230126 SE Reading Seminar: New Materialism (2024S)

Active participation (20%)
Students are supposed to read the required literature, prepare for the classes and be able to critically assess the literature and put it in a broader context. Active participation in class discussions and activities based on preparation will thus be considered in the assessment.

Reading summary (20%)
Each student will summarize the main points of the readings and main points from class discussion about the readings for one seminar in the semester. The summary will be then circulated to other students from the course.

Book review (60%)
Students shall prepare a book review in which they critically discuss a selected book, situate it in the broader literature, and present their own argument on the topic(s) raised in the book. The essay shall be 2,000 - 2,500 words and shall use some of the compulsory readings used in the course as well as additional academic literature.
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Important Grading Information:
The plagiarism-detection service (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used in course of the grading.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if this is expressly requested by the lecturer (e.g. for individual work tasks).
In order to ensure good scientific practice, the lecturer can provide for a "grading-related discussion" of the written work submitted, which must be completed successfully.
The provision of all partial tasks is a prerequisite for a positive assessment, if not explicitly noted otherwise.
All students who received a place in the course are assessed if they have not deregistered from the course in due time or if they have not credibly shown an important reason for their failure to deregister after the cause for this reason does no longer apply
Students who credibly show an important reason (e.g. a longer illness) for the withdrawal from a course with continuous assessment are not assessed.
Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer. The request for deregistration must be submitted immediately.
If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as "not assessed" and recorded accordingly.
You can find these and other provisions in the study law: https://satzung.univie.ac.at/studienrecht/.
In case you have received three negative assessments of a continuously assessed course and want to register for a fourth attempt, please make sure to contact the StudiesServiceUnit Sociology. (for more information see "third attempt for continuously assessed courses" https://soziologie.univie.ac.at/info/pruefungen/#c56313)