S.97-8
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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D. Gagan, Chair
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Senate Committee
Committee on Academic "Planning
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Faculty of Arts -
Curriculum revisions
Date: ?
December 9, 1996
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate Committee
on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
the curriculum revisions for the Faculty of Arts as set forth in S.97 - 8 as
follows:
S.97-8 a) Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program -
Addition of non-thesis course option
S.97 -8 b) Department of Psychology -
Changes to Program in Clinical Psychology
For Information:
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SGSC approved revisions as set forth in
S.97 -8 a)
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Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
S.97 -8 b) Department of Psychology
In all cases agreement has been
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reached between the Faculty and the Library in the
assessment of library costs associated with new courses.
Any Senator wishing to consult the full report of curriculum revisions within the Faculty
of Applied Sciences should contact Bobbie Grant, Senate Assistant, at 291-3168 or e-mail
bgrant@sfu.ca
S.97-8a
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SGSC Reference: Meeting Nov. 18/96 ?
SCAP Reference: SCAP 96 - 60
FOR APPROVAL
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Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
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Addition of non-thesis course option
FOR INFORMATION
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Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SGSC approved the following
New course:
LS 898-5 Graduating Seminar
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Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
GRADUATE LIBERAL STUDIES
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MEMORANDUM
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Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee
FROM: ?
Dr. Stephen Duguid
DATE: ?
June 17, 1996
SUBJ;
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Options for completing Graduate Liberal Studies Program
By this memo I am asking that you approve a package of changes whose net
effect would be to add a "course intensive" option for students to the currently
available options of-two Extended Essays crone Project as a means of
completing the Program. This would require that the students take two courses
beyond the usual course requirements, one a special seminar for students taking
this option (details follow) and the otherany one of our regularly scheduled
seminars.
Specifically, we are requesting the following changes:
Revised Degree Requirements
The Calendar rewording affects only the first two paragraphs under DEGREE
REQUIREMENTS; they should read as follows:
Students are required to complete six seminar courses, and to submit (a) two
extended essays for oral examination or (b) one project for oral examination or (c)
complete two additional courses and write a field examination based on
material covered in three completed courses. Two of the six required courses
are core courses, which normally must be completed in the first two semesters. of
attendance (LS 800-5 and 801-5). The remaining four courses may be selected
from among those offered within the program. Students may enrol for one or two
courses per semester. Exceptionally, and by agreement of both the Graduate
Program Committee and the department involved, a student may be permitted to
take one graduate course in another department toward the Liberal Studies degree.
The extended essays will normally be developed from papers completed for course
work. The project, which may make significant use of non-written media, will also
be developed from, work done in the courses. They will be examined as for the
examination of a Masters thesis under 1.10.1 of the
Graduate General Regulations.
One of the two additional courses under (c) above must be LS 898-5, and the
other may be any course offered by the Program other than LS 998 or LS 999.
Preparation for the field examination will be undertaken on the advice of the
Supervisory. Committee.
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RATIONALE FOR THE CHANGES:
Although the current options have served us well in the past (and we wish to
retain them), there are two reasons for adding the third, course-intensive option.
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The first is simply that many of our students have expressed a desire to take more
courses as part of the Program and this would give them that option in a way that
would not delay their graduation and is consistent with what is currently available
in several other departments in the Faculty of Arts.
The other reason is the demands the current system is making on the affiliated
faculty. The number of students in the Program coupled with the average time it
seems to be taking them to complete work for their Extended Essays or Project
ensures that at any given time we will need to have about 25 faculty involved in
supervising Extended Essays or Projects (not counting any involved as External
Examiners). Since the Program has no permanent faculty attached to it (other
than the half-time position allocated to the Director and the 1/4-time position for
the Graduate Chair) we feel this third option is necessary in order to lessen the
burden on our faculty, who are taking students from this program in addition to
students from their own departments.
One of the two extra courses we would require under the "course-intensive"
option would be a "capstone" course, taught either by the Director of the Program
or the Graduate Chair, which would revisit the themes addressed in the courses
all students take in their first year, Human Reason and Passion. Teaching this
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course would be part of the duties of these individuals and so there would be no
teaching costs incurred. (Len Berggren, for example, taught just such a course -
though with a different theme - unofficially over the 95-96 year just to help
students at the final stage of their thesis writing.) The other course, as I
mentioned in the first paragraph, would be any regularly offered seminar of the
student's choosing. We estimate that about 1/4 of our students, about 5 each
year, would take this option so the four or five seminars we teach each year could
easily absorb this number of extra students.
Dr. Stephen uguid
Interim Graduate Chair
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S.97-8b
• SGSC Reference: Meeting Nov.
18/96?
SCAP Reference: SCAP
96 - 61
FOR APPROVAL
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Department of Psychology
i) ?
Changes to Program in Clinical Psychology
FOR INFORMATION
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Department of Psychology
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SGSC approved the following
i)
New course:
PSYC 700-5 Professional Issues in Psychology
ii)
Change of credit hours (from 3 to 5) - PSYC
806, 807, 808, 809
iii)
Change of credit hours (from 2 to 3) - PSYC
819
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Professor Ronald Roesch
Department of Psychology
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Director of Clinical Training
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291-3370
MEMORANDUM
To: Dr. Andrea Lebowitz, Associate Dean of Arts
Date: June 26, 1996
Topic:
Proposed Revisions to the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program
The clinical graduate program faculty spent the last year or so reviewing our program
requirements for the graduate program in clinical psychology. The proposed program
represents a fine tuning of a program that has been operating in its present form for about
15 years now. As you know, the clinical program has been reviewed very favorably b y
external accrediting groups (it is accredited by both the Canadian Psychological
Association and the American Psychological Association), and we have taken care to
ensure that the proposed changes are consistent with the accreditation criteria. Given this
background, there were two reasons for this review. One, we wanted to facilitate timely
completion of the program by students, and two, we wanted to give students more
flexibility in course selection
These changes do not involve any new courses other than the ones that have
already been approved by the university. The table at the end of this memo shows the new
sequence of courses and requirements. The following is a summary and explanation of the
changes:
1.
Each of the principal clinical courses taken (744, 770, 819, 820/821, 822/823) during
-the first two years of the program will include an exam to ensure that the student has
mastered the material. This will in part replace the comprehensive exam currently
given near the end of a student's training.
2. Psych 602 (Social/Developmental) will continue to be a required core course; the
other two cores courses previously required are dropped. The core courses were
originally required in our program to satisfy the accreditation criteria established by the
Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.
However, because the students we accept into the graduate program have completed
undergraduate honor's degrees and enter our program with a breadth of course work
in psychology, this requirement is satisfied without having to take the additional
courses. The social/developmental seminar is retained because it provides students
with knowledge that will be beneficial to their training in clinical psychology.
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3.
The statistics requirements conform to the changes recently made at the departmental
level. Psych 910 and 911 are changed to 3 credit courses, and two advanced topics in
statistics are added (Psych 715).
4.
Psych 880-3 (practicum) will continue to be a requirement, so this does not represent a
change to our program. Students must complete a minimum of 400 hours of
supervised work in a clinical setting, but this can be satisfied by either one full-time
summer practicum or two part-time summer experiences.
5.
The Advanced Topics courses (Psych 806, 807, 808, 809) will be changed from 3
credit to
5
credit courses. This is changed to reflect more accurately the amount of
work demanded of students and instructors of these courses, which are a combination
of seminar and practicum experiences.
6.
Psych 824 will be moved from Year II to Year Ito facilitate progress on the MA
thesis. Psych 824 is the clinical research design course and students will be expected
to engage in research earlier in their training.
7.
Psych 819 (Ethics Professional) is moved from Year Ill to Year H, and will be
changed to a 3-credit course. The move to an earlier year is done so that students will
have take the ethics course before they are involved in training in clinical services. The
change to 3 credits was made to allow more time to cover the substantial amount of
literature on this topic, which includes both psychological and legal issues.
8.
A new course, Psych 825-2, has already been approved by the university. This is a
clinical practicum course that students will be required to take each semester during
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the first four years of the program. This course replaces the Psych 823 course that
students currently take in Year III and beyond.
9.
The electives can be taken from existing courses in the department or in other
departments in this university or at other universities. The elective courses include the
current advanced topics requirements. Students will be required to take one
assessment and one therapy course as part of their four elective courses. This change
will allow students more flexibility in course selection but does not involve the creation
of any new courses.
10.
A student completing the MA program and applying to the Ph.D. program must
include a proposal for their Ph.D. program (e.g., goals for doctoral work, specific
electives to be taken, area of research) as part of their application. Each student's
progress in the program will be evaluated by clinical faculty and will focus on a review
of the student's academic strengths. Remedial work, if necessary, might include
specific course requirements, literature reviews, or clinical experiences that would
need to be completed during doctoral training. This review process will ensure that
the student has completed a comprehensive program of study.
11.
Students may not apply for clinical internship until they have defended a dissertation
proposal. The reason for this change is to ensure that students have either completed
or will be near completion of their dissertation before leaving for internship. The
internship is a one-year full-time experience in a clinical setting, and the majority of
students leave the province to complete their internship. Our experience has been that
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students who have not completed their dissertation, or at minimum; have not
fini
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data collection prior to the internship, experience considerable difficulty getting their
dissertation research completed once they return from internship. This usually results
in substantial delay-of program completion. The new requirement should minimize this
difficulty and facilitate a more timely completion of the Ph.D. Thus, to apply for
internship to begin in Year V, students will need to complete this requirement by the
end of November of Year IV.
12. In the transition, current students can take the exams offered in the core clinical
courses in lieu of the current comprehensive examination.
Table. Proposed revisions to the clinical program
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IL
744-5
820/821-5
880-3 Practicum or
820/821-5
824-3
825-2
825-2
825-2
910-3
911-3
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770-5
822/823-5
880-3 Practicum (if
822/823-5
825-2
not completed in
825-2
602-5
Year I)
819-3
898 MA thesis
Elective-3/5
Elective-3/5
825-2
825-2
715-1.5
715-1.5
IV
Elective-3/5
Elective-3/5
899 Dissertation
Ph .D. Proposal
825-2
825-2
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Internship
Internship
Internship
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