Attendance is expected in all scheduled activities including the lecture and tutorials and is strongly correlated with student success in the course.

Lectures will be available as recordings. All other learning activities including tutorials will not be available as recordings.

The course will not include live online events.

The final exam will be an online, invigilated (monitored) exam. This will be timetabled by the examinations office during the examination period of Semester 2. Students will be notified of the time/date of the exam on SSO and through their student email address.  

The activities for the course are scheduled on a standard weekly timetable.

Lectures are designed to not only disseminate ideas and introduce key concepts, but also engender discussion and conversation with peers. You will be expected to engage in small group conversations and to share ideas with the class as part of being in lecture.  

Tutorials are designed and structured to extend ideas in the lecture, but are primarily focussed on supporting you with successfully completing course assessments. There will be regular in-tutorial tasks which relate to the readings and lecture content and will not be announced ahead of time. Those failing to attend and show up at tutorials will miss out on completing these assessments as no make up opportunities will be provided.

Taught courses use a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas to provide students with learning materials including reading lists and lecture recordings (where available). Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Each week will require you to complete a required reading, which will be available online through the reading list. Tutorials may require you from time to time to watch a short video or film clip ahead of the session. These will again be included in Canvas for easy access. 

The content and delivery of content in this course are protected by copyright. Material belonging to others may have been used in this course and copied by and solely for the educational purposes of the University under license. You may copy the course content for the purposes of private study or research, but you may not upload onto any third-party site, make a further copy or sell, alter or further reproduce or distribute any part of the course content to another person.

In the event of an unexpected disruption, we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and course assessment continues to meet the principles of the University’s assessment policy. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator/director, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the university website for information about how to proceed.

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed for potential plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct, using computerised detection mechanisms.

Similarly, research students must meet the University’s expectations of good research practice. This requires:

• Honesty - in all aspects of research work
• Accountability - in the conduct of research
• Professional courtesy and fairness – in working with others
• Good stewardship – on behalf of others
• Transparency – of research process and presentation of results
• Clarity - communication to be understandable, explainable and accessible

For more information on the University’s expectations of academic integrity, please see the Academic Conduct section of the University policy hub.

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about taught courses is made available to enrolled students in Canvas.

Students may be asked to submit assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.

This course will employ the two-lane assessment approach, which means that for some assessment tasks you will be permitted to use generative artificial intelligence text and art generation software, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google Translate, Gemini and DALL.E 2, along with other translation and grammar checking software, but for others you will need to complete the assessments without use/minimal use of these tools.

If you are given permission to use such tools, you must acknowledge this. Please include a paragraph at the end of any assessment that uses AI explaining what you used the tool for and what prompts you used to get the results.

Referencing: For guidance on how to reference AI generated content in your writing, visit Quick©ite.

Please be aware of the limitations of Generative AI including the following:

1. In order to achieve high-quality results, you must provide suitable prompts. Keep refining your prompts until you get quality outputs.
2. Do not rely on any information given by the tool. Unless you can confirm the answer with another source, assume that any facts or figures provided by the tool are incorrect. It is your responsibility to ensure that the tool does not make any errors or omissions, and it works best for topics that you are familiar with.

To pass this course, students must submit all assessments and achieve at least 50% for the overall course.

Feedback on taught courses is gathered from students at the end of each semester through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions. Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students. In addition, class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

The course has now run for several years and has been very favourably rated each time. Nonetheless, we do take into consideration student feedback. Last years' course feedback was most critical about the use of Peerwise to ensure students complete readings. This year we will not be using Peerwise, and instead you will be expected to complete some short tasks in tutorials that ensure you have engaged with both the lectures and readings. These will often be done at the end of tutorial time, with time preceding this, used to discuss the lecture and reading in a bit more depth.  

One other feedback from students, is that they most appreciate opportunities to engage in conversations and discussions with other students. A frustration though, is students who choose not to engage and instead remain glued to their devices. There will be times during the course which we will allocate as device free periods and where laptops and phones will left aside for you to engage in meaningful discussion with your peers.

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Class representatives will be sought in the first two weeks of the course.

Tuākana is a multi-faceted programme for Māori and Pacific students providing topic specific tutorials, one-on-one sessions, test and exam preparation and more. Explore your options at Tuakana Learning Communities.

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor. Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website.

The teaching team is committed to supporting an inclusive and supportive environment for all students, and have sought to accommodate a range of learning needs and styles in the past.   Please be in touch with the course director early in the term to discuss any specific accommodations or requests you have.   

We all go through tough times during the semester, or see our friends struggling. There is lots of help out there - please see the Support Services page for information on support services in the University and the wider community.

If your ability to complete assessed work is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due. If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page. This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter.

Students with concerns about teaching including how a course is delivered, the resources provided, or supervision arrangements, have the right to express their concerns and seek resolution. The university encourages informal resolution where possible, as this is quicker and less stressful. For information on the informal and formal complaints processes, please refer to the Student Academic Complaints Statute in the Student Policies and Guidelines section of the Policy Hub.