S.96-48
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC ?
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
From: ?
D. Gagan, Chair
Senate Committe
Subject
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Department of Geography -
Calendar revision to Ph.D. Program
Date: ?
May 15, 1996
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate Committee
on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.96 - 48 , revision to Calendar entry
for the Ph.D. Program in Geography."
Motion:
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Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts?
MEMORANDUM
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To: ?
Bruce Clayman, Dean
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From:
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Andrea Lebowitz, Chair
Graduate Studies
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Faculty of Arts
Graduate
Studies Committee
Subject: Calendar Revision ?
Date: ?
8 February, 1996
Department of Geography
The Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee, at its meeting of 8 February,
1996, approved the attached calendar revision, submitted by the Department of
Geography.
Would you please place this item on the agenda of the next Senate Graduate
Studies Committee meeting.
Thank you.
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Andrea Lebowitz, Chair
Faculty
of Arts Graduate
Studies Committee
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Department of Geography?
MEMORANDUM
To: Andrea Lebowitz, Chair
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From:
Ian Hutchinson
Faculty of
Arts
Graduate Studies Committee
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Graduate Chair
Geography
Subject: Calendar revisions
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Date: February
07, 1996
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The Graduate Studies Committee of the
Department of Geography
voted unanimously in
favour of the attached calendar revision for the Ph.D. programme.
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Ph.D. PROGRAMME ALTERATION AND RATIONALE
Department of Geography
FROM:
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1995/6 Calendar (p. 290)
Thesis
Candidates successfully completing qualifying examinations will be
required to present a seminar on their research interests. The
seminar will be presented before interested faculty and students prior
to the presentation of a thesis proposal.
The candidate will present a thesis proposal which will be circulated
to faculty and resident graduate students. The candidate will present
this proposal at a departmental colloquium no later than the end of
the
fifth
semester of residence. In addition, and prior to the
completion of the thesis, the candidate will be expected to present
before interested faculty and students, a report on the progress of
his/her research. The timing of this report will be selected in
consultation with the candidate's Supervisory Committee.
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Thesis
Candidates successfully completing qualifying examinations will
present a thesis proposal which will be circulated to faculty and
resident graduate students. The candidate will present this proposal
at a departmental colloquium no later than the end of the fifth
semester of residence.
RATIONALE ?
The presentation of a seminar to the department was intended to
demonstrate breadth of research interests. Our experience has been,
however, that this requirement slows down progress in the
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development of a thesis proposal, which should be the candidate's
primary goal at this stage of the Ph.D. programme.
The progress report was intended to provide a forum forfeedback
prior to the Ph.D. defence. In the opinion of recent graduates,
however, it was felt that this report did not serve a useful function
and should be eliminated.
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