SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC ?
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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Senate
Gagan,
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Chair
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Subject: ?
Graduate Calendar Revisions -
Department of History
(SGSC Meeting May 25, 1998)
(SCAP Reference: SCAP 98-25)
Date: ?
June 15, 1998
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate
Committee on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
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thesis-option students are expected to complete their
dequirements in a maximum of eight semesters and
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project option students in a maximum of six semesters."
For Information:
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, the Senate Graduate Studies Committee
approved the following:
Course deletions: HIST 863-5 Colonial Administration in Africa
HIST 866-5 European Settlement in Africa
HIST 889-5 The History of Anthropology
New courses: ?
HIST 812-5 Comparative History
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HIST 825-5 Modern Germany
Title changes: ?
I-lIST 851-5, 852-5
Any Senator wishing to consult the full report of curriculum revisions should contact
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Bobbie Grant, Senate Assistant, at 291-3168 or e-mail bgrant@sfu.ca
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
MEMO RANDUM
DATE:
April7, 1998
TO: ?
Roger Blackman, Associate Dean of Arts
FROM:
Jack Little, Chair History GPC
RE: ?
Addition to Calendar Text
CC:
With the support of the Dean of Graduate Studies, a number of years ago the History
Department stipulated that the expected MA completion time was five semesters for full-time
thesis students, and three semesters for full-time project-option students.
Part-time students can take an extra year. These requirements appear in the department's
Graduate Brochure, but we now wish to add them to the Calendar. The rationale for having
such a time limit is quite simply to encourage students to complete their degrees within a
reasonable amount of time. Though the policy has not been rigorously enforced, our
completion times have improved dramatically since it was introduced. The reason we wish to
add this policy to the calendar is to ensure that students and supervisors realize that it has the
university's sanction.
The exact wording of the calendar text which we wish to add is as follows:
"Full-time thesis-option students are expected to complete their degree requirements in a
maximum of five semesters, and project-option students in three. Part-time students may
take one additional year fomplefion."
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