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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
From: ?
Allan MacKinnon, Chair
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
Subject: ?
Curriculum Revisions
Faculty of Science
(SCUS Reference 01 - 26)
Date:
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December 12, 2001
For Information
Acting under delegated authority, at the November 27, 2001 meeting, SCUS approved
the following curriculum revisions in the Faculty of Science:
1)
Biological Sciences
a)
Change of Streams
b)
New course: BISC 403 - Current Topics in Cell Biology
c)
Change of course description for BISC 404 - Plant Ecology
d)
Change of prerequisite:
BISC 490 - Research Design
BISC 491 - Research Technique
BISC 492 - Research Reporting
2)
Chemistry
a)
New courses: CHEM 440 - Solid State Materials Chemistry
CHEM 442 - Polymeric Materials Chemistry
CHEM 444 - Organic Materials Chemistry
CHEM 452 - Bio-organic Chemistry
CHEM 465 - Electrochemistry
b)
Change of course title for CHEM 360, 432, 468, 469
c)
Change of course title and number for CHEM 415
3)
Earth Sciences
a)
New courses: EASC 419 - Forest Harvesting Technology
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EASC 418 - Terrain Stability: Assessment and Mitigation
b)
Change of prerequisite for EASC 417 and EASC 304
4)
Environmental Science Program
a) Addition of Physical Geography to the Honors Program
5)
Mathematics
a)
Change in requirements for the Majors and Honors Program
b)
Change of prerequisite for MATH 419
c) Change of credit hour and vector for MATH 198
d) Waiver of the two-semester time lag for changes to MATH 198 - Selected
Topic in Mathematics to permit offering in the Spring semester 2002
6)
Physics
a) Change of prerequisite for PHYS
385
b) Change in requirements for the Minor Program
7)
Statistics
&
Actuarial Science
a) New course: STAT 100 - Chance and Data Analysis
b)
Change in requirements for the Actuarial Science Honors Program
c)
Addition to the requirements for the Actuarial Science Major Program
d)
Change to the Minor Program requiremement for Statistics
e)
Change to the upper division requirements for the Statistics Major
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Change of prerequisite for ACMA 445, STAT 101, STAT 203
Any Senator wishing to consult the full report of curriculum revisions should
contact Bobbie Grant, Senate Assistant at 291-3168 or email bgrant@sfu.ca
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