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Undergraduate Handbook 2011–2012 SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES Undergraduate Handbook 2011–2012 1 Undergraduate Handbook 2011-2012 1 Welcome from the Pro-Director (Learning and Teaching) Congratulations on having decided to take up a place at SOAS in the University of London. You are joining a unique institution. I hope you will be challenged by the experience and enjoy and benefit your time with us. SOAS degrees encourage both in-depth and comparative study. Every degree programme has a systematic structure, designed to provide knowledge and training in a specific field. We try to ensure that students have as much opportunity as possible to develop their own interests, drawing upon the rich variety of courses on offer. Ahead of you lie encounters and interactions with many different cultures, languages, ideas and perspectives. Take full advantage, not only in the classrooms and library, but among your fellow students. Those who study here are themselves a great educational resource. Among a total student body of well over 4,000, including more than 1,800 undergraduates, you will make new friends from many different backgrounds. Everyone's experience is of value in this setting, whether they come from Britain or from any of over 100 countries around the world. Take advantage too of the fact that SOAS is in the centre of one of the world's greatest and most cosmopolitan cities, with dozens of museums, theatres and other cultural activities nearby. There are also many activities provided specifically for students. Do consult the Students' Union handbook, given to you when you register, and check the additional facilities of the University of London Union (ULU) located close to SOAS's Russell Square campus. SOAS is an important international venue for a wide range of activities - lectures, conferences, concerts, and exhibitions. Many of these are open to students. Though you will frequently feel pressed for time, as deadlines crowd upon you (and of course those deadlines must be met), never forget that life at SOAS is not limited to the courses you have chosen. SOAS is a friendly as well as a stimulating environment, but if you are new to London and to university life you may well meet some difficulties. Do not hesitate to seek advice early, should you need it. SOAS has many services designed to help you. If you work steadily, value your subjects of study, build on your interests, and manage your time sensibly, your time here will be very rewarding. We aim to do everything we can to make it so. We hope you will then become a lifelong member of the SOAS community. Professor Nirmala Rao – Pro-Director (Learning and Teaching) September 2011 2 About this Handbook The purpose of this Handbook is to bring together in a single place the information you will need during the course of your study at SOAS. Some of it is in the form of rules and regulations. These may seem rather dry and long-winded, but they have been drawn up to cover every eventuality and to ensure that everyone is treated equally and fairly. The School also has a series of procedures to cover such matters as sexual and racial harassment. The Handbook also includes information about library and IT facilities, study skills programmes, and other matters, which will contribute to your successful completion of your work here. If you need further information or need to have something explained, there are a number of sources open to you. Your department will give you a handbook, which covers your specific degree, and your personal tutor may also be able to help. The Registry located at Vernon Square is open Monday to Friday and can deal with many queries over the counter. Where the matter is confidential or complicated, you can ask to see an appropriate member of the Registry staff or the appropriate Associate Dean in your Faculty. The Students' Union also has advice services available. For personal matters you can ask to see a student counsellor. There may be changes to the detail of the regulations from year to year. You can always consult the current handbook in your Faculty Office or at the Registry counter. You can also obtain copies of the current regulations for undergraduate degrees and degree classification from the Registry. "! ! ! 3 Contents Part 1 Part 2 General Information Academic Regulations and A Brief History of SOAS 6 Related Documents The Registry 10 Degree Regulations for BA and Term Dates 11 BSc Students 76 Undergraduate Degrees at SOAS 12 Guide to Classification: BA and BSc Degree Students 112 Data Protection 20 Degree Regulations for LLB Students 127 Using Personal Data in Research: Code of Practice for SOAS Staff and Students 28 Guide to Classification for LLB Students 149 SOAS Research Ethics Policy 47 Code of Practice for Independent Study Projects 154 The SOAS Library 52 Regulations for Certificates and Information technology 57 Diplomas 164 Academic Development Directorate 59 Regulations for Students of SOAS 167 Student Services 60 Regulations in Respect of Assessment Accommodation advice 66 and Examination Offences 176 The SOAS Students' Union 69 Procedure for Considering 0 Student Representation 69 Representations 18 Student Members of SOAS Committees 71 Part 3 SOAS Careers Service 72 Students and SOAS Development and Alumni Relations 73 Making a complaint 183 Student Disciplinary Procedures 186 Equality and Diversity Statement 188 Whistleblowing Policy 190 Freedom of Expression at SOAS 193 School Policy on Student Occupations 195 Code of Practice: SOAS Students' Union 196 Other School Policies and Procedures 199 4 PART 1 GENERAL INFORMATION #! ! ! 5 A Brief History of SOAS The School of Oriental Studies was founded on 5 July 1916 when it received its Royal Charter as a college of the University of London. It opened its doors to students at the beginning of 1917. The Royal Charter gave the School a unique mission and a dual obligation - to advance academic knowledge of Asia and to impart instruction of a practical nature. Therefore, despite rumours that its main purpose was to train colonial officials and spies, the School was a centre of scholarship from the first. Though it did and still does provide training courses, it undertook teaching and research into modern and ancient languages, and into the history, geography, customs, laws and literatures of the peoples of Asia. SOAS was a very small operation in the years of the first Director, Professor Sir Denison Ross (1916- 37). It operated in a handsome building in Finsbury Circus, on annual budgets that by the 1930s had barely doubled from an initial £14,000. The academic staff was small, though distinguished, and the teaching programmes modest. In these years it was largely students from India who enrolled for PhD research. Under the second Director, Professor Sir Ralph Turner (1937-57), the School began to expand, adding ‘African’ to its name in 1938, and moving to its building at Russell Square between 1941 and 1946. The School responded to the Second World War by developing crash programmes for translators and interpreters. In 1946, the Scarbrough Commission recommended a vigorous programme to expand Asian and African studies, by developing strong university departments independently of undergraduate student demand. It identified SOAS as the major centre for such studies. The next impetus to the School’s growth came during the Directorship of Professor Sir Cyril Philips (1957-76). The Hayter Committee of 1961 recommended an expansion of studies in SOAS subjects, and around the same time higher education in Britain expanded generally, following the report of the Robbins Committee (1963). Recognising the need to increase its commitment to ‘home’ students, the School revised and widened its undergraduate programmes, especially in the social sciences, while keeping the focus on the study of Asia and Africa. Another new departure was the creation of area centres, which provided an interdisciplinary regional approach to teaching and research, to complement the departments. The area studies MA’s were part of this initiative. By the 1970s the School had outgrown its premises and was becoming scattered over several sites. In 1973, the opening of the library building (now the Philips Building) brought most activities back to Russell Square. These new spaces provided the facilities appropriate to the international importance of the collection and to growing student numbers. During the 1970s and early 1980s the undergraduate programmes were reviewed, and further two-subject degrees and a course unit system introduced, in parallel with developments elsewhere in the University of London. This period of vigorous expansion came to an end in the early 1980s when the government began to cut university funding, and demanded greatly enhanced fees from overseas students. The School lost more than a third of its recurrent income from the state. While Professor C.D. Cowan was Director (1976-89), the School fought back by seeking alternative funding sources and by cutting expenditure. It also lobbied hard for the establishment of a national inquiry into the need for Asian and African studies. Persistence was rewarded when Sir Peter Parker, in a report published in 1986, 6 pointed to the severe losses suffered by Asian and African studies throughout the university system and to the increasing demand from government and business for teaching and expertise relating to those regions. Implementation of some of the report’s recommendations led to several new appointments at the School and to the strengthening of its library holdings. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, continuing changes in national policy toward universities presented new challenges to the School. Further growth in student numbers was encouraged while protecting special scholarship. The Raisman committee advised the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) on the future funding of the School, concluding that the School should receive an exceptional grant in respect of subjects in low demand from students but of national importance; for the School’s Library (now designated by HEFCE as National Research Library and for managing a worldclass collection of porcelain in the Percival David Foundation.
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