DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND FILM STUDIES GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS - 2011 The physical home of the

Department is in the Mills Building, on Fisher Road. Your tutorials will be held here in room 202, down the corridor to the left of the main doors. This is where you will find the general office, and the essay boxes where you will submit your essay (these are located in the corridor outside the General Office). There is also a noticeboard for the unit outside tutorial room 202. This noticeboard provides you with information about your course, sign-up sheets for off-campus tutorials at the AGNSW and the MCA, and urgent notices. For further information about the Department including courses in later years and the image database, see our Departmental Homepage: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/arthistory/ General Office Opening Hours Monday 10am- 1pm 10am-1pm 2pm - 4p.m 2pm-4pm Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 10am-1pm 10am-1pm 10am-1pm 2pm -4pm 2pm-4pm 2pm-5pm

* Telephone: (+61 2) 9351 3566 * Facsimile: (+61 2) 9351 4212 * For general enquiries please email: julie.fraser@sydney.edu.au * Postal address: Department of Art History and Film Studies 215 R.C. Mills Building (A26) University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia For enquiries relating to the organization, academic content, and assessment of individual units of study consult your Course Coordinator: Dr Catriona Moore Phone: 9351 6905; room 229 Mills Building Consultations: Mondays 11-3pm (please email or phone for an appointment) Email: catriona.moore@sydney.edu.au For departmental UG enquiries: Dr Keith Broadfoot Room 226, Mills Building Phone: 9351 6906 keith.broadfoot@sydney.edu.au

Extensions for essays/assignments apply online (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/ click on the red button at the top right 'special consideration, special arrangements and extensions'): Course progression, credit transfer for previous studies, and the waiver of prerequisites consult the Undergraduate Coordinator Dr Keith Brioadfoot. Enquiries about the honours programme in Art History and Film Studies - Consult the Honours Coordinator Dr Thomas Berghuis. For other enquiries consult the Administrative Office in 215 R.C Mills Building. If you have any problems related to your academic work in the course, the first person to contact is your tutor, or Dr Moore. The University also has services to assist you if you have personal or financial problems in studying; see http://www.usyd.edu/au/stuserv/ If you have difficulties as a consequence of health of other serious problems and if you will be absent from classes for more than two weeks, you should fill in a Special Consideration Form. This form can be obtained from the Arts Faculty Office or from the Student Centre. The form requires documentation (either a doctors certificate or a letter from the Student Counselling Service). Do not leave this form until it is too late for special consideration. For example, it must be lodged before an essay is due. See below for further information under 'Assessment': Enrolment You must ensure that your enrolment with the Faculty of Arts is correct. All enrolment enquiries should be directed to the Faculty Office. For information regarding last dates for adding a unit of study, for withdrawal, or for discontinuation, consult the Faculty of Arts Handbook (available on the Faculty website). Attendance Faculty of Arts policy requires that students attend all classes for the units of study in which they are enrolled. Unsatisfactory attendance may result in a failure. If you will be absent from all classes for more than one week you must seek leave of absence by writing to the Faculty of Arts Office.

The ARHT 1002 Homepage Our Homepage is a useful resource. It acts as a duplicate and back-up to the Course Reader. For instance, our weekly readings appear in the Reader in print, but they have also been scanned for you by Fisher ereserve. This means that you will also find the weekly readings for your tutorials via the ARHT 1002 Homepage. You access each week's reading via the Permanent Link to the Item you wish to read. This link appears at the bottom of the catalogue record for each scan, as in the following example: Cottington, David: Matisse: Myth and history Source : Art History 17(2) June, 1994 pp.278-284 http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/search/t? SEARCH=matisse+myth+and&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=4 Click on the link and follow the prompts for a pdf version of the reading. Remember that weekly tutorial reading is compulsory. The ARHT 1002 webpage also contains the lecture & tutorial programme which lists your weekly readings for the semester. It also contains all your assessments for the unit exam questions and a useful bibliography for researching your essay and the end-ofsemester short-answer exam (also known as the 'slide test'). The webpage also contains information about teaching/learning resources and unit assessments. After each class (assuming technology cooperates), lectures will be available as podcasts through the ARHT1002 website via Sydney elearning (for more information see below) Assistance With Essay Writing Skills If you require help in developing your essay writing skills, you can contact the Learning Centre on campus. They provide courses that will help you develop this crucial skill. How to contact the Learning Centre: Phone: 9351 3853 http://www.usyd.edu.au/stuserv/learning_centre/index.shtml or visit them at Room 722, Level 7, Education Building. We also recommend the following book that is written specifically about the skills required for writing about art: Amy Tucker, Visual Literacy: Writing About Art, McGraw Hill, Boston, 2002 Recommended Introductory Readings The following books are recommended introductory texts. You will find that they provide useful background to many of the issues, art works and ideas covered in the unit. They are not, however, a substitute for this Course Reader (and our online equivalent) which is the central text for the tutorial component of the unit. Our recommended readings are:

Francis Franscina and Jonathon Harris (eds), Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical texts, Phaidon, London, 1992 Steve Edwards and Paul Woods (eds), Art of the Avant-Gardes, Yale University Press, Hew Haven and London, 2004 Louis Giannetti, Understanding Movies (3rd ed), Prentice-Hall, NY, 1982 Kristan Thompson and David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill, NY 1994 Fisher Library: Most of the books you will use for your essay and visual test are in Fisher Library. If you are unfamiliar with this library, we recommend that you take a Fisher Library tour, which explains the layout of the Library, its services and resources. These half-hour tours run frequently in the first few weeks of semester and throughout the year. It is essential to sign up for these tours because there are only 12 spaces per tour. The sign up sheets are on the noticeboard in the foyer of Fisher Library. For further information about the scheduled times for these tours this semester see: http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/tutorials/catalogue/ Schaeffer Library: The Scheaffer Library is a specialist art history library in the Mills Building. It is part of the Power Institute of Contemporary Visual Culture, along with our Department and the Image Library. It is an important resource for art history and film students, particularly for those in later years. The collection is centred on the 19th century to the present, so many of the books relevant to this course are located here. However the Schaeffer Library is small and is not a lending library, so we recommend that you use the resources of Fisher Library in the first instance, as most of these books can be borrowed. Audio-Visual Resoures: Logging in to the Homepage for lecture images and recordings Your lectures will be recorded as audio-visual files. These resources will be posted shortly after the lecture has been delivered and will be available for the duration of the course. Later in the semester, a selection of images to study for the short-answer exam will also be posted on our homepage. Lecture Recordings will be accessible via a link on the ARHT 1002 home page. Log in to MyUni with your Unikey password, ands this will take you to the Homepage. Click on the Lecture Recordings folder. Lecture and research images are also accessible through the online digital image database, MDID. There are two ways of accessing MDID: 1. Through the link on the course Homepage for ARHT1002. Once you are at the Homepage click on the Image Database folder

2. You can also access MDID through the link on the Departments home page. At the homepage click on About Us and in the Related Links page you will find the Image Database on the right hand side. OR type in the following address: htto://mdid.arts.usyd.edu.au/ If you access MDID this way, you need to click on Slideshows ansd then select the relevant course, listed by the course code (ARHT 1002). This brings up the full list of lectures available for the course. MDID is password protected. To access: USERNAME = student Password = bison Lecture images can be viewed as a slide show or as a collection of flash cards. You can also search MDID for images, by artist, title, etc. and download images for private study. A guide to help you use the slideshows and search the database is available on the MDID homepage. Course Attendance: It is compulsory to attend ALL lectures and tutorials. The lecture programme provides the broad background for this course, the overview of the period, key art movements and the key issues under consideration. Films and excerpts will be screened in the lectures. Films are not available through MDID. Your tutorial provides you with the chance to ask questions, debate your own views with your tutor and with your peers, in order for you to refine your ideas about particular aspects of the course. One of the key skills for the study of art and film is visual analysis. This skill will be developed through both your lectures and tutorials. Lectures: Mondays 4-6pm; Venue: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre. Tutorials: Tutorials are one hour long. They commence in the second week of semester. See the lecture and tutorial programme for weekly topics and readings. Your tutorial time is allocated by student services. Try to keep to this time. It is compulsory to attend all tutorials and to have done the set reading in advance, and be prepared to discuss the issues that are raised by the readings and the topic for the week. Assessment: There are three components to the assessment requirements for this unit: ESSAY approx. 2,500 words, worth 55% of the overall mark. Due 4pm MONDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER (that means we want you to post it in the essay box sometime before the 4pm lecture!) 5

SHORT-ANSWER EXAM at the end of the semester, during exam week approx 1,500 words, worth 40% PARTICIPATION worth 5% of your overall mark. Your attendance at lectures and tutorials will be noted, where practicable. Essay: The essay should clearly develop an argument to answer the set question. For the correct form of presentation of footnotes, endnotes, bibliography and illustrations consult the Departments Guide to Essay Writing on the Departments Homepage. The essay should demonstrate skills of visual analysis and historical research. No late papers! Work submitted late without permission will have marks deducted, and may not receive a written critique. If you have serious reasons for lateness, you must discuss them with your tutor and obtain permission for an extension before work is due. This is done online (by filling out and submitting the online extension request form, which you will find on the Arts Faculty webpage, see information above) Submission of written work Written work must be submitted in the essay boxes outside the Administrative Office by 4.00 p.m. on the due date. The essay boxes are cleared at 4.00 p.m. on the due date and anything received after that time will be deemed late. The Administrative Officer will keep a register of all work received. Written work may NOT be put under lecturers or tutors doors. The Department does not accept written work by fax or email (unless email is an express requirement in a unit of study). The Department may accept written work by express post, by prior arrangement with the unit of study coordinator. The submission must be postmarked no later than the due date for the assessment task. Cover Sheets: A cover sheet must be completed and attached to all written work. Cover sheets are available from the shelves in the central noticeboard area in the Mills Building, adjacent to the essay boxes. Copies of your written work: You are strongly advised to keep a copy of your work for your own records. Format of your written work: Written work must be typed in 12 point with at least 1.5 spacing, or legibly hand-written. Please leave wide margins for markers comments. Notes on the Presentation and Documentation of Essays can be found at: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/art_history_film/undergrad/essay_guide.sh

tml Students are strongly advised to consult the Write Site of the University of Sydney, which can be found at http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au no new URL yet, this still works.. This site provides online support for developing essential professional and academic writing skills, including guidelines on setting up a research essay, as well as on referencing and setting up a bibliography. The Write Site is structured into three different modules; on Grammar, Sources, and Structures. Students who seek further guidance in writing, presentation, and skills on structuring an essay are also advised to consult the essay writing tutorials at the USyd Learning Centre, online at http://sydney.edu.au/stuserv/learning_centre/resour.shtml. The tutorials that are advised to be consulted are: Guidelines for Referencing; Analysing an Essay Question; Analytical Writing; Developing and Supporting an Argument; Planning and Structuring an Essay. These essay writing tutorials are designed to improve writing skills and allow students to obtain essential writing skills which, when applied properly, offer better marks. Extensions on written work The Department of Art History and Film Studies gives extensions on written work only in cases of illness or misadventure. Illness must always be documented. "Misadventure" refers to circumstances that could not have been foreseen. It does not include the pressure of other University work: due dates are notified well in advance, and students are expected to plan their work accordingly. For extensions must apply using the on-line application form: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/ then click on the red button at the top right 'special consideration, special arrangements and extensions' When you receive approval for the extension by email you MUST print out the 'Approved Late Submission Cover Sheet' included in the email and attach it to the work being submitted together with any documentation that you have undertaken to provide. The work should then be submitted to the essay submission boxes located outside the Art History and Film Studies Office, 215, RC Mills Building. If for any reason you are unable to apply on-line, you should phone the Faculty Office on Tel: 9351 5436, email: arts.ug@sydney.edu.au. Penalties for late work (without an extension). If you have not been granted an extension or have handed in work after the date of an approved extension, the following penalties will apply:

Two marks (out of 100) for each working day overdue (ie not including Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays) Essay Collection: You will be notified by email when your essays are ready for collection from the Departmental office room 215. As a courtesy, please wait for this confirmation, as our Admin officer Julie Fraser has many demands on her time. Plagiarism University policy states that The University of Sydney is opposed to and will not tolerate plagiarism. Plagiarism means presenting another persons work as ones own work by presenting, copying, or reproducing it without acknowledgement of the source. Plagiarism includes presenting work for assessment that includes: (a) sentences, paragraphs, or longer extracts from published or unpublished work (including from the internet) without acknowledgement of the source; or (b) the work of another person, without acknowledgement of the source and presented in a way that exceeds the boundaries of legitimate cooperation. All ideas and phrases that are not your own, whether they derive from printed sources, resources on the internet, or lectures, must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge your sources will result in partial or total loss of marks for that piece of work. In more serious cases it will result in failure in the unit of study. Students who allow their work to be copied and passed off as the work of another student will be regarded as complicit in an act of plagiarism. The full policy and procedures are set out in the document Plagiarism: Student Coursework, which can be accessed at: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/policies.shtml Policy On Requests For Remarking All students should be aware that, although they have a right to appeal about an academic decision that affects them, there is no automatic entitlement to a review of any grade. Academic staff work hard to ensure that marking is consistent and fair, and that the criteria used for grading assignments are transparent. Students are given information about these criteria in their course information material [see the Grade Descriptors for this course], and in tutorials and lectures. You are always welcome to approach lecturers, tutors or unit of

study co-ordinators to discuss the comments on your assignments, to request an explanation of your grade and to receive advice on improving your grades in the future. The circumstances in which a review of grade may be considered are the following: If you can show that your grade did not take into account an extension or period of Special Consideration which you had been granted prior to the assignment being marked. If you can establish that bias or a conflict of interest affected the judgement of the marker. If you can establish that there has been some failure of administrative or academic process in assessing your assignment which has affected your grade. In such cases, you should first discuss the issue with the relevant teacher or unit of study co-ordinator. If you cannot resolve your concerns by this means, you should write to the Chair of Department and outline your case for a review of grades. If a review of grade is granted, then the assignment will be read by a different assessor. This markers decision will be final, and students should be aware that their mark for an individual piece of assessment could go down rather than up. Every effort will be made to deal with such cases efficiently. However, students should be aware that any review of a grade involves a lengthy process of consultation and remarking. Students should anticipate that any review of grade will take an average of four weeks. Guide to Interpretation of Grades The Department of Art History and Film Studies uses the following marking system: 85-100 High Distinction: 75-84 Distinction: 65-74 Credit: 50-64 Pass: work of an exceptional standard work of a superior standard competent work satisfactory work

This guide indicates broadly the qualitative judgements implied by the various grades, which may be awarded. A more precise evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of individual assignments will be provided in examiners comments. See further information below under What your grades mean.

Faculty Policy on the Distribution of Grades It is important that students understand both the way in which work is assessed within the unit of study, and the broader policy framework within which grades are distributed. The Faculty of Arts policy on the distribution of merit grades requires that departments attempt to distribute grades for Senior Units of Study according to the following guidelines: * * * * High Distinction (85-100%) 7% Distinction (75-84%) 18% Credit (65-74%) 40% Total percentage of marks at Credit or above = 65%

In simple terms, this means that we expect to give 7% of students a High Distinction as a final result, 18% Distinctions, and 40% Credits; the corollary is, of course, that 35% of students may expect to receive a Pass grade for the unit of study. What Your Grades Mean: Grade Descriptors For ARHT 1002 The following are intended as guidelines and clarifications for the marks you receive in your essays, visual tests and final mark for the course. It is important for all students to be aware that the University requires us to mark to a set formula, as outlined below. (This is common to all your subjects, not just Art History & Film Studies.) ABSENT FAIL is when a student does not submit all the required pieces of work for a course. Often, this result is due to students not changing their enrolment during the first weeks of semester when they decide to change subjects, so that they stay on the books as enrolled in the course but do not attend classes and do not submit any work. You will also receive a result of Absent Fail if you did not complete all pieces of assessment. FAIL: 0-49. A Fail grade is an indication of unsatisfactory performance, as defined by: Plagiarism and/or copying. Plagiarism, or copying from sources without acknowledgement and attempting to pass it off as your own, is a serious academic offence, for which University penalties may apply. Copying chunks of text from your readings is also unacceptable, even if you cite your sources in notes. The essay asks you to think for yourself and answer the question in your own words. no research. inadequate understanding of the material. In a visual test, a fail would indicate an inability to correctly identify 10

works, periods and styles; serious mistakes in identification, indicating lack of understanding of the material taught; no visual analysis. PASS: 50-64. To receive a Pass grade, a student will have demonstrated a fair understanding of the subject, on the basis of research and visual analysis. Pay attention to the following areas in the future: Research for your essay: consult more than a limited number of sources, and dont only rely on general texts (eg. survey textbooks; general picture books; non-scholarly sources without footnotes). Reliance on web sites is common (but NOT recommendedweb sites are not part of scholarly discourse, not subject to peer commentary and review, often popularising and full of inaccurate or incorrect information. Web sites are NEVER a substitute for published scholarly books and articles.) Student may cite lectures for points rather than taking the time to find the sources of these ideas or information in the published literature. Develop more confidence in your own opinions. Avoid including a large number of direct quotes from your readings instead of presenting information and analysis of works of art in your own words, derived from your own careful study of the works. Aim for analytical rather than simply descriptive visual analysis. Attend to the structure of your argument. An essay needs to present a clear and coherent overall argument, stated at the beginning and developed logically point by point to a final conclusion. Take care with your grammar, written expression, vocabulary and spelling errors, which all impede the clear communication of ideas. Paragraph structure always needs attention. Do not write in point form and do not use sub-headings. Paragraphs must be of more or less equal length (a rough guide is 100-150 words each) and proceed in a clear and logical sequence. Think of them as the basic building blocks of your argument. Take care and check your referencing of sources. It is unacceptable to hand in an essay without foot- or endnotes. You must document the sources of your information and ideas. The scientific convention of notes in text brackets is not suitable for art history essays; you must use foot or end notes. All items listed in the bibliography should be cited in notes to demonstrate how you have used these sources. Notes must cite specific pages, which relate to the particular point you are documenting. A Pass grade in a visual test indicates a reasonable understanding of the works shown. However, some problems may also be evident, such as a proportion of missed or incorrect identifications, lack of familiarity with periods or styles, descriptive rather than analytical discussion, or a lack of 11

focus in the arguments made. Sometimes all identifications might be correct but there is little visual analysis of the actual works. CREDIT: 65-74. According to the Faculty of Arts guidelines, 35% of students in a first year course are expected to fall within this range. A Credit grade for an essay indicates that the student has understood the question and the issues it poses and has used visual analysis to demonstrate arguments. As a final grade, it indicates a good understanding of the course as a whole and the potential for more intensive study in the discipline. Students who wish to undertake Honours in art history need to maintain a credit or above average in 48 senior credit points of study. If you received a Credit grade for your essay, you may still be experiencing difficulties in some of the areas listed above, but one would expect the following characteristics: Adequate research (say, 5 or more items). There may be some reliance still on web sites or general texts, but these have been supplemented by other, more reliable and scholarly sources. Student has grasped key issues raised by question and can present these clearly in a coherent and structured argument. Good effort at visual analysis in students own words, though this may at times lapse into description. Sources have been synthesized into a single narrative voice. Citations are correct or almost correct. In a visual test, a credit indicates that the student has prepared for the test well and demonstrates a good familiarity with the range of works shown. Most if not all identifications are correct; if an identification is missed, the student will usually be able to identify the period or style correctly and go on to analyse the paired works intelligently, with a good sense of the key differences between them. DISTINCTION: 75-84. According to the Faculty of Arts guidelines, 15% of students in a first year course are expected to fall within this range. A Distinction mark indicates the student is performing at a high level. Most of the problems listed earlier will be under control. The student shows a strong grasp of the issues raised by the question and has integrated visual analysis effectively into their own argument. Research is good. The student has read all the required texts and has carried out their own bibliographic research to come up with relevant books and articles. Student has developed an independent and critical attitude to sources. 12

 Essay is well written, well structured, clearly and logically pursuing a coherent overall argument. Visual analysis is well developed and harnessed to the argument: careful, detailed visual exposition of specific works is used to demonstrate points. Citations are well handled: all items in the bibliography are used in notes and notes are frequent and varied in the sources they cite. Correct identifications in a visual test, and good, cogent answers which bring out the main points of difference and comparison. HIGH DISTINCTION: 85-100. According to the Faculty of Arts guidelines, 5% of students in a first year course are expected to fall within this range. A High Distinction is the highest grade awarded and is a recognition of excellent research, writing, critical formulation of an argument and perceptive visual analyses of relevant works. Reading is wide-ranging and the result of independent bibliographic research. The student has developed a critical stance towards the interpretations of other scholars. Writing is fluent and forceful. The argument is clear and persuasive. Visual analysis is detailed and perceptive, and is used throughout to demonstrate the points being made. In a visual test, the student will identify all works correctly and will be able to answer the question with detailed, focused comparative visual analysis of each pair of works. The Exam: The Short-answer exam will be held during exam week. Images and film excerpts will be chosen from those used in the course. A list of images will be posted on the Department's image database for you to study (a list of images will also be made available to you). The test will consist of film excerpts and/or image/s and three set questions. Remember that we are after your own point of view! Answers should demonstrate skills of visual analysis (and textual analysis in the case of film excerpts), and should draw upon the historical information and analytical approaches addressed in the lectures, tutorials and essay research. In the tutorials leading up to the test you will have the opportunity to do some revision and practice in

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