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Senate Committee on Academic Planning
ANNUAL REPORT -
1998
The Senate Committee on Academic Planning held 11 meetings in 1998. Most
recommendations of SCAP go forward to Senate for action or information. This
report, therefore, presents a summary of the major actions of the Committee
during the year.
PROGRAMS APPROVED FOR FURTHER PLANNING
Minor Program in Labour Studies
Major Program in Humanities
Minor Program in Gerontology
MBA in Management of Technology*
SFU/UBC Joint MBA in Financial Services*
Approved at the Letter of Intent stage of the provincial Degree Program Review process.
NEW PROGRAMS APPROVED
Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
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Pilot ESL Program
Non-Credit Certificate Program: Certificate in Distance Learning
Industry Sponsored Cohort PBD Program in Computing Science
Non-Credit Certificate Program in Leadership Learning
Major Program in Humanities**
Minor Program in Gerontology
Major and Honors Program in Actuarial Science**
Software and Systems Diploma
Joint UBC/SFU/UVic/UNBC Calculus Challenge Examination Certificate
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Full program approved by the Degree Program Review Committee and the Minister.
CURRICULUM REVISIONS
Block change of credit hours for courses in Political Science.
During the 1998/99 curriculum revision cycle, the following course change
activity took place:
New courses approved Courses deleted
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Undergraduate courses ?
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Graduate courses ? 25 ?
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In addition, 9 courses which had not been offered for more than six
semesters were deleted.
PROGRAM DELETIONS
Joint Major in Business Administration and Political Science
General Minor in Faculty of Education
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT (SCEMP)
SCEMP recommended:
undergraduate admission targets for 1998/99
admission to Faculties for 98-3 and subsequent semesters
undergraduate admission targets to each Faculty
allocation of additional fully funded FTEs in 1998/99
revised undergraduate intake targets for 99-1.
OTHER MATTERS CONSIDERED BY SCAP
AU designation on transcript for courses audited by undergraduate and
graduate students.
SGSC - change of membership to add Assoc. Dean of Graduate Studies as
ex-officio voting member.
Consideration of Faculty Deans' Three-Year Plans
Consideration of Vice-President Academic's Three-Year Plan
Consideration of Dean of Graduate Studies' Three-Year Plan
Innovation Initiative for Harbour Centre
Report and recommendation to continue Diverse Qualification
Admission Policy
EXTERNAL REVIEWS
SCAP received reports and provided initial comments on the following
external reviews:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
(June
98)
School of Communication (October 98)
Department of Physics (October 98)
Following initial SCAP consideration and comment, departments will
review the reports and recommendations, make adjustments to their
three-year plans and then the revised plan will come forward for
approval.
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CENTRES AND INSTITUTES
SCAP recommended to Senate and the Board of Governors the
establishment of the following:
Co-operative Research Management Institute (CRMI)
Centre for Environmental Biology
SCAP recommended to Senate and the Board of Governors the
dissolution of the following:
Institute for Business and Innovation Studies (IBIS)
Institute of Human Factors and Interface Technology
Centre for Human Independence Engineering
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP IN 1998
D. Gagan, J
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Osborne, R. Ward, B. Clayman, R. Marteniuk, J.
Pierce,
J .
Waterhouse
R. Barrow, C. Jones, M. Selman (to Aug. 31/98), L. Burton (from Sep. 1/98), L.
Boland, P. Percival (to May 31/98), M. Words (from June 1/98), L. Berggren, L.
Peterson, P. Winne (to May 31/98), J. Jones (from June 1/98), V. Dunsterville, A.
Emmott, I. Yagi (to May 31/98), M. Russell (from June 1/98), J. Overington (to
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Feb. 2/98), L. Tam (Feb. 3/98 to Nov. 2/98), K. Dhillon, J. Morris, T. Dobb (to June
30/98), L. Copeland (from July 1/98), R. Heath, W. Wattamaniuk, J. Ogloff (to
July/98), A. MacKinnon (from Aug./98).
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David Gagan
Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Planning
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