Assessment criteria and guidelines
30 Setembro 2020, 15:30 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Assessment criteria
University education is 'post compulsory', meaning you are here through your own choice. Therefore you must take responsibility for engaging with the materials and experiences provided, and you must meet the syllabus requirements. At this advanced level, you are expected to read and research around topics and not rely solely on the workbook. The emphasis is firmly upon you to ensure that you undertake any necessary preparation for each class in order to contribute fully to the whole group's learning experience.
Please be punctual and do not use cell phones in class. Emailing or 'surfing' the web in class is extremely disrupting to other students, and a waste of your time in class. Students who are found disruptive of other students' learning will be asked to leave the room, or temporarily removed from the Zoom class (adapted from University of San Diego's Rules of Conduct ).
In accordance with FLUL's Regulations, attendance is mandatory for both Zoom and in-house classes. Please remember that your camera must be turned on during our Zoom sessions. For exceptions to mandatory attendance, please check the Regulamento geral de avaliação da faculdade de letras da universidade de Lisboa (RGA, FLUL) at http://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/sobre-a-flul/legislacao/normas-e-regulamentos/faculdade-de-letras-da-universidade-de-lisboa/181--133/file.
Please note that absence from class does not excuse you from submitting work or actively participating in the following class. If absence is due to illness or other emergency, please submit a doctor’s note or any other appropriate documentation within the following ten working days (see section 4, paragraph 2, RGA, FLUL).
Students will be assessed on oral and written work. Weighting will be as follows:
writing test 50%
oral paper 20%
oral, written task-based assignments
and active participation in class 25%
attendance (Zoom & in-house classes) 5%
Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any task that is not submitted when due will be given a zero. Any form of plagiarism (including representing anyone's work as your own or receiving any unauthorised assistance) will be equivalent to a fail in C1.2.
Worker students may opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) OR sit an examination to be held after the end of the first semester. The examination will focus on the contents of the syllabus adopted for C1.2 English.
Teacher /student communication
Teacher and students will communicate via institutional email addresses only. You should make sure that you (a) give a correct institutional individual email address; (b) check your institutional email on a regular basis. Please do not send your emails after 6 p.m. on the day before each class.
Tutorials
A weekly tutorial is available between 12.00h-13.00h on Monday. The Zoom link for the one-hour tutorials will be provided to all students by email. Please note that tutorials are made by appointment. This means that you must email your teacher beforehand stating clearly on which Monday you would like to have a tutorial.
The writing test will be held on 9th December.
INDIVIDUAL ORAL PAPER
(20%)
The oral presentation is an individual assignment. It consists in a 10-minute speech, spoken from notes, NOT read. Oral presentations shall be held during our ZOOM classes. You should choose the date of your oral presentation from a set of proposed dates, as follows.
· 23 rd November
· 30th November
· 7th December
· 14th December
Alterations to these dates may be made if necessary.
Topics for your oral paper shall focus on the contents of the three units in your workbook , as follows
UNIT 1 topics
What caused the Great Depression
Prohibition
Roosevelt election
the New Deal
How photography defined the Great Depression
UNIT 2 topics
Nature versus nurture: genes or environment?
Discussing cinematic and theatrical elements in the films watched in class
UNIT 3 topics
parent-child relationship
rites of passage
literary techniques
Students may submit other unit-related topic for their oral presentation subject to approval by the teacher.