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PROPOSED EXTENDED STUDIES DIPLOMA -
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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting of November 4, 1980 gives rise to the follow-
ing motion:
MOTION: "That Senate approve and recommend approval to
the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.80-142,
the proposed Extended Studies Diploma - Public
History, including:
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Required Core Courses - 12 credit hours
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Optional Courses
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Overall program requirements, and
admission requirements."
The proposal for an Extended Studies Diploma - Public History
complements the proposal for the Certificate Program in Public History
which already has been approved.
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Sheila Roberts Secretar.
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The attached Extended Studies Diploma Program in Public History
was approved by the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee at its meeting
of October 23, 1980. Would you please place this program on the agenda
of the next SCUS meeting.
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The attached Diploma program in Public History has
been approved at a meeting of the Department of History.
It complements the Certificate Program which has just
received approval from the Universities Council. As
you know, the new courses required for these two programs,
HIST 301, 302, 303, have received approval of Senate.
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EXTENDED STUDIES DIPLOMA PROGWM - PUBLIC HISTORY
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The Extended Studies Diploma Program offers those who already hold a
bachelor's degree an opportunity to develop and follow a program of indi-
vidualized study not usually provided by graduate or professional degrees.
The program responds to rapidly changing educational needs, where mid-
career advancement or changing career goals demand new knowledge and
skills; it also affirms the established values of general education, of
learning for its c'n sake.
The proposed Extended Studies Diploma in Public History is a special contin-
uing education program in historical study as it is practiced in non-academic
settings - in museums, archives, government agencies., cultural societies,
conservation authorities, businesses, families, and other public and private
institutions. The field is an established one in which strong traditions
in scholarly, professional, applied, and avocational activities flourish.
It is also one in which new academic programs for professional public
historians are being developed and where. employment opportunities look
promising.
In
this community, there is demonstrated interest in and need for public
history instruction. The three courses offered by We History Department
in heritage conservation, archives methods, and museums use, taught initially
on an experimental basis, have had substantial enrollments. The sumner
internship program organized in connection
with the courses has successfully
placed students with local institutions and individual researchers. Community-
based professionals welcomed the program and have participated in it with
enthusiasm.
Moreover, the
particular
history of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, its
context of rapid growth and development, presents a field rich in possibility
for the
public historian. The area has
a strong ethnographic and archaeological
tradition
on
which to build. But even the most casual research reveals the
limits of specialized study in other. areas. It is exciting to imagine, for
example, a history of BC's coal industry in the present context. The useful-
ness of professional histories of some of B.C.'s institutions, such as this
University, is self-evident. The program would encourage such projects.
As a course of study, the Extended Studies Diploma Program in Public History
offers students an opportunity not currently available elsewhere for ordered
and sequential study based academically in the University's established
undergraduate courses in Canadian and public history.. (Another comiunity
education option, the Certificate Program in Public History, is also available
for those who may not have a University degree.) It combines core courses
in history with optional ones in related disciplines, and it recognizes the
importance of applied skills by requiring appropriate work experience,
internship in the Public
History
Program,
or completion of a special project.
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Required Core Courses (12 credit hours)
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MIST
301-3 Herit
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MIST 302-3 Archival Methods
MIST 303-3 Museum Methods
MIST 432-3 The Canadian West
Optional Courses,
MIST 385-3 Canadian and B.C. Art
MIST 424-3 Problems in the Cultural History
of
Canada
MIST 428-3 Problems in the Social and Economic History of Canada
MIST 434-3 The History
of
Native People in Canada
ARC 301-2
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Prehistoric and Primitive Art (B.C.)
ARC 372-5
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Archaeology Laboratory Techniques
CMNS 330-5 Communication and Cultural Form I
CMNS 361-4 Documentary Research in Communications
CMNS 362-4 Field Methods in Communication Research
CMNS430-5 Communication and Cultural Form II
GEOG 344-3 Geography of Modern Industrial Societies
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GEOG 346-3 Geography
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GEOG 375-3 Historical Geography I
GEOG 475-5 Historical Geography II
To fulfill
the, optional course requirement, students may, upon the recommendation
of
the Program Steering Committee, elect a' course not included among
listed options, but with content appropriate to the. program.
Program Requirements
Thirty credit hours
of
third and fourth year coursework, or graduate level
courses
if
appropriate
Of those 30 credit hours, twelve are to be taken in the set of core courses
described in the curriculum
An internship in the Public History Program or appropriate documented work
experience is also required.
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Program completion within five years
of
admission. Most students are
expected to finish within two or three years. Students must maintain
a grade point average of 2.5 on courses used for the Diploma
Admission Requirements
A bachelor's degree with a graduation grade point average
of
2.0 from a
recognized university or equivalent
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A statement
of the
student's objectives in undertaking the program
Students are required to meet the University's admission deadlines for
undergraduate students
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