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To

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STUDIES 

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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

at its meeting of April 24, 1984 gives rise to the following motion:- 

MOTION: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of 

Governors, as set forth in S.84- 28, the dhange in requirements in the 

Certificate Program in Health and Fitness Studies." 

Note: This motion is designed to delete the non-credit activities 

from the requirements for the Certificate Program in Health 

and Fitness Studies. 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM ?

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Ev.ans.,..Reg.ist.rar. .and...

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Secretary to the Senate Committea

Faculty of Interdisciplinary

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Committee

Subjed..DELEIIDN.UF.. NON r.CREDLT..ACII.VLTIE

Date..

March. 16.,. .l8.4............................

IN THE CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH AND

FITNESS (ISC 84-7)

At a meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee held on Tuesday, March 13, 1984

members of the committee approved the deletion of non-credit

activities from the requirements for the Certificate of Health

and Fitness.

Would you please place this item on the next agenda of

the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

Janet Blanchett ? 

Dr. G. Bhakthan 

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FIDS 

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Kinesiology 

7 March 1984 

Subject

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Date

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The Department of Kinesiology approved the following: 

MOTION 

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Delete requirement No 2 for CHF students 

No 2. Participation in at least 3 credit-free events selected 

from among several to be organized in conjunction with 

the credit component of the Program. 

RATIONALE: (see attached memorandum) 

N.M.G. Bhakthan 

CALENDAR ENTRY

PROGRAM

Revised 

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REQUIREMENTS

1.

The successful completion of at least 24 credit hours, with 15 of 

these 24 hours earned by completing: 

KIN. 100-3 Introduction to 

Human

Structure and Function 

110-3 Current Topics in Human Nutrition 

140-3 Contemporary Health Issues 

142-3 Introduction to Kinesiology 

143-3 Exercise Management 

with the remaining 9 or more hours selected from designated 

options (list available from the Department of Kinesiology or Contin- 

uing Studies), with at least 3 of those credit hours in Kinesiology. 

2.

Applicants must hold a current Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation 

(C.P.R.) Certificate. 

3.

Program requirements must normally be completed within 5 years 

of admission. 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Deparmen....i 

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.Health ? 

Certificate 

Program 

From ...

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Date...

8, 1984

As a consequence of a reorganization within Continuing Studies to 

partially accommodate to the new fiscal reality, we will not be able 

to provide as many hours for student advising and information giving 

and maintenance of students records for the University's certificate 

and diploma programs as we have to date. With respect to the Health 

and Fitness Certificate Program, I suggest the following: 

Continuing studies will continue to produce informational and 

promotional rniterial and distribute it throwih our normal channels. 

However, given the popularity of the program and the limited avail- 

ability of seats in lecture-based courses we will not undertake a 

major advertising compaign within greater Vancouver during 194. 

2. We will continue to provide "first line' informational services 

by telephone and in our general offices here and downtown (general 

nature of the program, mail out brochures and admission forms). 

We will not, however, be able to meet with students to discuss 

which courses they should take and when, job opportunities in the 

field, and the more general personal contact with students that 

tends to humanize one's passage through the halls of academe. 

Students will be referred to your Department for program specifics, 

scheduling, advising, graduation requirements, progress to date, 

etc. We will no longer maintain a transcript file on each student. 

A major consumer of time for those dealing with students in the 

Program is the advising about "accrediting", and accounting for 

the three special credit-free seminars or events required of stu- 

dents and th 

p

validation and recording of the cardiopulmonary 

resuscitation certificate. With respect to the latter, students 

utherwi,e el iyihle for graduation should submit the C.P.R. certi- 

ficate directly to your Department since your Certificate Adviser 

already reviews all other requirements for graduation. With res- 

pect to the credit-free events, I think now is the time to formally 

recommend that the requirement be dropped. Our experience with 

the Program suggests that the students embarking 

on the 

certifi- 

cate program only (i.e., not majors qualifying for the certificate 

as degree requirements are accumulated) are generally mature adults 

already active in the fitness field or with sufficient personal 

interest in the subject to have already participated 

in

the events 

that the original requirement was designed to meet. 

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In terms of process, my recollection is that we agreed at the last meet- 

ing of the Steering Committee to recommend to the Department that the 

credit-free requirement be dropped. If the Department approves, the re- 

commendation should go to the Faculty which, again assuming approval 

should 

then 

direct it to the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies 

(S.C.C.S.) and S.C.ti.S. Assuming concurrence by these Committees of 

Senate, S.C.U.S. would carry the motion to Senate. We should start the 

process now sc that Senate can address the question after Convocation 

in June but before we get too far into the Fall Semester 1985 

SC)

that we 

don't disaffect too many new or continuing students. I think the re- 

quirement should be dropped cleanly - i.e., students on stream huld 

not be required to complete it when new students are not. 

We are, of course, prepared to "record the non-credit events for those 

students likely to qualify for graduation this June and for those who 

are in the program as long as the requirement is in force. We will not, 

however, be able to write or telephone students to remind them that they 

have one or more of the requirements to make up if they wish to graduate. 

In short, students will have to be responsible for being aware of all 

the requirements for graduation. 

I've chatted briefly with Gordon Bhakthan about these changes. I would 

be pleased to meet with you and/or Gordon if further clarification or 

discussion would be useful. 

Finally, would you undertake to start the formal process to drop (repeal?) 

the non-credit requirements for the program (other than the C.P.R.). 

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D. Foth 

DF/hc 

cc:

J.

Blaney 