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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Senate'
From:
L. Salter
Chair, SCAP
Subject: ?
Proposed Certificate in
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November 9, 1989
Family Studies
Reference: SCUS 89-30
SCAP 89-43
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.89-58 the proposal for a Certificate in Family Studies."
FOR INFORMATION
Course prerequisite changes - GS 350-3 and GS 351-3
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Steering Committee
Department of Psychology
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Certificate in Family Studies
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MEMORANDUM
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Ellen Gee, Chair,
F.A.C.C.
Date:
5 September 1989
Topic:
Proposl for a
Certificate in Family Studies
Enclosedi please find our proposal for a Certificate in
Family Studies which includes the calendar entry, rationale,
and the letters of support that we have received to date.
Additional letters will be forwarded as soon as we receive
them. A proposal for changing the prerequisites for the
Family Development courses (G.S. 350 & 351) is also attached.
We envision the Certificate as primarily an evening program so
as to accommodate working people and believe that because of
its interdisciplinary nature the program would be best
administered through the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
of the Faculty of Arts.
Please contact any one of us if you have any queries. We
look forward to hearing from you and to receiving your
feedback.
Sincerely,
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Proposal Re: Certificate in Family Studies
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Title:
CERTIFICATE IN FAMILY STUDIES
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Program
Description
The Certificate in Family Studies is specifically designed to
encourage and facilitate the study of families from an
interdisciplinary perspective. The aim is to help students gain a
comprehensive understanding of families by providing them with
information from the perspectives of Psychology, Sociology,
Communications, Health, and Family Processes. Students may supplement
core courses in these areas with elective courses in relevant
disciplines such as Education, Gerontology, History, and Women's
Studies. The program is available to continuing or full-time students
at the undergraduate level who wish to have a specialization in the
area of Family Studies. Courses may be offered at Harbour Centre as
well as at the Burnaby Mountain campus.
Completion of the program normally requires two years but in some
cases it may be possible to do so in one year. The Certificate is
especially suitable for those whose jobs involve considerable
interaction with families and for those planning to work with
families.
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Admission Requirements
Normal requirements for admission to Simon Fraser University apply.
Students can be admitted under regular entry or special entry
requirements. Students must complete CMNS 110-3, PSYC
100-3vand
S.A.
150-4 prior to formal admission to the Certificate.
rYC 102-3
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Program Requirements
Successful completion of 30 credit hours, of which 16 credit hours are
earned by completing the five required core courses. The remaining 14
credit hours are.selected from a specified list of elective courses.
Some of both the required and elective courses have prerequisite
requirements.
Minimum grade point average of 2.25 calculated on all courses applied
to the Certificate. Duplicate courses are counted once.
Completion of the Certificate normally within five years of admission
to the program.
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The Curriculum
A.
Core Courses (Required)
G.S. 350-3 Family Development I: Coupling and Young Families
G.S. 351-3 Family Development II: Maturing and Extended Families
CMNS 225-3 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
KIN. 140-3 Contemporary Health Issues
S.A. 331-4 Sociology of the Family
B. Elective Courses *
CMNS 325-4 Interpersonal Communication and Media
CRIM 210-3 Law, Youth and Young Offenders
EDUC 425-4 Schopi Counselling for the Classroom Teacher
GERO 300-3 Introduction to Gerontology
KIN. 110-3 Current Topics in Human Nutrition
PSYC 351-3 Child Psychology
PSYC 355-3 The Psycho],ogy of Adolescence & Youth
PSYC 357-3 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
HIST 310-3 Women and the Family in Modern Europe
S.A. 319-4 Culture, Ethnicity, and Aging
S.A. 332-4 Kinship and Domestic Organization
S.A. 335-4 Gender Relations and Social Issues
W.S. 200-3 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
W.S. 203-3 Female Roles in Contemporary Society
G.S. 3OO-3 Individual Study Project
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Students wishingto develop their research skills may select the
following coursesas electives.
STAT 103-3 Introduction to Statistics for Social Sciences
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PSYC21O-3 Data! Analysis in Psychology
CRIM 120-3 Research Methods in Criminology
or
S.A. 255-4 Introduction to Social Research
* Some of these courses have prerequisite requirements.
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RATIONALE RE: CERTIFICATE IN FAMILY STUDIES
The overall goal of the proposed Certificate in Family
Studies is to encourage and facilitate the study of families
from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Certificate is
designed for continuing or fulitime students at the
undergraduate level who wish to have a specialization in the
area of Family Studies. As such, it is in line with current
thinking regarding the importance of studying families and
with the provincial government's initiative on behalf of
family related programs. It also provides an educational
opportunity that is not otherwise available in the province.
This program has the potential for attracting a wide
variety of students as there are many people whose jobs
involve considerable work with families but who have
received little or no formal education in Family Studies.
These would include childcare workers, social workers
without Professional degrees, court workers, probation
officers, police personnel, community mental health workers,
street workers, psychiatric and public health nurses, child
life program workers at hospitals, teachers, daycare
workers, counselors, chaplains, community centre staff, and
those working in family-oriented community organizations
such as the Y.M./Y.W.C.A., Scouts, and Guides. Students
preparing for jobs such as these would also find these
programs useful.
The proposed Certificate would fill an educational gap
in the province. None of the universities or colleges in
B.C. offer a Certificate in Family Studies or any other
similar undergraduate program, except for U.B.C. which
offers a major in Family Science. Furthermore, in a survey
of family workers in the Vancouver area, almost all (95%) of
the respondents (61) said a Certificate in Family Studies
would be useful to people working with families, and 80%
thought it would be useful to them personally. Most (79%)
also favored an evening program. In addition, recent polls
of Family Development Students at S.F.U. indicate strong
support for such a program in that 95% (62/65) recommended
that S.F.U. develop a Certificate in Family Studies and 60%
said they would be likely to enroll in it. Thus, as there
is considerable interest in a Certificate in Family Studies
and as there is no other program like it in the province,
S.F.U. would be providing a unique and useful educational
opportunity.
Drawing from a number of disciplines, the proposed
Certificate in Family Studies is designed to provide
information about families from a variety of perspectives.
It builds on the Family Development I and II courses
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(G.S.
350-3and 351-3) which are themselves
interdisciplinary in that they are team taught by three
instructors with backgrounds in Psychology, Community
Health, and Family Processes. These courses have regularly
attracted good enrolments and form the base of the required
core courses which include courses in interpersonal
communication (CMNS 225-3), health issues (KIN 140-3), and
sociology of the family (S.A. 331-4). The first two were
included because a core understanding of interpersonal
relations and of health issues that affect family
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functioning'is basic to effective work with families. The
third provides a societal perspective that helps students
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gain an understanding of families in a broader context. The
proposed requirements for the Certificate are 30 credit
hours, 16 of which are earned by completing the five
required courses and the remainder by completing elective
courses from a specified list.
The elective courses supplement the core courses and
strengthen the interdisciplinary perspective by allowing
students to'extend their knowledge in the areas of
communication and counseling, law and youth, gerontology,
human nutrition, psychology of human development at various
stages of life, history of the family, and cultural factors
including ethnicity, kinship, aging, gender relations,
female roles, and cross-cultural perspectives. Courses in
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research methodology and independent study are also included
for student6 who wish to develop their research skills.
The Certificate in Family Studies would be economical
to offer. By using the Family Development courses as abase
and drawing on existing courses, mounting the program would
entail relatively little expense. Faculty could teach these
courses as part of their normal teaching load or on stipend.
The cost ofadministering the program would involve release
of a faculty member from teaching one course per academic
year at the
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start ($3000 for a sessional replacement) and
perhaps more in the future if the program becomes popular.
To summarize, the proposed Certificate in Family
Studies is designed to provide those who work or hope to
work with families with the opportunity to learn rrore about
them from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using the
Family Development courses as a base, this program draws
together relevant courses from a variety of disciplines to
form a coherent program which would be economical to offer.
Furthermore, as there is no other program like it in B.C.,
the proposed Certificate in Family Studies would clearly
fill an education gap and provide a valuable educational
opportunity
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This memo is to formally offer this Department's support
for the Certificate in Family Studies.
The Department currently plans to offer CMNS 225 twice
yearly (Spring and Fall). CMNS 325 will be offered at
least once per year. CMNS 110 is offered every semester,
and is available through DISC.
Good luck in your program.
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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The Chair, UCC (Kinesiology) and I reviewed your program and we are both
entirely supportive. The two Kinesiology courses involved (Kin 140 and Kin 110)
are currently offered every semester and this is unlikely to change in the near
future. You should also be aware that both are offered in the Disc mode arid are
available at the downtown campus occasionally. Best wishes with the program
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Telephone: (604) 291-3213
August 13, 1989
Dr. Jean Koepke
Department of Psychology
Simon Fraser University
Chairperson
Steering Committee
Certificate in Family Studies
Dear Dr. Koepke,
RE: Certificate
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Thank you for your letter of August 4th. I am pleased
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to express my strong support of the proposal for a
Certificate in Famil
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Studies.
The Steering Committee has developed a clear rationale
for this interdisciplinary Certificate Program, together
with a balanced offering of courses across several
disciplines.
I have discussed the proposal with our Undergraduate
Director, Dr. Brian Burtch. We agree with the Committee's
selection of CRIM 120 (Research Methods in Criminology) and
CRIM 210 (Law, Youth and Young Offenders) as Elective
Courses. These courses are offered on
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would therefore meet Program Requirements.
The prerequisite for CRIM 120 Is Math 12 or Math 100-3,
with CRIM 10]J strongly recommended, but not required. CRIM
210 requires CRIM 103 and CRIM 104 (Psychological
Explanations of Criminal and Deviant Behavior, and
Sociological Explanations of Cixninal and Deviant Behavior,
respectIvely). If you should wish to have these
prerequisites for CRIM 210 waived, for students enrolled in
the Certificate of Family Studies, we would be supportive
of this waiver.
I trust that this addresses some key details of the
proposed inclusion of Criminology courses. Very best wishes
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to the Steering Committee members with this important
initiative.
Sincerely,
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We are pleased to give our support to the Certificate in Family Studies and
will make every effort to ensure that sociology and anthropology courses are
offered frequently enough to meet the program's requirements.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
MEMORANDUM
To:
Jean E. Koepke
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Undergraduate Programs
Department of Psychology
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Re: Certificate in Family Studies
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Date: Aug. 16, 1989
Thank you for your letter outlining the proposal for the new certificate in Family
Studies.
We, in Undergraduate Programs, enthusiastically support this proposal and will
ensure that every attempt will be made to offer Education 425-4 frequently enough to
meet program requirements.
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MEMORANDUM
To: Jean Koepke, Chairperson, Certificate in Family
Studies Steering Committee
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August 30, 1989
Topic: Frequency of PSYC course offerings
In response to your letter of August 29th, I can
assure you that the Psychology Department intends to
continue providing frequent offers of courses of interest to
students enrolled in the Certificate in Family Studies
program (PSYC 210, 351, 355, 357, and their prerequisites).
Each of these is typically offered at least twice annually,
and quite often more frequently.
In reading the proposed calendar entry for the
Certificate, I noticed that you list PSYC 102 as a
prerequisite to the required GS courses. It would be more
informative to calendar readers if you added PSYC 100 to the
prerequisite list, since PSYC 100 is a pre- or co-requisite
for PSYC 102. It might also help if you added a note to
this effect in Paragraph #1 of Section 4. Otherwise the
sentence "The remaining 14 credit hours are selected from a
specified list of elective courses" may be misinterpreted by
students considering enrolling in the program.
CC: Meredith Kimball, Undergraduate Studies Committee?
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MEMORANDUM
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Ellen Gee, Chair,
F.A.C.C.
Date:
5 September 1989
Topic:
Change of Prerequisites for Family Development I and
II (G.S. 350-3 and 351-3).
Pro p
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60 semester hour credits
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IPSYC 100
Rationale
Our experience with teaching the Family Development
courses to students with a variety of academic backgrounds has
led us to the conclusion that a familiarity with the basic
psychological concepts
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methods, terminology, information, and
theory that is provided in Psyc 100 is a more useful
prerequisite for the courses than 60 odd hours.of credit. For
the most part, students with a background in psychology have
performed better in our courses and continuing students with
experience in psychology but less than 60 hours of credit have
successfully mastered the course material. In order to
perform well in our courses we therefore believe that students
need a basic knowledge of psychology but that they do not
necessarily need 60 hours of credit. Thus we propose .to
change the prerequisites for Family Development I and II from
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60 semester hour credits" to "PSYC 100" to ensure that all
students have at least an introductory knowledge of
psychology.
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Jean
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Koepke
Department of Psychology
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