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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To: ?
Senate ?
From: Senate Committee on
Academic Planning
Subject: ?
Limiting Credits for
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Date: ?
December 13, 1989
Tr-Ed Summer Courses
Reference: SCUS 89-53
SCAP 89-70
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies gives rise to the following motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors as set forth in S. 90-3 , that the maximum number
of credit hours offered through the Tr-Education Summer Institute
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that can count towards a degree in the Faculty of Arts or towards
a degree or Post Baccalaureate Diploma in the Faculty of Education
be limited to nine (9)."
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ARTS
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DEAN OF ARTS
MEMORANDUM
TO: Ron Heath
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FROM: ?
Sheila Roberts
Secretary, SCUS
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Secretary, FACC
RE: Limiting Credits for
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DATE: ?
October 20, 1989
Tr-Ed. Summer Courses
After a series of meetings regarding the one week offerings by the
Tr-Education Summer Institute, the Faculty of Arts Curriculum
Committee at its meeting of July 20, 1989 passed the following
motion:
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That the maximum number of offerings through the Tr-
Education Summer Institute that can count towards a degree
in the Faculty of Arts be three, (a total of 9 credits).
The Faculty of Education has passed a similar restriction for the
Bachelor of Education degree and the Post Baccalaureate Diploma.
Please place this item on the agenda of the next SCUS meeting.
Thank you.
/kcp
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cc: Education Department
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
FACULTY OF EDUCATION ?
MEMORANDUM
To: Ellen Gee, Associate Dean
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From: Mike Manley-Casimir, Director
Faculty of Arts
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Undergraduate Programs
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Faculty of Education
Re: Tr-Ed. Special Summer Institutes
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Date: July 5, 1989
Further to our ,recent meeting on the Tri Ed Special Summer Institutes and the B.G.S.,
the following was the decision taken by the Faculty of Education Undergraduate
Programs Committee:
That the maximum total number of Tn-Ed. Summer Institute credits be 9
for the Post Baccalaureate Diploma and 9 for the B. Ed. Degree.
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MEMORANDUM
To: W.R. Heath
Secretary, SCUS
Re: Special Summer Institute Credits
Restriction
From: Cornel Hamm, Director
Undergraduate Programs
Faculty of Education
Date: Nov. 20/89
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The rationale for the motion to restrict to a maximum of 9 credits for courses taken
through Tr-University offerings of Special Summer Institutes is as follows:
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Teacher Qualification Service has expressed concern about the proliferation of
such Institutes and has asked the universities to assure them (TQS) of the
academic integrity of these Institutes.
2.
It has come to our attention that some students completing B.G.S. degrees by
courses taken on a transfer credit basis, through DISC, and by Special Summer
Institutes have a 'smorgasbord' of courses forming no curricular coherence.
3.
It is very difficult to exercise curricular control over courses offered through
these Summer Institutes. Most of the courses. are Special Topics courses
mounted quickly in response to immediate Ministry and professional needs.
Many also have an 'implementation' component, which is partially supervised
by the profession. It is therefore virtually impossible satisfactorily to scrutinize
and assess in advance the academic merit of these courses,though the
evaluation of these courses after the fact reveals that teachers and other
professionals rate them highly.
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