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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
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MEMORANDUM
To:
From:
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Date:
Senate
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M. Munro, Chair
Senate Committee on Academic Planning
School of Criminology
April 10, 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 -
30, the renumbering
of CRIM 870 and 871 and the
proposed
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CRIM 872-3 Selected Topics
CREM 873-3 Selected Topics."
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To: Andrea Lebowitz, Associate Dean of Arts
From: Bob Menzies, Criminology Graduate Director
Re:
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Proposed Revisions to Criminology Graduate Curriculum
Date: 16 December 1994
Attached is the revised proposal for the addition of Selected
Topics seminars to the School of Criminology's graduate
curriculum. This proposal was approved in meetings of the School
of Criminology Graduate Programs Committee and Faculty (on 29
• June and 14 July 1994 respectively), and it received provisional
Faculty of Arts authorization in the FAGSC meeting of 24 November
1994. The Library Course Assessment, which seems to be generally
favourable, has now been completed. I've enclosed the 2 December
1994 memorandum from Ralph Stanton, along with my reply of 16
December (offering some additional clarification, in particular
on the subject of projected seminar enrolments, which will be
considerably lower than envisioned in the library report).
Further, in response to suggestions from yourself and the FAGS
Committee, we've decided to scale back the original proposal,
such that we're now requesting the addition of only two, rather
than four, new selected topics offerings. The re-enumeration of
CRIM 870 and CRIM 871 will remain affected. When implemented, our
proposed amendment will modify the Calendar listings as follows
(1994-95 version, page 283)
Currently reads:
CRIM 870-3 Selected Topics
Concentrated studies in areas of student specialization.
CRIM 871-3 Directed Readings
Intensive readings under the supervision of a faculty
member, in areas of interest related to the student's
program.
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To be revised to:
CRIM 870-3 Directed Readings
Intensive readings under the supervision of a faculty
member, in areas of interest related to the student's
program.
CRIM 871-3 Selected Topics
CRIM 872-3 Selected Topics
CRIM 873-3 Selected Topics
Concentrated studies in areas of student specialization.
Once again, many thanks for your help with this proposal. If you
need any additional details, don't hesitate to get in touch
(phone 4763, fax 4140, email menzies@sfu.ca
).
With best regards.
C.C.
Neil Boyd, Director of Criminology
Aileen M. Sams, Criminology Graduate Assistant
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Calendar Information:
Department:
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Course Number: _
CRIM 870-3
Title: ?
Directed Readings
Intensive readings under the supervision of a faculty member, in areas
Description:
of interest related
to
the student's program.
Credit Hours: 3
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Vector:_03-0 Prerequisite(s) if
any:
None
Enrollment and
Scheduling:
Estimated Enrollment: _@5-10 When
will the course first be offered: _95-3
How often
will
the course be offered:
Ever
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semester
Justification:
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This represents the re-numbering of an already-existing..?
course (CRIM 871-3).
Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
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to
all
Criminology faculty
What are the- budgetary implications of mounting the course:
None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
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Yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to
give the course
c) Library resources
Approved:
Departmental Graduate Program C
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COURSE ALTERATION AND RATIONALE
SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
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Directed Readings CRIM 871-3
TO: ?
Directed Readings CRIM 870-3
RATIONALE: With the proposed addition of 2 new Selected
Topics seminars (CRIM 872-3 and 873-3), this re-
enumeration, along with the transposing of 870-3
to 871-3, will allow for the consecutive listing
of all three Selected Topics offerings.
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Calendar Information:
Department: ?
School of Criminology
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Course Number:
CRIM871-3
Title:
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Selected Topics
Description:
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Concentrated stidfe
in areas of student specialization
Credit Hours: _3
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Vector:
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Prerequisite(s) if any:
Enrollthent and Scheduling:
Estimated Enrollment: 5-10 Wien will th
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course first be. offerc.d:_953
per semester across all Selected Topics offerings
How often will the course be offered:_
One
to three Selected Topics offerings per
semester.
Justification: ?
This represents the re-numbering of a pre-existing course
(CRIM 870-3).
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Resources:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:fln t
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What are the
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the
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Date:_________
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COURSE ALTERATION AND RATIONALE
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SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
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Selected Topics CRIM 870-3
TO: ?
Selected Topics CRIM 871-3
RATIONALE: With the proposed addition of 2 new Selected
Topics seminars (CRIM 872-3 and 873-3), this re-
enumeration, along with the transposing of 871-3
to 870-3, will allow for the consecutive listing
of all three Selected Topics offerings.
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NEW GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information;
Department:
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Title:
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Selected Topics
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Description: ?
Concentrated studies in areas of student specialization.
Credit Hours:
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Vector: 0-3-0
Prerequisite(s) if any:
None
En.rollthert and
Scheduling-
Estimated Enrollment:
10-15
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will
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course first be offerc.d:
95-3
per semester across all Selected Topics offerings.
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semester.
Justification: This course, along with GRIM 873, is added to the curriculum to permit
greater flexibility of Selected Topics offerings in response to
student and faculty demand. See attached justification.
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Resources;
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
OpentoallCriminology faculty
What are the budgetary implicadons of mounting the course:
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Are there sufficient Library
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Yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indicaon of the competence of the Faculty member to
give
the. course
c)
Library resources
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Calendar
Information:
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Department:
School of Criminolo
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_Course Number: CRIM_873-3
Title:
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Selected Topics
Description:
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Concentrated studies in areas of student specialization..
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Credit Hours: _
3Vector: _03-O
Prerequisite(s) if
any: None
Enrolhiicnt and Scheduling:
Estimated Enrollment:
_10-15
Wen will the course first be offerc.d;
_95-3
per semester across all Selected Topics offerings. ?
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How often will the., course be offered:_
One
to three Selected Topics offerings per
semester.
Justification:
This course, along with CRIM 872, is added to the curriculum to
permit greater flexibility of Selected Topics offerings in
response to student and faculty demand. See attached justification.
Resources:
Which Faculty member will non-nally teach the course:_
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licaons of mou.nng the cou.rse:
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Are there sufficient Library resources
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_Yes
Appended:
a) Outline of the Course
b)
Au indication of the competence of the Faculty member
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c)
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Approved:
Departmental Graduate
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RATIONALE FOR NEW COURSE PROPOSALS
SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
CRIM 872-3
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Selected Topics
CRIM 873-3 ?
Selected Topics
Concentrated studies in areas of student specialization.
RATIONALE:
Over the course of the past several years, School of
Criminology faculty and graduate students alike have been
undergoing a considerable diversification of academic
background, theoretical perspective and substantive research
expertise. In our ongoing efforts to shape course offerings
to the academic needs of students, we find that our program
has been increasingly confined by our inability to offer
more than a single Selected Topics seminar in any given
semester. An ever-expanding number of our M.A. and Ph.D.
students are working in specialized disciplinary and inter-
disciplinary subject areas that cannot be entirely
accommodated by our five current "core d
course domains
• (Criminological Theory, Phenomena of Crime, Criminal Justice
Policy Analysis, Law and Social Control, Research Methods).
In addition, faculty interest in Selected Topics seminars
has correspondingly intensified, to the point where we are
now receiving an average of two or three ST outlines per
semester.
The addition to the calendar of these two proposed Selected
Topics iterations, then, would very much enhance our
programmatic versatility. We note, moreover, that various
other academic units have already adopted a multiple
Selected or Special Topics structure (there are, for
example, 12 ST courses in Education, 8 in Business
Administration, 7 in Computing Science, 6 in Physics, 4 in
Linguistics, 3 each in Kinesiology, Economics and Biological
Sciences, and two each in Engineering Science, Women's
Studies, and History). In all instances, the mounting of
courses in the CRIM 870-3 to 873-3 sequence will continue to
be subject to the prior review and authorization of our
Graduate Programs Committee.
We don't anticipate any additional imposed burden on
faculty, library or other resources. First, in general we
expect the mounting of two or three Selected Topics
offerings per semester (i.e. CRIM 871, 872 and 873) will
involved an aggregate enrolment of only 10-15 students.
. Second, it is important to stress that total registrations
will not be affected,—as Selected Topics seminars will be
chosen by students in lieu of other optional calendar
listings within an overarching structure of degree
requirements that remains unaltered. Third, faculty offer
these courses on a voluntary "availability-demand" basis,
beyond their normal obligatory teaching load, with pro-rated
accumulation of credit that can be ultimately applied to
course relief in subsequent semesters (2 student seminar =
1/3 course credit; 3-5 student seminar = 1/2 course credit).
Fourth and finally, given the low enrolments (almost never
more than 3-5 per seminar), the majority of readings and
other course materials can be assembled and distributed
among participants and instructor without further stressing
our university library resources.
Selected Topics subject areas and seminar content will of
course be changing on a semester-by-semester basis. We
expect to witness the inclusion of several other seminar
topics during the coming two years, reflecting the myriad
and multi-disciplinary interests of Criminology faculty and
students, and including, among others, courses on feminism,
law and the state; global criminality; environmental crime;
law and mental disorder; and aboriginal justice. Five
illustrations of Selected Topics seminars previously
approved by our GPC under under the CRIM 870-3 listing are
appended hereto for the information of reviewers and
committees.
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Bruce Clayman, 6 Mar 11:45 -0..., library expenses
From: Bruce Clayman <clayman>
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Subject: library expenses
To: mcgixul (Marian McGinn)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 11:45:46 -0800 (PST)
Cc: alderson (Evan Alderson)
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Marian, please include this message with the material going to the
SGSC on Faculty of Arts Curriculum changes:
Bruce Clayman
>From Evan_Alderson@sfu.ca
Mon Mar 6 11:16:14 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 11:16:09 -0800
To: Bruce_Clayman@sfu.ca
Subject: library expenses
I will cover the library costs for graduate curriculum changes in Geography
and Criminology fas put forward to the Senate Graduate Studies Committee by
Andrea Lebowitz.
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