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S.09-123

OFFICE OF THE

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT ACADEMIC AND ASSOCIATE PROVOST

MEMO

ATTENTION ?

Senate

FROM ?

Bitt Krane, Chair

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

RE ?

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SCUS 09-451

DATE ?

September 18, 2009

For information:

Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of September 17, 2009, SCUS

approved the following curriculum revisions:

(1) New Bachelor of Arts Options (SCUS 09-45c)

(i) Two new options:

• an extended minor and minor program

• two minor programs

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(ii) To restrict the Bachelor of General Studies Degree as a graduation

option for PASS students only.

(2) School of Criminolog

(SCUS 09-45d)

(i)

New course proposal:

GRIM 438-3, Wrongful Convictions and Other Miscarriages of

Justice

(ii)

Change in description for GRIM 302

(iii)

Change in title and description for GRIM 333

(iv)

Change in prerequisite for GRIM 384

(v)

Changes to the program requirements for the Major Program,

Group B Lower Division requirement

(3) Department of Economics (SCUS 09-45e)

(i)

Remove provisional status requirement for transfer students

(ii)

Change in the group requirements for the Major program

(iii)

Calendar change for the Joint Major in Political Science and

Economics

(iv)

Calendar change for the Honors program

(v)

Prerequisite change for ECON 104

(4) Department of English (SCUS 09-45f)

(i) New course proposals:

ENGL 374-4, Creative Writing II: Fiction

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ENGL 472-4, Advanced Creative Writing

(ii)

Change in title, description and prerequisite for ENGL 372

(iii) Change in prerequisites for ENGL 461-464

(iv)

Course deletions: ENGL 384 and ENGL 399

(v)

Calendar changes for the Major, Honors and Minor programs'

Upper Division requirements

(5) Explorations (SCUS 09-45g)

(i) ?

New course proposal:

EXPL 330-3, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Writing

(6) First Nations Studies (SCUS 09-45h)

(i)

New course proposals:

FNST 212-3, Indigenous Perceptions of Landscape

FNST 443-4, Aboriginal Peoples, History and the Law (cross-listed

with HIST 443-4)

(ii)

Calendar changes for the First Nations Studies Program

requirements

(7) Department of Gerontolog

(SCUS 09-45i)

(i)

New course proposal:

GERO 101-3, Aging and Society

(ii)

Change in prerequisite for GERO 300

(iii)

Change to the Minor Program requirements

(8) Department of History (SCUS 09-45j)

(i)

Change in description for HIST 102W

(ii)

Change in title and description for HIST 300 and 366

(iii)

Change in course number, description and prerequisite for HIST

305

(iv) Change in title for HIST 371 and 471

(v)

Change in title, description and prerequisite for HIST 400

(vi) Change in prerequisite for HIST 430, 439 and 498

(vii) Course deletions: HIST 256 and 414

(viii) New course proposals:

HIST 3674, History of the People's Republic of China

HIST 443-4, Aboriginal Peoples, History and the Law (cross-

listed with FNST 443-4)

HIST 445-4, Fascist Italy

HIST 447-4, The Nikkei Experience in North America

HIST 464-4, Problems in Modern Asian History

(ix)

Calendar changes to the Joint Majors and Honors Programs

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(9) School for International Studies (SCUS 09-45k)

(i)

New course proposal:

IS 414-4, Current Regional Issues in Southeast Asia

(ii)

Change in description for IS 220 and 427

(iii)

Course deletions: IS 312, 402, 403, 450 and 451W

(10) Language Training Institute (SCUS 09-451)

(i) ?

Change in description for CHIN 100 and SPAN 102

(11) Department of Linguistics (SCUS 09-45m)

(i)

Change in description for LING 220

(ii)

Change in prerequisite for LING 350, 362, 309W, 321, 322, 324,

330, 360, 408, 431, 432 and 490

(12) Department

of Political Science (SCUS 09-45n)

(i)

Change in title for POL 415

(ii)

Change in prerequisite for POL 426 and 426W

(13)

Department

of Sociolog

and Anthropolog y

(SCUS 09-45o)

(i)

Change to the Honors and Joint Honors programs; from

Independent Project Option to Honors Essay Option.

(ii)

Change in title for SA 363

(iii)

Change in prerequisite for SA 417 and 418

(iv) Change in credit hour, title and description for SA 499

(14) Department of Women's Studies (SCUS 09-4512)

(i)

Change in title, description and prerequisite for WS 102

(ii)

Change in prerequisite for WS 200, 205, 306, 308, 309, 312, 313,

317, 398W, 405 and 412

(iii)

Change in title and prerequisite for WS 314, 315 and GDST 300

(iv) Course deletions: WS 304, 307 and 323

(15) World Literature (SCUS 09-45q)

(i)

Change in title and description for WL 101 and 404

(ii)

Change in description for WL 102

(iii) Change in course number for WL 301 and 302

(iv)

Change in title, description, prerequisite and vector for WL 480

and 490

(v)

New course proposals:

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WL 301-3, Advanced Composition

WL 306-4, Literary Romanticisms

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WL 310-3, Text and Context

WL 320-3, Interdisciplinary Approaches

WL 350-3, Directed Studies

WL 460-4, Directed Studies

(vi) Changes in the program requirements for the Major, Honors and

Minor programs

(16) WOB Designations (SCUS 09-45r

(i) B-Soc: ?

GERO 101

LING 110, 160,220

B-Soc/B-Sci: LING 290

B-Hum/B-Soc: ASC 101

B-Hum: ?

ASC 102, 200, 201

ENGL 212

W: ?

EXPL 310 and WL 301

Senators wishing to consult a more detailed report of curriculum revisions

may do so on the Web at http://www.sfu.ca/senate/Senate

agenda.html

following the posting of the agenda. If you are unable to access the

information, please call 778-782-3168 or email b2rant(sfu.ca.

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