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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM 

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Department ? 

HUMANITIES 

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Hum. ? 

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305 ? 

Credit Hours: 3 ? 

Vector: 0-3-0 

Title of Course: Medieval Studies 

Calendar Description of Course: 

A detailed interdisciplinary analysis of a selected topic, 

issue, or personality in the Middle Ages. 

Nature of Course Seminar 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 18 Hours of humanities related courses at the 

lower division or permission of the Program Coordinator. 

What course (courses) if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved; none 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? once or 

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wice 

every six semesters 

Semester in which the ourse will first be offered? 

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1990.3 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? P.E. Dutton, Mary-Ann Stouck, Sheila Delany, 

Margaret Jackson, John Tietz 

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Objectives of the Course 

see attached 

4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty none 

Staff ? 

none 

Library none can be presently identified; the three trial runs of this course found the 

Audio Visual none 

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Library holdings sufficient 

Space 

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none 

Equipment ? 

none 

'US 73-34b:- (When completing tfi'is form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

.ach course outline). 

Arts 78-3 

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MEDIEVAL STUDIES 

Rationale for the New Course: 

One

of

the inter-disciplinary strengths of Simon Fraser University is medieval 

studies: medievalists and those with some particular interest in the Middle 

Ages can be found scattered across campus. Traditional departments cannot 

possibly cover the middle ground between disciplines that medievalists must. 

Consequently medieval studies is often treated as a separate field, as is 

Classics. 

The Humanities Minor Program proposes to offer a selected topics course 

on the Middle Ages. Such a course, much desired by the medievalists on campus, 

could treat the inter- and cross-disciplinary topics we cannot fully explore 

in our home departments. Examples of topics to be treated might be: medieval 

Latin literature; religious movements; and medieval humanism. 

Hum.305, moreover, complements the present offerings of the Humanities 

Minor Program. Hum.302--The Golden Age of Greece-- and Hum.303--The Latin 

Humanist Tradition (Roman literature)--will now find a chronological 

successor in Hum.305. The course should as well complement without 

overlapping in any way the work done in Hist.219 and 220 or the courses on Old 

and Middle English offered in the English Department. 

The Humanities Minor Program has already in fact offered forms of this 

course under its 380 and 400 numbers: Dhuoda and Her Manual of Advice in 

87.1; Augustine and the City of God in 88.1; and Abelard and Heloise in 89.1 

(see the attached outline). 

The student demand for this course is expected to be high, partly because 

of the general interest in the Middle Ages generated by courses across campus. 

The 1985 Campus Colloquium of the Humanities Institute on 'Aspects of the Middle 

Ages' drew a day-long audience of over one hundred students and faculty. In 

addition the Humanities Institute now supports an ongoing seminar called 

the Tr-Universities Medieval Seminar in Vancouver. Thus, Hum.305 will 

fill a specific need for undergraduate, upper-level work in the Middle Ages. 

Objectives; 

To explore in some detail an important issue, theme, personality, or period in 

the Middle Ages. Students coming to the course will have already studied some 

aspects of the Middle Ages in one of the traditional departments. In Hum.305 

they will be able to study one aspect of the Middle Ages in greater depth 

than elsewhere. As well they should leave the course with a working method 

for opening up other medieval topics to independent examination or in the 

context of another course such as the Humanities Proseminar (Hum.400). 