Student Handbook - The School of Language, Linguistics and Film

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Students who qualify for HOME fee status who will be working or studying within the European Union and/or Switzerland for less than 24 weeks will receive: A small ERASMUS grant You or your funding authority will be required to pay half rate tuition fees to Queen Mary for the academic year 2012-13. If studying under the ERASMUS scheme, you will not be required to pay any fees to your host institution. Students who qualify for OVERSEAS fee status who will be working or studying within the European Union and/or Switzerland will receive: A small ERASMUS grant You or your funding authority will be required to pay half rate tuition fees to Queen Mary for the academic year 2012-13. If studying under the ERASMUS scheme, you will not be required to pay any fees to your host institution. All students who will be working or studying outside the European Union or Switzerland (Latin America or Canada) will be required to pay half rate tuition fees to Queen Mary for the academic year 2012-13. You will also not be eligible to receive an ERASMUS grant. If you are going to spend the year studying independently at a university (i.e. not on an ERASMUS study placement), then you may be liable to fees at that institution as well as Queen Mary. In these cases, the College will reimburse your fees for studying abroad up to a limit of half of the home tuition fee for that year. Please note that if this does not fully cover the actual fees charged by the overseas institution, you must be prepared to meet any higher cost yourself. The College is not able to reimburse any fees for part-time modules undertaken by students spending their year abroad on work placements. 6.2 YEAR ABROAD ASSESSMENT Modes of assessment for the year abroad are detailed in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Year Abroad Handbook, which is distributed to all second year students at the beginning of the second semester. The Year Abroad Assessment is an integral and compulsory part of the year abroad. Progression into the final year of your degree is dependent upon successful completion of the Year Abroad Assessment, which is worth 120 credits. There are two modes through which the year abroad is assessed by the School (ERASMUS/other university examinations or completion of a Year Abroad Assessment). In order to find out which modes of assessment are available to you, you must consult the section of the Year Abroad Handbook devoted to your home department. Please remember that your mode of assessment of the year abroad depends on the regulations of your individual department(s). If you are a joint language student and are splitting the year abroad between two countries, you must complete a Semester Abroad Assessment in each country. You must consult both Year Abroad Co-ordinators in order to formally agree your assessment. 6.3 VACATION COURSES Limited funding is available to help subsidise students’ attendance on vacation language courses in a language which is a substantial component of their degree. This applies where a student is studying a language ab initio or where a student has been unable to spend a 60
prolonged period in a country where the language studied is spoken (for example, when a Combined Language student has spent a year in the ‘other’ country). Applications should be made to the member of staff responsible for vacation modules in the relevant Department: French: Dr Laetitia Calabrese, German: Dr Annja Neumann; Hispanic Studies: Dr Mar Encinas-Puente; Portuguese: TBC; Russian: Mrs Anna Pilkington. To be eligible for a vacation grant, students of Russian must regularly attend the classes offered in the Visiting Lecturers Programme. Vacation grants are awarded on the basis of effort and achievement. 7. ASSOCIATE AND ERASMUS STUDENTS Associate and ERASMUS students are welcome in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, which has run successful exchanges with different countries for a number of years. Some students come for the whole academic year, others for only one semester. ERASMUS students are assigned an Adviser to help you to register on appropriate modules. The Advisers are: Dr Leigh Oakes for students in the French Department, Dr Robert Gillett for students in the German Department, Professor Chris Pountain for Spanish students in the Iberian and Latin American Studies Department and TBC for Portuguese students in the Iberian and Latin American Studies Department. You should keep in touch regularly with your Adviser, to inform him/her of any difficulty which may arise, and of any change of address. Associate students should bring any queries to our Associate Student Adviser, Dr Erez Levon (e.levon@qmul.ac.uk). As far as possible, the Advisers will help you to choose modules which correspond to programmes of your home universities, taking into account your own preferences. However we cannot guarantee a place on a particular module, as they can be oversubscribed and even home students are not always able to register for the course of their first choice. Students must have knowledge equivalent to the pre-requisites for Queen Mary modules. Associate and ERASMUS students are encouraged to take part in all aspects of university life and benefit from all the opportunities offered on campus. You are bound by the same rules as home students. You are expected to contribute fully to the modules you attend, prepare oral presentations and submit written work as required. Any special difficulty should be discussed with the Module Organiser. ERASMUS students and Full-year and Spring Semester Associate students are required to take the standard assessment for any modules they study. This means that you must remain in attendance for any written examinations in the Examination Term. Autumn Semester only Associate students must identify themselves to the Module Organiser at the start of the module, and find out the mode of assessment which is appropriate to them for each module. 8. STUDENT / STAFF LIAISON COMMITTEE Student / Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs) are an important channel for students to air their views, criticisms and suggestions for improvements, and a wide range of issues regarding modules and teaching is covered each year. All reasonable suggestions are carefully considered by the department(s) concerned. Issues raised are reported to the School Teaching and Learning Committee, where appropriate, with other matters being referred to the Junior Deputy Head of School. Students are encouraged to make full use of this forum. 61
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