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Mr. H.M. Evans, Secretary of the 

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Dr. R.M. Sadleir 

Senate, Registrar's Office 

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Dept. of Biological Sciences 

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Y 14, 1974 

At its meeting of Monday, March 4, 1974, Senate passed the 

following motion: 

"That the determination of the appropriate relation- 

ship between credit and contact hours rest with 

departmental undergraduate curriculum committees 

subject to the approval of Faculty Curriculum 

Committees, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies and Senate." 

In the discussion of this motion I. Mugridge pointed out that 

this motion referred to the initial proposal of courses. 

Perusal of the Calendar indicates a considerable variation 

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of number of credits offered in different courses at S.F.U. with no 

constant relationship between vector numbers and course credits. As 

Senate in a subsequent motion at the March 4 meeting voted to eliminate 

vector hours from the Calendar, there appears to be no constant method 

whereby faculty or students can assess the relationship between credit 

and contact hours in the various faculties and departments. 

In order to draw attention to the variation in the credit/ 

contact hour relationship in the various courses offered at S.F.U. 

I wish to bring the following motions to the next meeting of Senate: 

1)

Senate requires departmental undergraduate curriculum 

committees to provide to the Academic Vice-President, or 

his designate, prior to the October meeting of Senate, 

for transmission to Senate prior to its first meeting 

in

1975, brief written statements of departmental policies 

on the relationship between credit and contact hours in 

all regularly scheduled undergraduate courses. 

2)

The Academic Vice-President, or his designate, report 

back to Senate prior to its first meeting in 1975 on the range 

of such policies as described in the previous motion and on 

the variations in the ratios of credit to contact hours 

in all regularly scheduled undergraduate courses, and make 

recommendations to Senate in 

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it of this information. 

R.M. Sadleir 

Associate Professor 

RMS : cb 

cc: Academic Vice-President 