成人大片

Professor Alexander Reilly
Room 3.20 Ligertwood building
alexander.reilly@adelaide.edu.au

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Develop an understandng of the law relating to citizenship in Australia.


3. Communicate effectively orally and collaborate to discuss and debate theoretical propositions, methodologies and
legal problems related to migration and membership; and

4. Critically analyse principles of law and their application.

There is no textbook for the course. Students will be provided with a comprehensive seminar plan with required readings that follow the list of issues for discussion.

Recommended texts include:

Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration (4th
ed, 2013)

Crock and Berg, Immigration, Refugees and Forced Migration
(2nd ed, 2017)

Linda Bozniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemma of Contemporary Membership (2006)

Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens (1999)

MyUni will be used to post announcements, post additional lecture materials (including slides and audio recordings of lectures) and announce assignment tasks. It will also contain electronic copies of the Course Outline, Lecture and Seminar Guides, and Course Materials. Students are expected to check MyUni regularly to keep up to date with these materials and additional learning resources throughout the course.

There will be a three hour session every week for 12 weeks. The sessions will be interactive with students taking responsibility for learning during the sessions. Students will be required to complete readings and answer questions prior to the session so that the session is highly interactive.

A highly developed MyUni site with interactive materials will be available to students to enhance and support their learning.

Guest lecturers may be invited to attend if appropriate.

The course requires a combined weekly commitment of 3 hours attending classes over 12 weeks. To actively and productively participate in classes, students will be required to do set readings, answer questions and research current issues. Students should expect to spend 6-7 hours per week doing this. There is also extra preparation required for the group presentation and preparation for the mid-semester and  take home tests.

Schedule

Week	Topic
1	Membership
2	Concept of Citizenship
3	Australian Citizenship
4	Dual nationality and security of citizenship
5	Deporting long term aliens
6	Constitutional Status of Aboriginal Australians
7	Political Rights of Dual Citizens - s44(i) of the Constitution
8	Australian National Identity
9	Population and Sustainability
10	Permanent and Temporary Migration
11	Skilled, Family and Humanitarian migration
12	The Future of Australian Migration and Citizenship Law

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due	Weighting	Redeemable (yes/no)	Length	Learning Outcome
Course reading presentation	Individual	Week 2 - 12	10%	Yes		1,2,5,6
Group Presentation	Group	Week 3 - 12	20%	No	30 minutes	1,2,6
In class test	Individual	20 August 2020	20%	No	50 minutes	1,2,3,4,5,6
Take Home test	Individual	Week beginning 2 November 2020	50-60%	No	36 hours, 2000 words	1,2,3,4,5,6

1. Course Reading presentations (10%) (Optional and redeemable)

From Week 2 to 12, students have the option of presenting one of the readings to
the class. There will be a list of readings for which this option is available.

Requirements: Students must choose a sentence or paragraph from the reading, and present to the class on these
points:
a. Why the sentence/paragraph is significant in the context of the reading
b. Critique the sentence or paragraph – what assumptions does it make? Are the assumptions reasonable? Does the author adequately justify the position they take in the sentence or paragraph in the reading throughout the article.
c. The course coordinator and other members of the class may ask follow up questions following the presentation.


2. Group Presentation (20%)

Group presentations will be 15 minutes in length followed by 10 to 15 minutes in which the presenters will field questions from the course coordinator and the class. All members of the group are required to speak during the presentation.

Presentations will be marked against the following criteria:

a.    Organisation and intrinsic interest of the presentation.
b.    Ability of group members to work collaboratively.
c.     Level of understanding of the topic as demonstrated through the quality of observations and comments.
d.    Use of external sources and the set readings.
e.    Understanding of how the presentation topic fits into the course as a whole.
f.     Ability of the group to answer questions from the course coordinator and engage in class discussion in relation to the topic.

3. In class test (20%)

In week 4 (20 August), there will be a 50 minute in-class test on the first 5 weeks of the course. There will be a single question with multiple parts. An example question will be discussed in week 5.

Tests will be marked against the following criteria:

a.    Ability to apply the core concepts and ideas from class discussions to answer the question.
b.    Ability to engage with the set readings.
c.    Use of critical analysis in the answer to the question.
d.    Demonstration of balance in the answer, constructing arguments for and against the central propositions in the question.

4. Take home test (50-60%)

The take home test will consist of two parts. Part 1 is worth 10 marks and is optional and redeemable for students
who participate in the course reading presentation exercise. Part 2 is worth 50 marks and must be completed by all students.

The take home test will be held in the week after semester ends. The test will be 36 hours long, from 9.00am on the morning of the first day, until 9.00pm in the evening of the second day.

The take home test will cover material in the whole of the course.

The exam will comprise of questions in a similar form to the question in the in-class test.

Answers must be a maximum of 2400 words in length.

Part 1 will focus on specific readings. (400 words)
Part 2 will focus on the broader themes of the course. (2000 words)

Submission of the in-class test
The in-class test must be submitted to MyUni at the designated time at the completion of the test.
Submissions received more than five minutes after the time for the test is completed will not be accepted.


Submission of the Take Home Exam
The take home exam must be submitted to MyUni by 9.00pm on the day that the exam is to be completed.
Late submissions will be accepted.
There will be a penalty of 5% of the marks available for the test for each hour, or part of an hour, that submission is late. For example, if a test is submitted 20 minutes late, there will be a 5% deduction of the available marks for the test. If the test is submitted 3 hours and 20 minutes late, there will be a deduction of 20% of the available marks for the test.

Courses for which a result of conceded pass has been obtained may not be presented towards the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Laws or the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws programs, or any postgraduate law program, nor to satisfy prerequisite requirements within any law course.

Finality of Assessment Grades

Students are advised that Course Coordinators will not enter into negotiations of any kind with any student regarding changes to their grades. It is irrelevant, in any given circumstance, that only a minimal number of additional marks are required to inflate a student’s grade for any individual assessment item or course as a whole. Pursuant to the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policyand the Adelaide Law School Assessment Policies and Procedures, grades may only be varied through the appropriate channels for academic review (such as an official re-mark).

Moderation

In accordance with the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, course coordinators ‘ensure that appropriate marking guidelines and cross-marking moderation processes across markers are in place’ in each course. Procedures adopted by Adelaide Law School to ensure consistency of marking in courses with multiple markers include:

• assurance of the qualifications of markers, and their knowledge of the content covered in each course;
• detailed marking guidelines and assessment rubrics to assist in the marking of items of assessment;
• sharing of example marked assessments at various grade bands across markers;
• reviewing of selected marked assessments from each marker by the course coordinator;
• comparison of the marks and their distribution across markers;
• automatic double-marking of all interim assessment receiving a fail grade, and of final assessments where a student’s overall result is a fail grade;
• the availability of re-marking of assessments in accordance with Adelaide Law School’s Assessment Policies and Procedures.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners

Students are reminded that all assessment results are subject to approval (and possible moderation/change) by the Law School’s Board of Examiners. Assessment results at the University are not scaled. Under the Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, students are assessed ‘by reference to their performance against pre-determined criteria and standards … and not by ranking against the performance of the student cohort in the course’. However, under that same policy, the Board of Examiners (as the relevant Assessment Review Committee for courses at Adelaide Law School) is required to ‘ensure comparability of standards and consistency’ in assessment. On occasions, the Board of Examiners will form the view that some moderation is required to ensure the comparability of standards and consistency across courses and years, and accordingly provide fairness to all law students. All assessment results are therefore subject to approval (and possible change) until confirmed by the Board of Examiners and posted on Access Adelaide at the end of each semester.

Student feedback The course is constantly being updated and revised to reflect the evolution of the law, to respond to student feedback, and to engage with the latest teaching practices. Student feedback is collected each time the course is run, including through SELT reports. Previous SELT reports, and staff feedback on them, are posted on the course MyUni site for students to view and consider.

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Academic Honesty

Academic dishonesty is a serious act of academic misconduct. All students must be familiar with the University’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Academic dishonesty is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Academic dishonesty (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South Australia to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South Australia.

Academic honesty is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.