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Special examinations
In addition to information in this Handbook students are
advised that unless all assessment requirements during the
semester have been complied with, approval for special
examinations will normally not be granted.
Assessment Regulations
1. Student performance
1.1 Unsatisfactory performance
A student whose performance is unsatisfactory will be
required to repeat the failed subject(s) at the earliest
opportunity. If a student has completed the necessary
prerequisite subjects, they may also be permitted to enrol
in additional subjects from the next stage of the course.
This additional enrolment is conditional upon the
timetable allowing attendance at all classes and no
enrolment will be permitted in classes which overlap. If
there is any change in the timetable which results in
overlapping classes, it will be the responsibility of the
student to notify the Faculty office of the overlap and
make the appropriate amendment to their enrolment. The
existence of werlapping classes will not be accepted as
an excuse for unsatisfactory performance.
1.2 Supplementary Program
The Faculty of Applied Science will operate a limited
learning and assessment Supplementary Program,
designed to assist students to achieve the standards
expected in their courses. It will be conducted during intersemester
breaks, usually during December to February.
The supplementary program may embrace all
undergraduate subjects taught by the Faculty of Applied
Science. Entry to the program will be limited and will
depend on overall performance and will not be
automatically available.
Eligibility
~llenroltients in the Supplementary Program will be at
the discretion of the Facub Courses Committee, which
will take the advice of thedepartment responsible for
the subject.
The following conditions will normally apply:
1. The student must have achieved a result of not
less than 40% in a subject before consideration
for a Supplementary Program.
2. The overall performance of a student will be
taken into account before any Supplementary
Program is granted.
3. A Supplementary Program in laboratory
components will not be available and therefore
the student must have satisfied the practical
laboratory requirements for any subject for which
enrolment in the Supplementary Program is
being considered.
4. Subjects offered by other faculties will be bound
by the rules of the teaching faculty.
It is the responsibility of the student to ensure they
enrol and complete the requirements of the
supplementary assessment.
1.3 Exclusion
If in any semester a student fails all subjects or fails
any subject(s) being repeated, then that student will
be excluded from further study in the Faculty.
In addition, a student who passes only one or two
subjects, may be excluded.
Excluded students will be permitted to appeal to the
Courses Committee. The appeal must be in writing
and students may be required to appear before the
Courses Committee. At least five working dap notice
will be given of the closing date for submissions to
reach the Assistant Registrar.
If the student makes no appeal to the Committee by
the due date or if the Committee after considering
an appeal does not rescind the exclusion, the student
will not be permitted to undertake further study in
the Faculty without making formal application for
readmission and no application will be considered
until a period of two years has elapsed.
2. Assessment Irregularity
Cheating and plagiarism, that is the action or practice of
taking and using one's own, the thoughts, writings or other
work of someone else with the intent to deceive, constitutes
an irregularity as described under Examination Description
of the Swinburne Assessment Regulations. Such an action
is a major infringement of the Institute's academic values.
It is essential that students understand that plagiarism or
cheating shall be considered to have occurred if:
a computer program substantially written by someone else
(either another student, a previous student or the author of
a publication) is presented as the student's own work;
paragraphs, and even sentences in essays which are written
by someone else are not enclosed in quotation marks. and
a&ompanied by full reference to source;
work of someone else is paraphrased, and is not
appropriately attributed and referenced;
laboratory results of someone else are used without
appropriate attribution;
laboratory results are altered with the intent to deceive.
3. Interpretation
Nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted as
contravening the Assessment Regulations of the Academic
Board.
Industry based learnin
(cooperatwe education!
In the Applied Science Faculty, the Bachelor of Applied
Science courses are undertaken as programs of industry
based learning (IBL).
Undergraduate courses offered as four year programs in the
Faculty of Applied Science are run in the IBL format and
include three years of academic study plus one year of paid
industry based learning. The IBL is an integral part of the
academic program and makes up part of the final
assessment.
In these programs students learn in both academic and
work settings, and these two phases of learning are related
to one another in a planned manner. Swinburne, the
employer and the student collaborate to provide a complete
professional education.
Students benefit educationally as they are provided with
practical experience in solving real problems under authentic
conditions using the theoretical concepts learned in the
classroom. They are given an appreciation of the structure
and purpose of the various organisations concerned, enabling
them to make more realistic decisions regarding the
area of the profession in which they wish to become
involved. Two main models exist. Under the 'traditional'
model which has operated at Swinburne since 1963,
students are paid a salary during their period in industry. A
new model, operating since 1988, utilises scholarships.
Under this model, students are not paid any salary during
their periods of industry based learning.