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SENATE                 

From

SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

$TImIES ......................................... 

Sublect... DLLL,. NEW .COURSE....LATN. .11 

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r3 ...........Date. . . NOVEMBER . 2.6,..19 80 ........................... 

Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies at its meeting of November 25, 1980 leads to the following 

motion. 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to 

the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.80-167, 

the proposed new course LATN 101-3." 

The Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, subject to 

approval of the course by Senate and the Board, granted waiver of 

the time lag requirement in order that this course may be first 

offered in Spring 81-1. 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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From. ?

C. Brown, Dean• 

Facultyof.-Arts ..................................................... 

Date ....

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November. 25,1.980 .................

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Attached is a proposal for a course in Latin which we would like to 

offer in the 1981-1 semester. We recognize that our request is unusual, 

but the DLLL has received a petition from some 20 students asking that 

the course be offered at that time. 

Since the course is of obvious academic merit and there can be no claim 

of overlap, I hope that SCUS will agree to add it to its agenda, waive 

the time lag requirements and allow the course to be offered. 

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Attach. 

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MEMORANDUM

Undergraduate 

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Curriculum Committees 

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Subject

.New Course Proposal - 

Latin 101-3 

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Date...

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The attached new course proposal is being dealt with in an extraordinary 

manner because there are students who wish to continue their studies in Latin. 

Therefore, we are going to attempt to have the course approved by Senate on 

Monday. We realize that this is violating countless procedures - and one of 

them is the overlap requirement. So I am sending the course to you now in the 

hopes that if you have any overlap concerns - are any courses taught in Latin 

in your Faculty - that you will contact me prior to the SCUS meeting this after- 

noon, and we will not attempt to put the course on the agenda. 

Thank you. 

S. Roberts 

Attachment 

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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL -

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From ?

Sheila Roberts,....Seer.tary

November .2,4,19.8.0.........................................

With the renewed interest in 1-lurnanities and Classics this Fall

in the Faculty of Arts, considerable pressure has been exerted on

the Humanities Coordinator to continue the Latin course which is

presently being offered. However, there is no second year Latin

course approved by the Faculty. Therefore, I have been asked by the

Chairman of the Committee to carry the request to approve the course

to

S.C.U.S. 

and

Senate on an extraordinary basis. To do this we 

need the prior

approval of the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee. 

Would you please read the attached material and, if you approve the 

course, please contact Sheila or Noory before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, 

November 25 (S.C.U.S. is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.). We will call all 

members who have not contacted us by that time.. 

/Ul^ 

S. Roberts

SR/md

MEMORANDUM

Subject... ...

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Date........

Further to recent discussions with Sheila Roberts, I am enclosing 

the recommendation of this Department to put on a Latin 101 course in 

Spring 1981. 

As mentioned elsewhere, it was originally this Department's intention 

to offer two semesters of Latin but due to the lack of available faculty 

members, the course proposal for the second semester was never submitted. 

Now that Professor Richard Sullivan is available and willing to teach 

both Latin 100 and Latin 101, we are submitting an official course proposal 

with the request that it be approved by whatever accelerated procedure is 

available to enable us to put on this course in Spring. I am fully satisfied 

that the potential enrolment more than justifies this. 

To ?

Dr. R. C. Brown ? 

From

Dr. Neville J. Lincoln, 

Dean, ? 

Chairman, Department of Languages, 

Faculty of Arts. 

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Literatures Linguistics. 

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Dr. Neville J. Lincoln, 

Chairman, DLLL. 

cc: W.Roberts 

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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

Languages,-Literatures 

1.

C.jlendar Information 

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Departeut: and Linguistics. 

•Thbrevlatjon Code: LATN 

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Course Number: 101 

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Credit Hours:3 Vector: O-3-O 

Title of Course: ? 

LATIN 101 ? 

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Calendar Description of Course: 

Continuation of Latin 100. 

Nature of Course Classes are actually combination Lecture/Tutorial type-as best suited 

for the nature of the course. 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

Latin 

100 or permission of the Instructor 

What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this cou-&f-o is 

approved: 

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None 

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2. Scheduling ? 

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How frequently will the course be offered? At least once per year 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

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Spring 1981 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? 

R.D. Sullivan... In the kuture, possibilities-are B. Newton, W. Roberts 

St jv 

:sof the 

Co

urse 

Basic ? 

ion in the Latin language-grammar, vocabulary etc. Use of dictionaries 

and grammars to enable students to go beyond' present available final course. 

Aim - to achieve ability in reading various types of Latin texts after completing 

acquisition of knowledge of fundamental principles of Latian grammar. 

4. Ihidgetary and

Space 

-Requirements

(for information only) 

What additional resources will 

required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

Sessional Appointment for Spring 1981 only 

Staff 

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None 

Library 

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Audio Visual 

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None 

Space 

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Teaching Space 

- Equipment ? 

None 

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Date: ? 

November 

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Dcprmtnt Chairman 

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Dean ? 

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Chairman, SCtiS 

SUS 73-34:-

(Wh'n completing this form, for instrucrions 

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RATIONALE: Proposal for New Course - Latin 101 

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In October 1972 the then DML was considering establishing 4 courses 

in the Classical languages - Latin 100 and 101 and Greek (Ancient) 100 and 

101. However, due to obvious lack of faculty time availability, we had to 

decide to establish one course only, viz Latin 100, primarily in order to 

see what student demand there would be and secondarily to initiate what we 

hoped would eventually be a series of offerings linking with English, History, 

Archaeology, etc. 

Recent developments within SFU leading to a Humanities programme and 

increased interest in our Department, History, English, Archaeology, etc., 

together with the appointment of Prof. R. D. Sullivan and the obvious 

popularity of and further demand for Classical Languages courses from 

students, justifies the immediate formal proposal to the University of the 

establishment of Latin 101, to be followed soon by an official proposal of 

Ancient Greek 100 and 101. 

The DLLL, because of persisting lack of availability of faculty time to 

offer these courses regularly and in an optimal manner, strongly supports 

the request from other Departments such as English, History and from the 

Humanities programme that Latin 101 be proposed and taught by Prof. Sullivan 

as an initial step. See attached letter from Prof. Sullivan re Rationale. 

Structure of Latin 101 

Continuation of Latin 100 

Text: Second half of text used in Latin 100 

LATIN: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors, 

by F. M. Wheelock, Barnes and Noble (Paperback edition), 

New York, 1956 (3rd edition 1963) 

Latin 101 will cover the last 20 chapters of the set text at a rate 

of one chapter per two sessions. 

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THE RATIONALE FOR LATIN AND GREEK AT SFU 

A stron g 

case-for offering these two languages is now possible here. The high 

enrollment (53) in Latin 100 in the Fall term, 

1980,.

demonstrates unusual student 

interest. Many of these have asked for a course in the Spring term, 

1981,

and it would 

be good to assure them that at least by next year It would be possible to complete the 

usual sequence for first-year Latin. That would provide those wishing it transfer 

credit to U.B.C., whereas no provision exists there for recognizing a one-half course, 

as is the present Latin 100. 

Greek should 

also 

attract sufficient enrollment 

to justify its being offered, 

and for the 

same reason as Latin it ought to have a 101-level semester 

as well. 

Developments in several departments here make Latin and Greek Increasingly 

attractive. 

The new 

Humanities Minor 

begins with my HUN 302, "The Golden Age of 

Greece". A number of students 

in that 

course are also taking Latin 100 and others 

have ex-oressed an interest in Greek-. The Humanities brochure for next year will 

list Latin 100 and 101 as well as Greek 100 and 101 If they are passed; they would 

constitute part of-the "core" from which Humanities students are 

encouraged to draw. 

Two new 

history courses, History 

105

and History 216, nov desl 

with 

the

Ancient World. History 

105

drew an enrollment 

of about 130 this year, its first. 

History 216- ("The 

Ancient World") is exi,ected to 

have 

or more students. Both 

of these should "feed" courses in Latin and Greek. 

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the Spring, 

1981,

I shall offer Archaeology 

3311, "Introduction to Classical 

• Archaeology". Students taking that course, as well as some graduate students in the 

Department of 

Archaeology, will compose 

part of the group from which members will be 

,,

Archaeology". 

for the Naukratis Project 

in

Egypt. As the Director of the Canadian team for 

this joint Canadian-American expedition, I will encourage those interested in long- 

term service 

on the project to take Greek 

and probabl y 

Latin. Naukratis was a Greek 

city, with as well a long history in Roman times; its recovered artifacts include a 

large number of Greek inscriptions, as well as 

.a few Latin ones. 

Students interested in Greek papyrology, a ramification of this work, will be 

able to study Greek papyri with me should 

they develop sufficient knowledge of Greek. 

In 1977 I brought to Canada the International Photographic Archive of the papyri, so 

research materials are potentially available in plentiful amounts. This would of 

course require far more 

coursework 

than D.L.L.L. would at this point wish to consider, 

in Greek, but the 

availability 

of long-range goals might induce a number of students 

to begin the language. 

Finally,

courses in translation offering Greek and Latin literature exist or are 

proposed in a number of areas. English 226 is 

now

offered downtown as well as here on 

campus a course In mythology has been considered; Humanities may widen its offerings 

and in an 

y

case has other courses using classical materials; Philosophy has two courses 

offerin 

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translated ancient texts Pine Arts is consIderin a course in Greek drama. 

These will surely feed any courses In Latin and Greek that D.L.L.L. wishes to offer. 

If courses in classical literature In translation are to be added to current offerings 

here, rerhaps the:: should cone throu 

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h D.L.L.L.--but that is another question. 

Tn sum, the clImate on cam 

p

us has become rtht for Latin and Greek. Since I'll. - 

be here at least three years, I'd be happ:-' to teach them, if D.L.L.L. wishes. 

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Date. ...Novexaber.3..7,..1980,.......................... 

I have just been discussing with a student the possibility of setting 

up, within the Humanities Program, a Directed Studies course of some kind 

to make it possible for qualified students to work in areas not presently 

covered by our Calendar. What this student wanted, specifically, was the 

possibility of a second semester of Latin to be directed by Professor R. 

Sullivan. At the moment, we only have the one Latin course in the Calendar 

and, although we have plans to introduce a second semester starting next 

Fall, this is of little help to Dr. Sullivan's current students. I under- 

stand Dr. Sullivan has expressed his willingness to teach such a- course but, 

as far as I can tell, there is no way we can accommodate-it 

within

the

existing Calendar. Regardless of this specific case, I do believe It would 

be extremely useful to provide for this possibility withinhe Humanities 

Program. 

NJL/bg ? 

Dr. Neville J. Lincoln, 

Chairman, DLLL. 

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