervisory Meeting Week 8, Date to be confirmed. Symposium: students to give 10 minute presentations on their research topics and progress to date. Week 9, Monday Arrange to meet your supervisor to discuss issues arising from the presentation and gain an overview of your term’s progress. Fourth Supervisory Meeting Spring Term Week 3 Second draft chapter submitted to supervisor Fifth Supervisory Meeting Week 7, Monday 12.00 noon: Dissertation Submission Deadline. (For all details concerning required presentation see Appendix 4 in this Handbook.) Week 10, Friday Dissertation marks returned ASSESSMENT The Assessment System: conventions and procedures Throughout your studies, you are assessed through a combination of essays and unseen examinations, which take place at the end of each year. The marks obtained in the first year will not count towards your final degree classification, but 2nd year marks constitute 50% of the assessment which your degree result is derived from. The scale of marks equivalent to classification is as follows: 70 and above 60-69 50-59 40-49 39 and below First 2.1 2.2 3rd Fail The Final Year Examination Board uses examination conventions for the award of degree classifications. These conventions are not confidential and apply to all students in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, (but not those in the Institute of Education). They are available on the website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/quality/categories/examinations/markscalesconv entions/forstudents/ 27 17-point marking scale Where an assessment or exam is a single piece of work, or a small number of long exam answers, 1st and 2nd year work will be marked using the 17-point marking scale outlined below. (The descriptors in the following table are interpreted as appropriate to the subject and the year/level of study, and implicitly cover good academic practice and the avoidance of plagiarism. We publish more detailed departmental marking criteria in Appendix 4.) With the exception of Zero, the descriptors cover a range of marks, with the location within each group dependent on the extent to which the elements in the descriptor and departmental marking criteria are met. Class First Scale Exceptional work of the highest quality, demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, Excellent 1st organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. At final-year level: work may achieve or be close to publishable standard. High 1st Mid 1 st Low 1st Upper Second (2.1) High 2.1 Mid 2.1 Low 2.1 High 2.2 Lower Second Descriptor Mid 2.2 Low 2.2 Very high quality work demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Work which may extend existing debates or interpretations. High quality work demonstrating good knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Competent work, demonstrating reasonable knowledge and understanding, some analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. High 3rd Third Mid 3rd Low 3rd Fail High Fail Work does not meet standards required for the appropriate (sub stage of an Honours degree. There may be evidence of some Honours) basic understanding of relevant concepts and techniques Fail Low Fail Zero Work of limited quality, demonstrating some relevant knowledge and understanding. Zero Poor quality work well below the standards required for the appropriate stage of an Honours degree. Work of no merit OR Absent, work not submitted, penalty in some misconduct cases 28 For calculating module results, the points on this marking scale have the following numerical equivalents: Class First Upper Second Lower Second Third Fail Zero Point on scale numerical equivalent range of marks for work marked using all points on 0-100 scale Excellent 1st 96 93-100 High 1st 89 85-92 Mid 1st 81 78-84 Low 1st 74 70-77 High 2.1 68 67-69 Mid 2.1 65 64-66 Low 2.1 62 60-63 High 2.2 58 57-59 Mid 2.2 55 54-56 Low 2.2 52 50-53 High 3rd 48 47-49 Mid 3rd 45 44-46 Low 3rd 42 40-43 High Fail 38 35-39 Fail 25 19-34 Low Fail 12 1-18 Zero 0 0 So, if an essay or exam answer is awarded the grade ‘Mid 2.1’ this means that it will count as a numerical mark of 65 for the purpose of calculating your final grade for the relevant module. Further information about examinations may be obtained from your module tutors, your personal tutor, or the department’s Examinations Secretary, José Arroyo. The Second Year Examination board meets at the end of the summer term. It consists of the Head of Department, the Examinations Secretary and all second year module leaders. Its main function is to ratify marks and to confirm which students can straightforwardly proceed to their final year of study; it will also make specific recommendations if conditions for procession to the final year have not been met (i.e. if modules have been failed). Your personal tutor will be able to give you a full breakdown of your marks following the board. If you are not able to be present but would like to be sent your overall module grades, please give Tracey McVey a selfaddressed envelope and remember to see your personal tutor at the beginning of your third year to discuss your results. Do not request marks by email or telephone. Examinations test your understanding of critical and theoretical issues and your coverage of the syllabus, as well as your ability to write concisely and at short notice (see appendix 3 guidelines on preparation for and writing under examination conditions). Assessed essays give you the opportunity to display your command of close textual analysis and historical research, and your ability to collect and organise evidence. They develop your analytic, rhetorical and writing skills (see appendix 2 29 guidelines for the writing of essays). They also allow you to learn from comments and corrections by tutors. You may not repeat material from your assessed essays in any examinations, (though you may repeat material from unassessed or formative essays). If in doubt about this, consult module tutors or your personal tutor. Essays will normally be returned to you within four weeks (20 university working days), with an agreed internal grade, and detailed comments from the first marker who, as your module tutor, is in the best position to make them. The role of the second marker is to monitor the standards of marking (rather than offer a second set of comments) and to resolve the internal grade. The internal grade may be adjusted later by the external examiners. Even though it may be subject to revision, it is felt to be appropriate to give you the agreed internal mark and feedback before it is confirmed by the externals, (this is also past students’ preference). Significant adjustments, though they can happen, are very rare. You will find in appendix 5 guidelines for the assessment criteria in operation in the department. All 2nd year modules are examined at the end of the year. The weightings given to essay and exam work for film and television modules in the second year is as follows: BA in Film and Literature and BA in Film with Television Studies Hollywood Cinema Assessment: 2 x 3,000 word essays Examination: 2 questions in 2 hours (seen exam) 60% 40% National Cinemas Assessment: 2 x 3,000 word essays Examination: 2 questions in 2 hours 60% 40% Television History and Criticism Formative assessment: 1 x 1,000 word essay Assessment: 2 x 3,000 word essays Examination: 2 questions in 2 hours 0% 60% 40% Silent Cinema Assessment: 2 x 3,000 word essays Examination: 2 questions in 2 hours 60% 40% Audio-Visual Avant Gardes (15 CAT) Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay Examination: 1½ hours 50% 50% Essay Lengths You must provide a word count at the end of your essay. 10% variation on the required length, in either direction, is acceptable. Essay Titles Essay titles will be published at least 4 weeks before the essay deadline. 30 Essay Submission All essays should be handed in by 12 noon on the day stated below; Film essays to the Film and Television Studies departmental secretary (room A0.12), Literature essays to the English department (Reception 5th Floor of Humanities Building), and AudioVisual Avant Garde essays to the Theatre and Performance Studies department (G.29 of Millburn House). Cover sheets for literature modules are available from the English department. Please see English Department guidelines regarding hard copy and esubmission of assessed work: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/essay All essays for Film and Television modules must be submitted in BOTH hard copy AND electronic form. The electronic version of your essay must be submitted though Tabula at Start.Warwick: https://start.warwick.ac.uk The deadline for electronic submission is exactly the same as for the hard copy: 12.00pm on the day stated below. Full instructions on how to upload your essay are provided on the department’s e-submission web-page. Please remember your essay will not be considered to have been submitted until you have handed in your hard copy AND uploaded your essay via the e-submission system. Failure to do either by the specified deadline will mean that your essay is LATE and you will be subject to the appropriate penalties (see p.32). No essays for any department can be submitted by fax or email. All hard copies of essays should be accompanied by a securely attached and fully completed front sheet (see appendix 7). Copies of the sheet are available from the departmental office, and should be collected in advance – not filled in when you arrive to submit the essay. Mark and comment sheets will be attached to essays when they are returned. These will be available for collection from the departmental office. You must hand in two hard copies of all Film and Television Studies essays; the cover sheet only asks for your student number so that the essay will be marked anonymously if you wish. You will need to check with other departments whether they require two copies and anonymity. Normally students hand their essays in personally. If for any reason it is not possible to hand in the work in person, you are advised not to leave the submission to the last minute, and to ask the student entrusted with the task to phone you to confirm that the essay has been signed in. But it should be clear that you are taking the risk of an arrangement going wrong. Retrospective extensions are not given where the essay has been handed to a third party and has gone astray. N.B. When it comes to deadlines which fall in the first week of the Christmas or Easter vacations, if you are not able to submit your essay in person you may hand it in before the end of term (but check ahead that there will be someone available in the office if you plan to submit it on a Friday) or send it by first class signed for mail. If you do submit an essay due in week 11 by mail, it must arrive by 12.00pm on the deadline day. Essay Extensions If there are circumstances which prevent your handing in an essay by the prescribed deadline, you will have to apply for an extension. The conventions which apply depend on the department teaching the module, and are as follows. 31 For Film Studies modules: the only person who can grant extensions is the Senior Tutor. You will need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula through Start.Warwick. If the extension is agreed, you will be provided with a new deadline. Extensions are given in the case of significant illness, accompanied by a medical note, or severely challenging personal circumstances. They are not given to cover transport difficulties, poor time management or mistaking or forgetting the time of deadlines. They are not normally given for computer failure unless fully documented. Involvement in extra-curricular university activities is never grounds for an extension if you could reasonably have planned ahead and allotted your time accordingly. You may wish to use email to alert your module tutor and/or the Senior Tutor if you are aware in advance that circumstances are arising which may cause you to require an extension. You will still need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula. For English modules: Extension requests should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dr Peter Mack in Term One, Dr Pablo Mukherjee in Terms Two and Three). In some circumstances in which you have not been granted an extension you may still be advised to complete the assignment and hand it in. In these cases the work will be marked and the mark reported to the appropriate examination board. The board will consider how, if at all, the mark is to be taken into account. (The second year board of examiners may choose to leave the final decision in such cases to the end of your third year). Penalties for Late Submission without an Extension When work is submitted late and no formal extension has been granted, there is a penalty reduction of the mark by 5 percentage points for each (working) day late. 2ND YEAR ESSAY DEADLINES TERM ONE 2015 Monday 2nd November Monday 16th November Monday 23rd November Tuesday 30th November Friday 11th December Return date (Wk 5) (Wk 7) (Wk 8) (Wk 9) (Wk 10) TV Hist & Crit (formative) National Cinemas Hollywood Cinema AVAG (15 CAT) TV Hist & Criticism TERM TWO 2016 Monday 25th January (Wk 3) Silent Cinema Monday 22nd February (Wk 7) National Cinemas Monday 14th March (Wk 10) AVAG (15 and 30 CAT) 1,000 words 30th November 3,000 words 14th December 3,000 words 21st December 2,500 words 4th January 3,000 words 15th January Return date 3,000 words 22nd February 3,000 words 21st March Portfolio 13th April TERM THREE 2016 Monday 25th April Tuesday 3rd May Monday 9th May Return date (Wk 1) (Wk 2) (Wk 3) Hollywood Cinema TV Hist and Criticism Silent Cinema 32 3,000 words 24th May 3,000 words 1st June 3,000 words 7th June * Hard copies of essays due in after the end of term (Week 10) can be sent by post provided they are sent First Class Signed For (http://www.postoffice.co.uk/signed-forfirst-class). Examination information The syllabus on which examinations are based will be made clear to you in the revision sessions in the summer term. If in doubt, please consult module tutors in the first place, or your personal tutor. Copies of past examination papers (from the last five years) are available online at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/exampapers Exam rubrics are posted on the notice board in A1.23 in the summer term and will be explained by module tutors in revision sessions. Second year examinations often begin in week 7 or 8 of the summer term, but exam timetabling arrangements are not made by the department and cannot be guaranteed. The department provides examination feedback in the form of generic feedback, which is made available to first and second year students after the exam boards have taken place. This feedback shows a breakdown of the range of marks across the exam as a whole as well as each individual answer (assuming more than one person attempted the question). The generic feedback delineates the common problems of weak answers as well as key elements of good answers. 33 CURRICULUM YEAR 3 BA IN FILM AND LITERATURE - 3rd year modules for 2015-2016 (For assessment, see section below) Students are required to take one core film module, one core literature option and film or literature options worth 60 CATS. You will have received advance information on your modules. Detailed programmes and reading lists will be handed out by module tutors at the first session. Core Module FI301 Film Aesthetics Module tutors: José Arroyo with Matt Denny (Autumn & Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay (60%) AND 2 hour exam (40%) BA IN FILM STUDIES – 3rd year modules for 2015-2016 Students are required to take one core module (30 CATs) and 90 CATs worth of option modules selected at the end of the second year. You will have received advance information on your modules. Detailed programmes and reading lists will be handed out by module tutors at the first session. Core Module FI301 Film Aesthetics Module tutors: José Arroyo with Matt Denny (Autumn & Spring) 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay (60%) AND 2 hour exam (40%) Optional 3rd Year Modules (Film & Television Studies) in 2015-2016 for BOTH degrees FI328 The Practice of Film Criticism: 15 CATs (Autumn Term) Module tutor: José Arroyo Assessment = 1 review x 1500 words (40%) AND 1 longer essay 3,500 words OR 1 video essay under 5 minutes (60%) due at the end of term. FI329 Screenwriting: 15 CATs (Autumn and Spring) Module tutor: Lee Thomas 1 x step outline for a short film script (30% of the total mark). 1 x 15-20 minute short film script (70% of the total mark). 34 FI318 British Cinema: 15 CATs (Autumn Term) Module tutor: Charlotte Brunsdon 1-2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay FI326 Re-enactment in Documentary: 15 CATS (Autumn Term) Module tutor: Stella Bruzzi 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay OR 2 hour exam FI325 Horror and the Gothic in Film and Television: 15 CATS (Spring Term) Module tutor: Helen Wheatley 1-2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay FI324 Hollywood Romantic Comedy: 15 CATS (Spring Term) Module tutor: James MacDowell 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week 1 seminar per week Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay OR 2 hour seen exam FI327 Postwar Japanese Cinema: 15 CATS (Spring Term) Module tutor: Alastair Phillips Assessment 1 x 5,000 word essay OR 2 hour exam FI203 Silent Cinema: 30 CATS (PLEASE NOTE: you cannot take this module if you chose British cinema in the Autumn Term or Horror and Gothic in the Spring Term due to a clash) Module tutor: Jon Burrows (Autumn & Spring) 1 screening per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) FI205 TV History and Criticism: 30 CATS (PLEASE NOTE: you cannot take this module if you chose Screenwriting in either the Autumn or Spring due to a clash) Module tutors: Rachel Moseley (Autumn), Charlotte Stevens (Spring) 2 screenings per week 1 lecture per week (1 hour) 1 seminar per week (1 hour) Assessment = 1 x 5,000 word essay (50%) AND 2 hour exam (50%) 35 FI310 Dissertation (30 CATs) Those who are writing a dissertation this year should note the timetable below: Third Year: Autumn Term Week 2, Monday Review of Literature and draft structure submitted to supervisor Second Supervisory Meeting Week 4, Date to be confirmed Workshop on presentation skills with Edward Gallafent in preparation for the Symposium in week 8. Students must attend one skills workshop in either week 4 or week 5. Week 5, Date to be confirmed Workshop on presentation skills, Edward Gallafent. Week 7, Monday Draft chapter submitted to supervisor. Discuss any issues arising with the forthcoming presentation. Third Supervisory Meeting Week 8, Date to be confirmed. Symposium: students to give 10 minute presentations on their research topics and progress to date. Week 9, Monday Arrange to meet your supervisor to discuss issues arising from the presentation and gain an overview of your term’s progress. Fourth Supervisory Meeting Spring Term Week 3 Second draft chapter submitted to supervisor Fifth Supervisory Meeting Week 7, Monday 12.00 noon: Dissertation Submission Deadline. (For all details concerning required presentation see Appendix 4 in this Handbook.) Week 10, Friday Dissertation marks returned For options outside the department, please refer to module documentation for details of teaching schedule and assessment. Postgraduate Study and Further Courses If you are thinking of postgraduate STUDY you should talk this over with your personal tutor in the autumn term. Selecting an appropriate course takes time and care. Courses and programmes are advertised on the general noticeboard in the Common Room. If you are interested in continuing your studies here at Warwick, make an appointment with our MA admissions tutor Karl Schoonover who can advise you. In addition information about our MA programme can be found on the departmental website at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/postgrads/ma/ 36 A complete list of courses in Britain may be found (under ‘courses’) in the British Film Institute Film and Television Handbook in the library. Some programmes have application deadlines early in the New Year. It is normally expected that you will have an MA before you can be considered for a PhD programme. A presentation on postgraduate opportunities in Film and Television Studies at Warwick will be given in the Autumn Term. If you are thinking of teaching as a career you may need to submit a PGCE application early in the autumn term. Some PGCE modules work on a first come, first served basis. Most have early closing dates. The Assessment System: conventions and procedures Throughout your studies you are assessed through a combination of essays and unseen examinations which take place at the end of each year. The marks obtained in the first year have not counted towards your final degree classification. Final degree classes for the BA are awarded by the Final Year Examination Board, based primarily on the average of all the marks you have gained across the second and third years. The scale of marks equivalent to classification is as follows: 70 and above 60-69 50-59 40-49 39 and below First 2.1 2.2 3rd Fail The degree classification conventions which the Final Year Examination Board must use are not confidential and apply to all undergraduate students at Warwick. They are outlined in detail at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/quality/categories/examinations/ conventions/ug08/ Further information about examinations may be obtained from your module tutors, your personal tutor, or the department’s Examinations Secretary, José Arroyo. 17-point marking scale Where an assessment or exam is a single piece of work, or a small number of long exam answers, 1st and 2nd year work will be marked using the 17-point marking scale outlined below. (The descriptors in the following table are interpreted as appropriate to the subject and the year/level of study, and implicitly cover good academic practice and the avoidance of plagiarism. We publish more detailed departmental marking criteria in Appendix 4.) With the exception of Zero, the descriptors cover a range of marks, with the location within each group dependent on the extent to which the elements in the descriptor and departmental marking criteria are met. 37 Class First Scale Descriptor Exceptional work of the highest quality, demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, st Excellent 1 organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. At final-year level: work may achieve or be close to publishable standard. High 1st Mid 1st Low 1st Upper Second (2.1) High 2.1 Mid 2.1 Low 2.1 High 2.2 Lower Second Mid 2.2 Low 2.2 Very high quality work demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Work which may extend existing debates or interpretations. High quality work demonstrating good knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Competent work, demonstrating reasonable knowledge and understanding, some analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. High 3rd Third Mid 3rd Low 3rd Fail High Fail Work does not meet standards required for the appropriate (sub stage of an Honours degree. There may be evidence of some Honours) basic understanding of relevant concepts and techniques Fail Low Fail Zero Work of limited quality, demonstrating some relevant knowledge and understanding. Zero Poor quality work well below the standards required for the appropriate stage of an Honours degree. Work of no merit OR Absent, work not submitted, penalty in some misconduct cases 38 For calculating module results, the points on this marking scale have the following numerical equivalents: Class First Upper Second Lower Second Third Fail Zero Point on scale numerical equivalent range of marks for work marked using all points on 0-100 scale Excellent 1st 96 93-100 High 1st 89 85-92 Mid 1st 81 78-84 Low 1st 74 70-77 High 2.1 68 67-69 Mid 2.1 65 64-66 Low 2.1 62 60-63 High 2.2 58 57-59 Mid 2.2 55 54-56 Low 2.2 52 50-53 High 3rd 48 47-49 Mid 3rd 45 44-46 Low 3rd 42 40-43 High Fail 38 35-39 Fail 25 19-34 Low Fail 12 1-18 Zero 0 0 So, if an essay or exam answer is awarded the grade ‘Mid 2.1’ this means that it will count as a numerical mark of 65 for the purpose of calculating your final grade for the relevant module. The Final Year Examination Board meets towards the end of the summer term. It consists of the full-time academic staff of the department and two external examiners. Finalists will be advised of the date of the board, and it is strongly recommended that they attend on the day to receive a detailed explanation of how their degree result was achieved. There is also a party on the afternoon of the exam board. Your personal tutor will be able to give you full details of your marks following the board. If you are not able to be present but would like to be sent your marks, please give your personal tutor a self-addressed envelope. Examinations test your understanding of critical and theoretical issues and your coverage of the syllabus, as well as your ability to write concisely and at short notice (see appendix 3 guidelines on preparation for and writing under examination conditions). Assessed essays give you the opportunity to display your command of close textual analysis and historical research, and your ability to collect and organise evidence. They develop your analytic, rhetorical and writing skills (see appendix 2 guidelines for the writing of essays). They also allow you to learn from comments and corrections by tutors. 39 You may not repeat material from your assessed essays in any examinations, (though you may repeat material from unassessed essays). If in doubt about this, consult module tutors or your personal tutor. Essays will normally be returned to you within four weeks (20 university working days), with an agreed internal grade, and detailed comments from the first marker who, as your module tutor, is in the best position to make them. The role of the second marker is to monitor the standards of marking (rather than offer a second set of comments) and to resolve the internal grade. The internal grade may be adjusted later by the external examiners. Even though it may be subject to revision, it is felt to be appropriate to give you the agreed internal mark and feedback before it is confirmed by the externals, as this forms part of the learning process (this is also past students’ preference). Significant adjustments, though they can happen, tend to be very rare. You will find in appendix 5 guidelines for the assessment criteria in operation in the department. Third Year: Choice of Assessment Method Because of the large degree of optionality in the third year, assessment patterns vary. Your choice of assessment will depend on the method of assessment offered by individual modules (for instance some options are 100% assessed, with no choice), as well as your own choice out of the possibilities offered when several assessment options are possible (e.g. some film options can be 100% assessed or 50% assessed/50% examined). Please note that there is no minimum quota of examinations which you need to take. Essay Lengths You must provide a word count at the end of your essay. 10% variation on the required length, in either direction, is acceptable. Essay Titles Essay titles will be published at least 4 weeks before the essay deadline. Presentation of Dissertations The conventions for the presentation of undergraduate dissertations are laid out in Appendix 4. You should attach a copy of the front sheet (see appendix 8 of the handbook), and the usual rule applies allowing a 10% variation on the required word-length in either direction. Essay Submission All essays should be handed in by 12 noon on the day stated below; Film essays to the Film and Television Studies departmental secretary (room A0.12), Literature essays to the English department (Reception 5th Floor of Humanities Building). Cover sheets for literature modules are available from the English department. Please see English Department guidelines regarding hard copy and e-submission of assessed work: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/essay All essays for Film and Television modules must be submitted in hard copy form. Failure to do so by the specified deadline will mean that your essay is LATE and you will be subject to the appropriate penalties (see p.42). No essays for any department can be submitted by fax or email. 40 All hard copies of essays should be accompanied by a securely attached and fully completed front sheet (see appendix 7). Copies of the sheet are available from the departmental office, and should be collected in advance – not filled in when you arrive to submit the essay. Mark and comment sheets will be attached to essays when they are returned. These will be available for collection from the departmental office. You must hand in two hard copies of all Film and Television Studies essays; the cover sheet only asks for your student number so that the essay will be marked anonymously if you wish. You will need to check with other departments whether they require two copies and anonymity. Normally students hand their essays in personally. If for any reason it is not possible to hand in the work in person, you are advised not to leave the submission to the last minute, and to ask the student entrusted with the task to phone you to confirm that the essay has been signed in. But it should be clear that you are taking the risk of an arrangement going wrong. Retrospective extensions are not given where the essay has been handed to a third party and has gone astray. N.B. When it comes to deadlines which fall in the first week of the Christmas or Easter vacations, if you are not able to submit your essay in person you may hand it in before the end of term (but check ahead that there will be someone available in the office if you plan to submit it on a Friday) or send it by first class signed for mail. If you do submit an essay due in week 11 by mail, it must arrive by 12.00pm on the deadline day. Essay Extensions If there are circumstances which prevent your handing in an essay by the prescribed deadline, you will have to apply for an extension. The conventions which apply depend on the department teaching the module, and are as follows. For Film and Television Studies modules: the only person who can grant extensions is the Senior Tutor. You will need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula through Start.Warwick. If the extension is agreed, you will be provided with a new deadline. Extensions are given in the case of significant illness, accompanied by a medical note, or severely challenging personal difficulties. They are not given to cover transport difficulties, poor time management or mistaking or forgetting the time of deadlines. They are not normally given for computer failure unless fully documented. Involvement in extra-curricular university activities are never grounds for an extension if you could reasonably have planned ahead and allotted your time accordingly. You may wish to use email to alert your module tutor and/or the Senior Tutor if you are aware in advance that circumstances are arising which may cause you to require an extension. You will still need to fill in an extension request form on Tabula. For English modules: Extension requests should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dr Peter Mack in Term One, Dr Pablo Mukherjee in Terms Two and Three). In some circumstances in which you have not been granted an extension you may still be advised to complete the assignment and hand it in. In these cases the work will be marked and the mark reported to the appropriate examination board. The board will consider how, if at all, the mark is to be taken into account. 41 Penalties for Late Submission without an Extension When work is submitted late and no formal extension has been granted, there is a penalty reduction of the mark by 5 percentage points for each (working) day late. 3RD YEAR ESSAY DEADLINES TERM ONE 2015 Monday 7th December (Wk 10) British Cinema Friday 11th December (Wk 10) TV Hist & Criticism Monday 14th December (Wk 11) Film Aesthetics Return date 5,000 words 11th January 5,000 words 15th January 5,000 words 18th January TERM TWO 2016 Monday 11th January Monday 18th January Monday 25th January Monday 22nd February Monday 4th April Return date (Wk 1) (Wk 2) (Wk 3) (Wk 7) (Wk 13) Screenwriting (Autumn group) Practice of Film Criticism 5,000 words Documentary 5,000 words Dissertation 10,000 words Film Aesthetics 5,000 words 8th February 15th February 22nd February 21st March 3rd May TERM THREE 2016 Monday 25th April Tuesday 3rd May Tuesday 3rd May Monday 9th May Monday 16th May Return date (Wk 1) (Wk 2) (Wk 2) (Wk 3) (Wk 4) Horror & the Gothic 5,000 words Screenwriting (Spring group) TV Hist & Criticism 5,000 words P/W Japanese Cinema 5,000 words Romantic Comedy 5,000 words 19th May 1st June 1st June 7th June 14th June * Hard copies of essays due in after the end of term (Weeks 10/11) can be sent by post provided they are sent First Class Signed For (http://www.postoffice.co.uk/signed-forfirst-class). Examination information The syllabus on which examinations are based will be made clear to you in the revision sessions in the summer term. If in doubt, please consult module tutors in the first place, or your personal tutor. Copies of past examination papers (over the last five years) are available online at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/exampapers Exam rubrics are posted on the Common Room noticeboards in the summer term and will be explained by module tutors in revision sessions. Final year examinations usually begin in Week 5 or 6 of the summer term, but exam timetabling arrangements are not made by the department and cannot be guaranteed. 42 4. TEACHING AND LEARNING Attendance Students are required to complete all components of each module to pass. Information regarding the requirements of each module can be found on individual module websites. This rule is in accordance with University Regulation 36.2, which ‘sets out general requirements and expectations in terms of progress, attendance and the completion of work.’ The following is excerpted from regulation 36.2: 1. Students are expected to engage fully with their course of study, take responsibility for their own learning and co-operate with their department and wider University as members of the University community. Students must comply with the requirements for their course as set out by the department. 2. Students are expected to inform departments of any health problems, changes in circumstances or other difficulties that may affect their progress. If a student fails to inform the department, these circumstances cannot be taken into account. 3. Students may be required by the Head of Department to meet with staff in the department. Students may also be required to meet with administrative staff in the wider University. 4. If a student’s progress or behaviour persistently fails to meet the expectations set out in this Regulation and departmental course requirements, the Head of Department may recommend to a Continuation of Registration Committee that the student be required to withdraw (under section 36.4.4). http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/gov/calendar/section2/regulations/reg36registrati onattendanceprogress/ Attendance at lectures, screenings and seminars: FAQ Why is attendance at classes important? The Department expects all students to attend all the lectures, screenings and seminars for each module followed. We take non-attendance seriously, as it affects both your own learning and the collective progress of the group. It gives your teachers a perspective on your work which can be fed into one-to-one tutorial situations as well as in writing references. What must I do if I cannot attend a class? In each module the seminar tutor will keep a record of who is present, and note all absences. If you are unable to attend your seminar group you must inform the seminar tutor, giving the reason for your absence. You are expected to do this in advance of the class, but if it is not possible then it is acceptable to so within 48 hours of the class taking place. You must do this either by email, or by a note in the tutor’s pigeonhole in the office. The note/email must be copied to your Personal Tutor. Failure to notify your seminar and personal tutor within the 48 hours will result in the absence being recorded as unexcused. The judgement as to whether the absence is excused or unexcused will be made by your seminar tutor. He or she may consult your Personal Tutor or the Departmental Senior Tutor if necessary. 43 What are acceptable reasons for absence? This is largely a matter of common sense. If you are ill, or you have (say) a family crisis which means you need to be away from the campus urgently, these can be acceptable reasons. It is advisable to provide documentary evidence. You should bear in mind that if you are persistently ill or in personal difficulties such that you cannot attend for some time, you may be referred to the Departmental Senior Tutor, who may discuss the option of temporary withdrawal with you, until you are fit to study again. What are unacceptable reasons for absence? You cannot be excused a class because you have an essay to write. You are expected to organise your time to make space for this. You cannot be excused for ordinary extra-curricular activities, such as film-making, or involvement in university societies. Regular healthcare appointments, e.g. physiotherapy, counselling etc. should not be made at times which repeatedly clash with a class. If you are receiving counselling because you find the social and intellectual interaction of seminars difficult, this does not exempt you from attendance, even if you feel you are not able to contribute a great deal. If you are suffering from psychological difficulties which prevent your attendance for more than a brief period of time, you may be referred to the Departmental Senior Tutor, who may discuss the option of temporary withdrawal with you, until you are fit to study again. What are the consequences of missing a significant number of seminars? The department checks the attendance records of all students, and reviews the positions of those who have missed four or more seminars in any module. If there are four or more unexcused absences across any one term, you will normally be set a penalty essay. You will receive a letter from the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dr Helen Wheatley) informing you of the essay title/s. This letter is will be sent via email from Adam Gallimore and a copy will be placed on your file. The office maintains a list of all the penalty essays set across the year. The deadline for all penalty essays set across the 2015-2016 year is Tuesday 3rd May 2016. Penalty essays must be submitted to the office with the usual essay cover sheet and submission is recorded by the office. Marking: Penalty essays are not subject to the 20 day turnaround time, nor subject to second marking. They are only given a final grade, which the module convener uses to calculate the final module mark as detailed below. The overall module mark is multiplied by 10, and the mark for the penalty essay is added to that figure. The result of that addition is divided by 11 to obtain the revised mark for the module. Example: An overall module mark of 60, with a penalty essay mark of 52: 60 x 10 = 600. 600 + 52 = 652. 652 ÷ 11 = 59.27 So the revised overall module mark is 59. In the case of a student being required to write two penalty essays, the addition is divided by 12: Example: An overall module mark of 60, penalty essays of 55 and 52 60 x 10 = 600. 600 + 55 + 52 = 707. 707 ÷ 12 = 58.91 N.B. The penalty essay mark cannot raise the mark for the module. If the penalty essay is not submitted, the revised mark is calculated as follows: 44 Example : An overall module mark of 60, with a penalty essay mark of zero: 60 x 10 = 600. 600 + 0 = 600. 600 ÷ 11 = 54.54 So the revised overall module mark is 55. If you believe that the absences have been recorded unfairly as unexcused, you can appeal to the Head of Department. You will normally need documentary evidence to support such an appeal. You are expected to keep track of your own attendance at classes. Tutors are not obliged to warn you that you may be in danger of being set a penalty essay for absence. Monitoring Points The department is required by the university to formally document all students’ attendance on, and engagement with, their degree courses by reporting to the Academic office whether students have missed any ‘monitoring points’. Monitoring points relate to a monitoring scheme which applies to each term of study. The monitoring scheme for this department is as follows: Autumn Term (1) Attendance at initial meeting with personal tutor. (2) Seminar attendance in week 3. (3) Seminar attendance in week 5. (4) Seminar attendance in week 7. (5) Seminar attendance in week 9. (6) Submission by set deadlines of 100% of assessed essays Spring Term (7) Attendance at progress review meeting with personal tutor by end of Week 3. (8) Seminar attendance in week 4. (9) Seminar attendance in week 8. (10) Submission by set deadlines of 100% of assessed essays. Summer Term (11) Attendance at progress review meeting with personal tutor by end of Week 3. (12) Attendance at 100% of examinations. If a student misses three monitoring points in one academic year the Academic office will write a warning letter to them and they will be required to meet with their personal tutor and/or the Director of Undergraduate Studies to discuss their progress. If a student misses six monitoring points in one academic year the Academic Office will require that they are referred to the university’s Continuation of Registration Committee, as set out in University Regulation 36 – Governing Student Registration, Attendance and Progress. If a student misses eight monitoring points in one academic year, the Academic Registrar will invoke the process outlined in University Regulation 36 – Governing Student Registration, Attendance and Progress. International students should be particularly aware of the consequences of missing Monitoring Points: the Academic office is obliged to report to the Home Office if any Tier 4 students have been found not to be engaging with and attending their degree course. This will normally lead to the curtailment of their visas. 45 Mobile Phone Policy It is very important that mobile phone use is not disruptive. In lectures, screenings, seminars and tutorials mobiles must be switched off. Sending and reading text messages is not acceptable. Should your phone ring during a class, you must switch it off immediately. Screenings, lectures, seminars and individual study Each of your modules runs for 22 weeks (including two reading and viewing weeks). Each involves, on a weekly basis, one or two screenings for film modules and a combination of lectures and seminars (see section 3 above). 1. Screenings are a key aspect of film modules. You are required to attend every screening that is programmed for you. Learn to make notes during screenings, of factual points (e.g. characters’ names, unless you have a printed list of credits), of your own impressions or of points in response to tutors’ comments during the lecture. Re-reading and transcribing your notes soon after a screening is a vital preparation for lectures and seminars. N.B. If you want to take notes during screenings using a laptop or tablet, we would ask you to sit at the back of the screening room to avoid distracting other students with the glare of your device. Although VHS and DVD back-up is often available from the library, big-screen communal viewings are crucial, providing the opportunity for a more thorough examination of textual details, and replicating the ‘normal’ film viewing experience. Note that there is no automatic guarantee of module films being available in the library before related lectures and seminars are due to take place. 2. Lectures introduce or develop knowledge of a particular textual, historical or theoretical/critical issue or area of which the week’s film or television text is an illustration, provide historical material and offer guidelines as to how you might read the film, further library or audio-visual research, and signal points for discussion in the seminars. Learning from lectures can be difficult. It is quite easy to lose the thread of a lecture if your attention wanders even for a brief moment, although most lecturers do recap during the lecture. Film lectures are usually illustrated with film extracts, which also allow you a ‘breathing space’. During a lecture, you have to do three tasks simultaneously: i) follow and make sense of the argument(s) ii) think about what is being said iii) take notes Do not write everything down: you cannot do that, listen and understand at the same time. Try to write down the main points, and use seminars to clear up any queries. 3. Small group seminars normally emphasise close textual work, debate theoretical issues prepared through reading, and test ideas introduced in lectures. Teaching methods may involve split seminars and smaller group work and in some cases you may be required to prepare short seminar presentations. Seminars are meant to be a dynamic and supportive environment for the development of your ideas, as well as of more general communication skills, especially the ability to construct and express arguments. Seminars work best if everybody contributes to them. This includes: i) preparing: making notes on the screenings or on your reading, preparing topics when required, doing the required reading. ii) listening to what is being said, both by the module tutor and other students. 46 iii) talking: this includes making spontaneous interventions, not just speaking when asked a question. Many students find this initially terrifying, because they feel intimidated by the module tutor, or by other students in the group, or simply because they are unused to speaking in public. To overcome this, bear in mind that many people in the group will feel the same (even if they don’t look it). The point is to advance a collective discussion, and that involves trial and error. Remember that talking will be easier if you have prepared for the seminar and if you listen attentively throughout. It is also valuable to write up your thoughts after a seminar. 4. Individual study. This will be the newest and perhaps the most difficult aspect of your work. The undergraduate study experience is very different from taking A Levels in a number of crucial ways. Schools and sixth-form colleges are judged and funded on students’ exam results, and you may have experienced schooling situations in which A level teachers play a very direct role in assisting you in the preparation of your coursework, even to the extent of carefully scrutinising drafts and correcting mistakes for you before work is submitted. Universities are not subject to the same pressures, and generally take the view that a study environment in which students have to take the initiative for improving the quality of their work will offer better preparation for life beyond education. Module and personal tutors offer office hours to give you the opportunity to discuss how you might approach an assignment or act on critical feedback, but you are expected to be proactive in making use of this facility. Organising your own individual study time requires planning and discipline; it will have a bearing on what you get out of lectures and seminars, and ultimately on the overall quality of your work. Individual study includes sourcing books and articles on reading lists (often frustrating and time consuming), reading and making notes on them, planning and writing your essays, preparing seminar presentations, keeping up with journals and with your film viewing outside module films (films shown on campus and those in the video library). Try to plan realistically: leaving essay preparation and writing to the last minute is one of the most common problems. If you have persistent difficulties planning your work, consult your personal tutor. Please consult Student Careers and Skills programme for workplace or seminar performance, essay writing and note taking should you need further help (p.45) Reading and Viewing Week The department has reading and viewing weeks in weeks 6 of the autumn and spring terms. During these weeks no lectures or seminars are held. It is intended that you should use the time for reading and viewing and to prepare material for the second half of term. Timetable The timetable for your year of study is displayed on the noticeboards opposite Room A0.13. 47 5. THE UNIVERSITY: SUMMARY OF USEFUL SUPPORT SERVICES Student Support Services Student Support Services (http://warwick.ac.uk/supportservices) offer a comprehensive support structure available to help with all kinds of different problems, including personal, health, financial, problems connected with the law and University regulations, problems involving the provision of facilities for students with disabilities, or harassment of any sort. Students may consult the services of their own accord, or may be referred to them by personal tutors/supervisors. There may be more than one option available to students in difficult situations. Support services available to students through the University comprise the following: Student Support (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/studentsupport) Personal Tutors System (http://warwick.ac.uk/personaltutors) University Senior Tutor (http://warwick.ac.uk/seniortutor) Residential Life Team (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/student-supportservices/residential-life) International Office (http://warwick.ac.uk/services/international) Counselling Service (www.warwick.ac.uk/counselling) Disability Services (http://warwick.ac.uk/disability) Mental Health Team (http://warwick.ac.uk/mentalhealth) Student Wellbeing Advisor/Practitioner (http://warwick.ac.uk/mentalhealth) University Health Centre (www.uhhc.org.uk) Chaplaincy (http://warwick.ac.uk/chaplaincy) Student Advice Centre (an independent, free and confidential Students’ Union service) Student Funding (http://warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/funding/) Security Services (http://warwick.ac.uk/security) Student Support Services, located on the ground floor of University House, can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 75570 or email on studentsupport@warwick.ac.uk A students’ guide to Student Support Services entitled Need Help Finding Your Way? is available online from (http://warwick.ac.uk/supportservices/student-supportservices-brochure.pdf). University Senior Tutor The University Senior Tutor works closely with the Head of Student Support to help students in times of need by promoting the academic support of students, individually and collectively. The Senior Tutor is an experienced member of academic staff whom students can turn to in confidence for support regarding difficulties with their studies. The University Senior Tutor is responsible for the personal tutor system. The University Senior Tutor has no disciplinary function. Issues typically dealt with by the University Senior Tutor include: academic course issues such as change of course, advice on temporary withdrawal, appeals against academic decisions; academic complaints; 48 difficulties in getting on with a personal tutor, course tutors or supervisors; and problems with termination of registration proceedings. The University Senior Tutor can be contacted via email seniortutor@warwick.ac.uk or telephone 024 765 22761. Residential Life Team All students who have accommodation on campus, or in some off-campus properties in the surrounding area, have access to an excellent network of support called the Residential Life Team. The Residential Life Team works and lives alongside students within the Halls of Residence and is a key part of the University’s support network. Resident Tutors are there to help with a wide range of matters including: personal or family problems; feeling lonely or homesick; problems with accommodation – e.g. noisy neighbours, trouble settling in etc.; and when students are not sure where to get help or who to talk to Resident Tutors in students’ accommodation are their primary point of contact; if unavailable, students are advised to contact the Student Support Office. International Office (Immigration Team) The International Office supports all EU and international students during their studies at Warwick and is able to assist with immigration advice (a free and confidential service advising on issues including visa extensions, dependant visas, working in the UK during or after study, travel visas, etc.); practical support (bringing family to the UK; Police registration; providing letters to prove student status for visa purposes; banking) and the International Student Experience (orientation and a programme of ongoing induction events; social events and trips for international students and their families; and the opportunity to take part in a HOST visit). The International Office, located on the first floor of University House, can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 23706 or email Internationalsupport@warwick.ac.uk or immigrationservice@warwick.ac.uk. Advice on immigration can only be obtained via authorised staff who are deemed to meet the Immigration Services Commissioner’s Code of Standard and Guidance. Students should be directed to the Immigration Team within the International Office (immigrationservice@warwick.ac.uk) or the Students’ Union Advice Centre (advice@warwicksu.com) in the first instance for immigration advice. It is also worth noting that changes in a student’s enrolment status, for instance, temporary withdrawal, can have implications for their ability to hold a visa to remain in the UK and students may wish to seek advice accordingly. Counselling Service The University Counselling Service provides an opportunity for all students at any level and at any time of study at the University of Warwick to access professional therapeutic counselling so that they may better develop and fulfil their personal, academic and professional potential. There are a wide variety of services, including individual counselling, group sessions, workshops and email counselling. Students may wish to visit the Counselling Service if they are: suffering from depression; experiencing stress/anxiety; having problems with self/identity; having problems with relationships; having issues from the past or present that may hinder their capacity to function – abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, loss. The University Counselling Service is located in Westwood House and can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 23761 or email counselling@warwick.ac.uk. 49 Disability Services Disability Services offer advice, guidance and support to students with Specific Learning Differences/Dyslexia or other, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, mobility difficulties, Asperger’s, unseen/medical conditions, mental health difficulties and any other impairment or condition that is likely to have an impact on their studies and life at University. The services provided are tailored to the individual and aim at enabling students to manage their support and studies independently. Students should visit Disability Services to discuss individual support requirements; for advice on the Disabled Student Allowance (DSA); if they think they might be dyslexic or have any other Special Learning Difference; if they require exam arrangements, note taking, mentoring, specialist study skills support etc.; for information about accessible campus accommodation, parking, resources and assistive technology; and for information about external agencies that also provide support. Disability Services are located on the ground floor of University House and can be contacted by telephone on 024 761 50641 or email disability@warwick.ac.uk. Mental Health Team The University Mental Health Team provides advice, information and support as to facilitate academic work and participation in University life. Their main aims are to promote mental health and wellbeing throughout the University; to identify support needs; to discuss strategies for managing mental health difficulties; to provide shortterm or ongoing support, which may include mental health mentoring for students in receipt of Disabled Students Allowances; to provide information and if needed, access to other services within the University and local mental health services. Students should contact the Mental Health Team if they are struggling to manage a mental health difficulty; if they, or other people, have become concerned about their mental health recently; and if they would like to discuss strategies which may help them to cope with university life. The University Mental Health Team is located on the ground floor of University House and can be contacted by telephone on 024 761 50226/51629 or email mentalhealth@warwick.ac.uk. Student Wellbeing Advisor/Practitioner The Wellbeing service is based within Student Support. As well as working institutionally to promote positive wellbeing, there is also an opportunity for students to meet with an adviser if they have concerns about their wellbeing or would like to make changes to their lifestyles in order to improve their wellbeing, e.g. healthy lifestyle, work life balance, managing stress, relationships with others, etc. University Health Centre Students resident on campus and in some local areas should register with the University Health Centre. Students must be registered in order to use the Health Centre, although the Centre may be able to assist non-registered people in emergencies. The Health Centre provides primary health care GP services to registered patients; two medical practices with both male and female doctors; nurse practitioners and Practice Nurses; sexual health clinics; travel clinics and immunisation facilities; physiotherapy sessions. 50 Students should visit the Health Centre if they require a consultation with a doctor or nurse; an emergency appointment; emergency contraception; vaccinations or advice on vaccinations; sickness certification. Students living off-campus, who are not able to register with the health centre, can locate your nearest GP by visiting www.nhs.uk The University Health Centre is located on Health Centre Road and can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 24888. Chaplaincy The Chaplaincy is the focus of Spiritual life on campus; it provides a meeting place for Christian, Jewish and Muslim prayer and worship. It is a focal point for different faith groups and student societies and offers a safe, supportive space at the centre of campus where people can ‘learn to live well together’. Students of all faiths and none can come and find a friendly place to chat and eat. A chapel, three kitchens, meeting rooms and an Islamic prayer hall make the Chaplaincy an inclusive, spiritual and social space that welcomes the whole University community. Students can visit the Chaplaincy with personal issues – stress, debt, relationships, loneliness; vocational issues; theological issues; enquiries about using the Chaplaincy for religious and social functions. The Chaplaincy is located by the Arts Centre and can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 23519 or email chaplaincy@warwick.ac.uk. Student Funding The Student Funding team offers advice and guidance on all aspects of financial support. This includes government grants and loans, and scholarships and bursaries provided directly by the University. The team can provide budgeting advice to help make students’ money go further and also administers University hardship funds. Students should visit Student Funding if they want to know what financial support they may be entitled to; want to know more about the scholarships and bursaries; are having difficulty paying for your day-to-day living expenses; or have additional financial needs because they care for a child or have a disability. The Student Funding team is located on the ground floor of Senate House and can be contacted by telephone on 024 761 50096 or email studentfunding@warwick.ac.uk. Security The University Security Team works 24 hours a day to support the University’s overall aims by ensuring there is a safe, secure and friendly environment for students, staff and visitors. The University also has a campus policeman who is located on the University campus, is available Monday to Friday (9am – 5pm) and can be contacted by telephone on 024 765 22083 or email security@warwick.ac.uk. In emergencies dial 999. Students should call the security team about emergency response requirements – Doctor/Ambulance/Fire; safety and security issues on and off campus; assistance – pastoral care, directions and facility support; outdoor event applications and entertainment support. Student Careers and Skills Careers support for Film and Television Studies students 51 The Centre for Student Careers and Skills supports Warwick students at all levels to devise and implement their lifelong careers plans. You can access the support at any stage of your time here but would be well advised to start early. Take a look at the website for more details of the services available: www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs Senior Careers Consultant You have a designated Senior Careers Consultant, Sue Johnstone, who has extensive experience working with students from Film and Television Studies. They will be familiar with the range of employment opportunities open to students of your discipline and can advise you on the relevant application processes. The Senior Careers Consultant can be contacted by email via careers@warwick.ac.uk Student Careers and Skills is located on the ground floor of University House. See: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/interactive/ The Senior Careers Consultant will also be able to see you in your department, although details of location vary so check available appointments. Appointments can be made through the MyAdvantage system: https://myadvantage.warwick.ac.uk/ Your course also has a second year student appointed as the Student Careers and Skills representative. S/he will maintain a useful Facebook page which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickFilmTVCareers Spring Term Alumni Event Sue Johnstone will be working closely with the Student Careers and Skills Rep, the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the departmental administrator, Tracey McVey, in order to create a dedicated alumni event. Graduates in Film Studies, Film and Television Studies and Film and Literature will return to the department to offer advice about forging a career in their respective fields. The previous event featured alumni from a diverse range of fields, including film production, radio production, video game design, primary and secondary school teaching, charity work, conceptual art and comedy writing. Social Media You might also want to take a look the Student Careers & Skills social media channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickCareersCentre Twitter: and https://www.twitter.com/WarwickCareers https://twitter.com/ArtsCareers Warwick Careers Blog: http://careersblog.warwick.ac.uk/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/careersandskills Succeeding at Warwick In addition to providing advice regarding your future career, Student Careers and Skills can help by providing academic, personal and professional training to support your degree success. A variety of programmes and awards are available and you can find details here: 52 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/skills Your future You might want to find out what others who have studied your degree in the past have gone on to do. Information is available here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/career/gradstats/department/film During your time at Warwick you can be enhancing your employability through becoming engaged with university life through clubs and societies. Part time paid work, volunteering and internships can also make you more attractive to potential employers. If you take an unpaid internship you may be able to get funding from the university for the period of the internship (up to 2 weeks). You can find out about the scheme here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/experience/bursary/ Try to come along to events organised by Student Careers and Skills, Careers Fairs are a particular highlight of the year and you can find out about them at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/whatson/fairs/ Given your degree subject you may also be interested in coming along to the Creative Careers Combo in the Autumn Term – details to be published at a later date on MyAdvantage: https://myadvantage.warwick.ac.uk Careers consultants also run skills sessions throughout the year. These are advertised on MyAdvantage (https://myadvantage.warwick.ac.uk/) and are designed to give you targeted employment training. You might find, for example that it is useful to come along to some training on how to make the best of the careers fairs, how to put together an application or as interview preparation. The Students’ Union All students automatically become members of the Students’ Union and can join any student society or run for office in the annual elections. The Union offers a number of services including an Advice and Welfare Service which complements the help and support provided by the Senior Tutor’s Office. The Students’ Union is constituted so as to ensure that each Faculty is represented on the Union Executive. An Arts representative will be elected early in the term. Anyone who has a problem that cannot be resolved and who feels the Union can help should contact this representative. Students’ Union Advice Centre The Students’ Union Advice Centre (http://www.warwicksu.com/advice/) is an independent Warwick Students’ Union-run service for all students. It offers free, confidential, non-judgemental advice and support on a whole range of issues. Students can contact the Advice Centre if they have academic problems and difficulties with, for example, exams, change of course, academic appeals and complaints; have a housing problem with their accommodation on or off campus; have immigrations problems such as entry clearance, family members and working in the UK; have money or legal difficulties, or are simply not sure who to talk to or where to get help. The Advice Centre is on the second floor of SU HQ next to the lift. It will see students usually by appointment or can be reached by telephone on 024 765 72824 or email advice@warwicksu.com Film Making 53 Although your degree is devoted to the academic study of Film, Television and/or Literature, involvement in practical and creative work is possible outside the curriculum. If you plan to seek a career in any of the media industries it will be advantageous for you to show that you have used your time at university to develop your understanding and experience of the creative arts. There are many opportunities to participate in music-making, creative writing and journalism, radio, and theatre on campus. Experience in these fields - as creator, performer, designer, organiser - can be exciting, and a valuable complement to your studies. There is an active film society within, and funded by, the Students’ Union. It can provide access to video equipment and facilities, and can put you in touch with others who wish to share in investigating the possibilities of movie-making. Both through the society and independently, students of Film have made interesting and accomplished productions which, in some cases, have benefited their careers. Lord Rootes Memorial Fund Film students have been enabled to realise important and sometimes expensive ambitions through assistance from the University’s Lord Rootes Memorial Fund. Grants are available “to enable students to undertake, normally during the summer vacation, projects or expeditions by individuals or groups entailing observation and the intelligent use of experience in the scientific, technological, cultural, social or business context”. Information about the Fund is usually publicised in the autumn term with a deadline for submissions in December. Since applications need to be well considered, persuasively presented, and fully costed it will be advantageous to make an early start, especially if you wish to organise a group endeavour. You may find it useful to browse through reports from past recipients of Lord Rootes awards; these are held in the Modern Records Centre of the university library and are available for consultation on request. You will find that a wide range of projects submitted by students from this department has gained support and that the sums awarded have been as much as £2,000. For further details visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/topic/teachinglearning/rootes Sexual and Racial Harassment The University and the Students’ Union regard all forms of harassment as unacceptable and are prepared to take disciplinary action against offenders. Both the University and the Students’ Union are committed to creating a community that is free from harassment and discrimination. Sexual, racial and personal harassment can seriously worsen conditions for staff and students at the University. The University, recognising the value of sustaining and advancing a safe and welcoming learning environment, strives to treat both employees and students with respect and dignity, treat them fairly with regards to all assessments, choices and procedures, and to give them encouragement to reach their full potential. Therefore the University strives to treat all its members, and visitors, fairly and aims to eliminate unjustifiable discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, political beliefs, religious beliefs or practices, disability, marital status, family circumstances, sexual orientation, spent criminal convictions, age or any other inappropriate ground. The University and the Students’ Union have prepared Guidelines on Sexual, Racial and Personal Harassment (which can be seen on insite in the Campus Life [Health and Welfare] section). The Guidelines include advice on identifying and addressing harassment, formal procedures which can be followed and details of sources of support. The Guidelines are also available from the office of the Director of Student and Ancillary Services. 54 The University Website The website is major source of information, which many of you will no doubt have already accessed. It is to be found at www.warwick.ac.uk. From here you can easily navigate your way through a great deal of information about the university’s academic departments and services. University regulations and procedures are formally laid down in the Calendar, which is available on the web at: www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/gov/calendar A range of university policies which the department abides by are explained at the links below: a. Sexual, Racial and Personal Harassment: Dignity at Work and Study Policy http://warwick.ac.uk/humanresources/newpolicies/dignity b. Policy on Recording Lectures by Students http://warwick.ac.uk/quality/recordinglectures/ c. Smoking Policy http://warwick.ac.uk/services/healthsafetywellbeing/guidance/smoking policy d. Policy on the Timing of the Provision of Feedback to Students on Assessed Work http://warwick.ac.uk/quality/categories/examinations/goodpractice/ass essment/timeliness e. Moderation guidance http://warwick.ac.uk/quality/categories/examinations/moderation f. University assessment strategy http://warwick.ac.uk/quality/categories/examinations/assessmentstrat Student Complaints Resolution Pathway The University is committed to providing a high quality service to all students. However, we realise that at times something may go wrong or you may feel dissatisfied with the service that is provided or with the behaviour of another member of the Warwick community. In these circumstances you are encouraged to raise the problem as quickly as possible with the most relevant individual(s), department or service. To find further information and advice on the University's new Student Complaints Resolution Pathway as well as the associated formal Student Complaints Resolution Procedure, please go to www.warwick.ac.uk/go/feedbackandcomplaints What is a complaint? A complaint is defined by the Student Complaints Resolution Procedure as “an expression of significant or sustained dissatisfaction where a student seeks a specific action to address the problem”. This means that in order to submit a complaint under the Student Complaints Resolution Pathway, a student must be seeking a specific outcome or resolution to the problem. In practice, the student will usually notify a member of staff that the level of service or treatment that they have received from the University or another individual at the University has fallen short of what might reasonably be expected. Examples might include complaints about your residential accommodation, the administrative or 55 professional service received, the behaviour of staff or other students or about how a course or programme was delivered or the supervisory support you received. The Student Complaints Resolution Procedure The University has a clear three-stage Student Complaints Resolution Pathway for informal and formal concerns or complaints. Further information about the Pathway, including the 'rules' and required timescales, are set out in the formal Procedure document (see link at end). The Student Complaints Resolution Pathway consists of: Stage 1: Informal Frontline / Local Resolution Stage 2: Formal Departmental Resolution Stage 3: Formal Institutional Review and Final Resolution Followed by potential external escalation to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) Most issues can be resolved quickly and efficiently informally at Stage 1, by speaking to the person your complaint relates to or a member of staff in the appropriate department or service area. We would recommend that you raise the issue as soon as you become aware of the problem as this typically makes it easier to resolve. However, if you have been unable to find a satisfactory resolution at the informal level, you can submit a Formal Stage 2 Departmental Resolution form, which will escalate the complaint to a formal complaint. For further information, please see: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/studentfeedbackandcomplaints/ 56 APPENDIX 1 DATES OF TERMS 2015 - 2016 Autumn Term Monday 5 October 2015 - Saturday 12 December 2015 Spring Term Monday 11 January 2016 - Saturday 19 March 2016 Summer Term Monday 25 April 2016 - Saturday 2 July 2016 2016 - 2017 Autumn Term Monday 3 October 2016 - Saturday 10 December 2016 Spring Term Monday 9 January 2017 - Saturday 18 March 2017 Summer Term Monday 24 April 2017 - Saturday 1 July 2017 2017 - 2018 Autumn Term Monday 2 October 2017 - Saturday 9 December 2017 Spring Term Monday 8 January 2018 - Saturday 17 March 2018 Summer Term Monday 23 April 2018 - Saturday 30 June 2018 57 APPENDIX 2 GUIDELINES FOR THE WRITING OF ESSAYS Essay writing is a personal and creative activity but it is done within conventions of scholarly practice. Getting a practical sense not just of the balance, but of the relationship between these two aspects will be a large part of your progress. 1. The Purpose of Essays Preparing and writing essays is one of the main ways in which students on the degrees in the Department of Film and Television Studies develop their abilities. It is also through essays, along with invigilated examinations, that the department tests students. An essay is an opportunity to formulate ideas, to set out an argument and to support it with evidence. The argument is yours but it is not just your opinion. Your work should be original, not necessarily in the sense of presenting something never previously thought of, but in taking responsibility for your own argument. Essays sharpen analytic, rhetorical and writing skills that can then be applied to other tasks. These ‘transferable skills’ are highly prized by potential employers who value good communication. 2. Use of Background Material In preparing your essay you will generally consult some historical, critical and theoretical studies relevant to the topic. This background reading may in some cases be less important than your close study of films and televisual works, but it is essential to enable you to extend and focus your own responses. The department encourages the development of individual analytical skills, backed by knowledge and established sources. Essay writing will allow you to explore your own point of view, supported by the evidence you have gathered. With this in mind, make sure you note the details of secondary sources as you read them (see (d) ‘Acknowledgement of sources’ below). Use the notes you have made, but avoid confusing them with a formulation of your own view. The books and articles you consult acknowledge their sources; this is normal academic practice and you must follow it. Note on Plagiarism Plagiarism is the abuse of secondary reading in essays. It consists first of the direct transcription, without acknowledgement, of passages, sentences or even phrases from someone else’s writing, whether published or not. It also refers to the presentation as your own of material from a printed or other source with only a few changes in wording. There is a grey area where making use of secondary material comes close to copying it, but the problem can usually be avoided by acknowledging that a certain writer holds similar views. All quotations from secondary sources, including the Internet, must therefore be acknowledged each time they occur. It is not enough to include the work from which they are taken in the bibliography at the end of the essay, and such inclusion will not be accepted as a defence should plagiarism be alleged. The university regards plagiarism as an extremely serious offence. A tutor who finds plagiarism in an essay will report the matter to the Chair of the Department. The Chair may, after hearing the case, impose a penalty of a zero mark for the essay in question. This can have serious consequences for first-year results. In the case of second-year and third-year students, the matter may go to a Senate disciplinary committee. If plagiarism is detected in one essay, it is likely that other essays by the student concerned will be examined for evidence of the same offence. 58 In practice, few students are deliberately dishonest and cases of plagiarism may arise from bad scholarly practice. There is nothing wrong with using other people’s ideas. In fact one good kind of undergraduate essay is an intelligent survey and synthesis of existing views. The important thing is to know what is yours and what is not and to communicate this clearly to the reader. However, plagiarism is cheating and our academic staff have become extremely efficient at detecting it. N.B. Please note that all students are required to submit an electronic copy of all their essays, and these will be scrutinised by the online plagiarism sourcematching service TurnItInUK, which scans coursework for any evidence of collusion between students, unacknowledged use of any source available online and also use of cheat sites. 3. Scholarly Presentation Observing certain principles of scholarly presentation for assessed essays is a basic and transferable skill. It aids clarity of communication and enables you to provide a full account of the argument you are putting forward. Undergraduate Skills Programme offers writing workshops and one-to-one drop in sessions, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/skills/usp for details. (a) General presentation Students must submit their essays in word-processed form. A word count must be provided at the end of the essay, and recorded on the front sheet. Footnoted references, along with bibliographies and filmographies, should not be included in the word count, but all other text (including quotations) must be. Use A4 size paper. Number all pages. Unless otherwise instructed, insert your student ID at the head of your essay, on the right-hand side, and on the left-hand side the name of the tutor. Below this should appear the title or question for discussion. Leave wide margins for tutors’ comments on either side of the page, with space also at the top and bottom. Text must be double-spaced. 2nd and 3rd years must provide two hard copies of all essays and dissertations. All essays must include both a bibliography and a filmography. (b) Presentation of titles (films, books etc.) and foreign words Titles of films, books, long poems first published individually, television programmes, plays, paintings and periodicals must be italicised. Examples: Citizen Kane; Film Art: An Introduction; Paradise Lost; Big Brother; The Merchant of Venice; The Birth of Venus; Sight and Sound. The titles of articles published in periodicals, essays in edited collections, and short poems in anthologies should be presented in single quotation marks. Example: Laura Mulvey argues in her essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ that… Words or brief phrases in foreign languages, unless they are part of a larger quotation, should also be italicised. Example: A common feature of fin de siècle novels was… 59 (c) Quotations All quotations, from whatever source, should be exact in wording, spelling and punctuation. Short quotations embedded in the main text should be enclosed in single quotation marks and should be accommodated to the syntax of the sentence in which they occur. Three dots (ellipsis) are used to indicate where words or phrases have been cut from a quotation. Accommodation to syntax of sentence is indicated by the use of square brackets ([ ]). Example: In Hollywood Genres, Thomas Schatz claims that ‘the gangster genre has had a peculiar history ... [and that] its evolution was severely disrupted by external social forces’. Quotations within quotations should be differentiated by putting double quotation marks within single ones. Example: According to Schatz, ‘in the words of Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) in Key Largo: “There are thousands of guys with guns -- but there’s only one Rocco”’. Long prose quotations (i.e. those which take up more than three lines of text) and quotations in verse should be indented by one tab stop from the left hand margin, single spaced – though separated from the surrounding text by an extra line space before and after – and presented without quotation marks. Example: In Jarman’s Edward II, as Edward embraces Gaveston, Annie Lennox sings Cole Porter’s lyrics: Every time we say good-bye I die a little, Every time we say good-bye I wonder why a little. The significance of this anachronistic choice of song is… (d) Acknowledgement of sources Every time you insert a quotation, refer to information, or paraphrase an idea drawn from another writer, you must provide a reference which clearly indicates the original source. There are several referencing systems in operation. Below are guidelines on using the ‘author-title’ system which is the set of conventions most widely used by other departments in the Faculty of Arts and humanities disciplines generally, and which we strongly recommend. For a more exhaustive account of the rules of use for this system please consult the MHRA Style Guide (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2002), available in the library. In the author-title system, references are presented as footnotes or endnotes. A numeral in the main text will direct the reader to the equivalent footnote or endnote containing the reference details. All modern word-processing applications have the facility to insert and auto-format footnotes/endnotes. (N.B. The numerals in the main text should ideally be placed at the end of a sentence rather than in the middle of one – even if this means they do not immediately follow the close of a quotation.) On the first occasion that a particular source is referred to, the reference must include full bibliographic details for the source along with the relevant page 60 number. The full references for published sources should always be presented in the format shown below. Examples: 1 Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 56. 2 Richard Maltby, ‘“Grief in the Limelight”: Al Capone, Howard Hughes, the Hays Office, and the Politics of the Unstable Text’, in James Combs (ed.), Movies and Politics (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 104-105. 3 Barbara Klinger, ‘Digressions at the Cinema: Reception and Mass Culture’, Cinema Journal, 28:4 (Summer 1989), pp. 3, 5. N.B. Observe that whilst the references for single-author monographs and edited collections must indicate the place of publication and the name of the publishers of the book concerned, references to periodicals do not. ‘28:4’ in the reference to Cinema Journal means volume 28, issue 4; periodicals which are published less than four times a year tend to count issues by number only. Also note that if a single page is referenced, the abbreviation for the page number is ‘p.’; a reference to more than one page is indicated by ‘pp.’. If you make successive references to the same source, then the Latin abbreviation ‘Ibid.’ (short for ibidem, which means ‘in the same place’) is used in place of the author’s name and the title of the source etc. ‘Ibid.’ is all that is needed if you are referring to the same page from this source in successive references. If you are referring to a different page this must be indicated. Example: 1 Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 56. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 58. When further references to the same source do not immediately follow the initial citation, ‘ibid.’ cannot be used. But all subsequent references are shortened to the author’s surname and a succinct version of the source title. Example: 3 Barbara Klinger, ‘Digressions at the Cinema: Reception and Mass Culture’, Cinema Journal 28:4 (Summer 1989), pp. 3, 5. 4 David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (London: Routledge, 1985), p. 23. 5 Klinger, ‘Digressions at the Cinema’, p. 11. 6 Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson, Classical Hollywood Cinema, p. 23. When you quote something from a source you have not directly consulted, but which is cited in another secondary source, this must be clearly indicated in your reference. Example: Laura Mulvey has written that ‘Hollywood films made with a female audience in mind tell a story of contradiction, not of reconciliation’.7 7 Laura Mulvey, ‘Notes on Sirk and Melodrama’, Movie 25 (Winter 1977-78), p. 56; quoted in Richard Maltby, Hollywood Cinema (2nd edn.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), p. 353. Bibliography All assessed essays must include a bibliography at the end which lists every written source which you have directly consulted. Each entry must include the same amount of publication information provided in the initial reference to the source in your footnotes/endnotes. The only differences in the way this information should be formatted in your bibliography are: 61 Author surnames are listed first (the bibliography must be ordered alphabetically by surnames). If the source consulted was authored anonymously then ‘Anon.’ or ‘ANONYMOUS’ should be written in place of a surname. Page numbers are not needed for listing monographs, but bibliographic entries for essays in edited collections and articles in periodicals should indicate the page range occupied by the essay/article. When an essay from an edited collection is listed, the book itself should be listed separately under the surname of its editor(s) – see the Geraghty / Brunsdon example below. Example: Bibliography: Banton, Michael, The Idea of Race (London: Tavistock, 1977). Brunsdon, Charlotte (ed.), Films for Women (London: British Film Institute, 1986). Fischer, Lucy (ed.), Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991). Geraghty, Christine, ‘Three women’s films’ in Brunsdon (ed.), Films For Women, pp. 138-145. Malbert, Roger, and Coates, John, Exotic Europeans (London: South Bank Centre, 1991). Newman, Kim, review of Sin City, in Sight and Sound 15:6 (June 2005), pp. 72-74. Vincendeau, Ginette, ‘Gérard Depardieu: The Axiom of Contemporary French Cinema’, Screen 34:4 (Winter 1993), pp. 343-361. Internet citations References must be given for all written material consulted and cited, including internet sources. The conventions for quotations from books and journals (see above) also apply to internet sources, and all such sources should be included in your bibliography. The agreed conventions for internet citations take the following basic form: Author of page/s, name/title of page/s (in inverted commas), name of website (italicised), date of posting (in parentheses; write ‘n.d.’ if this information cannot be ascertained), page number (if indicated)*, URL, date accessed. Example: Ghosh, Arup Ratan, ‘Satyajit Ray’s Male Gaze’, Views, Reviews, Interviews, (2000) <http://www.geocities.com/arghosh/malegaze.html>, accessed 18 May 2003. Online journals often indicate an issue number, just like a published periodical, rather than a specific posting date, and, in such cases, the way in which publication information is presented at source should be duplicated. Example: Norton, Glen W., ‘Nostalgia for the Present: The Godard Renaissance Continued’, Senses of Cinema 35 (April-June 2005) <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/35/godard_renaissance.html>, accessed 12 June 2005. *An increasing number of hard-copy journals are published simultaneously in an online format, and the latter generally replicate the exact layout of the printed version to the extent that they indicate page breaks and page numbers or duplicate the hard-copy in PDF form. Citations of unpublished/non-written sources 62 Lectures There may be occasions when you wish to make clear that certain statistics or ideas which you are presenting in an essay have been taken from a course lecture. The convention for indicating this in a footnote/endnote reference is demonstrated below. Example: 9 Charlotte Brunsdon, lecture given at the University of Warwick, Coventry, 21 January 2007. N.B. Such sources should not be indicated in your bibliography. Films When a film is first mentioned within the text, details of director and/or production company and/or country of origin and the year, should be included. Example: The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, Warner Brothers, USA, 1944). On the first occasion that you refer to a particular character in a film, you should indicate the identity of the actor playing him/her. Example: The main protagonist Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is first seen… All essays must include a filmography, following the bibliography, which should provide details of all films viewed in the preparation of the essay and referred to in the text. A film entry in a filmography usually begins with the title (italicised), and includes the director, the country of origin, and the year. You may include other details that seem pertinent, such as the names of the principal performers or the production company. It is recommended that you include the names of the major characters in brackets after the names of the performers. Example: To Have and Have Not. Dir. Howard Hawks, Prod. Warner Brothers, USA, 1944. Main cast: Humphrey Bogart (Harry Morgan), Lauren Bacall (Slim), Walter Brennan (Eddie). References to films in both notes and main text should include full title with initial capitalisation according to the accepted style of the language concerned. (For courses like National Cinemas I & II where foreign language films are extensively studied, the module leader will explain how titles should be capitalised in the relevant language.) Titles should always be italicised. In the case of non-English language films, original release titles in the original language should be followed by the US and/or British release title. Example: L’Amour violé/Rape of Love. Television or radio programmes When television or radio programmes are discussed or alluded to in your essay, they must also be listed in your filmography. Information for such sources usually appears in the following order: a) b) c) d) e) Title of episode or segment, if appropriate (in quotation marks) Title of programme (italicised) Country of origin Name of channel or network Transmission date. This is abbreviated to ‘tx’, and can be found for all programmes broadcast in the UK after 1995 in the online Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/index.php. Example: ‘Sold’, episode one, Band of Gold, first series, UK, Granada, tx. 12.3.1995. 63 Writer: Kay Mellor, Dir: Richard Standeven, Prod: Tony Dennis Main cast: Cathy Tyson (Carol), Geraldine James (Rose), Barbara Dickson (Anita), Ruth Gemmell (Gina). Within the main text, the first (and only the first) reference made to a television programme should be dated from the year of first transmission and, in the case of long-running serials, the duration of the run should be indicated. Details of production company, channel, country, may be supplied where they are relevant to the argument but otherwise are best left for inclusion in the filmography. Example: Coronation Street (Granada, 1961 -) is notable for its emphasis on strong, witty and independent-minded women. Where writers or producers are credited their role should be indicated. Example: Where the Difference Begins (Writ. David Mercer, BBC, 1961) was one of Mercer’s most important contributions to television drama. DVDs and Blu-Rays The conventions for referencing information or quotations taken from the audio commentary on a LaserDisc, DVD or Blu-Ray take the following basic form: Name of speaker, name and date of origin of film, media format, publisher of disc, place and year of disc publication, ASIN code (usually listed on retail websites like Amazon if not on the disc packaging). Example: 4 Kenneth Bowser, audio commentary on Sullivan’s Travels (1941) (DVD, Criterion Collection, USA, 2001) ASIN: B00005JH9C. (e) Problems with English There is a close relationship between quality of thought and excellence of expression. One of your goals should be to develop the clarity, vividness and elegance with which you use language as you increase the breadth of your knowledge and the depth of your understanding. A first aim must be to ensure correct usage in spelling, punctuation and vocabulary. Distinguished work presents interesting observations and arguments in a precise and pleasing style, but poor English will affect the level of success you achieve on the degree and will be detrimental to most job prospects. If your spelling is shaky, begin with the list of ‘commonly misspelt words’ at the end of this section. In addition, special care should be taken with the spelling of titles, characters and authors of works being discussed. Do not rely on the ‘spell-check’ facility on your computer. These programs identify non-existent spellings but will fail to respond to typographical errors if the mistake results in an existing word – for example if you type ‘way’ for ‘was’. Students are expected to proof-read essays to eliminate such errors. Whether or not your spelling is weak, use a dictionary regularly. An etymological dictionary and/or a thesaurus can sharpen your style. Certain words are misused with particular frequency. Before using the following, please check their meaning and their grammatical usage: ‘disinterested’, ‘due to’, ‘refute’, ‘imbue’, ‘infer’, ‘quote’ ‘elide’. Check also that you understand the difference between it’s (a contraction of ‘it is’ which you should avoid using in an academic essay) and its to indicate possession (as in ‘the production has its problems’); under the section ‘commonly misspelt words’ you will find other pairs of words often confused with each other. (i) Tutors will indicate where you have made errors of grammar, punctuation and spelling. You are expected to find out why these are errors and not to repeat them. 64 If unsure, consult a grammar. Common faults in grammar include writing sentences with no main verb in them (if you don’t understand what this means, consult a grammar straight away), incorrect use of the colon and semi-colon and misuse of the apostrophe. (ii) Also bear in mind the fact that logically structured argumentation cannot be properly achieved without dividing the different stages of your analysis into separate paragraphs. If you end up writing long passages of text which continue without any pause over several pages then you will fail to communicate your ideas effectively and convincingly. Further reading Some of the information in this handbook is based on Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1984), the MHRA Style Guide (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2002), and R.M. Ritter, The Oxford Guide to Style (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). We strongly recommend that you consult these sources if you have any further queries. Vocabularies in film and television Film and Television studies draw on many disciplines. Some of the language in your required reading may initially be daunting. If you come across concepts you do not understand, the following dictionaries are recommended: Bottomore, Tom, Harris, Laurence, Kiernan, V.G., and Miliband, Ralph, A Dictionary of Marxist Thought (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983). Bullock, Allan, Stallybrass, Oliver, and Trombley, Stephen, The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (2nd edn.; London: Fontana Press, 1988) Hayward, Susan, Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (2nd edn.; London: Routledge, 2000). Stam, Robert, Burgoyne, Robert, and Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy (eds), New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Beyond (London: Routledge, 1992). Williams, Raymond, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London: Fontana Press, 1976). The glossaries in the following books are also useful: Bordwell, David, and Thompson, Kristin, Film Art: An Introduction (7th edn.; London: McGraw Hill, 2003). Kawin, Bruce F., How Movies Work (Berkeley, Oxford: University of California Press, 1992). Maltby, Richard, Hollywood Cinema (2nd edn.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). Further Help with Improving Academic Writing Skills The UG Skills Programme offers a range of options to help students with writing essays. There are Academic Writing Workshops and one-to one drop in sessions with Writing Mentors. See the ‘Careers and Skills’ section in Teaching and Learning and visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/skills/usp COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS 65 accommodate accumulate achieve affective (effective) aggravate allusion (illusion) *ante*antiapparent appropriate argument aural (oral) biased blatant *climactic *climatic committee commitment *complement *compliment conscious council counsel criterion (criteria pl.) crucifixion deceive definite degradation *dependant *dependent desperate detached development dilemma *discreet *discrete divine *dual *duel embarrass emerge (immerse) empirical existence extravagance fulfilment goddess harass heroes hierarchy humorous hypocrisy incite (insight) imminent independent ideology infinite irrelevant irresistible led (lead) lightning (lightening) loneliness lose (loose) loth (loathe) medium (media pl.) metre (pentameter) necessary occasion occurrence parallel perceive personification pursue portrayal *practice *practise precede proceed *principal *principle privilege professional *prophecy *prophesy recurrence reminiscent repellent repetition repress rhythm stratum (strata pl.) suppress separate simile subtly subtlety succumb supersede symbolic tendency transience truly *make sure you understand the difference between pairs of words marked by an asterisk APPENDIX 3 EXAM WRITING SKILLS Introduction University examinations are NOT simply opportunities to repeat seminar or lecture material verbatim under the constraint of time pressure 66 University examination revision begins with renewed coverage of the main topics and themes of the module, but be prepared to extend your learning through additional research and planning You have to come to the examination room with the ability to demonstrate your knowledge and critical understanding of the module in a rapid, succinct, intellectually agile, accurate and relevant fashion I: WHY EXAMINATIONS? To test your ability to comprehend and analyse a key topic covered within the module To test your individual research skills to the extent that you are able to present more comprehensive or more considered coverage of a key critical issue To give you the chance to synthesise your existing knowledge of the topics/films/critical literature covered within the module and then reframe this knowledge within the parameters of a different or more challenging critical paradigm To give you the chance to develop a wider perspective on a number of themes or issues arising from the module and present this understanding in an independent and individual fashion To give you the opportunity to develop new areas of understanding in relation to the main themes of the module To test your ability to write clearly and accurately under time pressure To test your ability to organize your critical thinking in a coherent and justified fashion under time pressure To develop the means by which you can express your understanding of a range of complex ideas in a succinct but clear fashion To test your ability to make an informed assessment of a wide range of critical opinion II: HOW TO REVISE Where to study Find a quiet place to study and make sure you are sitting comfortably Make sure your desk is well lit Keep background noise to a minimum Avoid studying in an area where there will be distractions Have everything you need to do your revision to hand before you start How to study There is no ‘right way’ to revise, as long as the method you choose enables you to gain a solid grasp of the key issues and to consolidate and extend your existing knowledge. Review and extend your coverage of key reading and viewing write core ideas and facts on to cards to use as ‘prompts’ create memory aids such as diagrams or mnemonics. These will help you remember key terms/quotes/ideas write key notes out and display these around the house where you will see them 67 record yourself reading notes to listen to Look at past question papers – try answering a number of sample questions in note form under strict time limits Look after yourself – Sometimes revision can become a competition – who stayed up latest, who worked longest, who’s worrying the most. But the more tired you are the less efficiently you’ll work. You need to rest as well as study, eat well, drink lots of water and make sure you pace yourself. Don’t rush, and equally don’t over-revise by doing too much too soon Have a revision plan The top tip for successful revision is to make a plan; otherwise it is easy to waste your precious revision time. It is helpful to look at your exam dates and work backwards to the first date you intend to start revising. List all your exam subjects and the amount of time you think you will need for each one. Draw up a revision plan for each week Fill in any regular commitments you have first and the dates of your examinations Use Revision Checklists for each subject as a starting point. Look at what you need to know or would like to know more about. Try to identify any gaps in your knowledge Divide your time for each subject into topics, and make sure you allow enough time for each one Plan your time carefully, assigning more time to subjects and topics you find difficult General Tips Revise often; try and do a little every day Plan in time off, including time for activities which can be done out in the fresh air. Take a 5 or 10 minute break every hour and do some stretching exercises, go for a short walk or make a drink Don’t panic; think about what you can achieve, not what you can’t. Positive thinking is important! Don’t stay up all night last minute revising; being overtired will not help you to do your best Eat sensibly – your brain cells need energy to function well. Make sure you drink plenty of water to avoid becoming dehydrated. Dehydration makes you tired and reduces concentration It is natural to feel nervous before an examination. The more prepared you feel, the easier it will be to conquer your fears. Think positively and constructively III: WRITING THE PAPER Planning is crucial. Do not rush into your answer. Keep your sentence and paragraph structure concise. Express yourself as clearly and straightforwardly as possible. Be specific. Avoid generalization. Justify your arguments. 68 Do not repeat your points unnecessarily. Keep a sense of forward momentum and intellectual progression. Make sure that you are answering the precise question. Do not waste space with waffle or elaborate cleverness. Refer to important critical reading (but no need to follow elaborate rules of referencing) e.g. ‘as Leahy has argued ….’ Keep textual analysis succinct and relevant. Demonstrate the range of critical opinion of a given topic and provide a reasoned assessment of it. IV: HOW TO STRUCTURE AN EXAM ESSAY Always work with a plan. Start with an INTRODUCTION which provides any necessary contextual information and which looks ahead to the main body of the essay and indicates what is to come. Go on to the ARGUMENT which is presented as a series of points which are considered in turn and which should be coherent and consistent and draw on evidence. End with the CONCLUSION where the argument will be summarised and perhaps further implications considered. When writing keep in mind the following questions: * will the focus be consistent? * will the essay appear to be a coherent whole? * what links can be made between the different sections? * how will the introduction and conclusion relate? * what will be the balance of words between the different sections? * have the ideas and arguments been fully signposted and developed? * has the question been answered? * is the tone of the essay appropriate for a piece of academic writing? YOUR ESSAY SHOULD BE FREE OF ANY MECHANICAL ERRORS. THEREFORE CHECK: Spelling Punctuation Grammar and syntax Make sure that your sentence structure is not too over-complex and that your syntax is clear and coherent Presentation try to keep your handwriting clear and legible V: HOW WILL YOUR EXAM PAPER BE ASSESSED? * the essay's relevance to the title * structure/organisation * understanding and use of relevant critical terms and concepts * originality of interpretation (ability to move beyond mere repetition of core material covered in seminar or lecture) 69 * persuasiveness and coherence of argument * prose style * use of appropriate textual analysis * appropriate use and proper acknowledgement of secondary sources * informed understanding and use of relevant contexts (historical, social, cultural etc.) * technical accuracy 70 APPENDIX 4 Third Year Dissertation Option Submitting your Dissertation You should submit TWO copies of your dissertation to the Film Studies office by 12.00 noon on Monday Week 7 (Spring Term). One copy will subsequently be returned to you. The presentation of your dissertation should conform to the description below. Title-Page This should include the following information: the title of the work, the full name of the author, the name of the institution and the date (month and year) of submission. Summary/Abstract This follows the title-page and should not be longer than 500 words. It should summarise the content of the thesis and the way in which it is organised, and described the scope of the work, the research methodology used, the principal divisions within the work and the conclusions reached. Table of Contents This should list, in sequence, with page numbers, all relevant subdivisions of the dissertation, including the title of chapters, sections and sub-sections, as appropriate; the list of references; the bibliography film/television/videography; the list of abbreviations and other functional parts of the whole dissertation; any appendices. Text The main text should be divided into appropriate sections and/or chapters, with subsections if necessary. The first section or chapter would generally include, but need be limited to, the introduction to the work and a review of the literature. Notes Notes should be numbered in a single sequence throughout each chapter (or section), starting a new sequence for each chapter. Notes should be placed either at the foot of each page, or immediately following the chapter that they refer to, or should be grouped together by chapter or section as the end of the text, before the bibliography. Appendices Miscellaneous material such as lists, tables, copies of documents and other material, too lengthy to be contained in the main text or the notes, should be added in the form of appendices at the end, before the bibliography. Bibliography This should list all of the works referred to in the text and all those works consulted which were of relevance in alphabetical order, with full publications details. Use the guidelines to assessed essays (Appendix 2). Word count The dissertation is 10,000 words long (9,000 minimum, 11,000 maximum; excluding footnotes, appendices [of reasonably short length], filmography and bibliography). Presentation of the Dissertation 71 Typing Theses or dissertations should be typed on one side of A4 paper, using 12 pt. typeface. Margins Margins should be 4cm wide on the left-hand side and 2cm on the other three sides. Spacing The main text, preface, contents page and appendices should be typed in double spacing. The bibliography should have double spacing between items and single spacing within items. Pagination Page numbers should begin on the first page of the main text, following the list of illustrations or abbreviations and continue to the end of the work. Headings Sections and/or chapters should always begin on a new page, and their titles should be centred and in capitals. Sub-sections should be differentiated from the main text by using extra spacing. Binding Warwickprint (located at Westwood) offers a thesis binding service. You can submit dissertations or theses electronically at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/retail/warwickprint/bookbinding/softbinding/ comb binding is also acceptable if you prefer. 72 APPENDIX 5 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: GUIDELINES The criteria of assessment always relate to the purpose and content of specific assignments. However minimum requirements can be stated because there are some qualities common to all acceptable work in our subjects. These are, primarily: Accuracy in accounts of texts and in references to historical events and circumstances. These references and accounts display consistency and accuracy of detail. Coverage - The work shows familiarity with the range of texts prescribed for study and appropriate to the project. Understanding of texts and arguments, shown sometimes by restating or summarising them in the writer’s own terms, and sometimes by offering the writer’s own views and applications of them. Argumentation - The work presents the grounds of its understandings in forms that allow the reader to engage with its claims. Relevance to the topics under discussion is made clear in the presentation of particular arguments and observations. Expression is clear, and the writing is correct in its grammar, syntax and spelling. Vocabulary is adequate to the needs of the discussion; the central terms are used clearly and with consistency. Organisation within the prescribed length and format is effective; the presentation has an appreciable shape and development. Scholarly presentation - The work is acceptable to the community of scholarship. So that its data may be reliably checked its references are presented in a consistent form. Sources are identified for all material used, whether through reference, paraphrase, or direct quotation. Whenever material is quoted, quotation is acknowledged in one of the received forms. (For details of scholarly conventions, see ‘guidelines for the writing of essays’ in this handbook.) Satisfactory work meets these requirements and has only minor lapses. It is likely to be awarded a mark in the mid-fifties. Work which is adequate in several of the above respects, but weak or defective in some of them, or work which is partially satisfactory but damaged by significant lapses, is marked on the scale which extends downwards from the low fifties to a bare pass at forty per cent. Good and very good work is awarded marks (in the high fifties to mid sixties) that declare the extra range and individuality of its achievements. The qualities that carry it beyond the scale of the satisfactory are most often those of thoroughness and penetration in the grasp of the subject, with liveliness of expression and lucidity of organisation. Clarity is attained while more complex approaches to the topic are embraced and a more ambitious range of material is brought under discussion. Intellectual skill is shown in comparing and co-ordinating disparate sources. Excellence is recognised when work meets the above criteria fully but surpasses them so as to display remarkable strengths in terms of industry and insight, and distinguished skills in argument and expression. (The grades run from the high sixties to the seventies.) Some aspects of excellence can be further specified in relation to the criteria stated above: Coverage becomes enterprise in going beyond the prescribed texts or previously explored instances to discover new material, or new relevance in familiar 73 material. The work has taken on a research dimension in which initiative and imagination are combined with discipline and a consciously systematic investigation. Comprehension is developed so that the work makes individual use of the concepts and arguments derived from the scholarly literature. It shows command of the topics by its shrewd location and negotiation of conflicting positions; its choice and development of examples shows the sharpness of its insight. It demonstrates an awareness of the wider consequences of its own choices in interpretation and evaluation. The argumentation remains clear and plausible but also achieves originality through the vigour in its exploration of texts and topics. The work shows a grasp of the interest of problems, an awareness of the range of ways in which its issues might be negotiated, and both an ability to identify and a readiness to confront instances and arguments that may pose difficulties for its own approaches. Correctness of expression gives way to eloquence. The critical vocabulary is wide, varied and precisely nuanced. A balance is achieved between clarity and force on the one hand and complexity, roundedness on the other. Concepts are presented and ideas are expressed as plainly as their depth allows. Numerical grades Evidently the above qualities are attained to differing degrees. Some work submitted for assessment has all the above strengths and no significant weaknesses; it makes a distinctive contribution to our fields of scholarship. More often excellent work shows particularly fine quality in some rather than all of the above respects, and a judgement has to be made of the relative weight of its most and least impressive aspects. It is in order to lessen the risk of arbitrariness in making these assessments that the final determination of all grades is made through the system of double marking and the consensus reached at the examination boards with the assistance of external examiners. A numerical grade is necessarily a blunt way of stating the outcome of the process of judgement, and of relating very different achievements to one another qualitatively. One essay might be awarded a mark of 65% because its generally competent discussion, with no serious defects, is enlivened by passages of particularly stimulating insight; another might receive the same mark in recognition of a strikingly original approach with minor flaws or with passages of clumsy argument. The percentage mark represents an attempt, guided by experience and consultation, to aggregate the merits and weaknesses of your work in fair comparison with the achievements of others. In this respect it mirrors the aggregation of marks from different sources that yields the overall result for a module, as well as the final classification of a degree. The university does not allow students to challenge the academic judgement of the examiners once a numerical grade has been given for a piece of work. The only ground for any questioning of a grade is if there is evidence of irregularity in the procedures by which the mark was determined. In your second and third years, all grades are advisory, in that an external examiner can look at any work that may affect the outcome in a borderline case, and may adjust the marks. It is open to external examiners to propose higher or lower marks to the Examination Board. The Department has agreed to follow the University’s Assessment Strategy, approved by Senate on 29 January 2014, and is thus committed to: encouraging the active engagement of students in their own learning; supporting and facilitating assessment activities to improve students’ learning; providing assessments that are accessible and inclusive; ensuring that students receive timely, meaningful feedback to progress their learning; 74 supporting departments and colleagues to enable them to develop innovative assessment methods; ensuring that assessment is linked to module and course level learning outcomes; providing assessment methods that take account of the skills and knowledge valued by potential employers. Assessment Aims All students will engage with a range of relevant formative and summative assessments, clearly linked to the module and course-level learning outcomes. All assessment processes will be designed to be accessible and inclusive, and aligned with the University’s Equal Opportunities Statement and all relevant equality legislation. Formative and summative assessment will be designed to enable students to demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have acquired at both module and course level. The feedback mechanisms in place will include guidance on how to improve performance. Assessment processes and outcomes will be designed to enhance students’ personal and professional development through the acquisition of skills. All assessment processes will be designed to embody the underlying principles of: reliability; validity; equity; timeliness; manageability; and inclusivity. 75 APPENDIX 6 Sick Certification for Students GP practices may be requested to issue a signed medical certificate (Appendix 1) for students registered with their practice. The student must have seen the doctor or practice nurse during the period of illness. The GP practice may charge the student for issuing a note. Notes are required in the following circumstances: the student is absent from formal examinations of the University because of illness the student seeks an extension to a submission deadline for a piece of assessed work that contributes to his/her final award or is absent from such an assessment due to illness exceeding seven consecutive days the student seeks an extension to a submission deadline for a piece of assessed work which does not contribute to his/her final award due to significant illness exceeding seven consecutive days. We need a written request from the student’s Tutor. the student is absent from classes for an extended period due to illness and their Tutor requests the doctor to provide a medical certificate. After the written request from the tutor normally the certificate will be issued to the student and it will be his/her responsibility to send it on to the tutor. there may be occasions, due to repeated unexplained absences, in which the student is required to submit a sick note if ill for shorter periods. The Tutor will be expected to request such a certificate from the GP practice. After the written request from the tutor normally the certificate will be issued to the student and it will be his/her responsibility to send it on to the tutor. when a student has been advised to withdraw from University on medical grounds Self certification should be adequate in all other situations than those above, including short absences from compulsory elements of the curriculum. This arrangement mirrors the system for persons in employment. It is expected that Departments accept the verbal notification of sickness from a student for up to three days, students provide a self certificate of illness for four to seven days of illness and a doctor’s medical certificate is required for more than seven days of illness which prevents students from attending lectures or carrying out course work or assignments. If the University requires a self certificate of illness (see appendix 2) from a student, this form will continue to be available to collect from Tutors / Departmental Heads / the Counselling service or the University Health Centre. In due course it will also be available on the web site of the University of Warwick Health Centre (http://www.uwhc.org.uk)/ This self certification will be the normal process if classes are missed, extensions to deadlines for routine course work are requested by the student or for other reasons for which the University require a medical note. The student completes the form and gives it to the appropriate person at the University. All certificates or letters are issued only with the consent of the patient. It is not possible for a department to have any enquiries about a student answered unless the student gives informed consent. 76 University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE USE BLOCK LETTERS Medical Certificate for Conditions affecting Study and / or Examinations Students whose studies/ examinations are adversely affected by any medical problem should ask the doctor whom they consult to complete this medical certificate. Sections 1-3 should be completed by the student before giving it to the doctor. Sections 4 onwards, as appropriate, should be completed by the doctor. The doctor should attempt to quantify the likely effects of the illness on the student’s work. All information given will be treated as confidential to the appropriate Board of Examiners and will help the letter decide what compensation should be made in its assessment of the student’s performance. 1 PERSONAL DETAILS OF STUDENT Full Name: University Student Number: Course: Year of Study: 2 NATURE OF ABSENCE Please indicate the nature of absence to which this certificate relates: - the title(s) and dates of any formal Written Examinations which have been missed / affected: - the title(s) of the assessment(s) missed or for which an extension to the submission deadline is sought: 3 PERIOD OF SICKNESS First day of sickness Last day of sickness if known NEXT SECTIONS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE DOCTOR: 4. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF STUDENT’S MEDICAL PROBLEM: 5. PERIOD DURING WHICH THE STUDENT WAS OR IS LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED: From: To: 6. In your opinion would the problem normally preclude - attendance at a written or oral examination? Yes / No - attendance at classes? Yes / No 7. If your answer to the previous question is no, please indicate (by ringing the appropriate entry) whether you consider the student=s ability to study would likely to be: a) seriously impaired b) somewhat impaired c) slightly impaired d) unimpaired 8. Date of consultation with Doctor / Practice Nurse 9. Any other comments: Name of Doctor: ................................................................................ Signature: ................................................................................ Date: .............................................. University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL 77 Official stamp of Medical Practice: CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL SICKNESS CERTIFICATE PLEASE USE BLOCK LETTERS 1 PERSONAL DETAILS Surname: ........................................................................................................... First Name(s):.......................................................................................................... Course:……………………...................................................................................... Year of Study : ………………............. University Student Number ........................ 2 NATURE OF ABSENCE Please indicate the nature of absence because of illness to which this certificate relates: Assessment other than Formal Written Examinations ……………………. Attendance at Compulsory Classes ………………………… Other Absence ………………… Please also specify where appropriate: the title(s) of the assessment(s) missed or for which an extension to the submission deadline is sought: .............................................................................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................................................................................. the title(s) and date(s) of any classes from which you have been absent .............................................................................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3 PERIOD OF SICKNESS From.......................................................... (First day of sickness) To:........................................................ (Last day of sickness if known) 4 DETAILS OF SICKNESS/INJURY I was unfit to attend University for the following reason(s): .................................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 DECLARATION I declare that the information given above is factually correct. Signature: ........................................... Date ............................................. NB Any students found to have submitted false information on this form or in connection with the self certification process may be subject to the University Disciplinary Procedures. THIS FORM SHOULD BE COMPLETED ON THE FIRST DAY THAT YOU RETURN TO UNIVERSITY AND SUBMITTED IMMEDIATELY TO THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENTAL OFFICE. 78 APPENDIX 7 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK DEPARTMENT OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES ASSESSED WORK COVER SHEET Please check that you have followed these rules of presentation: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. You have submitted TWO copies Essay is double spaced Page numbers At least 12 point font Bibliography Filmography References Your essay has been proof-read Student ID No.:________________________________________ Degree Course________________________ Year____________ Title of Module ________________________________________ Seminar Tutor’s Name___________________________________ Short Title of Essay_____________________________________ Length of Essay as set _______________ words Length submitted____________________ words I am aware of the note on plagiarism in the Department handbooks and of Regulation 11B in the University Calendar concerning cheating in a university test. The attached work, submitted for a university test, is my own. Student Signature _______________________ Date_________ This form must be securely attached to your essay 79 APPENDIX 8 MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE The two tables below provide more detailed guidance on, and examples of, types of circumstance which are normally considered eligible (Table 1) and types which are not normally eligible (Table 2). They accompany the general information to be found on pp. 8-9 of the handbook. Table 1: Circumstances normally eligible for consideration Circumstance Examples Serious illness or accident of the student (physical or mental health) Illness, accident or severe trauma at the time of an assessment, or during preparation for it earlier in the academic year. It should be a serious illness or an unanticipated deterioration in an ongoing illness or chronic medical condition. It can also be an assault of which the student is victim. Bereavement at assessment time or in preparation for it earlier in the academic year. ‘Someone close’ can mean parents or guardians, children, siblings, a spouse or partner. It may include friends, in-laws, grandparents and grandchildren, if it can be demonstrated that the relationship was close. Issue arising at assessment time or in preparation for it earlier in the academic year. ‘Someone close’ can mean parents or guardians, children, siblings, a spouse or partner. It may include friends, in-laws, grandparents and grandchildren if it can be demonstrated that the relationship was close. Divorce; fire or burglary; the requirement to appear in Court at or near the time of the relevant assessment; acute accommodation issues; serious and unforeseeable transport disruptions (for example road closure due to fatal road traffic accident) For part-time students only. Bereavement of someone close to the student Serious illness or accident of someone close to the student (mental or physical health) Abrupt change in personal circumstances of the student or other serious unforeseen event Significant change in employment 80 Supporting Documentation Doctor’s note or letter confirming the illness or accident and attesting to its impact on the student.* If you are a victim of an assault, you should provide a crime number or Police report. Sources of support you can access GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support SU Advice Centre Copy of the death certificate and evidence of closeness (e.g. statement from Personal Tutor, Student Support or counsellor*). Doctor’s note or letter confirming the illness or accident* and statement by Personal Tutor or Student Support attesting to closeness and impact on the student. Statement by Personal Tutor or Student Support and/or copies of relevant documentation (e.g. Court summons). GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support University Counselling Service SU Advice Centre Copy of letter from employer and statement attesting to Personal Tutor Student Support SU Advice Centre GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support University Counselling Service SU Advice Centre GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support University Counselling Service SU Advice Centre Circumstance circumstances beyond control of student affected Diagnosis of Specific Learning Difference Deterioration of a permanent condition you have already told us about (physical or mental health) Bullying, harassment, victimisation or threatening behaviour Examples Supporting Documentation impact on student by Personal Tutor or Student Support. Sources of support you can access Only eligible when diagnosis is obtained too late for reasonable adjustments to be made by way of Special Exam Arrangements or in other ways. Copy of diagnosis letter and confirmation from Department that it was submitted too late for reasonable adjustments to be made in other ways. Copy of letter from Disability Services, Student Support, GP or consultant or counsellor.* Personal Tutor Student Support Disability Services SU Advice Centre Report from Personal Tutor or Student Support Services. Copies of emails or screenshots from social media platforms or other communications or police report. Personal Tutor SU Advice Centre Student Support campus police Where this permanent condition has already been adequately adjusted for through Special Exam arrangements or other reasonable adjustments only the deterioration counts as a Mitigating Circumstance. Only eligible if student is victim or alleged victim. Personal Tutor Student Support Disability Services SU Advice Centre * Where your Mitigating Circumstances relate to physical or mental health conditions or issues for which you have sought support you should provide documentation from a medical practitioner or a practitioner who is registered with an appropriate professional body such as the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the UK Council for Psychotherapy, the British Psychological Society, or an appropriately qualified Student Support professional. Medical practitioners in the UK should be members of a recognised professional body such as the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Chiropractic Council, General Dental Council, General Optical Council, General Osteopathic Council, General Pharmaceutical Council, Health Professions Council or Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland. If you have sought medical attention abroad the certificator must be licensed to practise in the country in question. If the letter or note is in a language other than English you must provide both a copy of the original note and a certified translation into English. The University may seek to verify the accuracy of the translation provided. 81 Table 2: Circumstances not normally eligible for consideration Circumstance A permanent condition which you have already told us about unless you can provide appropriate evidence that there has been a worsening of your condition during the assessment period (see Table 1). Examples An ongoing mental or physical health condition, or Specific Learning Difference or disability. You should tell the University, (Disability Services) and your Personal Tutor about any disability, Specific Learning Difference, or ongoing mental or physical health condition as soon as possible in your University career so that appropriate adjustments can be made to support you. If in doubt speak to your Personal Tutor. Sources of support GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support Disability Services SU Advice Centre Minor illnesses ailments Aches and pains, colds, sore throats and coughs where these are not symptoms of a more serious medical condition. However, if you feel that your ailments are impacting on your ability to study you should seek medical attention and notify your Personal Tutor. Exams and other University assessments are tests of your performance and inevitably involve a certain amount of stress. Having feelings of stress or worry at such times does not necessarily mean you are unwell or have an eligible Mitigating Circumstance. However, if you experience a more acute form of anxiety (a ‘panic attack’ or ‘anxiety attack’) it may be eligible and you should seek medical or professional attention, as well as notify your Personal Tutor. GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support SU Advice Centre GP or hospital Student Support (Mental Health and Wellbeing Team, in particular Wellbeing Drop-in) Student Careers and Skills Personal Tutor University Library SU Advice Centre Failure to keep adequate back-ups; computer ‘crash’. However, theft of computer equipment may be eligible if you have reported it to the police and can provide a crime number. Essay deadlines falling on the same day or in close proximity. However, this may be eligible as an aggravating factor if you also have a diagnosis of a relevant medical condition (see Table 1, above). Holidays, weddings, rites of passage ceremonies whether religious or secular, sporting fixtures or training in preparation for them and other similarly foreseeable events. Hangovers; ill-effects from the use of recreational or performanceenhancing drugs, whether legal (e.g. caffeine, energy drinks) or illegal. If in doubt please consult one of the sources of support in the box immediately to the right. Personal Tutor IT Services GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support SU Advice Centre GP or hospital Personal Tutor Student Support SU Advice Centre Examination and worry or stress Computer, printer or other IT failure Pressure of academic workload Non-academic activities and foreseeable events Temporary selfinduced conditions 82 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CONFIDENTIAL MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES DECLARATION FORM FULL NAME: STUDENT NUMBER: COURSE: DEPARTMENT: STAGE OF FOUNDATION / PRE-SESSIONAL / 1ST YEAR / 2ND YEAR / 3RD YEAR / 4TH STUDY (Please YEAR/ POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT circle) MODE OF STUDY (please Full time/Part-time/Distance Learning/Other circle) This form should be completed if you want to make the University aware of any mitigating circumstances which you believe may have adversely affected your performance either during the year or in the examinations. Please read the University Mitigating Circumstances guidance before completing the sections which apply to you. Please refer to Departmental Guidance for details of deadlines and where to submit your form. a) Please state the type of mitigation you are presenting (you may tick more than one box, and if “other”, please provide details): Serious accident or illness Bereavement Serious accident or illness of someone close Abrupt change in personal circumstances Significant changes in employment circumstances (part-time students only) Deterioration of a permanent condition Late diagnosis of a specific learning difference Suffered bullying, harassment, victimization or threatening behaviour Other (please give details): b) Please state the length of time/period affected (giving dates), and details of any assessments affected: Period affected (please give start and end date) Start date: End date: c) Assessment(s) affected (including details of any deadline dates and examination dates) Please provide further details of the mitigating circumstances and how they have affected your assessments: 83 d) Please indicate who you have contacted in relation to your mitigating circumstances (please tick more than one box if applicable and if “other” please provide further details): Departmental Senior Tutor University Senior Tutor Student Support Services Students’ Union Advice Centre Other: e) f) Doctor Personal Tutor Residential Support University Counselling Services Please give details of the evidence of your mitigating circumstances which you are providing with this form: Please give details of any evidence which is currently outstanding, that you will provide to support your request, noting that this should be submitted before any deadlines notified to you by your department (see below). I confirm that the information I have given is true and that I have read and understood the University Guidance on mitigating circumstances. SIGNED: DATED: Please return a signed copy of this form and all supporting documentation to your Department no later than 5 working days in advance of the Mitigating Circumstances panel/pre-board meeting in your Department. The final deadline dates are given below: First year students: Tuesday of week 8, 14th June 2016. Second year students: Tuesday of week 10, 28th June 2016. Third year students: Wednesday of week 9, 22nd June 2016. Forms will not be accepted after the deadline unless there are exceptional reasons. Please note that the information you provide will be reviewed by the departmental mitigating circumstances pre-board in order to make a recommendation to the Board of Examiners about your case. The University will keep your full student record for six years after the end of the academic year in which you graduate from, other otherwise leave the University. After six years, the University will retain only the data necessary to identify you and confirm the dates you studied at the University, the degree and classification you were awarded and a transcript of your marks. All other personal data on your student record will be disposed of in a secure manner. 84