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SENATE 

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Proposed New Courses: 

Department of English 

From ?

Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies 

Date ?

January 24, 1978 

Action taken by the Senate Committee on Under- 

graduate Studies at its meeting of January 10, 1978, gives 

rise to the following motion: 

MOTION 

That Senate approve, and recommend approval to 

the Board of Governors, the new courses 

ENGL 300 (Old English I: Introductory Old 

English) and ENGL 301 (Old English II: Advanced 

Old English), as set forth in S.78-15 

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D. R. Birch 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

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NEW. COURSE PROPOSAL FORM 

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Calendar 

Information ? 

Department: ? 

English 

AbbrevLation Code: ENGL 

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Course Number: 

300 ? 

Credit Hours: 4 ? 

Vector: 2-2-0 

Title of Course: Old English I: Introductory Old English 

Calendar Description of Course: 

The study of the basics. of the Old English language and the reading of 

several texts of relative simplicity. 

Nature of Course Lecture/tutorial 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

Any 2 of ENGL 101, 102, 103; 

1 of ENGL 204, 205, and 206 or. 

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former ENGL 111, 201, 202, & 

203. 

Students with credit for 

ENGL342..may 

not take this course for further 

credit. 

What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: ? 

ENGL 302 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? 

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Every 1ou,.Itl6emester 

Semester in which the course wl1 first be offered? 

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

possible? ? 

H. De Roo and J. Gallagher 

ObjectivesoftheCourse 

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To give the students a sound grounding in the 

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English language sufficient to allow them to experience several 

classic texts in the language of the literature and in the terms particular 

to the culture of its origin. A primary objective is to allow the students 

to go beyond the experience.of their own translation of the material in 

order to experience the texture and movement of the material in its own 

language. 

4.

Budgetary 

and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

none 

Staff ? 

none 

Library ? 

none 

Audio Visual 

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none 

Space ? 

as enrollment requires 

Equipment ? 

none 

5.

Approval 

Date:  

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Department Chairman 

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Dean 

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Chairman, 

SCUS 

S'US 

73-34b:-- 

(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 

73-34a. 

Attach course 

outline). 

Oct. 

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English 300 

Sample Course Description 

Old English I: Introductory Old English 

This course offers a unique and provocative literary experience. 

We shall be looking at the earliest English poetry, written in a rhetoric 

which belongs to a heroic way of looking at the world, one which derives 

from a martial, pagan, Germanic culture. Yet the poetry was composed by 

Christian Englishmen. The two traditions thus fused within a single poetry, 

each rich in associative range, resonate in the complexity of the language 

which expresses them both, and yield a literature of peculiar power. 

This literature is composed in a form of English not immediately 

accessible; the first part of the course, therefore will be devoted to 

learning its grammar, and translation will be a major exercise throughout. 

At the same time as we learn the grammar we shall be reading prose 

texts of relative simplicity. In this way we shall make the grammar 

intelligible by examining its patterns at work in the language itself. 

We shall then advance to the poetry, which is the central area of interest 

of this course, the main effort of which will be directed to encountering 

the poems in their own language and in their own terms. These considerations 

are fundamentally critical and interpretative as well as philological, a 

fact we shall bear constantly in mind. 

Required Texts: 

Davis, Norman, ed. 

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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer 

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Oxford, 1975 

Quirk, Randolph, & 

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An Old English Grammar ? 

Methuen, 1971 

Wrenn, C.L. 

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Whitelock, Dorothy 

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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader 

Pope, John, C., ed. 

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Seven Old English Poems 

Texts in order of consideration: 

1.

From the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Primer, I. 

2.

Old Testament Pieces. Primer, II. 

3.

'Cynewulf and Cyneheard'. Reader, I. 

4.

The Battle of Maldon. Reader, XXI; Pope, 

pp.

16-27. 

5.

The Fall of the Angels. Reader, XXII. 

Course Requirements 

There will be regular grammar tests throughout the course. 

There will be a final examination. 

Oxford, 1975 

Bobbs-Merrill , 1966 

SENATE

COMMITTEE

ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

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NEW

COURSE

PROPOSAL FORM

Calendar Information 

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Department: 

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English 

Abbreviation Code: 

ENGL 

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Course Number; ? 

301

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Hours: 

4

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Vector: 2-2-0 

litle

of Course: 

Old English II: Advanced Old English 

Calendar 

Description

of Course: 

Intensive 

study of several Old English poems. 

Nature of Course Lecture/tutorial 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): Any 

2 of ENGL 

101, 102, 

103; 

1

of

ENGL 204, 205, and 206 or 

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former ENGL 111, 201, 202, 

and

203; ENGL 

300; 

or permission of the Department. 

What 

course (courses), if 

any, 

is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

none 

2. Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? 

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Every o'lsemester. 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

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Which 

your present faculty would be available to make 'the proposed offering 

0

possible?

H. De Roo and J. Gallagher 

Objectivesof

the

Course

To extend English 301 by providing an intensive study of several Old English 

poems. The acquisition of a thorough understanding of the poems, and a 

meaningful response 

to their literary quality will be a major consideration 

of the course. 

4.

Budgetary

and

SpaceRequirements (for information only)

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty

none 

Staff none 

Library ? 

none 

Audio

Visual ? 

none 

Space ?

as enrollment requires 

Equipment ?

none 

5. Approval 

Date; ? 

/lJ/\,1977

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La,

Department Chairman 

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Dean 

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Chairman, 

SCUS 

ScUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

Attach course outline).

Oct.'73 

English 301 

Sample Course Description 

Old English II: Advanced Old English 

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This course provides an intensive study of some Old English poems. 

Our concern is the acquisition of as thorough an understanding of them 

and as meaningful a response to them as is possible from a twentieth- 

century position and identity. We shall be occupied as well with conditions 

of composition and performance, two considerations inseparable from response 

and interpretation. 

Required Texts: 

Pope, John C. 

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Seven Old English Poems. 

Bolton, W.F. 

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An Old English Anthology 

Texts in order of consideration: 

1.

The Poet Caedmon. Bolton, 1. 

2.

The Wanderer. Pope, pp. 28-32; Bolton, 20. 

3.

The Seafarer. Pope, pp. 33-38; Bolton, 21. 

4.

The Ruin. Bolton, 23. 

5.

The Wife's Lament. Bolton, 10. 

6.

The Husband's Message. Bolton, 11. 

7.

Deor. Pope, pp. 39-40. 

8.

The Dream of the Rood. Pope, pp. 9-15. 

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Maxims. Bolton, 12. 

10.

Riddles. Bolton, 3. 

11.

The Runic Poem. Bolton, 5. 

Course Requirements 

There will be a paper of substantial length. 

There will be a final examination. 

Bobbs-Merrill, 1966 

Northwestern, 1967 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

Chairman, Curriculum Committee 

Faculty of 

Arts 

Subject

ENGL 300 & 301 Course Proposals 

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Dr. Jerald Zaslove 

Chairman', Wrgraduaté ... Stud 

Department of English 

D8fO...0\mb, 28, 1977 

Addendum to Course Proposal from English submitted November 9, 1977 per your 

request to elaborate on point 2. 

Although one new course is being proposed no new faculty are required. 

Essentially one course is being divided into two courses which will be taught 

in sequence. The sequence will be as follows: 

78-3 ? 

English 300 

79-1 ? 

English 301 

79-2 

79..3 

80-1 

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English 300 

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80-2 English 301 

etc

This is a slight revision of the information provided you. Essentially the 

course will be taught in staggered sequence once every four trimesters. The 

graduate course in Anglo-Saxon and the other courses in the 

,

literature of the 

middle ages will be able to be taught under the flexible curriculum which we 

have. Essentially it is a matter of deploying faculty and planning their 

teaching accordingly. Sufficient faculty are available. You should know that 

our undergraduate curriculum is a new one, in existence for less than two 

years, and will 1undergo a review during this year. At that time we will be 

considering whether to eliminate or merge certain courses, but meanwhile our 

planning indicates we can add this course with available 

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faculty. 

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JZ/ksni 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

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Chairman, Curriculum committee 

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From

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Jerald 

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Chairman, Underraduate Studies 

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............Department ..of...Engi.i.sh 

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Subject..

ENGL 300 & 301 Course PrOPOS.is 

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Date ...... ......

.November 9.1977 

The Department of English wishes to institute a second course in Old 

English. At the present time we have one course, a' beginning course 

in the basics of the language. Should students wish to continue beyond 

the basic course they have been forced to take the graduate course 

(see SFU Calendar, 1977-78). A number of considerations have compelled 

us to reconsider the present way of offering Old English: 

3)

The course as it stands misrepresents the range of \ 0L" 

literature available from the eighth to the elevent 

centuries. No other upper levels period course inthe 

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programme is forced to spread itself out so thinly. \ 

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Furthermore, no other course has to devote precious \ 

time to linguistic concentration, without which the 

literature is inaccessible. 

4)

We fear that the present follow-up into 801 will vitiate 

801 as a graduate course, since those students who have 

an interest in this period and who go on to graduate 

studies at Simon Fraser will likely have taken it as an 

undergraduate option. 

The department voted overwhelmingly to establish the two courses. I 

also note that the course has proven of interest to the students. Even 

though the course as presently given is demanding the enrollment 

increased. It is our assessment that the present English 302 does not 

do justice to the field, nor does it allow students to do justice to 

their own accomplishments by limiting them to the one course. 

1)

The students are reluctant to abandon skills so newly 

acquired and as yet so rudimentary. The material is 

of sufficient literary interest that the last time the 

course was offered, several students expressed the 

desire to go on. 

2)

The course as it stands is of necessity extremely taxing, 

out of proportion to the work demanded by other courses. 

If there were two courses, the first could be devoted 

to a more solid foundation 

in

the grammar and to the 

mastery of fewer texts The second course would be of 

more profit from the standpoint of literary criticism, 

since the first perforce does not get far beyond the 

elementary problems of translation. 

JZ/ksm 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

SheilaRoberts, Secretary 

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Faculty ...f .rs      

Committee 

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Secretary to th.Deanof .S.ci.nc 

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Subject. ? 

CourseOve..ap ..-.,English 

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Date ...... .December 2 

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I write in response to your memorandum of November 18, 1977. 

The following New Course Proposals have been circulated to 

the members of the Faculty of Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: 

ENGL 300-4: Old English I: Introductory Old English 

ENGL 301-4: Old English II: Advanced Old English. 

To date, no course overlap has been reported to this Office. 

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• SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Sheila Roberts, Secretary 

Faculty of Arts Curriculum Comm. 

Subject.....

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Proposal 

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Eng. 300-. 

and Eng. 301-4. 

From

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Undergraduate Curriculum 

Chairman, Education. 

Date .....

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.19.77........................ 

This is in response to your memorandum of November 18th, 1977 

regarding possible course overlap of English 300 and 301 with courses 

in the Faculty of Education. 

There is no conflict between these courses and any we offer in 

Education. 

Office '- ?

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DEC 619fl

Faculty of Ar

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM 

SCUS

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As amended by SCUS

January 10, 1978

Mr. H.M. Evans, S3cretary 

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Secretary 

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Faculty 

tyc.A,r,t,,sC.u.r.r.i.c.0..urnCorn.ittee 

Subject ...

N.eW ...u,r,s. .... .Pr..o.po..sa.1.s. .... . ..... EN.GL 

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Date ........

January 5..97.7 

and ENGL 301 

I am attaching two new course proposals from the Department of 

English which have been approved by the. Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee at its meeting of November 17, 1977 and, subsequently 

circulated to all Faculties for overlap consideration. ? 

The

Library has indicated that its resources are adequate to mount these 

courses. 

The Department is proposing to divide an existing course into two 

courses, to enrich the material offered, and to drop the existing 

course from the calendar. 

Please put these courses on the agenda of the next SCUS meeting. 

Thank you. 

In

Shei1aRobe.t-s-'" ) 

cc. Dr. D. Birch, Assoc. Vice-President, Academic 

Dr. J. Zaslove,Assoc. Chairman, Department of English 