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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Senate

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Allan MacKinnon, Chair

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

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General Admission Requirements - Addition

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(SCUS Reference 01 - 3)

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February 14, 2001

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of

February 6, 2001 gives rise to the following motion:

That Senate approve the addition of Calculus 12 to the admission requirements, as set

forth in S. 01 -23 , effective January 2002, under the List 3 (Science Group)."

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:59:18 -0800

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To: sjdench@sfu.ca

From: Nick Heath <nheath@sfu.ca >

Subject: Fwd: BC Ministry of Education course: Calculus 12

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:51:54 -080() (PST)

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From: Alistair Lachlan <alistair@cs.sfu.ca

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To: allan_mackinnon@sfu.ca

CC: alistair@cs.siu.ca

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Subject: BC Ministry of Education course: Calculus 12

Recommendation For the Acceptance of Calculus 12

1.

On the basis of the detailed description of this course provided by

the BC Ministr y

of Education, one can say that this course in both

content and expectations is equivalent to SFUs MATH 151 and UBCs

MATH 100. It is therefore recommended that it he accepted as a course

for universit y

entrance.

2. Because of the variabilit

y of school assessments and the lack of a

provincial exam it is recommended that no transfer credit be awarded

for Calculus 12. Students passing the UBC-UNBC-SFU-UVic Calculus

Challenge Exam ma

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receive credit and a grade for MATH 151 if they

choose to do so --- this would continue the practice of the past two

years. Exemption from MATH 151 as a program requirement will not

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normally be granted on the basis of the completion of Calculus 12

unless the student has taken. and achieved a satisfactory grade in.

the Calculus Challenge Exam.

3.

For the revised admissions policy being implemented in 2002, Calculus

12 should he placed in list

3.

Alistair Lachlan

Undergraduate Chair

Mathematics and Statistics

Jan 19, 2001

Note: The department of mathematics at UBC has for some years been

promoting the Calculus Challenge Exam as an alternative to various

advanced placement examinations in mathematics. We have been

cooperating with them and host the examination every other year.

Nick Heath

Associate Registrar and Director of Admissions

Simon Fraser University

8888 University Drive

Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

Canada

Telephone: 604.291.3995

FAX:

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604.291.4969

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SFU 2002 admission for

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Dean of Student Sanvcos and Reistrcr

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Year 2002 admission requirements for BC grade 12s

Highlights of changes

• one course (4 credits) added to course requirements

• allows a wider range of courses, especially fine and performing arts and social studies

• allows Programme Cadre grads to qualify without also taking English 12

• includes a computer/information technology course, where previously (except for AP or IB) none was accepted&emdash;almost all major

universities recognize/encourage students to take high school computer science

• allows a choice between the 'principles and 'applied' streams in mathematics

• allows forests and lB environmental systems as sciences (primarily for non-science students)

These new admission requirements are also available in pdf format. (PDF: 32KB / 2 pages)

2001 grads

• These course requirements are effective for admission to our Spring semester 2002.

• Anyone who graduated in 2001 or earlier will be under the former requirements.

AP and lB

Certain courses have Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) near-equivalents which are acceptable - a chart is available from

SFU Admissions.

French

Many Grade 11 and 12 courses are taught in French in addition to English,

eg

Histoire 12 and History 12. Although only three of these courses are

listed here, we recognize the other equivalent courses listed by the Ministry of Education.

General requirements

• Secondary school graduation

• 67% (C+) minimum average

• English 11 or Français premiere langue 11

• language 11 or introductory language 11

• principles of mathematics 11 or applications of mathematics 11 & 12

• a science 11 from:

• applications of physics 11 & 12

• biology 11

• chemistry II

• earth science 11

• forests 11

• lB environmental systems 11

• principles of physics II

• one course (4 credits) from List I

• two courses (8 credits) from List

• two additional courses (8 credits) from Lists 2 or 3. If these two additional courses are both from List 3, they must be from different groups.

(see reverse)

We calculate the admission average on the List I course and best four Grade 12 courses as selected above. Approved equivalent Programme Cadre

and French Immersion courses are acceptable and Français premiere langue -12 is acceptable in place of English 12. Locally developed courses are not

accepted.

Specific program requirements

Faculty of Business Administration

General requirements, but must include principles of mathematics 12.

Faculty of Science

General requirements, but must include:

• chemistry 11 and principles of physics 11

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• principles of mathematics 12

• two of biology 12, chemistry 12, geography 12, geology 12, principles of physics 12

Wednesday. February 21, 2001 ?

SFU 2002 admission for BC grade 12$ ?

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General requirements, but must include:

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. both chemistry II and principles of physics 11

• principles of mathematics 12

• chemistry 12

• principles of physics 12

School of Kinesiology

General requirements but must include:

• principles of mathematics 12

• biology 12

• chemistry 12

• principles of physics 12

School of Computing Science

General requirements except that principles of mathematics and one of biology, chemistry, principles of physics must be included from list 2; one

additional science course must be chosen from list 2 or list 3; and one further course must be chosen from either list 2 or list 3 as follows:

• geography, or history or

• a course in the social sciences group from list 3 or

• a course in the humanities group, except for a language course, from list

Course lists

List 1

• English 12

• Francais premiere langue 12

List 2

• biology 12

• chemistry 12

• English literature 12

• Français communication et littérature 12

• geography 12

• geology 12

• history 12

• principles of mathematics 12

• principles of physics 12

• AP calculus AB/BC 12

• AP computer science A/AB 12

• AP environmental science 12

• AP statistics 12

• lB comp science/studies 12

• lB environmental systems 12

• lB further mathematics 12

• lB Mathematics with Calculus A/B

IHumanities Group

List 3

Fine and Performing Arts Group

• acting 12

• art 12

• dance choreography 12

• dance performance 12

• directing and scriptwriting 12

• drama film &TV 12

• music composition 12

• music composition & technology 12

• stagecraft 12

• visual arts 2D 12

• visual arts 3D 12

• visual arts media arts 12

• writing 12

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Sciences Group

• forests 12

• information technology 12

Social Sciences Group

• economics 12

• journalism/media 12

• law 12

• AP comparative government & politics 12

• AP psychology 12

• AP US government & politics 12

• lB business & organization 12

• lB psychology 12

• lB social anthropology 12

• comparative civilizations 12

• lB theory of knowledge (philosophy) 12

• languages:

• Arabic 12

• French 12 or 12A, or

• Français langue seconde 12*

• German 12

• Italian 12

• Japanese 12

• Latin 12

Wednesday. February 21. 2001

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• Punjabi 12

• Russian 12

• Secwepemctsin 12

• Spanish 12

• Upper St'at'imcets 12

*may not be used if Français premiere langue 12 is taken in List 1.

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