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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
SUBJECT: Graduate Curriculum
Changes - Archaeology
Reference: SCAP 87-39
FROM:
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J.W.G.
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Chair, SCAP
DATE:
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Nov-19,
1987
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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate
Graduate Studies Committee gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION:
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"That Senate approve and recommend approval to
the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.87-70
the removal of the comprehensive exams as a
requirement for the M.A."
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At
its
last meeting the Archaeology Department Graduate
Program Committee voted to remove the comprehensive
exams as a requirement for the M.A.
The new
g raduate calendar should reflect this change.
Our reasons for the decision are as follows:
1.
It brings the department into line with other
dep
artments in the facult
y
that offer
H. A.
'5.
2.
Some Canadian de
p artments in Archaeology
or
Anthropology
do require such exams at the M.A.
level, but most do not.
3.
Until now we have had essentially the same set of
req
uirements for the M.A. as for the Ph.D. (course
work, comps, colloquium, thesis, defense). The
level of
p erformance exp
ected from M.A. and Ph.D.
students, of course, was
q
uite different. Our
M.A. candidates were takin
g
an inordinate length
of time to finish, well above the university or
faculty averages. Man
y
required the full five
years.
PH:vb
cc: Faculty Graduate Studies Committee,
Office of the Dean of Arts
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