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SENATE 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

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STUDTES......................................... 

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.MJUCAi/}1IDDLE .EAST.E1N. .STUDIES ......... . 

Date. . .

NOVEMBER. .12.,. .1980 

PROGRAM 

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies at its meeting of November 4, 1980 gives rise to the follow- 

ing motion: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, as set forth in S.80-158, 

I) Change of name of Program 

ii)

Creation of two minors: 

1. African Studies Minor 

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2. Middle Eastern Studies Minor 

iii) 

Deletion of ÂME. 001-3." 

FOR INFORMATION 

At its meeting of November 4, 1980, acting under its delegated 

authority, SCUS approved change of credits from 5 to 4 for ÂME 401-4 - 

Studies in Africa, and ÂME. 402-4 Studies in the Middle East. 

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SiMON FRASER

MEMORANDUM

UNIVERSITY

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Action taken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning at its 

meeting on 22 October 1980 gave rise to the following motion: 

"That S.C.A.P. approve modification of the 

Africa/Middle East Studies minor program." 

Would you please see that the proposed modification is placed on 

the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies. 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Proposal for a Restructuring of the 

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What follows is a slightly nodified version of a document which has been approved 

by the AME Steering Committee and the FIDS Curriculum Committee. The modifications 

were either suggested by those tM committees or by Mr. Evans, with whom I have 

reviewed the proposal. 

1. Introduction 

At its meeting of 20 March, 1980, the ÂME Steering Coninittee expressed general 

approval for a restructuring of the ÂME program along the lines suggested in this 

document. The Coninittee noted that while the individual courses associated with 

the minor usually attract adequate enrollments, students have not elected to 

qualify for the ÂME minor itself. Various nEnibers of the Committee expressed 

the view that part of the reason for this limited appeal may rest with the current 

structure of the minor, in particular its requirements for course selection from 

among both African and Middle Eastern content offerings. The proposal which is 

before you was designed to address this problem as well as one or two others. 

The suggested changes have no scheduling inplications, make no new demands 

on university resources, and do not constitute a curriculum revision in the way 

that term is normally applied. Those changes, great and small, are as follows: 

1.

Slight change of 

name 

to African/Middle Eastern Studies 

2.

The creation of two separate minors, African Studies and Middle Eastern 

Studies. 

The Steering Committee regards this as a necessary step. Neither 

faculty nor students have shown much interest in participating in 

both areas. The separation of the two will recognize existing 

reality. It will not create any barriers for the student committed 

to studying both regions and it may, in f4ct, encourage others to 

become involved in the region which most interests them, knowing 

that they will not be required to become masters of both in order to 

obtain a minor. 

3. The deletion of ÂME. 001-3. 

The Corrnittee now recognizes that in a curriculum which includes 100 

division courses such as HIST 151 and HIST 146, it is amistake to 

require, or even to offer, an 001 course. It has not played an 

integral role in our curriculum sequence. For example, in the current 

semester (80-3), the enrollment in HIST 151 (Introduction to the Ivbdern 

Middle East) is 139 and that in HIST 146 (Africa since the Partition) 

is 42. Students have not been attracted to these courses by previously 

taking ÂME 001. Hence, the original argument for 001, that it was a 

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kind of pre-100 division offering designed to draw students to the 

appropriate disciplinary courses at the 100 division, has not been 

proven in practice. 

4.

Credit hour change for ANE. 401 and AM. 402 

The Committee recommends that the credit hour value assigned to 

these courses be changed from 5 to 4 and that the courses have 

4 hours of weekly contact. By making contact hours and credit 

hours identical, ME. courses will follow the system now practiced 

by the departments which are the main contributors to ME. 

5.

Slight reduction of the lists of associated faculty and courses with 

ANE. content. 

The Comnittee believes that a realistic list of faculty and core 

courses is the most effective mathod of giving minor program a 

forceful identity. We wish therefore to strike from our calendar 

entry the names of those faculty and courses which have no direct 

bearing 

the program. 

WIC/et 

cc. J. Blanchet, UGC, FIDS 

C. Griffiths, Chin., UGC, FIDS 

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Proposed Calendar Entry 

AFRICAN/MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PR0(.AN 

Program Description 

By coordinating selected courses offered across several Departments, the 

African/Middle Eastern Studies Program provides students with an opportunity to 

develop an interdisciplinary concentration in one 

of two

areas of study. The 

curriculum includes two major languages, Arabic and Swahili, as well as optional 

course work in eight different departments, with particular emphasis on History 

and Sociology/Anthropology. The program leads to a minor degree in either African 

or Middle Eastern Studies. 

AFRICAN STUDIES MINOR 

Students must obtain nine hours of African content courses at the lower 

division as prerequisites. In addition, a minimum of 14 hours chosen from the list 

of approved frican content courses, including AME. 401, must be taken at the 300 

and 400 divire1P 

Tkkftes 

from students' major departments may be counted toward 

fulfillment of the upper division requirements of the African Studies Minor provided 

that students not count the sane courses toward the completion of both their major 

and their African Studies 

Minor. 

Courses with African Content 

The following course is offered under the direct sponsorship of the African/ 

Middle Eastern Studies Program: 

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401-4 Studies in Africa. 

A multi-disciplinary approach to selected topics in 

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(Seminar) 

Listed below are African content courses offered by various academic departments. 

Certain reading courses and selected topics courses may, with the approval of the 

Program Coordinator, be approved for an African Studies Minor. 

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Department of Archaeology 

ARC. 272-3 Archaeology of the Old World 

ARC. 385-3 Fossil Nan 

ARC. 473-3 Regional Studies, in Archaeology: Africa 

DepartnEnt of English 

ENTGL 362-4 Commonwealth Literature (with approval of the Program Coordinator) 

Department of Geography 

CEOG 464-5 Intertropical Africa 

tDartnent. of His to 

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HIST 146-3 Africa Since the Partition 

HIST 230-3 The Expansion of Europe 

I-lIST 231-3 The Collapse of the Imperial Order 

lUST 342-3 The History of Nigeria: An Emerging African 

I-LIST 344-3 East Africa 

HIST 346-3 Central Africa 

HIST 348-3 South Africa 

HIST 352-3 The l"bdem History of North Africa: From the 

to Independence 

HIST 473-3 Emergence of the Apartheid State 

HIST 478-3 The Transatlantic Slave Trade 

HIST 482-3 Colonial Administration and Nationalism 

I-lIST 483-3 Penetration of Zimbabwe 

Giant 

'Barbary' Corsairs 

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics 

SWAH 100-3 Introductory Swahili I 

SWAR 101-3 Introductory Swahili II 

Department of Political. Science 

POL. 339-3 Government and Politics: Selected African Nations 

POL. 433-3 Comparative Developing Systems 

Department of Sociology and Anthropology 

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Race Relations 

Anthropological Concepts 

Kinship 

Social Change in the Third World (with approval of the ProSrau 

Economic AnthroDolcev ? 

Coordinator) 

Political Anthropology 

Ethnography of Africa 

Liberation Movemsnts and Colonialism 

West Africa 

East Africa 

South Africa 

S.A. 203-4 

S.A. 270-4 

S.A. 332-4 

S.A. 363-4 

S.A. 368-4 

S.A. 369-4 

S.A. 374-4 

S.A. 463-4 

S.A. 475-4 

S.A. 476-4 

S.A. 477-4 

(with approval of the Program 

Coordinator) 

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MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES MINOR 

Students must obtain nine hours of Middle Eastern content courses at 

the lower division as prerequisites including ANE. 110 or AME. 112. I 

addition, a minimum of 14 hours chosen from the list of approved Middle 

Eastern content courses, including AME. 402, must be taken at the 300 and 

400 divi 

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fromstudents' major departments 

may

be counted 

toward fulfillment of the upper division requirements of the Middle Eastern 

Studies Minor provided that students not count the same courses toward the 

completion of both their major and their Middle EasternStudies Minor. 

Courses with Middle Eastern content 

The following courses are offered under the direct sponsorship of the 

African/Middle Eastern Studies Program: 

ANE. 110-3 An Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic I 

Basic structures and patterns of the modern 

literary language. Oral drills with practice 

in pronunciation are integrated with elements 

of reading and writing simple Arabic prose. 

(Tutorial/Laboratory) 

AME. 112-3 An Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic H 

A continuation of AME. 110-3 with greater emphasis 

on developing reading skills and fluency in the 

pronunciation of written texts. 

Prerequisite: AME. 110-3, or equivalent 

(Tutorial/Laboratory) 

ANE. 402-4 Studies in the Middle East 

The course focuses on topics of particular 

contemporary significance. In the past, these 

have included: Islamic Revivalism; Oil and 

Political Development; The Lebanese Civil War; 

Religious Minorities and Political Conflict. 

Prerequisites: One of HIST 151, 249, 251 plus 

one of lIST 350, 465, 466. 

(Seminar) 

Listed below are Middle Eastern content courses offered by various 

academic departments. Certain reading courses and selected topics courses 

not listed below may, with the approval of the Program Coordinator, be approved 

for a Middle Eastern Studies Minor. 

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Department of History 

lIST 151-3 The Modem Middle East 

lIST 249-3 The Islamic Tradition in the Middle East 

lIST 251-3 The Western Imperial Presence in the Middle East and North Africa 

HIST 350-3 Origins of the Modem Middle East: Continuity and Change 

from the ottoman Conquest of Constantinople (1453) to World 

Wan

HIST 352-3 The Modern History of North Africa: From the 'Barbary' 

Corsairs to Independence 

HIST 465-3 Religion and Nationalism in the 20th Century Middle East 

lIST 467-3 Change and Revolution in Modem Egypt 

Department of Political Science 

POL. 433-3 Comparative Developing Systems 

Deuartrrent of Sociology and Anthropology 

S.A. 363-4 Social Change in the Third World (with approval of the 

Program Coordinator) 

S.A. 369-4 Political Anthropology (with approval of the Program Coordinator) 

S.A. 463-4 Liberation Movemsnts and Colonialism (with approval of the 

Program Coordinator) 