Unit details

CLAN4102 Researching the Classical World 2—the Research Seminar in Practice

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 2	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Details for undergraduate courses

• Honours core unit in Classics and Ancient History [Bachelor of Arts (Honours)]

Content

This unit provides a strongly practical introduction to and training in research as it is practised in the discipline of Classics and Ancient History. Students take an active part in the communal matrix where research is initially presented and refined through supportive criticism and discussion. For decades Classics and Ancient History has run a series of research seminars every semester at which staff members, students (postgraduate and honours) and visiting scholars have presented their research in progress and listened to the developing ideas of others. The unit formalises honours participation in the research seminar, presenting it as a microcosm of the larger process of research and review which operates through the discipline across the world. Students are required to participate in this process, to introduce speakers and to initiate discussion, and to make their own presentation to the research seminar, based on their dissertation.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate, by their participation, an understanding of the collaborative nature of research processes and (2) show appropriate levels of skill in the different roles the research seminar system requires (e.g. presentation of research, discussion of its strengths and weaknesses, weighing up different judgements, placing research in a larger context of individual career or of the advancement of knowledge).

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) participation in seminars; (2) an introduction of speaker and topic; (3) a critical response to a paper; and (4) an oral presentation of a student's own research dissertation. Further information is available in the unit outline.

For units commencing in May 2022 or later the availability of the supplementary assessment is subject to confirmation.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Christopher Mallan

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

enrolment in honours in Classics and Ancient History

Co-requisites:

Nil.

Incompatibility:

Nil.