SENATE 

GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL - 

ARCHAEOLOGY 883-5 

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.J. WHEATLEy 

DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES 

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NOVEMBER 22, 1972 

To.. 

Subed 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve, as set forth in S.73-4 

the new graduate course proposal, Archaeology 

883-5." 

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Jon Wheatley 

Dean of Graduate Studies 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 

To: Members of Senate 

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From: Office of the Dean of 

Graduate Studies 

Subject: Graduate 

Course 

Proposal 

Date: November 22, 1972 

MOTION: "That the new course - Arch 883-5 be approved 

by Senate." 

This course was approved by the Executive Committee of 

the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies, on November 

20, 1972. 

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Mesoamericn Prehistory 

D.scriitjor: . Examination of the prehistoric processes leading 

to civilisation 

and

the

relationship of this core 

area to other New World cultures. 

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the course be of bred: 

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The analysis of most New World prehistoric cultures must include the incluence direct 

r indirect originating inNesoamerica. The scope 

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of Mesoamerican 

prehistory is                                 

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sufficiently 

broad .to require a semester course and cannot be adequately covered as 

part of some other-course.ther 

course. 

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Which Faculty member will normally teach the 'course: 

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Dr.. H. V. Alexander 

What are the 

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dgetary-implications of 

mounting the course: 

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No

change 

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resources (append details): 

Yes. 

The pertinent journals are - 

Being added to the basic 

literature 

Appended: a) Outline 

of

the

Course 

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the Library. 

b)

An indication o 

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the cor.ctcnce of the 

Faculty niainber to give the course. 

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lip oved: Du-tanta3. 

Graduate Studies Commitr.ce:t 

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Senate Cratitiate Stu icCoiuittce.:_i 

Appendix 

a) Outline of the Course - Arc. 883-5 

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Students 

are required to: 

1)

organise a working bibliography on one aspect of 

Mesoamerican prehistory 

2) present an oral problem oriented paper. Copies are 

to be distributed to class members one week before 

presentation 

3)

the final typed paper will incorporate the pertinent 

elements brought forward in discussion of the oral 

presentation. 

Lecture 

topics: 

a)

overview of Mesoamerican prehistory and outside 

relationships 

b)

the rise to civilisation 

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c) the Olmac problem - influences in Mississippian and 

Andean areas 

d)

Teotihuacan, Monte Alban and Kaminaljuyu 

e)

the Mayan ascendancy 

f)

Toltec and its spread to outlying areas 

g)

the late cultures 

Ii) relationships - north and south 

1)

the

Antilles 

Appendix 

b) An indication of the competence of the Faculty 

member to give the course 

Dr. Alexander 

has taken graduate courses on Mesoamerican pre- 

history and related fields from M. D. Coe, G. C. E. Engerrand, 

J.

Epstein, W. 

Jimenez-Moreno, C. Osgood, D. T. Wallace. 

Graduate and undergraduate courses on Mesoamerica taught at Bryn 

Mawr College. Graduate reading course at SFU. 

Field work in Mexico 

D. F. under the direction of W. Mayer-Oakes. 

Cressinan Prize received at the University of Oregon for paper 

on Toltec prehistory. 