Student Handbook - The School of Language, Linguistics and Film

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Year 2: Compulsory Module Aspects of Meaning Compulsory Module Explaining Grammatical Structure Compulsory Module Sociolinguistic Variation and Change Compulsory Module History of English Final Year: Compulsory Module Research Methods in Linguistics Compulsory Module Linguistics Research Project English Literature and Linguistics First Year Foundations of Linguistics (compulsory) Second Year No core or compulsory modules Final Year No core or compulsory modules Portuguese The following modules are required for students of Portuguese within the programme Hispanic Studies and Portuguese: First Year For joint honours students POR110 Introductory Portuguese (core) Second Year For joint students POR512 Portuguese II Intensive (core) Final Year: For joint honours students POR603 Portuguese III (core) Russian You will begin your studies registered for a four-year degree; this means one of two things: (1) You are a Russian beginner and must successfully complete a ‘Preliminary Year’ before embarking on full degree programme. (2) You are registered for a degree in two foreign languages, in which case, if you are not a Russian beginner, the fourth year is your year abroad in a French-, German-, or Spanish-speaking country. (So if you are a Russian beginner, your degree will last a total of five years if you spend a year abroad.) Circumstances allowing, unless you are a native speaker of Russian, some or all of a year abroad may be spent in Russia or the FSU. If you are a beginner in Russian and are registered for a degree in Russian or Russian and another subject or subjects, your first year will normally be devoted entirely to a preliminary qualifying module in Russian, though you may keep up any other language for which you are registered by attending modules without assessment. To qualify for the main degree you are required to pass the preliminary year with at least a grade C. The following modules are required for students of Russian: Post A-Level or after the preliminary year Year 1 RUS/060 Russian I (core) RUS/070 Landmarks in Russian Literature (compulsory) Year 2 RUS/211 Russian II (core) Final Year RUS/084 Russian III (core) 18
Native speakers of Russian Year 1 RUS/060N Russian I N (core) RUS/070 Landmarks in Russian Literature (compulsory) Year 2 RUS/212 Russian II N (core) Final Year RUS/084N Russian III N (core) 2.2 THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE Attendance All students are expected to attend 100% of classes unless a very good reason is given. The teaching which you receive and the discussions you take part in during classes are a vital part of the learning process at Queen Mary. You will not be able to keep up with a module for which you are missing classes by reading for it at other times. This is an essential complement to class attendance, but not a substitute for it. Copying another student’s notes will also not give you the deeper understanding of the issues discussed which you gain from taking part in those discussions. Of course, there are legitimate excuses for absence: illness, religious obligations, bereavement, would be examples. But you do need to keep us informed of any reasons (medical or personal) that will prevent you from attending a class or classes. You should inform the teacher before the class that you are unable to attend, and give reasons. You may be asked to submit a medical certificate or similar document to cover absences of more than five days, or a series of shorter absences. We are well aware that many students have to find employment to finance their university studies. However, employment commitments will not be regarded as a sufficient excuse for absence. If you have to work, you must harmonise your academic timetable with your work commitments. If your attendance is regarded as unsatisfactory, we may ultimately take steps to bar you, that is de-register you, from that module. A student barred from a module is not permitted to replace it with a new module: it remains on your transcript, and although you will receive any marks for work submitted up to the point of your deregistration, it will inevitably be a fail mark overall. If, as a result of de-registration, you are registered for fewer credits than you require to progress to your next year of study, your enrolment is at risk of termination: that is, you may be unable to continue as a student of the College. We will always try to help students who are experiencing genuine problems, but we cannot do so if you do not keep us informed of them. Of course, you may not want to discuss personal matters with all of your teachers, but you must make sure that your Adviser is aware of what is happening so that he or she can offer a generalised explanation on your behalf. Even if your attendance is jeopardised by genuine problems, it is unreasonable to delay informing us of these until you have already been deregistered from a module for nonattendance. By that time, it may be too late to reinstate you. Students must have permission from the Head of School to be absent from College during term-time for anything other than medical or urgent personal reasons, and must provide a valid reason for absence for such permission to be given. With very few exceptions, all classes are timetabled for a full hour or multiples of an hour. By a College-wide agreement, they actually run from five minutes past the hour until five minutes to the next hour, to allow everybody to get from one venue to another. It is extremely disruptive to teaching if students (or teachers) arrive late. If you do not arrive by 19
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