S.97-38

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC

MEMORANDUM

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Senate

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Senate

Gagan,

Committee

Chair

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Department of English -

Graduate Curriculum Revisions

(SGSC Meeting Feb. 17, 1997)

(SCAP Reference: SCAP 97-16)

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 -38 , the curriculum revisions

in the Department of English."

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Graduate Program

Department of English

Calendar Change for the Ph.D. Field Exam

To replace this sentence in the SFTJ calendar (page 308)

FROM

The student may choose either to a) sit a four hour exam (closed book), or

b) take home the examination question and complete it within 7 days.

TO

The student will take home the examination question and complete the

paper within three days.

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Rationale

Students choosing the 4-hour option might inadvertently be judged by

criteria more fairly applying to the 7-day option. Students choosing this

option are likely to have domestic circumstances that make 7 days of quiet

impossible to arrange. Students could answer the question adequately

within three days and three days without interruption are more easy to

organize than seven.

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