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Following action taken by the Senate Committee on Under-
graduate Studies at its meetincon October 24 and November
7,
1978,
the following changes in title, description and prerequisites
for English
372-4
are presented to Senate for information only:
i)
Change in title from "Creative Writing" to "Creative
Writing
A";
ii)
Addition of a description as follows:
Seminar Workshop in Creative Writing for students
who have an interest and some writing experience
in poetry, fiction or drama. The emphasis
of the course may vary from semester to
semester.
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iii) A change in prerequisites from "Permission of the
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Instructor is also required" to
Students may take both Engl
372
and
373
in
any order, but may count only one of them
towards English Honors or a Major or Minor
in English. Permission of the Department
is required.
(B)
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Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting on November 7 gives rise to the following
motion:
MOTION
That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board
of Governors of the new course Enqi
373-4,
Creative
Writing B as set forth in
S78-132.
Footnote. The action of SCUS in (A) is in accordance with the
authority delegated to SCUS by Senate
(S78-10).
N.R. Reilly
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Mr. H. M. Evans, Secretary
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CURRICULUM CHANGES - ENGLISH
Sheila Roberts, Secretary
Faculty of ArtsCurriculum Committ
October 12, 1978
Attached please find the curriculum changes from the Departments
of English and Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. These
changes have been approved by the Faculty of Arts Curriculum
Committee at its meeting of September 28, 1978.
Would you please put these on the agenda of the next SCUS meeting.
Thank you.
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S. Roberts
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Sheila Roberts, Secretary
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Date.
October 31, 1978
The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee at its meeting of
October 19, 1978 approved the attached changes and a new
course proposal for the Department of English.
Would you please place these changes on the agenda of the next
SCUS meeting.
Thank you.
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S. Roberts
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Attachments:
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
CALENDAR CHANGES
1979 -1980
page 131
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ENGL 372-4
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Description Added:
Seminar-Workshop in creative writing for
students who have an interest and some
writing experience in poetry, fiction or
drama ?
The emphasis of the course may
vary from semester to semester.
Prerequisites: Permission of the
is required.
Rationale: The department has found that students
require more detail regarding this course, because
of its specialized nature.
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Et'GL
372-4
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TITLE CHAtGE
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From:
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Creative Writing
To: ?
Creative Writing A
PREREQUISITE ADDED
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Students mar take
both
EIGL
372
and
373,
in any order, but may count only one of ther
tmiards English Honors or a major or minor
in English.
ENGL
373-4
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
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See Appendix B
RATIONALE:
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See Appendix B.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
APPENDIX A
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Calendar Information
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Department
ENGLISH
Abbreviation Code:
ENGL ?
Course Number:
372 ?
Credit Hours:
14
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Vector: 0-14-0
Title of Course:
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Creative Writing A
Caindar Description of Course:
Seminar-workshop in creative writing for students who have an interest and some writing
experience in poetry, fiction or drama. The emphasis of the course may vary from semester
to semester.
Nature of Course
Seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
General Pre-requisites: As for all upper division
courses in English. Particular Prerequisite: Permission of the ?
AetIs
required. ?
Students may take BOI'H ENGL
372
and ENGL
373, in any order, but may count only one of them
tcwards
Enli(sh
Honons or a major or minor
in
E
That cours courses), if any, is being droppe
the calendar if this course is
approved:
None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
. possible?
Objectives of the Course
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5.
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Department Chairman
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Dean
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Chairman, SCUS
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u'S 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
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course outline).
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
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APPENDIX B
Calendar Information ?
Department
ENGLISH
Abbreviation Code:
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Course Number: 373
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Credit Hours:
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4 Vector: 0-4--0
Title of Course: Creative Writing B (English
372
will, with the introduction of English
373,
be titled Creative Writing A)
Calendar Description of Course:
Seminar-workshop in creative writing for students who have an interest and some writing
experience in poetry, fiction or drama. The emphasis of the course may vary from semester
to semester.
Nature of Course
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Seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
General Pre-requisites: As for all upper ci'rsion
courses in English. Particular Pre-requisites: Permission of the
Pep
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iis
required.
Students may take BOTH ENGL
372
and ENGL
373,
in any order, but may count only one of them
towards English Honors or a major or minor in English.
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?
1 out of 3
trimesters
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 793
or 80-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
Professor Bowering, Candelaria, Kearns, Lambert, Mills and Sullivan.
Objectives of the Course
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
None
Staff ?
None
Library
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None
Audio Visual
None
Space ?
Seminar Rooms
Equipment
5.
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Which Courses will be offered less frequently:
English
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Objectives of the Course.
With the addition of ENGL 373, students will be able to
take more than one course in creative writing, whereas at present
the student with a serious interest in writing is limited to one
course. ?
The content and emphasis of the course are at the discretion
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of the instructor, but student demand for work in particular
genres will likely affect the instructor's choices.
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The course,?
like ENGL 372, will be in workshop or seminar form, and will study
the process and development of the students' own writing, and the
problems associated with the creative process.
We are granting credit towards the English major, minor, and
honors requirements in English courses for only one such course,
although a second course may be applied to general credit require-
ments for graduation. The majority of the Department feels that
we would reduce the students' range in historical and theoretical
courses if we were to allow two creative writing courses to apply
toward our 32 hours major requirements, 16 minor requirements and
52 honors requirements. ?
But there is considerable demand from
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students (in our own and other departments) for work in creative
writing, and our faculty include.s a number of important Canadian
writers who are both eager and competent to meet this demand.
There are precedents for the move to an upper level course which
carries general elective credit:
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in DLLL, literature in translation
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courses exist for the general enlightenment of students both within
and from outside the department, but do not allow major or minor
credit in the specific language and literature of the major or
minor.
It should be noted that the instructor must give permission
for enrollment. ?
Normally this will mean that the instructor will
look at work previously written by the student in order to deter-
mine his or her seriousness and level of accomplishment. The two
courses (ENGL 372, and the proposed ENGL 373) are not sequential
in the sense that one would have to be taken before the other,
although it is possible that a student beginning a substantial
work of fiction, poetry, or drama in one course could develop it
further, with continued guidance, in the second.
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Because it is?
unavoidable in such courses, where a creative writing program
as such does not exist, that students will have arrived at various
levels of accomplishment, we do not propose to make one course a
prerequisite for the other.
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Less accomplished students should
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benefit not only from the guidance of the instructor but from
reading the work and hearing comments from the more accomplished
students.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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attachment to course description
change - English 372
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Department of English
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English 372 will now be called English 372, Creative Writing A. No change
in prerequisites and no change in objectives which were approved in 1975.
Change in course description is required to clarify relationship to the new
English 373, Creative Writing B. The calendar description provides more precise
information about the genre possibilities which may be treated and more precise
information about entry into the course.
Following the entry for English 372, Creative Writing A the entry for English 373,
Creative Writing B will occur.
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Then following this entry the following
statement will occur:
Students may take both ENGL 372 and 373 but may
count only one of them towards English Honors or
a major or minor in English."
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