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3.87-73

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Senate

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FROM: ?

J.W.G. Ivany,

Chair, SCAP

SUBJECT: Graduate Curriculum

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DATE: ?

Nov.19, 1987

Changes - Business Admin.

Reference: SCAP 87-44

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

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the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.87-73 a

change in Area name for the Business,

Government and Society Area to Policy Analysis

Area"

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Simon Fraser University

• FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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MEMORANDUM

October 19, 1987

TO:

Marion McGinn, Secretary, SGSC

FROM:

Debbie Walker, Administrative AssistantY

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Agenda Item for SGSC

The Faculty of Business Administration's Graduate Curriculum Committee

has approved a change in name for the Business, Government and Society

Area (BGS) to Policy Analysis.

Rationale: Members of the BGS Area desire to change the Area's name to

something more descriptive of the Area's purpose. The best rationale for

the existence of BGS - and the existence of analagous divisions within

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most business faculties - is to provide courses in integrative policy

analysis. Most of the Area's course offerings can be divided into one of

the following categories: business policy (the study of internal strategic

decisions made by managers) and public policy (the study of the external

constraints on business decisions imposed by the market, legal and

political environments).

Secondly, the Faculty of Business Administration is well aware of the

confusion generated by using the acronym BGS to describe two different

programs in two different Faculties. BGS is used by the Business,

Government and Society Area in Business Administration and the Bachelor

of General Studies program in the Faculty of Arts. We seek to eliminate

this confusion.