Senate 

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Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies 

November 15 1979 

Discontinuation of Course: 

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PSYC 

....407-3................... 

Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies at its meeting of October 30th, 1979 gives rise to the 

following motion: 

MOTION 

That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, the discontinuation of Psyc. 407-3 

(Evaluation Techniques). 

Note - In November 1973 Senate approved paper S73-125 which 

included the following provision: 

"Issue 3. ? 

Proliferation of Course Offerings 

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That any course not offered within a six semester period be 

deleted from the calendar unless adequate justification for 

retaining the course is presented to the Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies and Senate. 

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The Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies to be charged 

each 

semester with review- 

ing course offerings under 

this 

ruling 

and

making appropriate 

recommendations to Senate." 

The most recent review identified 66 courses which had 

not been taught for at least 6 semesters. 

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Of these 

departments indicated the need to retain 65. 

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One

intention of Senate in approving the provision for 

deleting from the calender courses which had 

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not been 

offered for two years was to insure that a student 

reading the calender could have some reasonable assurance 

that courses listed therein would be offered on a more 

or less regular basis. 

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The first time the procedure 

was applied quite a few courses were deleted but one 

might question the value of maintaining this particular 

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Nov.15/79 

procedure in view of the amount of energy expended and 

the scale of the outcome. The Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies intends to consider whether 

there may not be better means of achieving the purpose 

of conveying accurate and useful information to students 

through the University calander. 

Daniel R. Birch 

Chairman 

DRB/pa 