The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, materials safety and the one kind of academic integrity question this particular course actually raises.
Policies and support#
Late work and extensions#
Work handed in late loses 5% of the available mark per calendar day, to seven days, after which it is marked as submitted with a zero recorded and feedback given anyway — a late forgery is still worth critiquing. Extensions are granted before the deadline, not after; email the convenor and say what you need, rather than waiting to see if you need it.
Materials and studio safety#
The studios handle solvents, pigments and small edge tools. You’ll be shown the safe handling of anything new before you use it, and the workshop keeps a materials data sheet for everything on the bench. Anyone working with an unfamiliar material for the first time without a demonstration should stop and ask, not proceed on the assumption it’s like something they’ve used before — most studio injuries in this course’s short history have come from exactly that assumption.
Academic integrity, and the thing this course makes weird#
Most courses ask you not to submit someone else’s work as your own. This one asks you to submit a convincing copy of someone else’s technique as your own craft demonstration — that’s Assignment 1 by design. The line is authorship of the object, not resemblance to a source: a forgery you made, in your own hand, of a style you studied and declared, is the assignment. A forgery you did not make — an object, a text or a generated artefact you are presenting as your own labour when it isn’t — is the thing integrity policy still means. Every practical submission carries a short materials-and-method note saying what you made it with and what you copied it from; that note is where the declaring happens, and a submission without one is treated as undeclared regardless of how good the work is.
The same distinction covers generative AI: using a model to draft prose you then rewrite in your own argument is normal coursework, declared like any other source. Presenting a model’s output as your own critical judgement — the essay that reads someone else’s forgery and says why it works — is not, because the judgement is the assessable skill, and it’s the one thing in this course nobody else can do the noticing for you.
Getting help#
The convenor and tutor are named on the people page, with contact preferences for each. A studio question is almost always better asked in the studio than by email, since half of what a tutor answers is legible only with the material in your hands.