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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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FROM:
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J.W.G. Ivany,
Chair, SCAP
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SUBJECT: Faculty of Arts ?
DATE:
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Nov.19, 1987
Department of Sociology/Anthropology
Reference: SCUS 87-29; SCAP 87-20
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.87-56
the proposed Extended Studies Diploma in Social
Policy Issues"
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1. INTRODUCTION
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policy
investigation
and analysis of social problems and social
policy issues has long been an integral part of sociology and
anthropology. The recent revision of the undergraduate
curriculum of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has
served to underline the significance of these concerns within
the teaching and research conducted by members of the
department. Faculty expertise spans a variety of substantive
fields within which officially recognized and unrecognized
social problems and social policy issues feature prominently:
these include problems and issues associated with aging,
population policy, gender relations, ethnic relations,
government administration of native peoples, and issues
associated with development in the Third World. Linking these
specialized fields of study is a common interest in the manner
in which sociological and anthropological theories and methods
of investigation can best be applied to those problems and
issues that become the object of social policy.
An Extended Studies Diploma Program in Social Policy Issues
would offer students who already hold a Bachelor's degree (or
higher) an opportunity to pursue an integrated program of
studies in this field, whatever their disciplinary background.
The intended audience for this program would Include
professionals working In the social services field, teachers,
civil servants, and those who wish to develop their general
• education background. In keeping with the character of the
department, the overall program will seek to provide students
with the critical perspectives needed in order to grasp the
processes by which social problems are defined, understood, and
acted upon both in Canada and in other societies.
The accessibility of this program to prospective students
will be enhanced by the offering of a number of existing or
currently commissioned DISC courses and through the scheduling
of evening courses both at the Burnaby Mountain Campus and at
the SFU/Downtown Centre. Efforts will also be made to establish
a sense of identity amongst students enrolled in the diploma
program by the organizing of one or two special evening
seminars, lectures or workshops cum social gatherings each
semester which will provide faculty, students, and invited
guests an opportunity to learn about each other's interests. A
once per semester newsletter will also be prepared and mailed to
students in the program as well as to organizations and agencies
whose members and personnel may be Interested In the diploma
program. The steering committee for the Social Policy Issues
Extended Studies Diploma Program will also regularly consider
the suitability of other upper-division courses offered at Simon
Fraser University as optional courses for the program. The full
range of courses eligible for credit in the program will be
identified and advertised in the newsletter.
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2. PROPOSED CALENDAR ENTRY
Extended Studies Diploma in Social Policy Issues
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Adviser: ?
Jean Jordan
Room 5056AQ
291-3726
The Extended Studies Diploma Program In Social Policy Issues
offers students an opportunity to apply recent developments in
social theory and research methods to the investigation of a
range of social problems and social policy issues. As well as
featuring courses which examine various substantive social
policy issues, the overall program aims to provide the critical
perspectives needed In order to grasp the processes by which
social problems are defined, understood, and acted upon both in
Canada and in other societies.
The program Is available through a combination of Directed
Independent Study (DISC) courses and evening courses offered at
the Burnaby Mountain Campus and SFU/Downtown Centre. The
diploma has been designed for persons who have previously
completed a Bachelor's degree (or higher) In any field of study,
and will be of special interest to those who wish to fulfill or
change career goals, professionals who seek new perspectives for
analyzing and Interpreting social policy issues, and to those
who wish to develop their general education background.
Admission Requirements
Normally an undergraduate degree from a recognized
university with a graduation GPA of at least 2.5 or equivalent.
A statement of the student's objectives in undertaking the
program.
Program Requirements
Thirty hours of 300 and 400 division coursework, or graduate
level courses If appropriate.
Of these 30 credit hours, at least 16 are to be taken from
the set of core courses described below.
Program completion within five years of admission. Most
students are' expected to finish within two or three years.
Students must maintain a GPA of 2.5 on courses used for the
diploma.
Students will be expected to attend occasional special
lectures, seminars and professional development workshops
organized for those enrolled in the diploma program.
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S.
Core Courses
Students are required to complete at least four of the
following courses, one of which must be SA 340-4:
SA 303-4
Ethnic Conflicts
SA 316-4
Tourism and Social Policy
SA 320-4
Population and Society
SA
331-4
Sociology of the Family
SA 333-4
Schooling and Society
SA
335-4
Gender Relations and Social Issues
SA 340-4
Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis
SA
363-4
Processes of Development and
Underdevelopment
SA 386-4
Native Peoples and Public Policy
SA
420-4
Sociology of Aging
Optional Courses
An additional four courses from the following list would
complete the requirements for the program:
SA
300-4
Canadian Social Structure
SA
304-4
Social Control
SA 321-4
Social Movements
SA 325-4
Political Sociology
SA
362-4
Social Change in Modern Industrial
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Societies
SA
369-4
Political Processes in Social Life
SA 400-4
Canadian Ethnic Minorities
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402-4
The Uses of Anthropology
SA 463-4
Problems in Third World Studies
Pol.
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321-3
The Canadian Federal System
Pol. 351-3
Canadian Urban Government and Politics
Pol., 451-3
Public Policy Analysis
To fulfill the optional course requirement, students may
instead take additional core courses or, upon the recommendation
of the Program Steering Committee, select a course not included
among listed options, but with content appropriate to the
Program.
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3. OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
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with one exception, all of the courses required to
mount the program are part of either the existing
under g
raduate curriculum or the revisions being made
concurrently to the sociology program. The only
entirely new course needed in order to offer the
diploma is SA
340-4
Social Issues and Social Policy
Analysis.
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three of the core courses already exist or have been
commissioned for presentation in DISC format: (SA 303,
386, and 420.)
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students without any background in sociology or
anthropology would be permitted to use any two lower
division courses in sociology and/or anthropology as
prerequisites for the 30 hours of upper: division
courses. Three lower division courses (SA 150, 201 and
250) are available in DISC format.
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the steering committee for the diploma program would
include the following members:
- Departmental Co-ordinator, Social Policy
Issues Diploma Program
- Departmental Chairpersc'n, S/A
- Undergraduate Studies Chairperson, S/A
- A representative of the Department of
Political Science
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additional costs for operating the program would be
modest. Some funding will be required for staging
occasional special lectures, seminars and workshops,
and to publish and distribute a newsletter each
semester
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The steering committee for the Social Policy Issues
Extended Studies Diploma Program will also regularly
consider the suitability of other upper-division
courses offered at Simon Fraser University as optional
courses for the program. It is intended that the
program will seek to utilize, wherever appropriate, the
expertise of faculty members from various departments
and faculties. The full range of courses eligible for
credit
in the newsletter.
in the program will be identified and advertised ?
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