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Members 

Senate    

...............................   

From

.......Office 

.

..

the....De.an...of...Graduate ... S.tudies 

Subject ?

Graduate Cur 

.

iQu .   

ange.. - ...Master 

of Natural Resource Program 

Date......

June 

.17,1980............................................................... 

MOTION:

That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board, as set forth in S.80-100 the revision 

title 

and course description for 

MP.M 601, 602, 611

and M. 

MOTION:

That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board, as 

set

forth in 

S.80-100 

the new Graduate 

.

?

Course, 

MRM 651 -

Project Evaluation. 

These changes were approved by the Executive Committee, Senate 

Graduate Studies Committee, at its rieeting on June 

16, 1980.

Bryan P. Beirne 

Dean 

Graduate Studies 

nvn/ 

attachs. 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

.......................

MiSs

.... 

M.....Mdi

From........

.. .

.Th

om as 

.

..

W

i çalvert, Dean 

W

A j

.

ant

..ar...fcrG4uate 

?

c14.;y....of Interdisciplinary Studies 

Studies 

Subject ............

çurriculnh 

.

angesin 

Date 

4-APP. 1980

At its meeting on Monday, June 2, the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies 

Graduate Studies Committee approved the following items related to the 

Master of Natural Resources Management Program: 

1.

Revision of title and course description for MRM 601, 

602, 611 and 612. 

2.

New course proposal for MRM 651 - Project Evaluation. 

Details of the changes are attached. Please place these items on the agenda 

of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee. 

Thmas W. Calvert Dean 

IWC:jk 

.cc: J.C. Day 

B. Beirne 

Attachment 

JUN

598O

MtS

OFFICE

Al

ALL DESK

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

Torn Calvert, Dean 

..... ? 

ipinai' Studies 

Subject..

MI3I

Course .?yisip.rs....................... 

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?

New Course Proposal 

From...

Chad ..Directo.? 

MRH Program 

Date. ?

...1980

Enclosed are the revised course descriptions for MRM 601, 

602, 611 and 612 and the new course description for MIf 651 which 

were approved by the FIDS Graduate 

Coninittee 

yesterday. 

JO: rw 

cc: Edith Thimsen 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

.........

.MM . ccc

u

i i . vc. 

•COmitte.     

.

From

..........

Ihiector. ? 

?

................................................. 

?

1Piram 

?

Sub

jed

Date

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The titles and brief calendar descriptions of MRM 601 and MRM 602 

r

should be changed in light of the experience during the first year of 

A. ? 

MIV1 601 

1. Title 

Delete old title: Natural Resources Management Seminar I 

Add new title: Natural Resources Management I: Theory 

and Practice 

2. Course Description in Calendar 

Delete old description: The study of disciplinary and 

interdisciplinary approaches 

to natural resources planning 

with anemphasis upon critically 

evaluating models and criteria 

of assessment. 

Add new description: 

?

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary 

theory and principles for. natural 

resources analysis and planning. 

B. MW 602 

1. Title 

Delete old title: Natural Resources Management Seminar II 

Add new title: Natural Resources Management II: Advanced 

Seminar 

2. Course Description in Calendar 

Delete old description: Advanced discussion of research 

and planning methodologies with 

review and evaluation of student 

research in progress. 

Add new description: ? 

A review of selected policies, 

programs, and problems related 

to natural resources management; 

review and evaluation of student 

.

?

research. 

Chad Day 

Tm.

.

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

To ............1114

Execu.. 

Lye

Ciflee ? 

.

Fvom....Raflda..M,.Peterman

Subs 

d........

cqcir .

cqge.s

.....................

Cal...... ?

.P y .

....................................

The titles and brief calendar 

descriptions of 1114

611

and $14 612

should be changed

to more adequately reflect course content. 

A. ? 

1114 611 

1.

Title 

Delete old Title: Resources Biology I 

Add New Title: Population and Q*mity Ecology 

2.

Course Description in Calendar 

Delete old Description: 

?

A. review of population, culity 

and

ecosystem ecology; planning, 

conducting 

and

reporting of ecological 

surveys. 

Add new Description: 

?

A review of population, community 

and

ecosystem ecology; iilicatins 

of these areas for methods of resource 

management 

and

environmental assessment. 

11 612

1. Title

Delete old Title: Resources Biology II 

Add new Title: Menagement Models of

Biological Resources 

2.

Course Description in Calendar 

Delete old Description: 

?

Concepts of biological resources 

and resource management models. 

Examines sone of the "classic" 

cases of mismanagement. 

Add new Description: 

?

Methods of constructing simulation 

models and their uses in resource 

management and decision making. Case 

studies 

envirolfrntal modelling 

with emphasis on biological resources. 

Randall M. Peterman 

aii

cv.'" 

,CON 

_200 

szm mum uiim

DspStIMaster

of Iatural 

Resçurces

anaament__CISS ITiuS 

MRM 651 

Project Evaluation 

The course will examine the role, limitations and methods of 

benefit cost analysie. Different measurement techniques will be applied 

to the estimation of a ranqe of benefits and costs. 

Mrket

and. nnn-mrke 

MMMWWI

ktI.StSd veU.$I_1020 

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will th 

g

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firei be .Uv.'e_81-3 

?

am elves will do 

4oWM

be SMISdIl Once a year. 

Benefit cost analysis 

is a

basic pd widel 

y

usd tool of anolied economics. 

The course will provide familiarity with 

the advantages and limitations of 

various estimation maods and 

will

giv

pr-Fii' in hir

BAR

,Mg

Currently 

some 

topics related to benefit cost analysis are covered in 

Econ. 362 (Economics of Natural Resources). Introduction of this co%zrse will 

teb Vacvity vser viii 

.saiiy t.sch

the

, W

oo l 

Dr. Jack L. Knetsch 

i.c

are the heds 

oc.r

i*i*usa.e

of

?

esrw 

_

1/4 of Jack Knetsch' s time 

has been requested. 

A re 

thsr. 

sufficient Library rcoos&r.s. (sou.nd 

d.tsii.)t

Ajpou4e4' a) 

Otitns

of the Cure. 

An tMtcMios of

the oo.,.tcocs of the Vacuity .sr to 

st y

o

the course. 

c)

Library r..ovvou. 

*nv.4z t*,ors.tai Graduate

$tuL.e 

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Pecuity O.'uUs 

$tntM

ttc..s 

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Vacuityi 

2

_Date 

Senate Graduate Studies Coitt.e2 _ 

Senitsi 

Dates______________ 

lu

MW 651-3 ? 

Jack L. Knetsch 

Project Evaluation ? 

Fall 1981 

COURSE OUTLINE 

Text: ? 

E.J. Mishan, Cost Benefit Analysis, 2nd 

ed.

1975. 

Topics: 

Role and uses of benefit-cost analysis 

Accounting stance 

Rents and consumer's surplus measures 

Market priced benefits and costs 

Imputed benefit measures: irrigation project 

Indirect measures: capitalized values 

Non-market benefits 

Treatment of externalities - pecuniary technological 

Discounting 

Criteria 

Projections 

Efficiency and distributional goals 

JLK:rw 

May 1980 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

To............

Marian 

.

McGinn, Asst. to 

Registrar 

From... 

Rhonda Whitwell 

.

, Secretary 

Graduate Studies 

?

MRM Program 

Subject ......

.MRM Course Revisions 

?

.Date 

.... 

JUIi

.

198. 

MNew course Proposal 

Library resources regarding MRM Course Revisions and New 

Course Proposal is as follows. 

Course Revisions 

MRM 601 

MRM 602 

?

The revisions to these courses will not require 

MRM 611 ? 

any additional resources from the Library. 

MRM 612 

New Course Proposal 

MRM 651 ? 

The attached information was received from the 

Library today. 

Rhonda Whitwell 

/rw

Attachment 

25 June 1980 

SFU

LIBRARy

COLLECTION 

EVALUATION

(10

be

completed only 

for

c

urse orproram proposals,) 

?

Course No, and Name or Program; 

?

M 651.. 

Date

be offered: 

?

Fall !81 

2. Resources currently in collection: 

Bibliography ? 

No. and 2 of titles 

.

?

available; 

80

Related materials in genera' collection; 

Monographs: 

Serials Subscriptions: . 50. 

Backfiles: 

?

. ?

.•

.25. 

Other; 

1^1

3, Recommended additions to collection: 

(Indicate approx. no. of titles, vols., 

date, as appropriate) 

Monographs; 

?

normaj.

purchase 

New serials subscriptions; not necessary 

Serials backfjles; .notnecessry 

Other (specify). 

Total 

4. ? 

Comments: 

?

.

Library resources are sufficient to support this course with 

normal

expenditure during the year. Further documentation is 

available, from the subject librarian. 

Fo?.Li'brary ? 

.

?

For Faculty 

ilepartment

.