You should familiarise yourself with emergency procedures for all areas in which you work, noting the location of emergency exits, assembly points and equipment.  On hearing a fire alarm in a QM building, you should immediately leave through the nearest emergency exit, unless redirected by a Fire Marshal.  Do not go to any other part of the building for any reason.  Proceed to the designated emergency assembly area and report to the Fire Marshall.  Do not leave the assembly area or re-enter the building until instructed to do so.  Failure to follow these procedures  may lead to disciplinary action.

Tampering with fire alarms or fire-fighting equipment is a serious offence, and disciplinary action may be taken against any student who does this.

In an emergency, dial 3333 from any internal phone and clearly state the nature and location of the problem, your name, and the number you are calling from (if known). If there is no internal phone available, call 999 and follow the normal procedure. You should ensure that corridors and doorways are not obstructed and that fire fighting equipment is not removed from its station.

First aid assistance for minor accidents can be obtained by dialling 3333 from an internal phone, or 020 7882 3333 from any other telephone.

As a School, we are committed to a number of objectives. They are:

•   to maintain a high quality, stimulating and congenial learning environment for all students engaged in political enquiry.
• to provide an academic milieu informed by innovative research, scholarship of national and international standing and excellence in teaching.
• to encourage students to develop as independent, reflective learners who accept responsibility for the management of their own learning.
• to encourage open-mindedness in political enquiry and tolerance toward a diversity of positions and perspectives.
• to engage in a continuous process of curriculum innovation and development, sensitive to changes within the discipline and the outside world.
• to ensure students acquire a rigorous understanding of politics and political processes.
• to assist students in acquiring a range of cognitive and transferable skills relevant to their intellectual, vocational and personal development.

 On successful completion of our single honours and joint honours Politics/International Relations programmes, you will be expected to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the nature and significance of politics/international relations.
• demonstrate an ability to engage critically with politics and political phenomena.
•  apply a range of approaches to the analysis of political ideas, institutions and behaviour and assess the strengths and weaknesses of such   approaches.
• apply a range of approaches to the analysis of political ideas, institutions and behaviour and assess the strengths and weaknesses of such approaches.

• gather, organise and interpret evidence and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources and consider its normative significance.

• communicate ideas and present information effectively through reasoned argument, both in writing and in oral presentation.

The School has Professional Services Staff whose main focus is to ensure that you have the necessary support available to you.

We provide support to all Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught students and we can help with a wide variety of queries. If you are not sure about something or do not know who to contact, ask us!

We are located on the ground floor of the Queens’ Building, CB01

Contact

Student Enquiry Centre Online (accessed via MySIS - www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/students/sec/SEC-online )

Email: studentenquiry@qmul.ac.uk

Telephone: 020 7882 5005

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Presentation and Word Length               

Requirements for individual assessment s will vary from module to module. However, a few general guidelines can be given to help you ensure that your coursework meets the School requirements;

Word Limit;

Length of essays is dependent upon the requirements of the particular module – see individual module outline for guidance.

The School does not operate a discretionary word count policy that permits, without penalty, an assignment to be up to 10 per cent longer than the specified word limit

Completing an assignment within the word limit is part of the assessment task and is therefore covered under the ‘task fulfilment’ heading of our marking criteria. If, having written your assignment, you are over the word limit, re-read and edit your work until you come within the limit. If your work is over-long or requires editing this will be reflected in the grade awarded.

Please note footnotes are included in the word count, but the bibliography and coversheet are not.

Presentation:

All written work must meet high standards of academic presentation. Essays must be word- processed, double-spaced with adequate margins to give room for your tutor’s comments. Spelling, punctuation and syntax are also important.

The essay question should be used as the title for your essay, and displayed as such at the beginning of your essay. Footnotes or endnotes should be clearly indicated and numbered in the body of your assignment. All references must be correctly cited in full, and essays must have a bibliography listing all sources consulted in alphabetical order by author.. We require students to use the ‘Harvard’ system of referencing, the full details are attached below

Any work submitted without any citations may be deemed inadmissible as a piece of assessed work and may be awarded a mark of zero. Moreover, poor referencing may be seen as plagiarism, an assessment offence that may result in the failure of the whole module (see assessment offences policy attached below)

Further support

http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/subjects-guides

http://www.learningdevelopment.qmul.ac.uk/