HONOURS IN CLASSICS

INFORMATION FOR HONOURS STUDENTS

FACILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Welcome to the honours program in Classics. We would like you to feel at home in the School, to take part in our seminar and other activities, and join us over morning and afternoon teas.

In this guide you will find information on the most obvious areas about which you may have queries, or about which the School particularly wishes you to be informed. Above and beyond these the golden rule is: when in doubt, ask your supervisor.

1. Supervisor
In your honours course you will be working with a number of lecturers. You will already know the teachers in the seminar courses you are taking. If you have not already done so, you should be identifying the area on which you will be writing a thesis, both by talking to your teachers and the Head of Discipline. The Head of Discipline will approve your project and appoint your thesis supervisor.

2. Accommodation
The School will endeavour to provide you with working space. We have a room for Classics honours (Room 317) and postgraduate students in Hobart (Room 471),

You will be issued with a key to the Honours Room (which will give you access to the School MacLab (Room 465), the tea room and the photocopier room).

Thieving is a constant problem within the University so it is in your own interest as well as ours that you keep keys secure. Insurance only covers the University's own property!

3. Facilities
The following are available, the School bearing costs where they are incurred:

Photocopying
Hobart: The Secretary will issue you with your own code.

Please confine your copying to bona fide research material, and generally to items not otherwise available in your campus library. Your code will be issued with a limit of 500 pages. Charges will be made for copying over and above those figures, unless a special case is made to the Head of School via your thesis supervisor. In Hobart please note to lock the door behind you.

Interlibrary Loans
Any requests must be countersigned by your supervisor.

Phone and Fax:
Telephones are available for research-related STD calls in the Secretaries' Offices during working hours. For personal calls and calls out of office hours public phones are available: Hobart in the foyer of the Humanities Building. (Note the phone in the Honours room in Hobart is restricted to Campus only, but can receive outside calls).

The school fax facility is available at the discretion of your supervisor. Please check with the Secretary before use.

Mail
You may send any letters (not parcels) genuinely related to your research work via the School. Note that 'School of History and Classics' should be written or stamped (a stamp is available in the Offices) on the back of the envelope.

Hobart students: Incoming mail will be put in the pigeon hole marked 'Honours Students', which is located in the tea room.

Microfilm readers
Microfilm readers are located in Hobart in Room 465B and 461, normally locked; access is by application to the Secretary. In Launceston there are microfilm readers in the library.

Computers
MAC computers are available to you in (1) the School Mini MacLab in Hobart (Room 465), and in (2) the University computer labs, which have 24-hour access.

4. Communication
We would like all Honours students to make use of their e-mail addresses and to access their e-mail at least once a week so that this can be used as a reliable means of communication for meetings etc.

5. Financial Assistance
The School's budget is always tight, but we try to make limited funds available on special request via your supervisor.

6. Contact Numbers
Your thesis supervisor will probably be your first port of call for queries or problems. Otherwise the School Secretary is:

Hobart
Lyn Richards (03) 6226 2298

Head of Classics Discipline & Honours Co-ordinator
Dr Geoff Adams

(03) 6226 2289

e-mail: Geoffrey.Adams@utas.edu.au