Attendance and class requirements

• Participation: Active, scholarly participation assessed in tutorials and seminars throughout semester
• Attendance: Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes.
• Lecture recording: Most lectures will be recorded and made available to students on the elearning system.
• Preparation: Students should commit to spending approximately three hours’ preparation time (reading, studying, homework, essays, etc.) for every hour of scheduled instruction.

General requirements

Students are required to:

• attend lectures and tutorials (or seminars);
• participate in class discussion;
• complete satisfactorily such written work, presentations and examinations as may be prescribed; and
• meet the standards required by the University for academic honesty

Attendance requirements

Departments in the School of Humanities require satisfactory class attendance as part of participation in a unit of study. Attendance below 80% of tutorials/seminars without written evidence of illness or misadventure may be penalised with loss of marks. Students should be aware that non-attendance at 50% or more of classes without due cause is likely to result in them being deemed not to have fulfilled requirements for the unit of study; they thus run the risk of an Absent Fail result being returned.

Attendance at less than 50% of classes, regardless of the reasons for the absences, will automatically result in the student’s case being referred to the Discipline's examiners’ meeting for a determination as to whether the student should pass or fail the unit of study, or, if a pass is awarded, the level of penalty that should be applied. Students should not take a unit of study unless they can meet the above attendance requirement.

For further details see the Faculty of Arts Attendance Provisions on the University's Policy Register.