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FACULTY OF usis.. 

ADMINISTTION 

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its 

meeting of January 15, 1985 gives rise to the following motion: 

MOTION: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of 

Governors, as set forth in S.85-a , that CMPT 100-3, Structured 

Basic Programming and Software Packages for Business Administration 

Students, replace the current requirement for CMPT 101-4 or 103-4. 

Students who plan to take further courses in Computing Science 

should take CMPT 101-4 (which will be accepted by the Faculty of 

Business Administration in lieu of CMPT 100-3) ." 

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Debbie Walker 

Faculty of Business Administration 

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Senate, at its meeting of December 3rd, 1984, referred back to SCUS the 

curriculum revision with respect to CMPT 100-3 as a lower level require- 

ment for Business Administration. 

The matter has now been discussed with Computing Science. Dr. Cameron, 

Undergraduate Program Director in Computing Science, will be communicating 

directly to you concerning the issues raised about CMPT 100-3 at the last 

Senate meeting. We have seen, and are in agreement with, Dr. Cameron's 

December 10th memo to you. 

Two minor changes in our presentation to SCUS follow: 

1)

A revised "Rationale": 

Computer 100-3 has been designed by the Computing Science 

Department in consultation with the Faculty of Business Administration. 

The revised course places greater reliance on the lecture/tutorial 

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method and less on the standard laboratory approach utilized by 

Computing Science in its other introductory courses. The course will 

introduce the students to structured Basic programming and its 

application to business problem solving. Selected business application 

packages will be utilized in familiarizing students to the use of the 

computer. 

2)

Motion will now read: 

"That CMPT 100-3, Structured Basic Programming and Software Packages 

for Business Administration Students, replace the current requirement for 

CMPT 101-4 or 103-4. 

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Students who plan to take further courses in Computing 

Science should take CMPT 101-4 (which will be accepted by the Faculty of 

Business Administration in lieu of CMPT 100-3)." 

Explanation: 

1)

After consulting with Dr. Love, who represented our Faculty in the planning 

of CMPT 100, we think our revised "Rationale" language is slightly more 

precise. 

2)

This responds to Dr. Cameron's concern, raised in our recent discussion,. 

that our Faculty might not accept 101 or 103 in lieu of 100. 

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Because this 

was not our intention, we suggest the addition of the parenthetical "which 

will be accepted --" phrase. 

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Thank you. 

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 

Memorandum 

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To: Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies 

Re: S.84-67, SCUS 84-26 

From: R.D. Cameron, 

Director of the 

Undergraduate Program, 

Computing Science 

Date: December 10, 1984 

This is in response to questions about the proposed 

replacement of 

and

103 as lower division Business 

Administration requirements by CMPT 100 (S.84-67, SCUS 84-26). 

Those questions were raised at the December 3, 1984 meeting of 

Senate which referred consideration of the proposal back to SCUS. 

The first question raised was whether consultation between 

Business Administration and Computing Science occurred in the 

development of CMPT 100. Such consultation did in fact occur. 

Although Shane Caplin of Computing Science was responsible for 

development of the course, that development was done based on the 

initial request from, regular consultation with, and final 

approval of, the Faculty of Business Administration. 

The second question was about the relevance of 

100 to 

the Business Administration curriculum. The questioner seemed to 

be implying that the course should deal with the business 

applications of computers. However, it is not the purpose of 

100 to deal with these applications, but rather to provide 

students with a basic understanding of computer programming and 

use in the context of computer systems they will see in business. 

As such, the course is only preparatory to dealing with business 

applications of computers; that material is for later courses. 

As appropriate, we do use examples drawn from business 

applications, but such examples are only incidental to the 

teaching of the fundamental concepts of computer programming and 

use. 

I am surprised that these questions would be raised at this 

time, as the course has been successfully taught, without such 

complaints, for several terms now. 

impression, however, is 

that the questions arose not from the nature of the course 

itself, but rather from some particular problems with how it was 

taught last term. The Department has taken steps to remedy these 

problems. 

I enclose a copy of next semester's course outline for your 

information. 

CT 100 

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COURSE OUTLINE 

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SPRING 1985 

Peter F. Rowat 

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(EVENING SECTION) 

STRUCTURED, BASIC PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

STUDENTS 

PRZREQUISITEI B.C. High School grade 12 mathematics or MATH 100 

Please note that CMPT 100 is designed for those studentè wishing to 

satisfy Business Administration requirements in computing science. 

Students planning to go on in Computing Science should register in CMPT 101 

or CMPT 103. 

In addition, students with credits for CMPT 101 or 103 or 218 may not 

receive further credit for CMPT 100. If a student completes CMPT 100 

and then decides to go on in Computing they will have to take CMPT 101 

or 103 for duplicate course credit. 

Unlike CMPT 101 and CMPT 103, CMPT 100 is NÔTdesigned as a rigorous 

introduction to computer programming, but rather as an introduction to 

general computer'use. 

This course is designed to introduce the student to the fundamentals of 

computer operation and computer programming. The student will learn the 

basic steps in entering, saving, retrieving, editing and running programs 

using Waterloo BASIC on MTS. ' The class will explore the techniques used 

in designing and implementing simple computer programs. In addition, 

the student will have the opportunity to run 'user oriented business software 

packages. 

Upon completion of the course the student will be able to: 

a.

communicate with the computer using BASIC and fundamental system commands 

(eg. let, read, print, LOAD, SAVE, RUN) 

b.

define concepts such as hardware and software, file systems, etc 

c.

write a computer program in structured BASIC 

d.

handle computer files 

e.

work with selected business software packages 

Required Materials: 

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1) APPLIED BASIC PROGRAMMING 

R. Ageloff, R. Mojena 

Wadsworth 

2)

WATERLOO BASIC - A STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING APPROACH 

J.W. Graham, J.W. Welch, K.I. McPhee 

Watfac Publications 

3)

INTRODUCTION TO JITS AT SFU (SFU-13) 

ASSIGNMENTS - 307. 

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MIDTERMS 1 and 2 - 157. each 

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FINAL EXAM - 407. 