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S,88-80

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Senate ?

FROM: ?

J.W.G. Ivany

Chair, SCAP

SUBJECT: Graduate Curriculum Revisions

DATE: ?

Nov. 15, 1988

- Department of History

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/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.88-80 the proposed

changes to the requirements of the Program of Study -

M.A. Programllin&' th requirements of the Program of

Study - Ph.D. Program

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FROM: Ph.D. Program of Study 

Upon admission into the graduate program, each student will 

be assigned a faculty supervisor. 

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For information of the 

Supervisory Committee see graduate general regulations. 

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The

Supervisory Committee and the student shall determine three 

fields of study, at least two of which will be chosen from 

the list printed below. 

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A third field may be chosen within 

or outside the Department of History with permission of the 

Graduate Studies Committee. 

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The student and each field 

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supervisor will agree as soon as possible upon a general list 

of readings upon which the field examination will be based. 

No formal course work 

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required but students are expected 

to participate in the relevant graduate seminar. 

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The written 

examinations in the three fields will be taken in one two-week 

period and an oral comprehensive exam will follow within one 

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Each written examination will be three hours in length, 

and will consist of two or three questions to be chosen from 

a broader list. 

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The oral examination will normally last one 

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Students will be asked to expand upon their written 

answers in order to clarify their answers and to demonstrate 

a broader knowledge of their fields. 

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A "fail", "pass", or 

"pass with distinction" will be assigned to each field by the 

field supervisor after the completion of the oral examination. 

A student who fails one of the fields, and one only, will be 

permitted to sit that examination once again. 

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This second 

examination will be in written form only, with a second reader 

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chosen from the Supervisory Committee. 

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The field examinations 

will normally be taken during the student's fourth semester of 

enrollment in the Ph.D. program. ? 

Through his/her thesis, the 

student must demonstrate his/her ability to make an original 

contribution to knowledge, either through the discovery and 

analysis of new information or through the exercise of independent 

critical power. 

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Ph. D. Program of Study 

Upon admission into the graduate program/each student will be 

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assigned a faculty supervisor. ? 

For information on Supervisory 

Committees see graduate general regulations. 

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The Supervisory 

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Committee and the student shall determine three fields of study, 

at least two of which will be chosen from the list printed below. 

A third field may be chosen within or outside the Department of 

History with permission of the Graduate Program Committee. 

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The

student and each field supervisor will agree as soon as possible 

upon a general list of readings of approximately forty to forty- 

five 

books (or the equivalent) in each field. 

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Copies of these 

reading lists must be submitted to the Chair of the Graduate 

Program Committee by the beginning of the second semester. 

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The

Graduate Program Committee will approve these lists and place 

them in the student's files. 

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Students are expected to cover 

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material on these lists, preferably by means of a structured 

reading and writing program with their supervisors. 

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The compre-                                           

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hensive examinations will be based on the reading lists. 

Comprehensive examinations will be offered twice a year, in the 

latter half of the autumn and spring semesters. ? 

Written exam- 

inations will be administered in weeks seven and eight of the 

semester; oral examinations will be scheduled in weeks nine 

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through twelve of the same semester. Students who miss the 

first round in their fourth semester due to extenuating 

circumstances, must take the examinations the following 

semester. 

Each written examination will be three hours in length, 

and will consist of two or three questions to be chosen 

from a broader list. During the oral examination, students 

will be asked to expand upon their written answers in order 

to clarify their answers and to demonstrate a broader know- 

ledge Of their fields. No written examination will be marked 

until ALL field examinations have been completed. Every 

written examination will have a second reader and each will 

evaluate without reference to the other. A "fail", or "pass", 

or "pass with distinction" will be assigned to each field by 

the field supervisors after the completion of the oral exam- 

ination. A student who fails one of the fields, and one only, 

will be permitted to sit that examination once again. This 

second examination will be in written form only, with a second 

reader chosen from the Supervisory Committee." 

B.P. Clayman 

Dean of Graduate Studies. 

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The following is to replace section 2 in the MA Program, Program of Study

MA PROGRAM

PROGRAM OF STUDY

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A thesis of 10 semester hours/with a maximum length of 100 pages. Through

his/her thesis the student must demonstate his/her ability to make an original

contribution to knowledge, either through the discovery and analysis of new

information or through the exercise of independent critical power. Before the

beginning of the research semester, the student must prepare a thesis prospectus to

be submitted to and approved by an Examining Committee made up of the

Supervisory Committee and the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee. The

thesis prospectus should present a coherent thesis topic and place such a topic

within the framework of existing work in this area.

The following paragraphs will replace the existing paragraph under the Ph. D.

Program.

PROGRAM OF STUDY

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Upon admission into the graduate program/each student will be assigned a faculty

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supervisor. For information on Supervisory Committees see graduate general

regulations. The Supervisory Committee and the student shall determine three fields

of study, at least two of which will be chosen from the list printed below. A third

field may be chosen within or outside the Department of History with permission of

the Gradu

ate

Program Committee. The student and each field supervisor will agree

as soon as possible upon a general list of readings of approximately forty to forty-

five books (or the equivalent) in each field. Copies of these reading lists must be

submitted to the Chair of the Graduate program Committee by the beginning of the

second semester. The Graduate Program Committee will approve these lists and place

them -in the students' files. Students are expected to cover the maferial on these

lists, preferably by means of a structured reading and writing program with their

supervisors. The comprehensive examinations will be based on the reading lists.

Comprehensive examinations will he offered twice a year, in the latter half of the

autumn and spring semesters. Written examinations will be administered in weeks

seven and eight of the semester; oral examinations will be scheduled in weeks nine

through twelve of the same semester. Students who miss the first round in their

fourth semester due to extenuating circumstances, must take the examinations the

following semester.

Each written examination will he three hours in length, and will consist of two or

three questions to be chosen from a broader list. During the oral examination,

students will he asked to expand -upon their written answers in order to clarify

their answers and to demonstrate a broader knowledge of their fields. No written

examination will be marked until ALL field examinations have been completed. Every

written examination will have a second reader and each will evaluate without

reference to the other. A "fail", "pass", or "pass with distinction" will he assigned

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to each field by the -field supervisors after the completion of the oral examination.

A student who fails one of the fields, and only one, will he permitted to sit that

examination once again. This second examination will be in written form only, with a

second reader chosen from the. Supervisory Committee.