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MEMORANDUM
ATTENTION
FROM
RE:
Senate
Ion Driver, Vice-President, Academic and
Provost, and Chair, SCUP
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Full Program Proposal for an Extended Minor in World Literature
(SCUP 11-48)
DATE
N ovember 16, 2011
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At its October 26, 2011 meeting SCUP reviewed and approved the Full Program Proposal for a
Extended Minor in World Literature within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Motion
That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal for an
Extended Minor in World Literature within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
c: K. Seigneurie
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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TO: Sarah Dench, Director, University Curriculum
FROM:
Dr. Kenneth Seigneurie, Director, World Literature Program
DATE:
November 14,2011
RE: Revised Full Program Proposal for an Extended Minor in World Literature
Dear Sarah,
As per your request, attached is a revised version of the Full Program Proposal for an
Extended Minor in World Literature. This document should now contain all pertinent
information.
Thank you.
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Dr. Kenneth Seigneurie, Director
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Senate Committee on University Priorities
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Bill Krane, Chair
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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of October 13,
2011, gives rise to the following recommendation:
Motion:
That SCUP approve and recommend to Senate the Full Program Proposal for an Extended
Minor in World Literature within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
The relevant documentation for review by SCUP is attached.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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SCUS ll-50d
TO:
Paul Budra, Chair of FASSCC
FROM:
Dr. Kenneth Seigneurie. Director. World Literature Program
DATE:
August 23. 2011
RE: Full Program Proposal for an Extended Minor in World Literature
At its meeting of April 29th, 2010. the World Literature Program Steering Committee
approved a proposal for an Extended Minor in World Literature.
Please place the attached Full Program Proposal on the agenda of the next meeting of
the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee.
Thank you.
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Dr. Kenneth Seigneurie. Director
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FULL PROGRAM PROPOSAL
Extended Minor in World Literature
World Literature Steering Committee
November 2011
Executive Summary
Anew Extended Minor in World Literature is proposed as an initiative bythe Program in World Literature
and is to be administered by that Program.
The intent of this proposal is to contribute to the interdisciplinary potential of the undergraduate degree
programs. It will allow the cross-fertilization of knowledge and skills acquired in World Literature with
those of the student's major course of study. In this way, the Extended Minor will contribute to addressing
one of the guiding principles articulated in the President's Draft Strategic Vision
[http://envision.sfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/envision-discussion paper-June 29-web.pdf):
Internationalization:
SFU will promote international knowledge, understanding and engagement,
seeking to engender an active global citizenship among its students, faculty and staff, and to
ensure that the institution itself is an engaged partner and contributor on the international stage.
Akey element of "international knowledge" might well translate as a knowledge and appreciation of
culture-based values and modes of being such as provided bythe Extended Minor in World Literature.
This program will allow students pursuing non-World Literature degrees to develop significant expertise
in understanding how cultural questions intersect with their primary interests.
Based upon existing courses, this Extended Minor can be implemented immediately with no new
resources from the Program in World Literature.
The Extended Minor will be under the direction of the Director of World Literature, the Undergraduate
Advisor and the World Literature Steering Committee.
Students who earn the Extended Minor in World Literature will have the edge that advanced study of
cultural identities and differences can give to specialists in a variety of fields.
1. Credential to be awarded: Extended Minor in World Literature
2. Location: SFU Surrey and SFU Burnaby
3. Faculty: Arts and Social Sciences
4. Anticipated program start date: September 2012
5. Description of the program:
5.1
Aims, goals, and/or objectives
The extended minor in World Literature is designed for students who seek a relatively deep academic
focus on intercultural relations among peoples such as offered by the Program in World Literature
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without devoting themselves to the field as a major course of study. Students who complete the
requirements for the extended minor will be exposed to the range of LD material and methodologies in
World Literature along with a significant selection of UD courses. Consequently, these students will
acquire a solid grasp of the way cultural forms, tropes and narratives pass from one society to another,
providing a valuable complement to their chosen major.
5.2
Anticipated contribution to the mandate and strategic plan of the institution
The Program in World Literature contributes to SFU's priorityon studying the modes and means of
internationalization. The extended minor in World Literature focuses on the realm of cultural production
in transnational contexts. Such a focus will offer students the opportunity to weave a significant element
of cross-cultural understanding and competence into whatever their primary course of study may be.
5.3
Target audience
The extended minor in World Literature is intended for students who seek to build their own academic
program by bringing together the cultural internationalization that is characteristic of World Literature
with any major course of study. Students interested in pursuing careers in business, journalism,
publishing, law, government, diplomacy, education or international development would be among those
who would find attractive the extended minor in WL.
5.4
Content
Requirements for the Proposed Extended Minor
This program consists of the lower division requirements for a major and the upper division requirements
for a minor. Students'programs must be approved by the advisor of the program.
World Literature
Lower Division Requirements:
Students complete 18 units. This includes one of:
WL 100-3 Introduction to World Literature
WL 101-3 Writing About Literature
WL 102-3 Literature Across Cultures
and one of:
WL 103-3 Pre-Modem World Literature
WL 104-3 Modern World Literature
plus:
WL 200-3 Literary Analysis and Interpretation
and one of:
WL 201-3 East/West
WL 202-3 North/South
WL 203-3 Selected Genres in World Literature
WL 204-3 Human Rights Literature
plus two additional three units lower division courses in World Literature
Upper Division Requirements:
Students complete 16 upper division units in WL courses.
5.5
Delivery methods
Courses will primarily be offered through the Surrey campus without excluding the offering of some
courses at the Burnaby and Harbour Centre campuses. Lower division courses will be offered as lectures
while upper division courses will be offered as seminars. Class sizes range from 18 to upwards of 50.
5.6
Linkages between learning outcomes and curriculum design
The learning outcomes for students pursuing an extended minor in WL are as follows:
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A capacity to articulate causal and contextual linkages via coursework in WL and a student's
major field.
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A potential to interpret questions and problems characteristic of the major course of study
according to associative methodologies characteristic of literary study.
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A potential to interpret questions and problems characteristic of literary study according to the
methodologies characteristic of the student's major course of study.
5.7
Distinctive characteristics
The extended minor in WL contributes to interdisciplinarity by promoting significant academic cross-
fertilization between WL and a student's major course of study.
5.8
Anticipated completion time
Students complete 34 credit hours for the extended minor in World Literature.
5.9
Enrolmentplan for the length of the program
No maximum number of admissions per year has been set. Some half-dozen students yearly would be
expected to take advantage of the extended minor inWL.
5.10
Policies on student evaluation (degree requirements]
Students will be evaluated according to the general regulations of the University and the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences. Critical and research papers, participation in seminars and joint projects would be
among the objects of evaluation.
5.11
Policies on faculty appointments (minimum qualifications)
All continuing faculty will hold a Ph.D. with expertise in some field within literary studies, Comparative
Literature, English or a foreign language/literature.
5.12
Policies on program assessment
In common with all other academic units at SFU, the extended minor is subject to external review
approximately every seven years.
5.13
Level of support and recognition from other post-secondary institutions (includingplans for
admissions and transfer
within the British Columbia post-secondary education system) and relevant
regulatory or profession bodies
Not applicable.
5.14
Evidence of student interest and labour market demand
The extended minor in World Literature will be attractive to numerous students from the standpoints of
both academic and career development. Anecdotal evidence from the annual Meet and Greet for majors,
minors, and interested others as well as estimations by the World Literature Advisor suggest that some
3-5 students yearly would be interested in the Extended Minor inWorld Literature. Currently, WL has 66
students declared as majors and 36 minors. About a dozen non-majors take WL courses at the upper
division level. Over the past three decades, the cultural realm has been increasingly recognized as
generative and not simply derivative of change in other fields. Students who attain a degree of mastery in
the methodological skills of world literature will be better able to gauge how these changes can occur.
They will
therefore be more marketable to numerous potential employers in business, mass media,
government, nongovernmental organizations, and the culture industry.
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5.15
Summary of resources required and available to implement the program
None beyond those currently being allocated to WL.
5.16
Brief description of any program and associated resources that will be reduced or eliminated when
the new program is introduced
None.
5.17
List of faculty members teaching/supervising, what percentage of their teaching will be devoted to
the program, and their areas of specialization
The extended minor draws from the existing teaching complement of the Program in World Literature.
No additional courses, faculty positions, teaching responsibilities, space, equipment or library resources
are required. The Director of the Program in World Literature will supervise the academic content of the
extended minor. The FASS - Surrey Advisor and Undergraduate Secretary will provide administrative
support including student advising. These responsibilities are consistent with their current mandate and
no additional resources are required. The list of core faculty members includes:
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SASHA COLBY, Literary theory, modernist art and performance in English, French, Italian and
Russian (joint appointment with Explorations)
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PAULO HORTA, International history of the novel, the translation and reception of the
Arabian
Nights,
and Latin American literature
•
MELEK ORTABASI, Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, film and the theory of
translation
•
KEN SEIGNEURIE, Modern Arabic, French and British literary relations, literary theory and the
history of humanist thought
•
AZADEH YAMINI-HAMEDANI, German and Persian literatures and philosophy, the semiotics of
translation
Of these faculty members, Paulo Horta is no longer with SFU and Sasha Colby is on maternity or study
leave until Fall 2013. The total shortfall for World Literature comes to six courses a year (S. Colby is half-
time with Explorations). The Program in World Literature has received authorization from the FASS
Dean's office to hire atwo-year 75% (six courses a year) Limited Term Instructor
whose term will begin
Fall 2012.
5.18
For a program where the intention is to charge a premium fee, a budget developed in collaboration
with the dean of the faculty
Not applicable.
5.19
Research implications
The ongoing research mandate of existing tenure-track faculty responsible for teaching courses in the
extended minor will inform the course curricula.
5.20 Additional Comments
The Extended Minor in World Literature will provide students majoring in other fields with a significant
degree of expertise in cross-cultural reading practices and experience in writing about other cultures. It
is intended for students who seek to build their own academic program by bringing together the cultural
internationalization that is characteristic of World Literature with any major course of study. Students
interested in pursuing careers in business, journalism, publishing, law, government, diplomacy,
education or international development would be among those who would find attractive the extended
minor in WL.
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5.21
Related programs in British Columbiapost-secondary institutions
SFUis the only post-secondary institution in Canada and one of very few in North America to offer an
undergraduate degree in World Literature. The University of British Columbia is currently planning an
undergraduate minor in World Literature; after an initialthree-year trial period, UBC plans to implement
a major degree program in World Literature.
6. Contact information for persons responsible
Ken Seigneurie
email: kseiqneu@sfu.ca
Director, Program in World Literature
Tel.: 778-782-8846
7. Program Consultations and Evaluations
The Notice of Intent was sent to FASSCC where it met with approval. Once implemented, the extended
minor will be reviewed and evaluated by the Program in World Literature.
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Appendix A - Proposed Calendar Entry
Please note: all students must obtain approvalfrom the World LiteratureAcademic Advisorin order to
undertake the extended minor.
An extended minor consists of the lower division World Literature requirements for a major and the
upper division requirements for a minor.
Lower Division Requirements:
Students complete 18 units. This includes one of:
WL 100-3 Introduction to World Literature
WL 101-3 Writing About Literature
WL 102-3 Literature Across Cultures
and one of:
WL 103-3 Pre-Modern World Literature
WL 104-3 Modern World Literature
plus:
WL 200-3 Literary Analysis and Interpretation
and one of:
WL 201-3 East/West
WL 202-3 North/South
WL 203-3 Selected Genres in World Literature
WL204-3 Human Rights Literature
plus two additional three unit lower division courses in World Literature
Upper Division Requirements:
Students complete 15 upper division units in WL courses,
(course listings and descriptions attached).
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Appendix B- Budget
The extended minor draws from the existing teaching complement of the Program in World Literature.
No additional courses, faculty positions, teaching responsibilities, space, equipment or library resources
are required. The Director of the Program in World Literaturewill supervise the academic content of the
extended minor. The FASS - Surrey Advisor and Undergraduate Secretary will provide administrative
support including student advising. These responsibilities are consistent with their current mandate and
no additional resources are required.
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Appendix C- Related programs in other British Columbia post-secondary institutions
SFU is the only post-secondary institution in Canada and one of very few in North America to offer an
undergraduate degree in World Literature.
Effective term and year: Fall 2012
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Appendix D: World Literature Courses & Descriptions
WL 100-3 Introduction to World Literature
Explores how texts resonate in other cultural contexts, influence foreign traditions, and become works of
world literature. Breadth-Humanities.
WL 101W-3 Writing About Literature
Examines international migrancy, cultural identities, or cross-cultural influence in world literatures,
while introducing the fundamentals of literary analysis and expository writing. Writing and Breadth-
Humanities.
WL 102-3 Literature Across Cultures
Introduction to the study of literary texts from diverse linguistic and cultural origins. Mayexamine the
literature of cross-cultural interaction, or compare texts through thematic topics. Breadth-Humanities.
WL 103-3W Pre-Modern World Literature
Surveys pre-modern texts of world literature. Writing and Breadth-Humanities.
WL 104-3W Modern World Literature
Surveys poetry and prose from the seventeenth-century to the present, with a focus on the literary
exploration of issues of humanity. Writing and Breadth-Humanities.
WL 200-3 Literary Analysis and Interpretation
Introduces major theoretical approaches to literature and fundamental techniques of literary analysis.
Develops students' critical skills for analytical writing about literature in comparative, cross-cultural
contexts. Prerequisite: nine units in World Literature, including WL 100, 103, or 104.
WL 201-3 East/West
Explores the relationship between Eastern and Western narratives. The focus may include the mutual
influence of Eastern and Western cultural traditions and modernities, the construction of the 'East' in the
West and of the 'West' in the East, theories of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and forms of East/West
syncretism. Prerequisite: three units in World Literature or six units of B-Hum designated courses.
Breadth-Humanities.
WL 202-3 North/South
Explores how European traditions have influenced and engaged the cultures of the global 'South'.The
focus may
encompass the cultures and counter-cultures of empire and globalization and the
'tropicalization'of European genres and cultural forms under the influence of artists from Africa, Latin-
America, and South Asia. Prerequisite: three units in World Literature or six units of B-Hum designated
courses. Breadth-Humanities.
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WL 203-3 Selected Genres in World Literature
Explores the cross-cultural trajectory of a genre or genres ofworld literature. Prerequisite: three units in
World Literature or six units of B-Hum designated courses. Breadth-Humanities.
WL 204-3 Human Rights Literature
Examines a diversity of world literature concerning Human Rights. May focus on writing in the face of
political oppression, censorship, political and economic displacement, terrorism and/or warfare.
Prerequisite: three units in World Literature or six units of B-Hum designated courses. Breadth-
Humanities.
WL 300-4 How Theory Travels
Explores the counterpoint of Western and non-Western approaches to world literature. Maydraw from
disciplines including comparative literature, history and anthropology, and focus on how concepts of
world literature are imported into new cultural contexts. Prerequisite: 12 units in World Literature,
including WL 200.
WL 301W-3 Advanced Composition
Examines scholarly and other professional styles of writing about literature, focusing on representative
genres, approaches and practices through a selected topic in world literature. Prerequisite: 45 units
including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses. Writing.
WL 303-4 Global Culture and Its Others
Explores cultural expressions of sameness and difference in an age of globalization and its discontents.
Mayfocus on
transnational expressions of secularism and faith or of the metropolis and suburbia, or on
forms of cross-pollination in world literature, cinema and music. Prerequisite: 45 units including nine
units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
WL 304-4 Exiles and Emigres
Explores the culture of peoples and individuals displaced byforce or migrating by choice. Mayfocus on
the plight of refugees in the work of playwrights, essayists and novelists, on the work of emigre artists in
different cultural traditions, or on a comparison of the literary cultures of exiles and emigres.
Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
WL 305-4 Sages and Poets
Explores wisdom literature, poetry, or the resonance of faith in secular world literatures. Mayfocus on
cross-cultural mystical quests, secular re-castings of narratives of faith and conversion, or the interplay
of the religious and the secular in comparative supernatural literatures. Prerequisite: 45 units including
nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
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WL 306-4 Literary Romanticisms
A comparative approach to literary romanticisms and romantic texts. Prerequisite: 45 units including nine
units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
WL 308-4 Imperial Cultures
Explores the cultures of imperialism in a cross-continental and comparative framework. May focus on
chronicles of discovery, moments of colonial contact, critiques of empire, and the imperial engagement
with pre-conquest cultures. Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of
B-Hum designated courses.
WL 309-4 Post-Imperial Cultures
Explores post-imperial notions of culture and universality, tradition and modernity, or nation and
cosmopolis. Mayfocus on narratives of independence, postcolonial self-fashioning, and imperial
nostalgia. Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum
designated courses.
WL 310-3 Text and Context
Intermediate seminar on selected literary texts in relation to their social, historical, cultural or
theoretical contexts. Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-
Hum designated courses.
WL 320-3 Interdisciplinary Approaches
Intermediate seminar on interdisciplinary research that informs the study of World Literature.
Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
WL 330-4 Special Topic in World Literature
Prerequisite: 45 units including nine units in World Literature or nine units of B-Hum designated courses.
WL 350-3 Directed Studies
Independent reading and research on a topic selected in consultation with the supervising instructor. A
research essay is required. Prerequisite: Two 100 division world literature courses, two 200 division
world literature courses, and two 300 division world literature courses. Reserved for world literature
honors, major and minor students. Admission is by permission of the instructor and Director.
WL 401-4 Early Modernities
Explores early modern literature across cultures. May compare Eastern and Western texts or focus on
the cross-cultural influence of a single genre or author. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level
courses in World Literature, English, or Humanities.
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WL 402-4 Other Modernities
Explores the mutual constitution of modernity in North and South. May focus on modernism and its
enemies, case studies of alternative modernities, or the pre-modern in discourses of the modern and
anti-modern. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in World Literature, English, or
Humanities.
WL 403-4 After Modernities
Explores works of contemporary world literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Mayfocus on
the postmodern as a
response to the modern, on prevalent postmodern genres, or on the postmodern
engagement with developments in philosophy, science, and the media in East and West. Prerequisite: 60
units including two 300 level courses in World Literature, English, or Humanities.
WL 404-4 Literature and Translation
Explores the translation of texts into new cultural contexts, their reception, and the theory and practice of
literary translation. May compare several texts or focus on a single work that has been reconceived in
several cultures. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in World Literature, English, or
Humanities.
WL 410-4 Selected Topic in World Literature I
Advanced seminar on a topic in World Literature. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in
World Literature, English, or Humanities.
WL 420-4 Selected Topic in World Literature II
Advanced seminar on a topic in World Literature. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in
World Literature, English, or Humanities.
WL 430-4 Selected Topic in World Literature III
Advanced seminar on a topic in World Literature. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in
World Literature, English, or Humanities.
WL 440-4 Selected Topic in World Literature IV
Advanced seminar on a topic in World Literature. Prerequisite: 60 units including two 300 level courses in
World Literature, English, or Humanities.
WL 450-4 Directed Readings in Language and Literature
Independent study of literature in a language other than English. Prerequisite: Admission by permission
of the instructor and Director.
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WL 460-4 Directed Readings
Independent reading and research on a topic selected in consultation with the supervising instructor. A
research essay is required. Prerequisite: Two 100 divisionworld literature courses, two 200 division
world literature courses, and two 300 division world literature courses. Reserved for World Literature
honors, major and minor students. Admission is by permission of the instructor and Director.
WL 480-4 Honors Essay Research
Directed studies for an honors essay. Prerequisite: Lower division and language requirements for the
World Literature major plus 12 units of upper division requirements including WL300 and WL301W.
Open only to students who have been accepted into the World Literature honors program. Admission is by
permission of the instructor and the Director.
WL 490-4 Honors Essay
Directed studies for completion of an honors essay. Prerequisite: WL480. Open only to students who have
been accepted into the World Literature honors program. Admission is by permission of the instructor
and the Director.
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