There are three pieces of assessment in this course. Each one is designed to address the objectives outlined in the course outline. Assignments must be submitted via Turnitin in the SOCIO311 - 20B Moodle page. The convenor will aim to turn marked assignments around in approximately three weeks from the due date.

Marked assignments will be posted back to students through Moodle – you will receive an email advising you that your marked assignment is available for viewing.

Assignment 1: Reading Commentaries (x 3) - Due Thursday 29 July, Friday 21 August and Wednesday 16 September 2020
Students will write a short commentary on set readings covered in the course. Commentaries are to be of no more than 400 words each. Details of the requirement of this exercise, along with a mock commentary are available in the assessment component of the SOCIO311 - 20B Moodle site.

Assignment 2: Research Essay - Due Wednesday 30 September 2020
Students will write a essay of no more than 2000 words. Students will choose a topic from a list developed from key issues to be covered throughout the course. Further information on the essay assignment, including the set questions, is available in the assessment folder of the SOCIO311 - 20B Moodle page.

Assignment 3: Learning Log - Due Monday 12 October 2020
The learning log is basically a log or record or reflective journal of your own learning. To complete the exercise students are to write a 200 word reflection for each of 10 of the lectures and related materials, covered throughout the course (this means the total words written for this exercise is 2000 words). Further information on this assignment, including a mock log entry, is available in the assessment folder of the SOCIO311 - 20B Moodle page.

Please note that for SOCIO311 - 20B a late penalty of 5% is applied for each day a piece of assessment is overdue.

This is a fully online paper and Moodle is the primary online support system for this paper. Students are expected to engage with the required reading(s) and utilise the material available on Moodle for each topic.

Video clips, links to useful websites and news stories, and other helpful material will be placed on Moodle.

If a notice is sent out via Moodle, it is assumed you will have received it. If material is placed on Moodle, it is assumed you have access to it. If, for any reason, you are unable to access Moodle, please advice Juan so that alternative arrangements can be made until you do have access to Moodle.

Students are expected to utilise the material available on Moodle, but must also undertake the independent research to locate further appropriate material for assessments and other aspects of the paper. Reading a range of academic material relevant to the topic is crucial to adequately complete any assignment.

This paper is worth 15 points. That implies that students will devote a minimum of 150 ‘learning hours’ to the paper. A full semester workload is 60 points. Therefore, students taking this course must expect to undertake a workload equivalent of around 25% of a full time load for one semester; that is about 10 hours a week for the whole semester (i.e. through to the end of study week). Assessment will be based on the assumption that students have devoted a minimum of 150 hours to the paper.