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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC ?
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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J.
M. Munro, Chair
Senate Committee on Academic Planning
Subject:
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Revisions to Science 010
Date: ?
March 13, 1995
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 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
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the changes to SCI 010 - Contemporary Topics in the
Natural Sciences."
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To: A. Heath
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From: C.H.W. Jones, Dean
Secretary to Senate
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Faculty of Science
Subject:
Science 010
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Date: March 9, 1995
The proposed revisions to the course SCI 010 were approved by SCAP at its
meeting on February 8, 1995 contingent on the Faculty of Science approving the
changes. These changes, namely that the course would be assigned variable credit of
one, two or three credit hours and that the course should not be restricted to non-
specialists in science, were approved at the Faculty of Science meeting on February
28, 1995.
We have now incorporated these changes into a revised calendar entry for
Scl 010.
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The calendar entry under General Education Courses for the Faculty of Science be
changed from:
General Education Courses
Several courses have been designed with no prerequisite structure and are meant to convey a broad
perspective of scientific outlook to students who are non-specialists in science. These courses are as
follows.
Science
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010-3 Contemporary Topics in the Natural Sciences (This course may be offered
by any of the Science departments.)
Biological Sciences
BISC 003-3 Ecology and the Population Explosion
004-3 Apiculture: An introduction to Bees and Beekeeping
105-3 Biology and the Human Species
Chemistry
CHEM 003-3 Chemistry, Technology and Society
004-3 Pollution, Energy and Resources
General Education Courses
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Several courses have been designed with no prerequisite structure and are meant to convey a broad
perspective of scientific outlook to students who are non-specialists in science. These courses are as
follows.
Biological Sciences
BISC 003-3 Ecology and the Population Explosion
004-3 Apiculture: An Introduction to Bees and Beekeeping
105-3 Biology and the Human Species
Chemistry
CHEM 003-3 Chemistry, Technology and Society
004-3 Pollution, Energy and Resources
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In addition, a course is offered on forefront, interdisciplinary topics in contemporary science.
SCI ?
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Contemporary Topics in the Natural Sciences
This coursemay be offered for one, two or three units of credit and a student may acquire a
maximum of 3 credit hours for the course. This course may be offered by any of the Science departments
or may be team-taught by faculty members from across the Faculty.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To: R. Heath,
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From: C.H.W. Jones, Dean
Secretary to SCUS
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Faculty of Science
Subject: Science 010
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Date: December 13, 1994
A very recent report by a Task Force in the Faculty of Science has
recommended that we offer a special topics course in first year as enrichment for our
entering students.
Presently, the Faculty has a course approved and in the Calendar, Science
010-3 Contemporary Topics in the Natural Sciences. We would like to be able to offer
this course as a variable credit course, the credit to be determined by the content in a
given semester. Typically, the course would be offered as a one, two or three credit
elective and would then involve one, two or three lectures per week, coupled with a
variety of additional activities outside the classroom. The course would be graded and
the grade would be assigned on the basis of term papers.
In any one course several topics would be covered and these would be
forefront, interdisciplinary science topics which could be anticipated to generate a high
level of student interest; e.g., the information highway; alternative energy sources;
AIDS; periodic catastrophes - the death of the dinosaurs, etc.
Enrolment in the course would be limited to Ca. 80 students.
That SCI 010, Contemporary Topics in the Natural Sciences, be assigned
variable credit of one, two or three credit hours depending on the content in a given
semester.
In the Faculty of Science Calendar Entry under General Education Courses
(p. 150), the phrase "...to students who are non-specialists in science", should be
removed in connection with the SCI 010 entry.
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Revised March 9, 1995.
