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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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J. M. Munro, Chair
Senate Committee on Academic Planning
Subject: ?
Graduate Calendar Revisions - Liberal Studies
Date:
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February 13, 1995
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.95 - 17 / the calendar changes to the
Master in Liberal Studies Program including
New course LS 999 - 0 M.A. Project."
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COURSE ALTERATION AND RATIONALE
(PLEASE USE THIS FORM FOR THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:
Change of Title, Change of Course Description,
Change of Credit Hour, Change of Vector,
Change of Prerequisite, Change in Requirements for Graduate Program, etc.)
PROGRAM IN LIBERAL STUDIES
1.
Under 'Degree requirements' at the end of the first sentence of para. I (p. 296
of current calendar) change 'and to submit two Extended Essays for oral
examination' to 'and to submit
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two extended essays or one project :
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2.
After the first sentence of para. 2 of 'Degree Requirements' insert 'The Project,
which may make significant use of non-written media, will also be developed
from work done in the courses.'
3.
In para. 5 change 'Director of the Program' to 'Chair of the Graduate Program
Committee.'
4.
In para 5 change 'extended essays' to 'extended essays or project.'
RATIONALE:
Change #1: The diversity of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs across North
America whose one common quality is their interdisciplinary nature, makes it clear
that there is no single 'right' way to end the student's experience in a Liberal Studies
program. Some programs require one or more extended essays, others require a
thesis and still others, such as N.Y.U., Duke Univ. and CUNY Graduate School,
allow for the possibility of a project - something which has always been envisaged as
a possibility for the program at S.F.U. Our program, now in its fourth year, has
students who are completing their work and several of these have expressed the
wish to do a project rather than the two extended
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essays. We therefore request that
the students be given this option.
Change #2: The reference to non-print media is intended to open up possibilities for
the Project rather than to restrict them. Projects consisting of a single prose (or
poetry, presumably) work are not meant to be excluded. Rather we simply would
point out to the students that there are other possibilities they might want to
consider.
Change #3: This is simply to bring the practice in the Program in Graduate Liberal
Studies into line with that elsewhere in the University. (Up until this term the
Director of the Program in Graduate Liberal Studies was also serving as Chair of the
Graduate Program Committee, but now there is a separate person for this latter role.'
Change #4: Change necessitated by #1.
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NEW GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information:
Department Program in Liberal Studies
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Course #: 999 - 0
Title: MA Project
Description: This course is for students choosing to satisfy part of the requirements for an M.A. in Liberal
Studies by presenting a Project for formal examination.
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Credit Hrs: 0
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Vector- LS 999 MA Project
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Prerequisite(s), if any: None
Enrollment and Scheduling:
Estimated Enrollment:
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When will the course
first
be offered:SU
95.
How often will the course be offered: Each term
Justification:
The intent of this change is to rationalize the calendar entries, in view of the proposed
change in the regulations allowing the student to submit
a
fi nalpr o j ect
in lieu of two
extended essays
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Resources
Which Faculty member will usually teach the course: NA
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient library resources (append details): NA (but statement from Librarian attached).
Appended: ?
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Outline of the course NA
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An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to
give the course NA
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Library resources Approved:Yes
Departmental Graduate Committee:.
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RATIONALE FOR NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
Program in Liberal Studies
LS 999-0 ?
(MA
PROJECT; 999, -)
RA11ONALE
The intent of this change is to rationalize the calendar entries in view of the proposed
change in the regulations (see accompanying documents) allowing the student to submit a
final project in lieu
of two
extended essays.
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>Library Collections
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>> Dear Ralph,
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In the Graduate Liberal Studies Program we wish to introduce a
>> course 'LS 999 M.A. Project', which would simply be a number under which
>> our students working on a project rather than two extended essays could
>> register. The project would consist of Independent work on a topic approve
>> by the student's supervisory committee which would normally involve
>> non-print media in some substantial way. We need a note from you saying
>> that this has no library implications, so if you could send me such a note
>> I would be grateful. (If you have any questions I will he at 3666 until
>> about 10:30 a.m. today and at 5158 in the afternoon.)
>> Thanks, Len
>> Dr. J. L. Berggren
>> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
>> Simon Fraser University
>> Burnaby, B.C. Canada VSA 1S6
>>
>> Phones:
>> 604-291-3666 (Office); 3331 (Messages Only); 4947 (Fax)
>> 604-936--2268 (Home)
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Dr. J. L. Berggren
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 156
To:
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Andrea _Lebowitz@sfu.ca
Cc: ?
stanton@sfu.ca
Bcc:
From: ?
Len_Berggren@sfu.ca
Sub j
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Re: library approval
Date:
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Thursday, November 10, 199416:44:36 PST
Attach:
Certify: ?
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Forwarded by:
Andrea, I'm forwarding this message from the Library re the new course
proposal. I hope it is sufficient. If there is any probeim let rue know.
Thanks, Len
>From: Ralph Stanton <stanton>
>Subject: Re:library approval
>To: Len_Berggren@sfu.ca
>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 14:48:54 70800 (PST)
>Cc: sthomas (Sharon Thomas)
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>Dear Len:
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>There are no Library costs relating to the course LS 999.
>Regards,

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