SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
MEMORANDUM
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GROUP REQUIREMENTS ?
MAY 17, 1979
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Actions taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its
meeting of May 15, 1979 give rise to the following motions:
MOTION I
"That Senate approve change in the Faculty of Arts
Group Requirements to include the following:
'Students may substitute. up to a maximum 6 hours of
courses taken in Group E for courses required in Group
A, B, or C.
The specific allocation to be as follows:
Fine and Performing Arts
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A
General Studies ?
A
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Communication ?
B
Criminology
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B
African/Middle East Studies
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B
Canadian Studies
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B
Latin American Studies
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B
Women's Studies ?
B
Kinesiology
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C
Computing Science
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C
Note: Only 3 hours can be substituted for any one
Group, within the constraint of a maximum of
6 hours from all Group E courses.'"
MOTION II
"That Senate approve change in the Faculty of Arts
Group Requirements to include the following:
"All Physical Geography courses (and courses which
transfer as Physical Geography or Geology) be
included as Group C. These courses are GEOG ill and
112, GEOG 313, 314, 315, 317 and 318, GEOG 413, 414,
415, 416, 418 and 419.
That these courses not count towards fulfilling Group
B requirements.
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That students in Geography be permitted to count a?
total of 9 hours towards the Group Requirements.
These 9 hours can be a combination of Group B and C
if desired.
That if a student counts Physical Geography as Group C,
these hours (up to a maximum of 6) will not be
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considered as Arts courses, and therefore will not
Count towards the 70 hours in Arts required for
majors or the 82 hours required for honors. This
applies only to Physical Geography Courses used
towards Group C requirements.'"
Norman R. Reilly
Chairman
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
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Harry .E.y.ars.,.. Secretr
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SCuS
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The attached two changes to the Faculty of Arts Group Reciuirements
were approved by the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee on
February 15, 1979, and have been rtified by referenda in the Faculty
of Arts.
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Would you please put these motions on the agenda of a future SCUS
meting.
Thank-you
cc N. Reilly
SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
MEMORANDUM
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Subject Change
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The current calendar states that certain Group E subjects can be applied towards the Faculty
of Arts Group Requirements (p. 92). Although the Faculty passed a motion to remove this
statement from the Calendar in the Fall 1977, it did not pass SCUS and was referred back to
the Faculty. In an attempt to establish a reasonable basis for such substitutions, the
Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee
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s passed the following motion:
That the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee allow students to substitute up to
a maximum
6
hours of courses taken in Group E for courses required in Group A, B,
or C.
The specific allocation to be as follows:
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Group
Fine and Performing Arts ?
A
General Studies
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A
Communications ? B
Criminio logy ? B
African/Middle East Studies
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B
Canadian Studies ?
B
Latin American Studies
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B
Women's Studies ? B
Kinesiology ?
C
Computing Science
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C
Note: Only 3 hours can be substituted for any one Group, within the constraint
of
a
maximum
of
6
hours from all Group E courses.
II. After intensive discussion regarding Physical Geography and its place in the curriculum for
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the B.A. and the B.Sc. degree in Geography, the Committee passed the following motions:
That all Physical Geography courses (and courses which transfer as Physical Geography
or Geology) be included as Group C. These courses are GEOG 111 and 112, GEOG
313, 314
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, 315, 317 and
318, GEOG 413, 414, 415, 416, 418
and 419.
That these courses not count towards fulfilling Group B requirements.
That students in Geography be permitted to count a total
of
9 hours towards the
Group Requirements. These 9 hours can be a combination
of
Group B and C
if
desired.
That if a student counts Physical Geography as Group C, these hours (up to a maximum
of
6) will not be considered as Arts courses, and therefore will not count towards
the 70 hours in Arts required for majors or the 82 hours required for honors. This
applies only to Physical Geography courses used towards Group C requirements.
The major concerns of the Committee in considering both these issues were that the structure of
the group requirements remain simple and clearly explicable to students and that no courses
should he countable towards more than one group.
