arts and human sciences - My LSBU - London South Bank University

faculty of
arts and
human sciences

Dean’s welcome
Professor Mike Molan
Executive Dean
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences.
The Faculty is a dynamic, lively and friendly base
for your studies and it embraces a number of
broad disciplines in the Departments of Arts
and Media; Culture, Writing and Performance;
Education; Law; Psychology; Social Sciences; and
Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies.
Despite the wide range of the courses across these
departments, they all share key characteristics:
strong student support; courses at the cuttingedge
of the discipline; good preparation for the
world of work; and teaching that is underpinned
by staff commitment, scholarship and relevant
research.
This academic year is an exciting time for our
Faculty with a number of new facilities opening
to students as well as a reinvigoration of our
curriculum. We have a new purpose built gallery
to display work by influential artists such as David
Bomberg, brand new rehearsal space for our
Performing Arts students and a new Student Life
Centre. In addition the Law Department, through
its Legal Advice Clinic continues to offer students a
unique opportunity to gain experience of working
with clients while studying. Our dedicated team of
academic staff have worked hard to develop fresh
and innovative courses and introduced a new suite
of Masters level subjects in Media and Culture.
The purpose of this booklet is to provide you with
useful information about the Faculty that you will
need during your time at London South Bank. We
urge you to read this guide carefully and become
familiar with its content, then to keep it as a
reference document for your studies here.
Thank you for choosing London South Bank
University and we hope your studies with us will
be happy and productive.
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4 Who do I need to know in my
faculty?
14 What help can I get from my
faculty?
14 The Faculty office
14 Resources
14 Coursework submission office
15 Location and maps
16 Administrative support
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5 What facilities are available in
my faculty?
5 Digital Arts and Media Centre
6 Digital Art Gallery
6 Edric Hall Theatre and
Performance Centre
16 Change of personal
information
16 Council tax certificates
17 Letter requests
17 Student Loan Company and
grant cheques
6 Game studio
6 Legal Advice Clinic
6 Psychology laboratory
7 A David Bomberg Legacy – The
Sarah Rose Collection @ Borough
Road Gallery
18 What important things should I
know about?
18 Attendance and punctuality

8 What’s it like to study in my
faculty?
8 Lectures
8 Seminars
9 Practical work
9 Reading lists
20 How can I get extra support?
20 Extenuating circumstances
20 Failure to submit coursework
or sit an exam without
extenuating circumstances
21 Academic misconduct
10 Talking
10 Writing
10 Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE)
11 Can’t log in?
11 Timetables
22 Progression
22 Interruption of studies
22 Withdrawing from your course
23 Results
23 Re-submissions/re-sits
23 Changing course
contents
11 Handing in written coursework
12 Presenting your work
12 Handing in practical work
12 Late coursework
13 Exams
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Who do I need to know in my faculty?
Key faculty staff
Professor Mike Molan Executive Dean
Professor Suzy Kerr Pertič Pro-Dean External
Professor Hazel Willis Pro-Dean Academic
Ms Nicola Hallas Faculty Manager Academic and Quality
Ms Sharon Holmes Faculty Manager Students and Operations
Heads of department
Professor Richard Sawdon-Smith Head of Department Arts and Media
Dr Jenny Owen Head of Department Culture, Writing and Performance
Ms Jane Courtney Head of Department Education
Mr Andy Unger Head of Department Law
Professor Nick Braisby Head of Department Psychology
Mr Dave Edwards Head of Department Social Sciences
Ms Ruth Richards Head of Department Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies
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What facilities are available in my faculty?
Digital Arts and Media Centre
Students undertaking courses within the
Department of Arts and Media have full access
to a Digital Arts and Media Centre – a dedicated,
state-of-the-art facility that occupies its own
floor of the University’s Keyworth Centre. The
Media Centre is equipped with five multimedia
laboratories, each containing 20-30 Apple Mac
workstations; Avid editing suites and an Avid
teaching room; photographic, video studio and
sound booths; and an equipment store housing
a range of portable equipment (digital video
cameras, digital stills cameras, mini disc recorders,
microphones etc.) that enable students to go out
and capture their own original source material.
All this hardware is complemented by a full range
of industry-standard creative software that is
regularly updated, including: Director, Flash,
Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Fireworks, Freehand,
Photoshop, Quark Express Illustrator, Emagic,
Logic Audio and MaxSP. Students’ creative work is
supported by a team of Technical Tutors.
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Digital Art Gallery
The Digital Media Gallery is situated on the
ground floor of the Borough Road Building directly
opposite the main entrance. It hosts a regular
programme of events and includes exhibitions of
the work of digital media students.
Edric Hall Theatre and Performance
Centre
Students undertaking BA (Hons) Drama and
Performance have full access to the University’s
Edric Theatre and Performance Centre. Theatre
students work alongside creative professionals
and technicians to deliver theatre productions
and programming. The centre includes a recently
refurbished dedicated rehearsal space.
Game Studio
The dedicated games studio, based in the Learning
Resource Centre, is modelled on professional game
design studios and supports the practical projectwork
of BA (Hons) Game Cultures students. In
addition to standard game development pursuits
(3D and 2D game design, sound design, and 3D
modelling and animation) the studio is used for
Kinect development, motion capture, animation
rendering and gamecamp projects.
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Legal Advice Clinic
In September 2011 we opened the LSBU Legal
Advice Clinic, based in dedicated and refurbished
premises, at Caxton House on Borough Road. The
Clinic is a free, community-based, face-to-face
advice service, staffed by trained Student Clinic
Volunteers working under the supervision of
practising solicitors. The clinic is a much-needed
community service and offers excellent realworld,
practical, legal work experience for our law
students.
Psychology laboratory
The Psychology laboratory is situated on the fifth
floor of the Joseph Lancaster Building. It can be
accessed via the main entrance in Borough Road or
via the Faraday Wing entrance in Keyworth Street.
The laboratory contains a selection of psychophysiological
apparatus, a full range of psychological
tests and various computers and software for
performing psychological research. There are
also rooms for carrying out research including an
observation room and video recording suite.

A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection @ Borough Road Gallery
As part of our campus development, the University
recently opened the Borough Road Gallery; an
exciting new space at the Southwark campus
that has been built to house ‘A David Bomberg
Legacy - The Sarah Rose Collection’. The gallery,
which opened in June 2012, displays the work of
influential artist David Bomberg and the Borough
Group. The gallery is housed in two ground floor
rooms in the University’s Borough Road building,
directly below where Bomberg and his students
worked. It will be enhanced by a programme
of educational activities, including a teaching
series on figurative painting, heritage art classes
organised with local adult education centres, and
walking tours connecting the Collection and local
social history with major cultural institutions,
including Tate Britain and Tate Modern. further
information about the gallery can be found at
www.lsbu.ac.uk/w2/boroughroadgallery/
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What’s it like to study in my faculty?
While you are at London South Bank you will be taught by
a number of different lecturers using a range of teaching
methods designed to promote understanding of the subject
and its application.
These different methods are aimed at giving you
tuition and practice in the core skills that you
will need for effective study. You will be issued
with a module guide for each module you are
undertaking. The module guide will give you
a week-by-week breakdown of teaching and
learning strategies for the module. In addition
to the timetabled class contact hours, you are
expected to engage in private study, using the
resources available to you. In the front of each
module guide you will find the number of study
hours allocated to the module, broken down
into class contact (teaching) hours, and private
study. The study time allocated to each module
is variable, depending on the credit value. So,
for each module in the first and second year you
will have a specified number of hours of class
contact and you should be devoting approximately
double that amount a week to private study. In
the third year the private study time increases
proportionately.
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Lectures
Lectures are in many ways what people think
about first when they imagine studying at
university and it’s fair to say they form a
substantial part of many courses. You will need
to be able to take notes and keep up to date with
materials posted on the individual module and
course Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) sites.
Seminars
Seminars are a form of student-centred learning.
At a seminar you will meet a smaller group of
students from your year group and a tutor who
will manage the session. The purpose of the
seminar is to give you an opportunity to discuss
lectures or materials which have been covered that
week.

Practical work
Practice-based sessions taught in the Faculty may
have special requirements, such as, the wearing of
appropriate clothes and footwear. Please refer to
your course/module guides for guidance.
Reading
This is a central skill required for successful study.
The more you read the more substance you can
bring to an issue or topic under discussion. During
your course of study you should attempt to read
as widely as you can. This means that you should
read the core texts for each module and any other
material that you are given, or is suggested, for
each week’s seminar. But it also means that you
should seek out secondary reading (these will be
listed in the module guide) and build a foundation
of material on which oral and written work can be
based. If you get into the habit of spreading this
kind of reading across the semester you will avoid
the kind of bottleneck and cramming that occurs
when assessments are due.
Reading lists
Module guides will each include a reading list,
often divided into core texts and secondary
reading. Reading skills are of huge importance,
both inside and outside university, and it’s
important to develop these to get the best out of
your studies.
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Talking
Seminar work involves communicating ideas to
one another on an informal basis and getting
feedback. This means that it depends on you
making an effort to bring ideas and issues to
the class for discussion. Sometimes these will
be structured by a series of questions from the
seminar leader, but at other times you will simply
be expected to contribute your thoughts. Some
of you will find the idea of speaking in a group
daunting at first. You will soon get used to it,
especially as you become more acquainted with
the others in your group. And the term ‘discussion’
means precisely that: there are no right answers,
just a sharing of ideas. The more you have read,
the more you will have to say that is relevant to
the topic. In some modules, you will be partly
assessed by an oral presentation. Learning to put
your ideas together by talking about them will
help you with this form of assessment.
Writing
Writing is essential to successful study. It will take
several forms during your degree, including notetaking,
reading logs and essay writing. An essay
allows you to construct an argument around a
topic using your reading, your seminar work and
your own ideas. You should practice writing down
your own and other people’s ideas throughout
the semester – don’t wait until you have an
essay due. Write up your lecture or seminar
notes into coherent prose, and insert material
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from your secondary reading. This will mean that
you have a solid foundation, on which to build
your assessment when it is due. When you use
secondary material, i.e. ideas that other critics
have written down and published, you must do
so according to the rules of referencing. See your
Course Director, if you have essay writing, or study
skills problems, that are best discussed at subject
level.
Virtual Learning Environment
The University has a Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE) which supports e-Learning. It provides you
with a flexible learning environment you can
connect through to through the internet, day or
night, on or off campus.
The VLE enables students and tutors to:
• Interact via the internet
• Share learning resources
• Communicate and collaborate
• Evaluate progress.
The VLE’s features include:
• Access to learning materials and module guides
• Group areas for collaborative work
• Links to other websites and University resources
• Communication between individuals, groups
and the whole class through discussion boards,
email and a virtual classroom which includes a
chat facility.

You will normally be automatically registered onto
the sites for your modules based on your enrolments
in the student record system. If you are missing a
module please confirm with your course administrator
in the Faculty Office that you are enrolled onto the
module in the student record system. The module
leaders will also need to make sites available to
students in order for you to see them.
Help sheets on how to use the VLE are available on
the IT Support pages at My LSBU.
You can also get advice and support in using the
VLE from the Student IT Support help desk in the
Learning Resources Centre.
Can’t Log in?
If you have problems logging in, check that you
have typed in your username and password
correctly. The username should be all lower case,
no spaces. It will usually be the same as the first
part of your LSBU email address (e.g. if your email
address was bintonp@lsbu.ac.uk, your username
would be bintonp). Your initial password (unless
you have changed it) is your seven-digit student
number.
Timetables
At the start of each semester, you will find
provisional timetables through our student portal
at My LSBU. Please keep checking the portal at
my.lsbu.ac.uk for changes to your timetable.
Handing in written coursework
The University uses a system for handing in
coursework which enables students to track where
their coursework is at any given time within the
submission, marking and feedback return period.
The Coursework Tracking System is accessed via
My LSBU which is available via the main LSBU
website. Details on how to use the system can be
accessed at my.lsbu.ac.uk/page/my-services
Your feedback should be available from the
Coursework Submission Centre within 20 working
days of submission. Please check the Coursework
Tracker to check that it is ready for collection.
When you collect your feedback staff will scan it
back to you and the fact that you have collected it
will appear on the Tracker.
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Presenting your work
Each piece of written coursework that you submit
should be presented in the following way:
• All work must be word-processed, unless stated
otherwise in your module guide.
• A single title page must be attached to the
front.
• The title page should carry the following
information: assignment\essay title, title of
module, name of module coordinator, name
of your seminar tutor for that module, student
examination number (not your name), month
and date.
• Work must be typed on one side of paper only
and double-spaced.
• Please refer to your particular course guide for
guidance on the number of copies you need to
submit.
• Reference all your sources (see advice on
plagiarism and referencing).
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Handing in practical work
If you are required to submit practical work please
refer to your course/module guide for instructions.
Late coursework
The University does not consider computer failure
or computer difficulties to be an adequate excuse
for the late submission of work. This means you
must not try to produce your work at the last
minute. If you hand in coursework up to two
weeks after the deadline your work can only get
a maximum of 40%. If you hand in your work
over two weeks after the deadline, your work will
not be marked – i.e. you will be awarded 0%. If
you feel you have good reason (or extenuating
circumstances) for late or non-submission of
coursework then you should, in the first instance,
inform your Course Director, or Year Tutor,
of the fact and then complete and submit an
extenuating circumstances claim.

Exams
Skills for Learning which is part of our Student
Services department based in Caxton House offers
useful sessions on examination technique. Key
features of a good exam technique are:
• Attempt an answer at all the questions required.
You can assume (unless stated otherwise) that
an equal number of marks attaches to each
answer.
• Only answering two questions out of three is
likely to lead to failure.
• Allocate an equal amount of time to answering
each question, unless you can clearly see that
questions are weighted differently, in which case
adjust your time allocation to fit the % points the
question carries.
• Practice writing as fast and as legibly as possible.
• Set yourself mock exams at home; past papers are
available from the library.
For modules where the assessment includes an
examination, it is your responsibility to make sure
you know the date, time and location. You can find
the exam timetable on the student portal My LSBU.
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What help can I get from my faculty?
The Faculty Office
The Faculty Office is the hub of administration
in the Faculty, so it is very important for every
student to be familiar with the services and
support available here. Staff in Faculty Office are
available to answer your questions and refer you
to appropriate support services. The Faculty Office
is open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday
and 9am to 4pm on Friday.
Contact details for the Faculty Office:
Tel: 0207 815 5740/5741
Email: ahsfo@lsbu.ac.uk
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Resources
Examples of the services provided by the Faculty
Office include:
• Additional needs information
• VLE information
• Maps and directions
• Prospectuses
• University-wide literature
• General University-wide contacts
The Coursework Submission Office
The Coursework Submission Office is in room
B262, situated next door to the Faculty Office. This
is where you hand in your coursework and collect
your coursework feedback.
The CSO is open from 9am to 5pm on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays; from 9am to 6pm on
Wednesdays and 9am to 4pm on Fridays.

Location
The AHS Faculty Office is located in B266 in Borough Road.
The Education Department annex Faculty Office is located in V209 in K2.
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Contact details
Office Address Contact
AHS Faculty Office (BR266) Room BR266, Second Floor
Borough Road Building
103 Borough Road
London SE1 0AA
Your course guide will give you the individual
contact details for the course administrator who
supports your course. Contact details for all AHS
staff can be found on the University homepage
under ‘phone directory’.
Administrative Support
All courses are supported by a Course
Administrator who can provide you with specific
advice about your course. You will be told who
your relevant administrators are during induction,
and each administrator’s email address is available
from the online phonebook at
phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk.
Examples of questions you might direct to your
administrator:
• Has my coursework been received?
• Can you explain my results letter?
• Can you explain this University regulation?
• Why is my coursework not ready for collection
in the Faculty Office?
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Tel: 020 7815 5740 or 5741
Fax: 020 7815 5858
Email: ahsfo@lsbu.ac.uk
Notifying us of changes
Every time you move, or change your telephone
number you must let the Faculty Office know your
new address and/or telephone number in writing
– this applies to both your term-time address
and your permanent address. Administrators
frequently have to send letters out to students in
emergencies, usually to let you know of changes to
the timetable or about exams, and if you have not
told us your change of address you will not receive
this important information.
Council tax certificates
Your Council Tax Exemption Certificate is posted
to your term-time address in semester 1 of your
first year at London South Bank. If you lose this or
need a duplicate you can request one to be printed
for you in the Faculty Office.

Letter requests
Standard letters (for banks, housing departments)
are available on request from the Faculty Office. If
you need a special tailor-made letter, you will need
to submit a Letter Request Form (available from
the Faculty Office). This is then passed on to your
administrator and should be ready for collection
from the Faculty Office in three working days.
Student Loan Company and
grant cheques
All student loans, grants and bursaries are
normally paid directly into your bank account.
However, very occasionally a grant is sent to you
via the University. You will be able to collect this
from the Faculty Office (B266), at the start of
each term.
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Important things I should know about
Attendance and punctuality
As a student of London South Bank University it
is your responsibility to engage actively with your
studies.
Regular attendance is important for your academic
progression and experience of university life.
You are therefore expected to attend all your
scheduled classes and to make use of the
recommended learning materials supplied by
your Faculty, the Library, or via the virtual learning
environment (VLE)
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Attendance and punctuality are matters of good
discipline and courtesy to your fellow workers
(lecturers and students). Persistent lateness or
non-attendance at lectures and seminars is a habit
that some people fall into; it is both rude and
disruptive to the group.
It is frequently the case that important
information and handouts are given out at the
beginning of a lecture. If you miss these you
will be doing yourself a disservice and putting
pressure on lecturers if you have to ask for special
treatment in recovering the information. If you are

unavoidably late for a lecture, enter quietly, take a
seat, and when the lecture is finished, apologise to
the lecturer giving a reason for your lateness. You
should not be late for seminars, nor should you be
late returning from a break within the
seminar period.
The University monitors attendance electronically.
In each teaching room there is an electronic
registration point near the door. You MUST tap
your ID card against it as soon as you arrive in
the classroom/lecture theatre/laboratory (as you
would with an Oyster card on a bus). This will
register the time you arrive. You should do this for
every class you attend. At the end of each day you
will find an update point at the main entrance/
exits of all buildings. You should tap your ID
against this as you leave so your attendance is
updated onto the system.
If you are absent, without a satisfactory
explanation for four consecutive weeks, then your
name will be passed to the Course Director who
will inform Administration and Fees. Students
absent for four weeks without an explanation
are deemed to have withdrawn and will receive a
letter to that effect. Your Local Education Authority
(LEA) will be informed shortly afterwards and
this will result in your Student Loan or grant
being rescinded. In the event that you have not
really withdrawn, you will have to re-enrol on
the course through the Faculty Office (B266) and
will be charged a fee to do so. We are, of course,
sympathetic to students who are experiencing
genuine difficulties making attendance difficult.
So, it is essential that you let us know the reason
for non-attendance without delay.
The University realises that there may be occasions
when you are unable to attend, and there will
be resources to support you if attendance is
a problem. So, you should always inform your
Faculty if you are unable to attend classes. You
should let the Module Co-ordinator know of
your reason for absence by email copying in your
Course Administrator. We monitor the attendance
of all our students supportively, and in the case of
international students we will monitor attendance
in line with the requirements of the UK Border
Agency.
The University’s Attendance Policy can be
downloaded from my.lsbu.ac.uk/regulatons
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Extra support
If you are concerned that your academic performance is
being affected by difficulties such as dyslexia, you should
go to the Disability and Dyslexia Support Service, situated
on the fourth floor of the Perry Library.
Extenuating circumstances
If you believe that circumstances beyond your
control have prevented you from submitting
coursework on time or at all, or from sitting an
exam, then you will need to complete and submit
an Extenuating Circumstances Form. This is
available from the Faculty Office (B266, Borough
Road) or from My LSBU under the Resources
heading at my.lsbu.ac.uk. There are deadlines,
by which, these forms are to be handed in each
semester and you must check noticeboards in
the Faculty Office for these on a regular basis.
Extenuating circumstances can be claimed for
such things as illness, accident or bereavement.
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Failure to submit coursework or
sit an exam without extenuating
circumstances
The Award and Progression Examination Board
will not normally grant referrals in cases where a
student has made no attempt at an assessment,
either through non-submission of coursework
or non-attendance at an examination, unless
the student has extenuating circumstances that
have been agreed by the Faculty. If a student
has made no attempt to submit coursework
or sit an exam, (and does not have supported
extenuating circumstances), the student may
have the opportunity to repeat the module in the
following academic session. A repeated module is
capped to 40% for undergraduates and 50% for
postgraduates and will incur a module fee.

Academic misconduct
Academic misconduct includes plagiarism. The
act of plagiarism is to pass off as your own work
the ideas or thoughts of someone else, without
giving credit to that other person, by appropriately
referencing the original. There is no standard
definition of plagiarism and dictionaries will vary
slightly, but put simply, it is a form of cheating and
theft. Plagiarism is:
• Presenting another student’s coursework or
project as your own work.
• Putting into your own words commentary or
ideas from another source, without giving the
reference.
• Quoting phrases, sentences, complete
paragraphs, or more, from an existing published
source without using quotation marks and full
references.
• Cutting and pasting from a website, electronic
journal article, without indicating where your
information has come from.
• Buying your coursework essays from an internet
service and hoping your tutor will not notice.
Plagiarism is usually easy to spot by tutors and
the penalties for plagiarism are severe. For first
offences you may be asked to re-submit the work.
However, if you are reported for plagiarism on a
regular basis, you risk being asked to leave the
course and the University. Reports of plagiarism
are recorded on your student file.
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Progression
Before proceeding to the next level, all modules
should normally be completed successfully. These
will be assessed by coursework, examination and/
or appropriate and equivalent means. Each course
module describes its own method of assessment.
Only students who have satisfactorily completed all
elements will be able to proceed to the next level.
Interruption of studies
Very occasionally, students need to defer
their studies because of illness, or personal
circumstances. If you think you may need to
interrupt your studies, talk to your Course Director,
or Year Tutor, as soon as possible. If it is agreed
that you should interrupt your studies you should
collect an Interruption of Studies Form from the
Faculty Office or download it from My LSBU. Once
you have got it countersigned by your Course
Director you should lodge a copy with the Faculty
Office (B266, Borough Road).
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Withdrawing from your course
If you wish to withdraw from your course,
you must inform staff at your Faculty Office
immediately in writing by completing a
Withdrawal From Course Form.
Download the Withdrawal From Course Form
which is available from My LSBU or you can obtain
a copy from your Faculty Office. It is not sufficient
to tell your Course Director or other lecturer
that you want to withdraw. The Withdrawal
From Course Form must be completed, signed
by your Course Director or Combined Honours
Administrator, and returned to your Faculty Office.
The date of withdrawal is the date on which the
form is received by your Faculty Office. We advise
you to discuss withdrawal with your Course
Director before taking any decision to withdraw.

Results
A list of degree awards for final year students
is posted on noticeboards on the last day of
the summer term. Students are sent a detailed
breakdown of their marks by post within four
weeks of the Examination Board meeting. It is vital
that students keep the University informed of any
changes of address (see the section in this guide
called ‘notifying us of changes’). Regrettably, results
cannot be given out over the telephone or email for
reasons of confidentiality. Please note that it is the
University’s policy to withhold the results of any
student who has outstanding fines, or tuition fees, or
who has not returned all their books to the library.
Re-submissions/re-sits
If a student has supported extenuating
circumstances for non-submissions/missed
exams, or, a student has attempted and failed any
assessments, they may be deferred or referred to
late August of the relevant academic year; you will
be notified of the precise date over the summer.
Re-sit examinations are held in late August and
early September. The exam timetable is posted on
My LSBU at my.lsbu.ac.uk/page/exam-timetables
For failed modules (not supported by extenuating
circumstances), the maximum number of
referred modules will not exceed 45 credits. Any
referred coursework or exams can only gain a
maximum mark of 40%. If a student fails more
than 60 credits they may be asked to repeat the
failed modules with attendance the following
academic year, or possibly be withdrawn from
the programme of study. If repeating with
attendance all elements in the module must be
repeated regardless of any pass marks awarded
previously. Only the failed modules have to be
re-taken and can only gain a maximum mark of
40%. The results letter that you will receive at the
end of the year will tell you whether you have any
re-submissions or need to do any re-sits.
Changing courses
If you wish to change course during your time at
LSBU then you would need to discuss this, initially
with the Course Director of the course you want
to transfer to and then to your current Course
Director. If your transfer is agreed then you should
complete the Change of Course Form available at
My LSBU and submit the form, countersigned by
your Course Director, to the Faculty Office (B266).
Welcome to London South
Bank University.
Enjoy your studies and
time at the University.
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