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SIMON
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UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Senate
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FROM:
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J. Munro
Chair, Senate
Cttee on Academic
Planning
SUBJECT: Graduate Curriculum Revisions -
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DATE:
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November 20, 1990
Faculty of Arts
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning and the Senate
Graduate Studies Committee, gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION: "that Senate approve and recommend approval to the
Board of Governors, as set forth in S.91-5 graduate
curriculum revisions in the Faculty of Arts as follows:
i)
S.91-5a ?
School of Criminology
ii)
S.91-5b ?
Department of Economics
iii) S.91-5c ?
Department of Geography
iv)
S.91-5d
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Department of Linguistics
v) S.91-5e ?
Department of Political Science"
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School of Criminology
Summary of Graduate Curriculum Revisions
SGSC Reference: Mtg. of November 26, 1990
SCAP Reference: SCAP 90-60
1. ?
Revision to course work requirements for doctoral students
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e.g.
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J99O - 1 1
MEMORANDUM?
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
DATE: ?
1 October 1990
TO:
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Faculty
FROM: ?
John Lowman
SUBJECT: Graduate Program Calendar Changes
I learned at a_
recent _meeting of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee that the
dëãdliifor gradte
(rather than early in October as has usually been the case). This gives us a unique
opportunity to make some Calendar changes which would come into effect
reasonably quickly (i.e. by Fall 1991).
The purpose of this memo is to suggest one change that could be discussed, and
perhaps even approved, at the next Faculty meeting (October 11th). In considering
this change, it is important to remember that we are about to initiate discussion
about a variety of possible changes to the doctoral program. The change I am
• proposing here would not be cast in stone and ma
y
well require furthc modifitio1
depending on the kinds of changes that we implement after a review of the program
as a whole. My purpose in proposing this interim modification is to rationalize the
program as it currently stands, and as it will remain in the academic year 1991-1992
(whatever other changes we want to institute will not get into the Calendar until
1992 at the earliest).
The calendar change I am proposing concerns the requirement described in the
University Calendar that a doctoral student must take a minimum of 30 hours of
course work consisting of:
a)
Research Methods I and II
b)
both levels (I and II) in two of the other four core areas (12 semester
hours)
c)
at least twelve (12) hours selected from additional curriculum offerings
d)
satisfactory completion and or defence of an original Ph.D. thesis
Note: Theories of Crime I is mandatory and must be taken under category b)
or c) above.
It is item (b) in this list that is causing us logistical problems. The reason quite
simply is that we have not found a way of offering enough courses to allow students
to satisfy the requirement. For example, in the case of both Phenomena of Crime
and Criminal Justice Policy Analysis, we have offered only one course in each area
in the two year cycle beginning in September 1989. And given that Crim 831 was
cancelled because of lack of enrollment, the same applies to Law and Social
Control. The result is that it has been impossible for Doctoral students who entered
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the program in 1989 to meet requirement (b)! The only solution has been to treat
reading courses as core area equivalents. We are not likely to solve the problem by
better scheduling -- at least, we have not done so in the past (despite a very
deliberate attempt to do so).
My proposal is that we modify b) and c) in the following way:
Candidates for the
Ph.D.
(Criminology) must take a minimum of 30 hours of
course work consisting of:
a)
Research Methods I and II (6 semester hours)
b)
Theories of Crime I (3 semester hours)
c)
at least twenty-one (21) hours selected from additional
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curriculum
offerings
d)
satisfactory completion and oral defence of an original Ph.D. thesis
In considering this change, note that we do not require that the comprehensives be
taken in those core areas in which a student has completed levels I and II (although
I imagine that this has been the accepted practice).
With thanks for your attenion
Lowest.
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S.91-5b
Department of Economics
Summary of Graduate Curriculum Revisions
SGSC Reference: Mtg. of November 26, 1990
SCAP Reference: SCAP 90-61
1.
New course - ECON 798-4
2.
Change of title and description - ECON 861-4
3.
Revisions to the M.A. Program - Degree Requirements, Core Course Work
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
?
MEMORANDUM
TO: Sheila Roberts
?
FROM: ?
Terry Heaps
Administrative Assistant
?
Graduate Chair
Dean of Arts
?
Dept. of Economics
RE: Calendar Changes 1991-92 DATE:
?
October 24, 1990
The Graduate Curriculum Committee of the Department of Economics, at the meeting
held on June 18, 1990, approved the following:
I.
NEW GRADUATE COURSE
Introduction of a new graduate course:
ECON 798-4 - Introduction to Mathematical Economics
Applications of static optimization in microeconomics. Applications of
matrix algebra in comparative statics. Uses of differential and
difference equations in dynamic economic models.
RATIONALE;
The mathematics requirements of our graduate courses have increased to the point
where they are no longer adequately covered by the course ECON 331-5. This course
will remedy that deficiency.
II.
COURSE CHANGE
2. ?
Changing ECON 861-4 as follows:
FROM:
ECON 861-4 - Resource Development and Conservation
This course is primarily one of applied economics dealing with topics
of natural resources and environmental quality. This involves the
application of economic theory to natural resource management
problems with a view to assessing existing and alternative resource
management policies with emphasis on problems of social choice.
Topics will include benefit-cost analysis, economics of preservation,
pricing of natural services and economics of alternative pollution
control strategies.
OFFICE OF THE DEAN
. ?
OCTZO,990
FACULI OF ARTS /
TO:
ECON 861-4 - Natural Recource Economics
Basic issues of intertemporal valuations, The economic theory of
natural resource management for nonrenewable resources, fisheries and
forests. The effects of market structure and taxation on inter-temporal
supply patterns will be considered.
RATIONALE:
The change is to distinguish this course from the course in "Environmental
Economics" which we plan to introduce at a later date.
III. OTHER CHANGES
1. ?
Changing the calendar entry under M.A. Program, Degree Requirements, Core
Course Work, Page 239:
a)
FROM:
The requirements regarding mathematical economics will be met by completing
the undergraduate course ECON 331-5 (no graduate credit). Since the latter course
is a prerequisite to all required graduate courses, incoming graduate students are
normally required to enrol in it in the first term, or to pass a preannounced
screening examination on the material covered in it.
TO: ?
%The requirements regarding mathematical economics may be met by satisfactorily
completing the course ECON 798-4. This course is in addition to
the normal course requirements required for the M.A. degree. Alternatively, students
may satisfy this requirement by passing a preannounced screening examination on the
material covered in this course or by challenging the course. This examination will
normally be written In the first week of the semester of entry into the program.
Grading for ECON 798-4 is restricted to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U).
RATIONALE:
la) The change is needed to explain the purpose of the course ECON 798-4.
b)
FROM:
Students with an inadequate background in microeconomics may be required to
take ECON 799-4 (no graduate credit). The requirements regarding macroeconomics
may be met by completing either ECON 805-4 or ECON 806-4.
TO:
The requirements regarding macroeconomics may be met by completing either
ECON 805-4 or ECON 806-4. Students with an inadequate background in either
microeconomics or macroeconomics may be required to take undergraduate courses (no
graduate credit) in these subjects before attempting either ECON 802-3 or ECON
805-4.
RATIONALE:
The change is needed to clarify the manner in which deficiencies in
microeconoinics or macroeconomics are normally made up.
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Cotmntt
Faculty Graduate Stud lea Co!tm[ttee:
Sente
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Senate:
SI-(OI FRASER W4LVF.SttY
New Gradtiace Course Pronosal 17orm
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CALENDAR INFORMATION: ?
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Department:
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Economics
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Course
Nwnber:
ECON
798
Title: Introduction to Mathematical Economics
Description: Applications of static optimization techniques, matrix
algebra, differential and difference equations in economic models;:
Credit Hours:
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4_.,....__VectorLi _-.
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Prerequisite(s) if any:
ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
15
_
20 ?
Wb*n wtII
the course fir-it he offered: September
1991
How often wfllTiie course bferdO
Year
JUStIFICATION:
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em
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gradua
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re_flQ1ririeqUelY_cqvere&.y_the
course
ECON 331-5.
This coarse
will
remedy that deficiency.
RESOURCES:
Which Faculty in nbervili norrnnUy teach the course:
-
Terence M. Heap
What are the bidctary implications of mounting the course: None
Are there sufficient Library resources (aonend detaith):'{es
Appanded: a) Outline of the Course'
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to
give
the course.
c)
Library reotircs
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Date: ?
jR
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Date:
I)
Date:
flate:
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
New Graduate Course Proposal
ECON 798-4
?
Introduction to Mathematical Economics
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Applications of static optimization in microeconomics.
Applications of matrix algebra in comparative statics. Uses
of differential and difference equations in dynamic economic
mode is.
COURSE OUTLINE:
The course is designed to provide incoming graduate
students with the mathematical tools they will need in their
other economics courses. An emphasis will be put on the
applications of these tools in economics. Topics to be
covered will include the following:
1.
Unconstrained single and multiple variable
optimization (example to include OLS).
2.
Constrained optimization with equality
constraints.
3.
Basic ideas of continuity and differentiability.
4.
Total differentials, implicit functions, implicit
function theorem, implicit derivatives.
5.
Concavity, quasiconcavity, separability.
6.
Matrix algebra including characteristic values and
quadratic forms and applications to second order
conditions and comparative statics.
7.
Integration, differential and difference
equations.
8.
Dynamic optimization.
9.
Constrained optimization with inequality
constraints, Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
New Graduate Course Proposal
Calendar Information
Page 2
TEXTBOOKS:
Alpha C. Chiang, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical
Economics, McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition, 1984
Peter J. Lambert, Advanced Mathematics for Economists,
Basil Blackwell, 1985
REFERENCES:
Avinash K. Dixit, Optimization in Economic Theory, 2nd
Edition, Oxford University Press, 1990
Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, Methods and
. ?
Models, 2nd Edition, North-Holland, 1980
Hugh Grevelle and Ray Rees, Microeconomics, Longman,
1981
Michael D. Intrilligator, Mathematical Optimization and
Economic Theory, Prentice-Hall, 1971
Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L.
Schwartz,
Dynamic
Optimization: The Calculus of Variations and Optimal
Control in Economics and Management, North-Holland,
1981
Ronald E. Miller, Dynamic Optimization and Economic
Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1979
Eugene Silberberg, The Structure of Economics: A
Mathematical Analysis, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1990
Treace M. Heaps has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Berkeley)
and a Ph.D. in Economics (UBC). His research interests
include natural resource economics, regional economics
and mathematical economics. He has published a number
Of articLes involving mathematical modelling in
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forestry economics and the taxation of non-renewable
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uatur.:ul resources.
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S.91-5c
Department of Geography
Summary of Graduate Curriculum Revisions
SGSC Reference: Mtg. of November 26, 1990
SCAP Reference: SCAP 90-62
1.
New course - GEOG 795-4
2.
Change of title - GEOG 708-4
.
S
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New Graduate Course Proposal Form
CALENDAR INFORMATION:
Department:-Geography
?
Course Number:_____________
W
Title:
?
Selected Topics in Geography
Description ?
Specialised Graduate Course on Faculty Research-Related Topics
Credit Hours:
4 ? Vector: ?
Prerequisite(s) if any:
ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:.
Estimated Enrollment:5 - 10
?
When will the course first be offered:Fall 1990
Row often will the course be offered:
?
On Demand (once each 12ear)
JUSTIFICATION:
Presently there is no general course which can be identified by specific
•
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title on a graduate student's transcript; this change will correct
the problem.
rttnt'tC
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
?
All Research Facult
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course:None
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
?
N/A
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
?
Attached
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to give the course. N/A
c)
Library resources
?
N/A
Approved:
S
____Date:
H'
Da te:
----Date
Date:
Departmental Graduate Studies Con!mitt
Faculty Graduate Studies Committee:_
Faculty:_
Pr_
Senate Graduate Studies Commttee:2
Senate:
Simon Fraser University
?
Geography 795-4
Ian Hutchinson
SELECTED TOPICS IN GEOGRAPHY
(Sample Outline)
Biogeography of Temperate Rain Forests
W
tjiiET1Ifl1
This course examines the distribution and character of temperate rain forests,
with particular reference to North American examples. Readings will be
discussed in weekly two-hour seminars.
Grades
Seminar participation
?
20%
Review paper
?
60%
Research Design paper 20%
The review paper will examine a topic or combination of topics from the range of
themes examined in the course (listed below). The research design paper will
identify a significant research question arising from the review paper and
outline a viable research protocol for the examination of this question.
Topic
s
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1. ?
Templates: Environments of the Temperate Rain Forest
(2 weeks)
?
2. ?
Origins: Tertiary Forests of North and South America
(1 week)
?
3. ?
Histories: The Temperate Rain Forest in the Pleistocene
(2 weeks)
?
4. ?
Status: Habitat Fragmentation and Loss in the Post-Settlement Period
(1 week)
?
5. ?
Biogeography of Dominant Forest Species
(1 week)
?
6.
?
Plant Community Structure
(1 week)
?
7. ?
Plant Community Dynamics
(2 weeks)
?
8. ?
Island Biogeography Theory and the Fragmented Forest
(1 week)
?
9.
?
Animals of the Temperate Rain Forest
(1 week)
io. ?
Community Energetics and Nutrient Cycling
(1 week)
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
is ?
John Ekstedt
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From
.....
.
a
io.
?
Chair, Faculty of Arts GSC
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Chair, Geography GSC
Subject.
New and ?
Courses
?
Date. .
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"
lay 18/ 1990
Please append the following request for calendar changes to the
agenda for the ay 24th meeting of the Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies
Committee:
- _NeCourse: Geog7 95-4 SelectedT.opic
.
s
.
in Geography' ?
-- -
?
--
Revised Course Title:
/
From "Geog 708-4: Ideas and Methodology in the History.
of Geography"
•To: ?
"Geog 708-4: Geographic Ideas and Methodology" ?
I
Please see attached Course Proposal Forms for details.
Sincerely
Ian Hutchinson
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New Graduate
Course
Proposal
Form
CALENDAR INFORMATION:
Department:
?
Geography
?
. ?
Course Number: 10
, 9 -
Title:
Geographic
Ideas and
Methodology
Description:
An
analysis of major methodologies and Philosoohies
employed in geographical research.
Credit Hours:
?
Vector: _Prerequisite(s) if any:_____
.
ENROLLMT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
6
?
When will the course first be offered:91-3
How often will the course be offered:
?
once per year
JUSTIFICATION:
To introduce students to some of the critical conceptual elements of methodologies
and
philosophies
used in the social
and natural
sciences, and to place these within
the context of recent developments in geographical research.
Ll
RESOURCES:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course: John Brohman Michael Hayes
What
are the budgetary implications of
mounting
the course:
No extra resources need to be allocated.
Are there sufficient Library resources (appet
Appended:
a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the competence
c)
Library resources
(
-j
o give the course.
Approved: Departmental
Graduate Studies
Cotmnitt
Faculty Graduate Studies Committee:
Faculty:
Senate Graduate Studies Committee
Senate:
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S-91-5d
Department of Linguistics
Summary of Graduate Curriculum Revisions
SGSC Reference: Mtg. of November 26, 1990
SCAP Reference: SCAP 90-63
1. ?
Change of title - LING 804-4, LING 807-4
to
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM IN LANGUAGES
&
LINGUISTICS?
MEMORANDUM
TO: ?
Dr. J. Ekstedt ?
FROM: ?
R. DeArmond
Associate Dean
?
Graduate Program
of Arts ?
Chair, Linguistics
SUBJECT: ?
Linguistics Graduate
?
DATE: ?
November 1, 1990
Calendar Changes
We wish to include the following two items for the calendar changes for
1991-1992. We want to change the title of Linguistics 804-4 (Descriptive
Techniques)
to
Linguistics 804-4 (Field Methods) and Linguistics 807-4
(Linguistic Theories and Computational Logic Grammars)
to
Linguistics
807-4 (Computational Linguistics). Our rationale for the two title
changes of these courses is to bring the name of the courses more into line
with the course contents as they are actually being taught.
R. DeArmond
cc:'4i. McGinn
B. Clayman
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S.91-5e
Department of Political Science
Summary of Graduate Curriculum Revisions
SGSC Reference: Mtg. of November 26, 1990
SCAP Reference: SCAP 90-64
1. ?
New courses - POL 844-5, POL 855-5
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SIMON
FRASER UNIVERSITY
New Graduate Course Pronosal Form
CALENDAR INFORMATION:
Department: Political Science
?
Course
Nun,er:P0L844
Title:
"Tnt.rnt.j on1 Political Economy"
Description:
Thi
rsw4tpvides n overvi
W
cif the
etudy
of international
Political economy. Major theoretical approaches are discussed including
Realism,
it Hours:
Liberalism.
trade,
ans Marxism.
frein
Issues
investment
iscuseer1
inolud—the politics
• ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
?
-
?
When will the course first he offered:
How often will the course be offered:
once a year
0
JUSTIFICATION:
See attached
RESOURCES:
Which Faculty member will normally
teach
the course:
Theodore Cohn
What
are
the
budgetary
implications
of mounting
the
courae:nofle (recent faculty appointments
make it a little easier to
offer a wider variety
of graduate
courses)
Are there sufficient Library resources (aooend details):
yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the comeetence of the Faculty member to
give
the
course.
c)
Library resources
S
Approved: De
p
artmental Graduate Studies
Corjt
Faculty Graduate Stud
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Faculty:
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ee:
Senate Graduate Studies Co;fttec:
Senate:
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GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL
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International Political Economy
Dr. Ted Cohn ?
Department of Political Science
açkgroundto the Course Proposal
For ?
almost two decades after World War ?
II, ?
most scholars viewed
international ?
politics as dealing primarily with strategic-security
issues. ?
This ?
is not surprising,
?
since the Cold War
?
and East-West
tensions were the most critical global ?
issues confronting the Western
industrial states.
?
The global
?
economy,
?
in contrast,
?
was remarkably
free of major tensions and conflict.
?
The Bretton Woods
?
institutions
(comprising the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group)
and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade were very effective in
limiting conflict and ?
in ?
furthering the goals of
?
the major Western
powers. ?
North America and Western Europe faced no challenge from the
Soviet bloc
?
in this area,
?
since ?
it was ?
isolated
?
from the mainstream of
the global economy. ?
The less developed countries were integrated
with the world economy,
?
but their dependent and vulnerable positions
prevented them from having a role in
?
international management.
Understandably, ?
most
?
international politics specialists considered
strategic/security issues to be
?
"high politics", ?
while economic ?
issues
were viewed as being
?
"low politics" and,
?
therefore, ?
not worthy of much
consideration.
By the 1970's, the global economic system was in disarray and
economic issues were becoming "high politics" Power relationships
were changing, with the United States having its first balance of
trade deficit in the 20th century in 1971, and with Western Europe and
Japan posing a major challenge to U.S. leadership. Less-developed
countries were also demanding a greater role
in global
economic
decision-making, and the Soviet bloc countries and China were seeking
greater participation. Furthermore, there was less consensus on the
benefits of a liberal system of economic management.
With these changes, international relations specialists became
more interested in the problems of global political economy. There
has been a marked increase in literature in the field, and in the
number of international political economy courses. Indeed, most major
political science departments/international relations programs in
North America include international political economy courses as
offerings. A graduate course in international political economy from
a political science/international relations perspective at Simon
Fraser University is, therefore, long overdue.
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Course Description
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of
international political economy at the graduate level. Major
theoretical approaches are first discussed. The course begins with
the predominant approach to the study of both international politics
and international political economy: Realism and Neorealism. We then
examine major challenges to Realist theory from Liberal
institutionalism. Finally, we examine challenges by the Marxist,
Dependency, and World System writers to both Realism and Liberalism.
In the second part of the course, we use the three major perspectives
to examine various issue areas, including the politics of
international trade, the global monetary order, foreign investment,
foreign aid and foreign debt, and the economics of North-South and
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Required Texts
Texts
Robert Gilpin, The Political Econom y
of International Relations,
Princeton University Press, 1987
Stephen Gill and David Law, The Global Political
?
_lay, The Johns
?
Hopkins University Press, 1988
Jeffry Frieden and David Lake, eds., International Political Economy,
St. Martin's Press, 1987
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Recommended Texts
Robert Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World
Political Economy, Princeton University Press, 1984
Stephen Krasner, ed., International Re
g
imes, Cornell University Press,
1983
Course Organization
One three-hour seminar each week.
Course gir ernents
Students are to write a research paper of 20 to 25 pages, typed,
double-spaced. They may either analyze one of the theoretical
approaches to international political economy, or apply one of the
approaches to a specific substantive issue area. Topics are to be
selected in consultation with the instructor. The course grade will
also be determined by seminar participation, and the presentation of a
short seminar paper.
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DETAILED READING LIST AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
New Graduate Course Pronosal
Form
CALENDAR IHFOR.MATION:
Department:
Political Science
?
Course Nur.her:
POL
855.
Title: ?
Politi
Q
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Descrip t ion:_ Ar1
examination of the many complex ways in which science
pc1iry
and politics
to ideologiare
interrelated;
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r
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rcbt.e
p
the
botscji?
issues considered
r
-ifjc" merits
range from
-of policy
science
optior
Credit Hours: -
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Vector:
?
if an":________
ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
5-8 ?
When
will
the course first he offered:
How often
will
the course be offered:
once a year
JUSTIFICATION:
See attached
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RESOURCES:
Which Facult y
member will normally teach the c
our st: ?
--
What are the budgetary Implications of mounting the course:
no
(e( ,
.ent facult y
a
p
Dointments make it a little easier to offer a wider
variety of graduate courses.)
Are there sufficient ?
yes
cent Library resources (aooend detaile):
Appended: a ?
Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the comoetence of the Faculty member to
give
the course.
c) Library resources
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Coirittee:
?
Date:
?
/gO
Faculty Graduate Studies
Coittee: ?
Date:
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Faculty: ?
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Date: ?
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Senate Graduate Studies Coit[teec?c
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Sc nate: -
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Date:________________
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POL 851 SCIENCE AND POLITICS
Description: The proposed course addresses a variety of issues
and themes ranging from public policy to epistemology. It is
designed to give graduate students an opportunity to explore the
manyfold relationships that have brought the
'
r -atural and social
sciences into the domain of politics, either as objects of public
policy (i.e., science policy), as instruments of public policy
(e.g., the "if we can send a man on the moon, weeradicate
poverty" syndrome), or as important dimensions of political
conflicts (e.g., quite a few environmental disputes); vice versa,
political practices sometimes spill over into the domain of
scientific research, in which case bad science, more often than
not in the pursuit of bad politics, is typically the result
(e.g.,
senkoisnT; the P. Rushton affair).
At a more theoretical level, the interchange of concepts,
analogies, approaches and methods between the natural and social
sciences, and, in turn, between these disciplines and. political
discourse, have contributed very significantly to cultural
evolution. In fact, the epistemological and the practical levels
are not completely separated from each other. It would seem that
important paradigmatic shifts and political change intersect at
some crucial points (e.g., the Enlightenment). The methodology of
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the social sciences, and of the policy sciences in particular,
reflects ?
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these paradigmatic shifts. While these
- philosophical/methodological themes will receive somewhat less
attention in the proposed course than policy-related matters,
they are so fundamental that they must be included also.
Part I of the proposed course will bear on topics such as:
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science and the state;
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science and industrial policy;
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ecology and environmental policy;
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the regulation of biotechnology;
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and social scientific knowledge utilization in
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policy-making.
Part II of the proposed course will bear on topics such as:
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The contemporary understanding of "science";
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the modern (mechanistic) world-view;
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implications for the
methodology of the policy sciences.
Rationale: There are two apparently contradictory reasons why a
course of this kind needs to be added to the graduate curriculum
in Political Science. (Incidentally, the proposed course would
help students in seeing through this contradiction.) On the one
hand, there is an urgent need to close the gap between C.P.
Snow's "two cultures," i.e., science and the humanities, the
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latter term including much of Political Science for all practical
purposes. Fundamental and applied science are such an essential
part of the total fabric of contemporary societies that a
perceptive understanding of political life must be informed by at
least a familiarity with the most salient ideas in the physical
and life sciences. Conversely, the uses and misuses of science
and technology which are the outcome of decisions made routinely
in the public sector or the private sector, together with the
politicization of a scientific establishment that has become very
dependent on public funding, raise the question of whether there
still are any barriers left standing between politics and science
and technology. It is clear that students in Political Science
need to be given an opportunity to undertake research in this
area.
Bibliography: ?
DETAILED BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
THEODORE CORM was educated at Vayne State University (M. A.) and the
University of Michigan (B.A., Ph.D.).
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His research interests include
global ?
food ?
and
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agricultural
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policy. ?
Canadian ?
foreign
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policy, ?
and
international political economy.
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He is the author of Canadian Food Aid:
Domestic and Foreign Polic
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Implications (University of Denver) and The
International Politics
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f Agricultural Trade
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(University ?
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British
Columbia Press, He has also written articles on the World
Bank. and foreign debt issues; food aid, trade,-and agribusiness; Canadian-
U.S.-Mexican relations; and sjbnational units arid International Relations.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de Mexico.
LAUREHT DOBUZINSUS was educated in France and at York University (Ph.D.).
He has taught at Glendon College (York University), the Universitd de
Moncton, and the University of Victoria. His research interests include
public administration. public policy analysis, political econosy. Canadian
government and politics (e.g.,
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federalism), and the epistemology of
political science.
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He is the author. of several papers and articles on
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public policy-making, and on the philosophy of the natural and the social
sciences. ?
He has recently published. The Self-Organiring Polity, (Vestview
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Press, 1987).
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