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To ___________ 

SENATE 

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From_SENATE 

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COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

FACULTY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 

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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL - COMMUNICATI )NSJateNOVEMBER15,1973 

COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATION; 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve, as set forth in S.73-146, the new 

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course proposal for Communication Studies ..Z2-1- Computers 

and Communications." 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

Subject

SENATE 

FACULTY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL - CMNS 233-3, 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

Date ?

NOVEMBER 14, 1973. 

On the recommendation of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary 

Studies, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

has approved the new course proposal, - as set forth in 

SCUS 73-41 - for CNNS 233-3, Computers and Communications, 

and recommends approval to Senate. 

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

FromDr. R. C. . Brown....Dean,

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The attached new course proposal - CMNS 233 is forwarded to you for considera-

tion by SC US. Would you please place this on the agenda.

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• SENATE COMNITTFE ON 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

Communication Studies/ 

Calendar Information ? 

Department: _- ? 

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Abbreviation 

Code: CMNS Course Number:233 ? 

Credit Hours: 

Vector:2-1-n 

Title 

of Course: 

Calendar Description of Course: 

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Nature of Course 

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Lecture/tutorial 

Prerequisites 

(or special instructions): 

CMNS 100 and CMPT 118 

What course (courses), if any, is .eing dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

None 

2. Scheduling, 

How frequently will the course be offered? Every spring 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? Spring 1975 

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Which of your present faculty would be available to mike the proposed offering 

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possible? 

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Attached 

4• Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

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What additional resources will be required in the following 

areas: 

Faculty 

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Joint appointment, Computing and Communications 

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Staff 

None 

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Library ? 

See attached 

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Audio Visual None 

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Space ? 

None ? 

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Equipment None 

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5. Approval 

Date:           

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Department Chairman 

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Chairman, SCUS 

SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

Attach course outline). 

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Library: 

Holdings would have to be updated and maintained, eg.. by the 

acquisition of proceedings of relevant conferences such as 

The Royal Society of Canada Special Symposium on Communications 

Into the Home, Ottawa, 1972. 

The lEE Conference on Man-Computer Interaction, 1970 

The 3rd NRC Man-Computer Communications Seminar, Ottawa, May 1973 

and the appropriate reports of the Department of Communications, 

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oration and other 

agencies working in the area. 

COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS? 

Course Outline 

Introduction (4 lectures) 

The Information Explosion: Growth of Telecommunications and 

Computer Facilities. 

The Trends in Computer and Telecommunication Technology: 

integrated circuits, microprocessors, data networks, 

cable TV. 

Reactions of Industry and. Government: Telephone Systems 

and Government Department Studies. 

Brief Survey of Current Systems. 

Communications with the Computer (7 lectures) 

Terminals: man-machine interface, human factors; types, 

keyboard, graphical, audio, etc. 

Telecommunications: coding and modulation, channels and 

capabilities, performance and cost. 

Computer interface: communications hardware and software, 

man-computer dialogs. 

- The Computer in Communications (2 lectures) 

Switching, routing, resource allocation.- 

Computer networks and intelligent terminals. 

Current Information Systems (8 lectures) 

The Computer Utility, Time-shared computing. 

Airline reservations and other "point-of-sale" transactional 

systems. 

Management Information Systems and databank access. 

Text preparation and printing. 

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Real-time remote control; rapid transit systems. 

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Multi-media computer-aided-learning systems. 

Future Systems (S lectures) 

Interactive information retrieval, cable TV systems and 

the computer, computer-mediated teleconferencing. The 

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Wired City. 

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COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS READING LIST 

Instant World: A Report on Telecommunications in Canada. 

Information Canada. Ottawa, 1971. 

Branching Out: Report of the Computer/Communications Task 

Force. Information Canada, Ottawa, 1972. 

Communication. W.H. Freeman and Co. 1972. 

Information. W. H. Freeman and Co. 1966. 

Computer Usage Applications. E.A. Weiss (Ed) 

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. 

Telecommunications and the Computer. James Martin. 

Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1969. 

D.esign of Man-Computer Dialogues. James Martin. 

Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1973. - 

Computers and Communications - Toward' a Computer Utility. 

F. Gruenberger (Ed) Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1968. 

The Computer Impact. 

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Taviss (Ed). Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1970. 

The Cybernetic Society. R. Parkman. Pergamon Press Inc. 1970. 

Social Issues in Computing. C. C. Gotlieb and A. Borodin. 

Academic Press, Inc. 1973. 

Current periodicals, articles, and reports, eg. Electronics, 

Datamation, Bell Labs Record, etc. 

. Communication Studies. 

Title of Course: Computers and Communications 

Calendar Description 

An introduction to computer/communication systems. Topics include: 

Introduction: trends in computer and communication technology; 

industrial and governmental activity; brief survey of.existing 

systems. Communications technology: terminals for man-machine 

communications, types and characteristics; data communications, 

means and capabilities; requirements on computer hardware and 

software. The computer as a component in communication systems. 

Current systems: computer utilities; air-line reservations, 

banking, information systems; real-time remote control, etc. 

Future systems: universal information access and processing - 

the Wired City. 

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Objectives of the Course. 

The course is designed to provide the students interested in 

communications and computers with an introduction to the structure, 

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capabilities, and applications of computer/communication information 

processing systems. The goal is to give students an understanding 

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the technology, costs, and uses of such systems so that they may 

be in a position tobettér 

judge

the feasibility of proposed systems 

---ana tfleir probaDle 'impact-on C-anaian society. As well, the course 

is intended to provide a basis from which future detailed studies 

in the area may proceed. As indicated by the attached Course 

Outline, the course deals with hardware and software' aspects of 

communications with the computer; with the role of computers in 

communications; surveys several existing teleprocessing systems; 

and considers the possibilities for the future. 

Students will be expected to develop sources of information, to 

write a program simulating some aspect of the' subject, and to 

prepare a paper on a specific topic in the area. 

3b.

Relation of Course to Programs. 

The technology of both computers and communications is developing 

at a remarkable pace,and it has been predicted that the information 

processing power provided through the marriage of telecommunications 

and the computer will cause profound social changes in the near 

future. Since both communications and computers are areas of study 

in

the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, it is appropriate that 

students be given the opportunity to study the nature, effects, and 

problems arising from systems composed of computers and communication. 

This course, which provides the basis from which such'-studies-may'. 

Communication Studies 

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Title of Course: Compiiteis and Communications 

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proceed, gives the communications student the ability to consider 

the computer as acommunications medium and facilitator, and the 

computing science student to appreciate the role of teleprocessing. 

It is 

appropriate that the opportunity be provided for students to 

pursue the unique opportunity afforded here by a Communication 

Studies program interested in human communications and the social 

effects and uses of media and.Computing Science Program which is 

interdisciplinary in outlook. 

3c. Overlap with Other Courses. 

Rather than overlap with others, this course,\cojnplementary to 

those concerned with technology and society such as CMPT 260, CMNS 

230, and GEOG 001. 