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S.87-71

SMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

TO: ?

Senate

SUBJECT: Graduate Curriculum

Changes - Economics

Reference: SCAP 87-40

FROM: ?

J.W.G. Ivany,

Chair, SCAP

DATE:

Nov.19, 1987

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.87-71

1) change of credit hours for ECON 843

2) change of course numbers as follows:

- ECON 896 Selected Topics to three

Selected Topics numbers (911), (912),

and (913)

-; ECON 897 Directed Readings to three

Directed Readings numbers (921), (922),

and (923)

- ECON 898 M.A. Thesis be changed to ECON

991 M. A. Thesis

- ECON 899 Ph.D. Thesis be changed to ECON

990 Ph.D. Thesis

deletion of screening examinations from

Core Course Work - M.A. Program and

Admissions Requirements - Ph.D. Program

addition of the following sentence to the

Ph.D. Program, Degree Requirements:-

'Students specializing in Economics and

Business Administration must include ECON

803-3 and 804-4 or 806-4 as part of their

course work"

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY? 

MEMORANDUM 

TO:

Sydney Preston, Secretary 

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FROM: 

John F. 

Chant 

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Faculty of Arts 

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Chairman  

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duat rogram 

Graduate Studies Connittee 

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Departinef Eco 

ics

RE:

Calendar Changes 

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DATE: 

October 27, 1987 

At recent meetings of the Graduate Studies Conunittee the, following changes to 

the calenday were decided: 

1.

The credit hours of EON 843, Current Problems in International Trade, were 

increased from 3 to 4 hours. This step eliminates the anomaly of the 

single course that has three credits outside the core of the program. In 

practice, this course has been taught at 4 credit hours for some time. 

2.

The Selected Topics (896), Directed Readings (897), M.A. Thesis (898) and 

Ph.D. Thesis (899) numbers were changed to three Selected Topics numbers 

(911), (912) and (913), to three Directed Readings numbers (921), (922) and 

.

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(923), M.A. Thesis to (991) and Ph.D. Thesis to (990). The numbers for 

M.A. Essays (998) and M.A. Project (999) that are presently being used by 

the Registrar's Office will be included in the Calendar. 

3.

Two sentences were deleted from page 231 (See Attached) regarding screening 

examinations. 

4.

The following sentence was added to page 231 under Ph.D. Program, Degree 

Requirements, 1: Students specializing in Economics and Business 

Administration must include WON 803-3 and 804-4 or 806-4 as part of their 

course work. (See attached.) This change legitimizes the practice of the 

program in the past. This change has been discussed and is acceptable to 

the Faculty of Business Administration. 

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GRAD ECONOMICS - Helene Michaels

Arts—Economics

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mafly, the Graduate Admissions Committee will specify the appropriate addi-

tional requirements at the time of admission.

Degree Requirements

The MA Program allows throe options:

The Thesis Option: Core wont plus two ECON or SUE

C graduate

courses and an original thesis;

The Extended Essay Option: Core work plus four ECON or BUEC

graduate courses and two extended essays;

The

Project Option: Core work plus five ECON or BUEC graduate

courses and a research project.

NormaUy. every MA program will include the following:

Core

Course Work

Students must satisfy the department that they have achieve

a satis-

factory level of competence

mlcrOCC000iSiC theory, macroeconomic

theory, quantitative methods and mathematical economics. Except

whore students have successfully undertaken equivalent work al-tile

n.dergradUste level-er in graduate work at another university, the

requirements regarding mlcroeCOflOmlcs will be mot by completing

either ECON 802-3 and 803-3. or ECON 804-4. Students with an

inadequate background In mlcroeconOntics may be required to take

ECON 7994 (no graduate

either ECON 805-4 or 806-4. The requirement regarding

mathematical economics will be

met

by completing the undergraduate

course ECON 331-5 (no graduate credit). Since the tatter course Is a

prerequisite to all required graduate courses, incoming graduate stu-

dents are normally requIred to enrol

It In their first term, or to pass a

pro-announced screening examination on

material

covered In It.

(Information on the material currently covered In this course/exam may

be obtained directly from the department.) The quantitative methods

requirement will be met by completing ECON 8354 or 837-4.

Area Course Work

A mlnhnum of eight (thesis option), sixteen (extended essay option), or

twenty (project option) additional credits of approved graduate course

work In the student's woe(s) of interest. This area course work may be

drawn from ECON and BUEC graduate courses, or, with the pormis-

slonof the Graduate Program Chairman and Supervisor, from graduate

courses In Business Administration or other subjects.

Evidence of research and writing ability met by the satisfactory comple-

tion of one thesis, two extended essays or one research project. The

form of these research papers must meet the standards set out In the

general regulations section.

An oral examination covering the student's written research, In partic-

ular. and program,

general, as outlined in the general regulations

ECON 900 (research workshop) is a required course for all students

who are on campus and registering In ECON 090-orOOg(thesia).

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Ph.D. Program

Admission RequpmefltS

For noqulren'sertts, rotor to the

general regulations

section. In

addition, for clear admission the department requires an MA degree with

graduate work in the core areas equivalent to ECON 802-3, 005-4, and

835-4. Any deficiency in the core areas must be met by taking the appropriate

course(s) in addition to the course work normally required for the Ph.

todelerInIflO any doilciofloy. In certain cases, students may be transferred

Into the Ph.D. program from the M.A. program altar meeting the core and

credit requirements for the M.A. (a total of sixt

credits of course work beyond

the BA honors

will

be required (or such a Ph.D. program).

Degree Requirements

The Ph.D. program allows specialization In economics, economics and

business adminIstratIOn, or economics and a related discipline. Normally.

every Ph.D. program will Include the following:

1. Successful performance In approved courses amounting to a lotaf of

at least thirty semester hour credits beyond the requirements listed

above for the MA

Economics. Students spoctalizing in Economics

must Iricludo ECON 803-3, 804-4 and 8064 as part of their course

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