S.88-50
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To: ?
Senate
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From:
J.W.G. Ivany
Chair, SCAP
Subject: ?
Department ot Biological Sciences -
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Date: ?
November 17, 1988
Curriculum Changes
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.88-50 curriculum changes in the Department of Biological
Sciences including:
New courses -
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BISC 366-3 Plant Ecophysiology
BISC 356-3 Plant Structure and Development - A
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functional approach
Deletions -
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BISC 330-3 The Terrestrial Environment - microclimate
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and soil
BISC 347-3 Physiology of Plant Nutrition and
Metabolism
BISC 437-3 Plant Development and Morphogenesis
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SENATE COMMIT
TEE
ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
1.
Calendar Information
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Department: Biolo
g
ical Sciences
Abbreviatio
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Code: BISC
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Course Number: 366
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Credit
Hours:
3_ Vector: 3Q-4
Title of Course: Plant EcophysiologY
Calendar Description of Course:
The plants' physical environment and the physiological basis (mechanisms and principles)
of the interaction betwe ' plants and their environment in relation to their survival
and ecological distributii.
Nature of Course Lectures and Labs
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
Completion of 200 level core courses or permission of the Department
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
BISC
37
and
330.
2.
Schedu19
urse be offered? Once per year
How frequently will the co
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall 1989
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
Dr. Brooke, Dr. Lister, Dr. Rahe, Dr. Vidaver - Team taught
3.
Objectives of the Course
Basic understanding of the dynamics of the plant environment and the physiological
basis of the interactions between the plants and the environment in relation to
their ecological distribution.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
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- None
Staff
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- None
Library ?
None
Audio visual
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- None
Space
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- None
Equipment - a) The normally expected replacement/updating of that required for the
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replaced courses.
5.
Approval
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b), Soil analysis systems - approx.
$3,500.00
Date:
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5epartment
Chairman
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Dean
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Chairman, SCUS
ndum SCUS 73-34a.
SCUS 73-34b:- (When completinq this form, for instructions see Memora
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Department of Biological Sciences, March 1988
BISC ?
- PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY (3-0-4)
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Course Content
A. The plants' physical and biological environment.
1.
Nature and composition of soils; soil water, colloids, pH, and
cation exchange.
2.
Soil dynamics and ecology; climate and geography of soils.
3.
Fertilizers; soil nitrogen, phosphorous, macro and micro
nutrients, microbial ecology.
4.
Radiation, energy and gaseous fluxes and dynamics.
B. Selected physiological processes of plants.
5. Plant water relations; solutes, water potential, movement of
water & solutes.
6. Mineral nutrition; uptake, essential elements & function.
7. Photobiological principles:
i)
Photochemistry of photosynthesis - primary processes,
the photosynthetic unit, photophosphorylation and
reducing power.
ii)
Photosynthetic carbon fixation; C
3
, C4 and CAM.
iii)
Productivity and photorespiratiOfl.
C. Physiology of plants under stress.
8. Stress factors - radiation, temperature, water & salts.
9. Stress avoidance, tolerance & resistance.
10. Adaptive strategies - morphological & physiological.
Hardiness - temperature/drought.
11. Physical damage: Wound healing, patterns of tissue repair/
replacement.
LABORATORY SESSIONS - will include the following topics:
1. Soil: texture, water holding capacity, cation exchange and pH.
2. Determination/assessment of radiant energy, heat energy and
gaseous fluxes in macro- and micro-climates.
3. Water potential, osmosis, plasmolysis. Transpiration and
evaporative demand.
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4. Mineral uptake distribution and nutrition,
2
P transport in
xylem and phloem, hydroponics.
5. Photosynthesis:
a)
factors affecting - radiation fl, water potential,
CO 2
-02 concentrations,
b)
chlorophyll fluorescence,
c)
photorespiratiOn and dark respiration.
6. Translocation, distribution and allocation of photoassimilates.
7. Plants' physiological response to and mechanism of reaction to
induced stress.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
1.
Calendar Information
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Department: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Abbreviation Code: BISC- Course Number: 356
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Credit Hours:
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3
Vector:
3-0-4
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Title of Course: PLANT STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT - A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
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Calendar Description of C,urse:
Interaction of internal regulatory mechanisms and environmental factors in plant
morphogenesis; Anatomy-cell differentiation, development and growth of vegetative
and reproductive organs
Nature of Course Lectures and Labs
1.
Prerequisites (or special instructions): Completion of 20O level core course requirements
or permission of Department.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: BISC
437
and
1147
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Once per year
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Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall
1989
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? Team taught: Srivastava, Fisher, Lister, Rahe and Vidaver
3.
Objectives of the Course
Basic understanding of the interaction of internal regulatory mechanisms and
environmental factors in relation to plant anatomy, growth, development and
cell differentiation and the completion of their life cycles.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty - None
Staff - None
Library -. None
Audio Visual
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- None
Space ?
- None
Equipment ?
- The normally expected replacement/updating of that required for
the replaced courses.
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Approval
Asc'
Date:
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Department fia3.rman
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Chairman, SCUS
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SCUS 73-34b:- (When com
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letin g
this form, for instructions see Memor
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73-34a.
Departmnt of Biological Sciences, March 1988
*-PLANT
BISC
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STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT - A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (3-0-4)
Course Content
1. Seed and Seedling; Plant cell and tissue types
Complex tissues - xylem and phloem.
2. Secondary growth in sterns and roots; structure of wood transport of
water and minerals.
3. Conifer wood; properties of wood, secondary p.hloem, periderm,
aeration.
4. The leaf as a. photosynthetic organ; adaptations for gas exchange,
translocation of photoassimilates.
5. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants, photoperiodism, phytochrome
Florigen concept.
6. Fruit and seed set; sexual reproduction in conifers, seed structure,
dormancy.
7. Hormonal regulation of plant growth and development;
a)
Auxins and auxin mediated responses
b)
Gibberellins & gibberellin responses
c)
Cytokinins
d)
Ethylene
e)
ABA
f)
Mechanisms of hormone action.
8. Environmental triggers for plant growth & development;
photomorphogenesis, phytochrome and GA.
9. Tropisms; Photo-, Ceo-, Thigmo-
10. Perception of Temperature; vernalisation, dormancy, sprouting.
Mechanisms and the biological clock, Circadian rhythms.
LABORATORY SESSIONS
1.
Seedling morphology; cells-tissues, roots & stems.
2.
Secondary growth; roots & stems, dicot woods.
3.
Conifer wood; water/mineral transport.
4.
Leaf anatomy; stomata! function.
5.
Photoinduction in Xanthium, pollination, floral structure.
6.
Ethylene in fruit ripening; structure fruits and seeds
7.
Hormone bioassays: Auxins & Gibberelli
8.
Cytokinins - bud break, root initiation
Ethylene ?
- Ethrel in isodiametric growth
ABA ?
- effect on root & shoot growth
9.
Phytochrome, GA; germination
10.
Tropisms: Auxin blocks, Avena curvature
Thigmotrophism - Mimosa
11.
Vernalisation, scarification - seeds.
Biological clock - Oxalis sp.
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c.!1ange: "that the pre-requisite for BISC 408-3 Parasitic Associations be changed
from
sixth semester standing in Biological Sciences" to "BISC
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Animal Ecology and
BISC 306
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Invertebrate Biology.
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COURSE
PROPOSAl. FORM
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are recommended".
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Calendar Information ?
Department:
Biological Sciences
Abbreviation Code:
BISC Course Number:
408 ?
Credit Hours:
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3 Vector: 2-0-3
Title of Course:
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PARASITIC ASSOCIATIONS
Calendar Description
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Course:
Same
Nature of Coure
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Same
Prerequisites (or special instructions)
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tSC.
304 cck
1SC
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What course (courses),
if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
Same
2.
scheduling
How frequently will the course be
offered?
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Same
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Semester in which the course will
first be offered?
Same
Which of your present faculty
would be available
to make the proposed offering
possible?
Same
3.
Objectives of the Course
Same
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional
resources
will be
required
in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
?
Same
Audio
Visual
Space
Equipment
. 5. Approval
Date:
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Department enairman
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Dean
SCUS 73-34b:- (When comD]etin
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this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
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Non-Vascular Plants or permission of Department.
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COURSE PROPOSAL FORM —
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1.
Calendar Information
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Department: Biological Sciences
Abbreviation Code: BISC
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Course Number:
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126
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Credit Hours: ____
Title of Course: BIOLOGY OF SEAWEEDS
Calendar Description of Course:
The contemporary biology of seaweeds is reviewed. Emphasis is on the comparative
adaptability of seaweeds inhabiting different environments. Students may be
required to complete a research project.
Nature of Course Advanced, with laboratory, field, lecture and student participant
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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components.
BISC 326
Weekend field trips will be required.
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What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
This course has been offered four times as Special Topics BISC 1171.
2.
scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Alternate years
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
1988-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? Louis Druehi
3.
Objectives of the Course
1.
To expose students to advanced concepts in the biology of an important group of
non-vascular plants (strengthens our botany programme).
2.
To balance our marine biology programme. This course would parallel
BISC 406
(advanced invertebrates).
3.
To prepare students for careers in areas related to marine plant resources
(aquacultureand resource management) or graduate training.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty None
Staff None
Library None
Audio Visual None
Space ?
None
Equipment ?
None
5.
Approval
Date:
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman SCUS
SCUS 73-34b: (When comoletinq this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
Ci-fANGE: "BISC 326, Biology of non-vascular plants, change vector from 2-0-3 to 2-0-"..
SENATE COMMITTEE ON
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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Abbrevia1on Code: BISC Course Number: 326
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Credit Hours:
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Vectc 4
Title of Course:
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BIOLOGY OF NON-VASCULAR PLANTS
Calendar Description of Course:
SAME
Nature of ourse ?
SAME
PrerequIte (or special instructions)
SAME
What ce (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this
course
is
approved:
SAME
2.
Schedu1in
How frequently will the course be offered? SAME
Semester in which the course will first be offered? SAME
Which of
your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?_
SAME
3.
Objectiveso.f
the Course
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SAME
4. Budge ?
SEace Requirements (for information only) ?
SAME
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library.,.
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Audio -Vi
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Space
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1. Calendar Information
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Department: Biological Scien s
Abbreviation Code: BISC
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Course Number:
329
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Credit Hours: ?
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Title of Course: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
Calendar Description of Course:
Same
Nature of Course
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Same
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
Same
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
Same•
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
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Same
Scmester in which the course will
first be offered? Same
Which
possible?of
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your present
Same
faculty would
be available
to make the proposed
offing
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3.
Objectives of the Course
Same
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff ?
j
Library
Same
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
S. Approval
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I
Date:
Department Chairman
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Dean
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Chain,
SCUS 73-34b:- (When com
p
leting this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
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