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NOTICE
BOARD
Semester 2, 2003
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I mentioned a couple of Internet Subject Pages last week.
These were the Voice of the Shuttle in California and BUBL at
the University of Bath in the UK.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
A Subject Page arranges links and information in an intelligent
way instead of simply matching a string (that is, a word or words)
as a search engine does. Have a look at these two and see if
they will be useful to you.
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This Noticeboard will be used for notices of upcoming events, assessment,
changes in schedules, and other matters. You should check it at
least once a week. It will contain the two or three most recent
messages, but you can find the entire semester's messages in our
archive
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First week tips:
- Buy The Norton Anthology now as you must read Beowulf for next
week's classes. Stocks of texts sometimes run out; if you can't
afford to buy a copy now, ask the book shop to hold one for you,
and use the copy in the library's High Use Area in the meantime.
- It's essential you attend both lecture and tutorial because
they are designed to achieve different things. They build on each
other, and material covered in the lecture will not necessarily
be covered in the tutorial, and vice versa, and the final examination
will draw on knowledge gained class attendance as well as from
reading and research.
- The reading load varies for each tutorial but expect to devote
an average of about ten hours a week: Two-and-a-half hours
in class, and seven or eight reading and preparing for tutorials
and written assignments. Begin reading longer texts like Wuthering
Heights a couple of weeks early.
- You must keep to deadlines for the written assignments.
If, through illness or any other reason, you have difficulty keeping
up with the schedule, see your tutor immediately. Don't let a
situation arise in which work is overdue and you have not discussed
it with your tutor, or you will be penalised.
- Tutorials: Register now through My-SINet. Confirm
your place by attending the first tutorial.
- Tutorials begin in the second week, and because we believe
they are essential to your understanding of the course, they are
compulsory. You cannot pass the course if you do not attend.
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