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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

FACULTY OF 

INTERDISCIPLINARY 

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STUDIES 

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PROPOSED COURSE-. G.S. 30.475 

RICHARD WAGNER: THE RING OF THE 

Date. ?

JUNE 16, 1977 ? 

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MOTION: 

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"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, as set forth in s.7781, the 

new course G.S. 304-5 - Richard Wagner: The Ring 

of the Nibelung." 

(This course was approved by the Faculty of Interdisciplinary 

Studies and considered by SCUS at two meetings, with attention 

being given to the prerequisites for the course, the credit 

hours assigned and the nature of procedures in presenting the 

course to students, with answers to their enquiries satisfactory 

to the Committee. The course has been successfully presented 

earlier on a non-credit basis. SCUS approved waiver of the time 

requirement to permit offering of this course from 78-1). 

SCUS

77-2Z

SIMON

FRASER

UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

Mr. H.M. Evans, Registrar 

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From ?

J. ?

Blanchet, 

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Secretary 

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Secretary, Senate Committee on 

Faculty of Interdisciplinary StU4ieS. 

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 

Subject

Undergraduate Studies 

I.S.C. ? 

772, ? 

G

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304-5 ? 

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Richard  

Date. ?

April 27, 

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1977

Wa

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ner: The Ring of the Nibelung 

Attached is the above-noted course proposal. Would you please place this 

on the agenda of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies for 

consideration. 

This proposal was originally submitted March 22, 1977 and is now being 

resubmitted with the additional information requested (I..S.C. 77-2(a)). 

Correspondence regarding Library resources is also attached. 

Jet Blanchet 

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Attach. 

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SENATE (X)*tITTFE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

NF.3J CXfliRSE PROPOSAL FOR!

calendar -Information ? 

Department: 

General Studi 

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— Abbreviation Cods: 

G.S. 

Course Number* 

304

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Credit Hours: 

5

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Vector: 

3-2-0 

Title of Course: 

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Richard Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung 

Calendar Description of Course: 

An Interdisciplina 

ry

Study of Wagner's monumental 

Series of Music dramas collectively known as "The Ring". The aim of the course is 

to integrate four principle levels of ii*estigation: (1) Wagner and Western Europe 

in the 1840 

1

s; (2) 

Wagner Prose; (3) The use of allegory in "The Rings" and (4) The 

psychological implications of "The Ring". 

Nature of Course 

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A lecture/seminar presentation of "The. Ring of the Nibelixig" 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

45 credits 

What course (courses) 

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it any, is being dropped from the calendar it this course is 

approved: 

2.

Schedulin g 

now frequently will the course be offered? 

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once/year 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

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1978/1 

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

possible? ? 

Dr. Alan Aberbach 

Objectives of the 

To

Course 

integrate 

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the above four levels into a unified synthesis using 

the music dramas of the Ring as the 

comm 

denominator. 

4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

(stipend) 

Staff 

Library ? 

($500.00) 

Audio Visual 

Space 

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Rental

of Vancouver Opera Association facilities. 

Equipment 

5. Approval 

Date:____________________ 

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). 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 

G.S. 3014-5 

Richard Wa 

g

ner: 

THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG 

January 1978 

A. D. Aberbach 

I.c.C.

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7- 1 (,-)

SCOPE: 

This interdisciplinar 

y

course will focus on Wagner's monumental series of 

four music dramas collectively known as 

Der Ring des Nibelurigen (The Ring 

of the Nibelung). 

AIM: 

Wagner's thought-out ideas on music, drama, politics, ethics, aesthetics, 

society, economics, religion, history, psychology, mythology, and meta- 

physics found their final synthesis in the prose and music of his music 

dramas. 

The aim of this course is to examine the interaction of Wagner's ideas as 

they are reflected in and manifested by 

The Ring of thb NibelUflg. 

PRERE&UIS ITES: 

There are no course prerequisites, as such; however, since many disci- 

plines will be called upon, it is recommended that students have completed 

45 credit hours of university level work before taking this course. 

Note: this course does not assume any background in music. 

TEXTS: 

Required: The Schirmer edition of each of the four librettos ($2.00 each) 

Das Rheingold TThe Rhine Gold), Die Walk 

'

re (The Valkyrie), Siegfried,. 

GtterdITIflerUflg (The Twilight of the Gods) 

Recommended: 

G. B. Shaw, 

The Perfect Wagnerite 

R. Donnington, 

Wagner's Ring and its Symbols 

PROCEDURE: 

This course will meet once a week for three hours. In addition, students 

will meet with me privately, on a weekly basis, to discuss the progress of 

the research paper. 

GRADES: 

Grades will be determined on the basis of the research done for each private 

weekly meeting, the quality of the final paper, the term paper conference, 

and the final seminar in which your research will be shared with others in 

the seminar. 

OFFICE HOURS: 

Office: 6008A.Q. Telephone: 291-3758 

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Office hours: to be determined 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

To...

Mr. H. Evans 

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From.

T. W.

Calvert ? 

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Registrar 

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. .Defl, Interdisciplinary .Studies 

Subject..

Vector, for G.S 

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304-5

(See SQJS 77- 

21 ) 

Date.

June 7, 1977 ? 

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At the SQJS meeting on May 30 I undertook to clarify the rationale 

for the proposed 3-2-0 vector for G.S. 304-5. The course outline states 

that class will meet on a regular basis for the equivalent of about three 

periods and appropriately results in a vector component of 3 (150 minutes). 

Professor Aberbach tells me that the vector component of 2 for the tutorial 

component is intended to reflect individual meetings which take place with 

every student in the class. He expands on this in the third paragraph of 

his memo dated 18th April (ISC 77-2(a)) which is attached to the course 

proposal form. 

7/dL

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T. W. Calvert 

TWC: my 

c. c.: Dr. A. Aberbach 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Weinkam, computing Sciences 

.......................... .From.. 

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Alan Aberbach 

Subject.

R. Wagner & GS 

304-5

Date.

18 April 1978 

Thank you for your call the other day. I am enclosing a revised course outline 

for GS 

30+5

and I believe this will answer several of your technical questions. 

I taught a preliminary version of this course for VCC, and on the basis of the 

results I have modified certain ideas. Originally I believed that it could be on 

the 100 or 200 level, but the course is indeed "heavy" and by placing it on the 

300 level, and by requiring a background of 45 credit hours of university level 

work I am assuming that those who will register for the course will have had a 

degree of sophistication that is necessary for this course. The greatest thrust 

in the course relates to a careful examination of the prose, and in this regard 

all the component parts interrelate: the philosophical, psychological, etc. 

For your information, I might mention that the musical part of each seminar has 

never exceeded 42 minutes, for each 21/2 hour seminar (enlarged to 3 hours). 

The major purpose of meeting with students individually is because their back- 

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grounds are so varied. Term papers topics are assigned, after consultation with 

each student, so that only 2 or 3 maximum relate to the same discipline. There- 

fore when they meet for the final presentation of their major findings it is 

truly interdisciplinary in design while each student has the opportunity to work 

in detail in the area of his/her special interest. I find this final seminar 

enormously exciting as it integrates all the component parts. Therefore, 2 or 3 

may work on the historical forces at work (Wagner's part in the Dresden uprising, 

Wagner's sense of history, Wagner's relationship with Bakunin, etc; others will 

work on Wagner and Nietzsche,LisZt, etc; others on Jung's psychology and Wagner, 

or Wagnef-'s attitudes toward religion, nature, science, etc. 

Since most students will work in areas related to their major discipline it is not 

entirely necessary to have an extensive collection o'4brary materials. I have 

requested $500 to cover the 8 volume edition of Wagner's prose works, plus several 

other key sources, i.e. Ernest Newman's four volume Life. One recorded version of 

The Ring is also necessary, from which tapes will be available for students. However, 

major financial outlays are unnecessary because students will be able to use the 

Wilson library at UBC, at any time. 

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Blanchet, Secretary 

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From ? 

Larry Thom s, 

Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies 

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Collections Librarian 

Died

New Course Proposals 

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Date ?

March 8th, 1977 

I apologise for the dela 

y

in our

respondin g 

to these proposals. 

Generally, the ibrary is 

preprec1 

10 support both G.S. 304 - 5 and 

Kin 485 - k. We have 

all

the

tJes cltp4

for the course on the 

Hflgit

except Don ington which is either now or out of print, and we have been 

collecting materials related to the physiolo 

g

y, medicine, and technology 

of underwater diving. 

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