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S.94-42
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
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From:
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Senate
Osborne,
Committee
Acting
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Academic Planning
Subject: ?
Faculty of Education -
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Date:
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May 19, 1994
Graduate Curriculum Revisions
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
the curriculum revisions for the Faculty of Education as set forth in S. 94 -42as
follows:
i)
Credit change from three hours to five hours for EDUC 874
ii)
Varied credit hours for Special Topics Courses, EDUC 710-714 and
EDUC 720-724
For Information
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, the SGSC has approved the following course
revisions:
Prerequisite changes for EDUC 873-5, EDUC 871-5, EDUC 867-5 and EDUC 863-5.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
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MEMORANDUM
To: Bruce Clayman
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From: Mike Manley-Casimir
Dean of Graduate Studies
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Director,Graduate Programs
Subject: SCGS Agenda
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Date: March
4,
1994
The Faculty of Education approved the following at recent Faculty
meetings:
1. EDUC
873-5
Vocational Counselling and EDUC 87
1-5
Family Counselling
Prerequisite changes.
2.
EDUC 874-3 Counselling Skills and Strategies
Credit change.
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3. Special Topics Courses (EDUC 710-714 and EDUC 720-724)
Varied credit option. Dr. B. Clayman provided executive
approval to use varied credit for 94-2 semester(March 2/94). Dr.
Clayman will write a memo recommending the future use of the
varied credit for the SCGS.
4. EDUC 8
67-5
Qualitative Methods in Educational Research and
EDUC
863-5
Quantitative Methods in Educational Research.
Prerequisite changes.
Please include these on the agenda of the next meeting of the Senate
Committee on Graduate Studies.
cc: Stan Kanehara, Assistant to the Dean, Education
Marian McGinn,Assistant Director, Graduate Records, Registrars
Karen Kirkland, Assistant to the Director, Graduate Programs,
Education
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Faculty of
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
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GRADUATE PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
1.
Educ 873-5 Vocational Counselling
Prerequisite change
from : Prerequisite: Educ 811 or equivalent, consent of instructor
to: ?
No prerequisite
Rationale: ?
The first practicum is not essential to the course as it is now
taught.
2.
Educ 871-5 Family Counselling
• Prerequisite change
from: Prerequisite: Educ 811 or consent of the instructor
to: ?
No prerequisite
Rationale: ?
The first practicum is not essential to the course as it is now
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Re: Educ 874-3 Counselling Skills and Strategies
Increasing the credits assigned to Educ 874 from 3 to
5
credits.
The request to change the credits from 3 to 5 is based on the following:
1.
Education 874 (Counselling Skills and Strategies) is the only course that
students in the Masters in Counselling program take in order to learn
and practise counselling skills prior to entering the counselling
practicum (Education 811-5 Fieldwork
D.
The 36 hours currently
provided for 874 are not adequate to teach the students these skills
give adequate opportunity to apply in the classroom with feedback from
the instructor. Nor is the time adequate to include coverage of
additional important topics such as the application of the counselling
skills to particular common problems that students face in the practicum
(e.g. depression, family violence).
2.
One of the reasons that 874 has "worked" as a three credit offering for the
last few years is that the GFA in the counselling program voluntarily
extended the course with weekly meetings for interested students in the
term following 874. It should be noted that the majority of the students
took advantage of this additional time and that they were more skilled
and prepared for their practicum.
Education 874 is a crucial foundation course in the counselling
program that, presently, does not allow adequate time to prepare
students for the practicum. In addition, Educ 874 has been extended on a
voluntary basis in the past, thus the change proposed is making official
what has been practised informally in the past.
Calendar change: Education 874-3 changed to Education 874-5.
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Proposal to change Graduate Special Topics Courses to a Varied Credit
Option
Currently the graduate course numbers for Special Topics courses have specific credit
assigned to each course. Educ 710 - Educ 714 are 3 credits
Educ 720 - Educ 724 are
5
credits
The 94 summer programming requires eight Special Topics courses at
5
credits each.
Currently Graduate Programs does not have the capacity to meet that need.
This situation occurred in Undergraduate Programs some years ago and was solved by
approving a calendar change to allow each Special Topics course to have varied credit
assigned each semester of offering. The credit was approved and assigned for each new
course through the Program Committee.
Proposed Calendar Entry::
EDUC 710-3,4, or
5
EDUC 711-3,4, or
5
EDUC 712-3,4, or
5
EDUC 713-3A or
5
EDUC 714-3,4, or
5
EDUC 720-3,4, or
5
EDUC 721-3,4, or
5
EDUC 722-3,4, or
5
EDUC 723-3,4, or
5
EDUC 724-3,4, or
5
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Special Topics
Credit to be assigned, on a semester basis,
upon approval of the Graduate Programs Committee.
APPROVED BY GPC ON FEB 8/94
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Simon Fraser University
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GPC 93-48
Memorandum
To:
To: ?
Faculty Colleagues ?
From: ?
Mike Manley-Casimir
Re: ?
Changes in Prerequisites for
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Date: ?
September 29, 1993
Graduate Research Methods Courses
Following consultation with colleagues, I wish to propose the addition of the attached prerequisites.
EDUC
863-5
Quantitative Methods in
Educational Research
Focus on critical analysis of quantitative research in
education. Research studies examined will be based on
exploratory and confirmatory data analysis, including
group comparisons and correlations. Students will use
calculators and computers for data analysis and display.
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103 or
eauivalent.
Delete existing prerequisite.
Add Prerequisite: EDUC 864.
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EDUC 864-5 Research Designs in Education
Designing and interpreting research about education.
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No Change.
Introduction to survey techniques, correlational designs,
classic experimental and evaluation designs for
investigating causal relations, case study methods,
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interpretive approaches to research.
Students with credit
for EDUC 814 may not take this course for further
credit.
EDUC 865-5 Advanced Topics in
Educational Data Analysis
Advanced methods for analyzing multivariate data in
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No Change.
educational research: concepts which underlie methods;
frailties in methods and means for identifying them in
analyses; using mainframe and microcomputer programs
and interpreting output from them. Illustrations from
educational research are used throughout.
Prerequisites:
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864 and
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or
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their eauivalents.
EDUC 866-5 Advanced Qualitative Research
in Education
Students will study in depth various qualitative -
methodological approaches to educational research, will
develop competence to contribute significantly to
knowledge in their particular field of study, and will
engage in intensive practice of various methodological
approaches to qualitative research introduced in EDUC
Add; Prerequisite: EDUC 867 and 864.
EDUC
867-5
Qualitative Methods in
Educational Research
This course introduces students to qualitative research in
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Add: Prerequisite: EDUC 864.
education and examines topics such as identifying
problems, using conceptual frameworks, coding, data
analysis, drawing interpretations, and constructing
arguments.
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SIMON FRASER uNiVERSITY
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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Memorandum
TO:
Mr. B... Heath
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FROM: B.P.
Clayman
Secretary of SenaW
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Dean of Graduate Studies
SUBJECT:
EDUC Special Topics Courses
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DATE: May 21,1994
At its meeting of May 18, SCAP approved and recommended to Senate a proposal that Education
Special Topics courses EDUC 710 through 714 and EDUC 720 through 724 be changed from a
fixed number of credit hours (3 and
5
respectively), to variable credit hours ranging from 3 to
5.
The actual number of credit hours would be assigned by the Education Graduate Program
Committee prior to each offering, based on the specific requirements of the particular Special
Topics course offered. The extremely lengthy discussion at the SCAP meeting suggests to me
that a more complete written rationale for the proposal might be useful.
Under SIMON, the Registrar's computer system, a particular course number can be used only
once in each semester. This includes Special Topics courses, which appear on the student's tran-
script with the actual topic of the course as the title of the course (not "Special Topics"). Among
the over 300 graduate students in Education, there are, in some semesters, more students wishing
to take Special Topics courses than can be accommodated by the present five three-credit course
labels and five five-credit course labels; in addition, the option of providing four-credit courses is
desired.
There are clearly two ways to 'work around' this limitation of the computer system and provide
the desired range of options - that is: ten courses whose credit hours range from three to five:
• create twenty more Special Topics courses to end up with thirty courses: ten with three cred-
its, ten with four and ten with five, or
• stick with the present ten courses and allow variable credit to be assigned.
Education, wisely in my opinion, chose the latter option. It is the model already followed in a
number of undergraduate courses, including Special Topics courses EDUC 486 through 489 -
(3,4 or 6).
I hope that Senate finds this information useful.
MMY2 1HEADOC 21-May-94
