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DECEMBER 

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7, 1973 

GRADUATE STUDIES - DEPARTMENT OF 

MODERN LANGUAGES CALENDAR CHANGES 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve, as set forth in S.74-4, 

that LING 700-5 be graded on a Satisfactory! 

Unsatisfactory (S/U) basis." 

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 

To: Members of Senate 

Subject: Department of Modern 

Languages Calendar Changes 

From: Office of the Dean 

of Graduate Studies 

Date: December 7, 1973 

The following motion was approved by the Executive 

Committee of the Senate Graduate 

Studies 

Committee 

on December 3, 1973, and is now being forwarded to 

Senate for approval: 

MOTION: That Ling 700-5 be graded on a Satisfactory/ 

Unsatisfactory (S/U) basis. 

RATIONALE: This seminar is designed to equip the need 

of those students who have been admitted to 

the graduate program but who have no prior 

training in Linguistics, the purpose being 

to give such students sufficient background 

in Linguistics so that they may then be able 

to undertake graduate studies in Linguistics 

without further impediment. 

Jon Wheatley 

Dean of Graduate Studies 

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SGRADUATE CALENDAR 

p. 94 LING 

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Change in Description: Add: 

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700-5 ? 

Rationale for Grading on S/U Basis: 

This seminar is designed to equip the need of those 

students who have been admitted to the graduate 

program but who have no prior training inLinguistics, 

the purpose being to give such students sufficient 

background in Linguistics so that they may then 

be able to undertake graduate sudies in Linguistics 

without further impediment. 

We wish to institute the practice of recording the 

students' performance as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. 

The course is not part of the student's formal 

program of studies and carries no credit towards 

the degree. Our concern is simply to establish 

that the student is sufficiently advanced to embark 

on his/her program of studies; until that moment, 

the student will continue to work under the guidance 

of a supervisor or will be dropped from the program 

as unqualified to be admitted as a formal fully 

qualified graduate student in Linguistics. Since 

therefore the whole purpose of the seminar is to 

establish the student's qualification as a graduate 

student in Linguistics, since successful conclusion 

of the seminar merely indicates that the student 

can now embark on a normal graduate program, since 

unsatisfactory performance will prevent this, and 

since no credit is involved, it does not seem that 

the usual grading of A, B, P, F is in this instance 

appropriate and for this reason the Department of 

Modern Languages would like to substitute the 

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory system of grading. 

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