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Senate Committee on Academic Planning
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ANNUAL REPORT -
1997
The Senate Committee on Academic Planning held 9 meetings in 1997. 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.
NEW PROGRAMS APPROVED
Applied Physics Honors Program*
B.Sc. Major and Honors Degree in Statistics
B.A. Major and Honors Degree in Statistics
Cohort Option for the Masters degree Under Special Arrangements
Ed.D. in Educational Leadership*
Graduate Diploma program
Joint Major Sociology/ Anthropology and Criminology
Joint Major Sociology/ Anthropology and Communication
Master in Environmental Toxicology*
Minor in Computer and Electronics Design
Minor in Statistics through the Arts and Science Faculties
Non-Credit Certificate in Editing
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The programs marked * also required approval of the Provincial Governments
Degree Program Review Committee. In all cases, Ministerial approval was granted.
During the year, no programs were presented to SCAP for further planning and
development.
CURRICULUM REVISIONS
1997 was the second year of the new curriculum revision process, with Senate
Committee on Undergraduate Studies and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee
exercising the responsibilities delegated by Senate and SCAP to approve new courses
and minor program revisions, subject to review by SCAP and Senate.
During the 1997/98 curriculum revision cycle, the following course change activity
took place:
New courses approved Courses deleted
Undergraduate courses
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55
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39
Graduate courses
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26 ?
16
In addition, 8 courses which had not been offered for more than six semesters were
deleted.
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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT (SCEMP)
SCEMP recommended the undergraduate admission targets for 1997/98 which were
approved by SCAP. SCEMP also recommended that the number of international
students, excluding exchange students, be limited to 7% of all admissions and SCAP
approved this limit for three years from 1997 -.2000.
OTHER MATTERS CONSIDERED BY SCAP
Academic Enhancement Fund - Terms of Reference and
Applications review and recommendation
Additional limit on the duplication of courses
Admission requirement revisions School of Computing Science
Change of requirements for applicants to Secondary Professional
Development Program modules
Change to Membership of Assessment Committee for New Graduate
Program (ACNGP)
Deletion of the Latin American Studies Major Program
Deletion of Joint Major in French and Education
Graduate Course Audit
Report of the
Ad Hoc
Committee on Planning Priorities
Revision of Terms of Reference of SCAP, SCUS and SGSC
Termination of the Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Aquaculture
Transfer administrative authority for the graduate program in
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry to the Biochemistry Program
EXTERNAL REVIEWS
Final reports were received and forwarded to Senate on the following external
reviews:
School of Resource and Environmental Management (May 1997)
School of Engineering Science ?
(September 1997)
Initial discussions on external review reports were held with the following units:
Department of English ?
(June 1997)
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
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(September 1997)
School of Kinesiology ?
(October 1997)
CENTRES AND INSTITUTES
SCAP recommended to Senate and the Board of Governors the establishment offhej
following:
Centre for the Study of Government and Business
Research Institute on Southeastern Europe (RISE)
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David P. Gagan, Chair, SCAP
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