S.97-37
S
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
MEMORANDUM
To: ?
Senate
From: ?
D.
Senate
Gagan,
Committee
Chair
on
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Academic P1annitg
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School of Criminology -
Graduate Curriculum Revisions
(SGSC Meeting Feb. 17, 1997)
(SCAP Reference: SCAP 97-15)
Date:
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March 14, 1997
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 as set forth in S.97 - 37 , the curriculum revisions
in the School of Criminology."
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COURSE ALTERATION AND RATIONALE
Change in Requirements for Graduate M.A.
Program)
SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
FROM:
Degree Requirements:
Candidates for an MA degree must complete the following requirements.
take a minimum of eighteen (18) semester hours of course work consisting of
• Research Methods 1(3 semester hours)
• either Research Methods 11(3 semester hours) or Research Methods ifi
(3 semester hours)
• Theories of Crime 1(3 semester hours)
• Proseminar (3 semester hours)
• at least six (6) hours selected from additional graduate curriculum offerings
• satisfactory completion and oral defence of an original MA thesis
The thesis will not normally be more than 100 pages in length, including bibliography
and footnotes, but exclusive of appendices.
TO:
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Degree Requirements:
Candidates for an MA degree must complete the following requirements.
• take a minimum of eighteen (18) semester hours of course work consisting of
Research Methods I (CRIM 860)
AND ONE OF
• Research Methods 11 (CRIM 861),
• Research Methods ifi
(CRIM 862), or
• Research Methods
W
(CRJM 863)
PLUS
• Theories of Crime 1(3 semester hours)
• Proseminar (3 semester hours)
• at least six (6) hours selected from additional graduate curriculum offerings
• satisfactory completion and oral defence of an original MA thesis
The thesis will not normally be more than 100 pages in length, including bibliography
and footnotes, but exclusive of appendices.
RATIONALE:
Students and faculty have always assumed that M.A. students were required to take
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CRilvi 860 and one of the other three methods courses (CRIM 861, 862 or 863), rather
than one of CRIIvI 861 or 862. Part of the confusion likely arises from the numbering of
courses.
