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SENATE 

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From SENATE GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE 

GRADUATE ? 

PSA CALENDAR ? 

Date DECEMBER 7, 1973 

CHANGES 

To_......

Subject

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

S.74-5

MMOIDUM

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve, as set forth in S.74-5, 

the following change in degree requirements 

for the PSA Department: 

Delete: 'A graduate student's main concentration will 

be on a thesis and not on formal course work. 

For the M.A. degree, minimum requirements are 

four one semester courses and a thesis. For 

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the Ph.D. degree, requirements are one course 

and a thesis, excluding seminars. This course 

may extend beyond one semester's duration and 

is designed particularly to equip the candidate 

for his research and thesis.' 

Add: ? 

'A graduate student's concentration will be 

both on a thesis and formal course work. For 

the M.A. degree, minimum requirements are five 

one semester courses and a thesis. The require- 

ments for the Ph.D. degree for students with a 

Master's degree are three courses and a thesis. '" 

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 

To: Members of Senate 

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From: Office of the 

Dean of Graduate 

Studies 

Subject: PSA Calendar Changes 

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Date: December 7, 1973 

The following motion was approved by the Executive 

Committee of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee 

at their meeting on December 3, 1973, and is now 

being forwarded to Senate for approval: 

MOTION: That Senate approve the following change in 

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degree requirements for the PSA Department: 

Delete: "A graduate student's main concentra- 

tion will be on a thesis and not on 

formal course work. For the M.A. 

degree, minimum requirements are 

four one semester courses and a 

thesis. For the Ph.D. degree, 

requirements are one course and a 

thesis, excluding seminars. This 

course may extend beyond one semester's 

duration and is designed particularly 

to equip the candidate for his research 

and thesis." 

Add: ? 

"A graduate student's concentration 

will be both on a thesis and formal 

course work. For the M.A. degree, 

minimum requirements are five one 

semester courses and a thesis. The 

requirements for the Ph.D. degree 

for students with a Master's degree 

are three courses and a thesis. 

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Jon Wheatley 

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Dean of Graduate Studies. 

S IMON FRASER

UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

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Dean of Graduate S LuG les

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Grad1latc Studies ComnLittee.

Subject.

Faculty ......

. Chairman Graduate Studies

CorL1Li:Lo.e

of Arts

Date ...

30th Novenlbar,. 1973.

The P.S.A. Department passed a motion on the 13th July 1971 to the effect that

the minimum degree requirements for the M.A. degree will be five courses, two of

which could be reading courses, plus a thesis for a total of 35 credit hours; and

for the Ph.D. a total of three courses, one of which could be a reading course, plus

a dissertation for a total of 25 credit hours.

Th:Ls decision by the department is more stringent than the calendar entry which

requires only four courses plus a thesis for an M.A. and one course and a thesis

for the Ph.D. degree.

The department was under the impression that since these requirements are more

; ijjigt than the general University requirements, no Senate approval was necessary.

However, since the department wishes to have the. requirements included in the calendar

and since it has been informed by the Dean -that Senate approval is necessary, I would

like 'to request the Executive Corrunittee of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee gives

approval to this change in requirements for

graduate

degrees in the P. S.A. department.

The reasons for stiffening the requirements in 1971, reasons by the way which we

still find to be valid today, were that the department systematized its areas in 1971

such as to include:

Theory'

Methodology

Social Cultural and Political Organizations

Social Psychology (with an emphasis on the social.)

Area Status

The

Department felt that in order to give students cin adequate opjrtunity to

cover these areas at least five courses were necessary. Today the Department feels

more strongly than ever that five courses constitute the minimum for a well preared

B.A.

student to attain the level of competence which we feel is essential for the H.A.

level.

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same applies to the Ph.D. level. I sincerely hope that the Faculty of

Arts Graduate Studies Corrmittee and the Executive Con'mittee of the Senate Graduate-

Studies Committee will agree with this.

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