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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

SENATE 

AREA STUDY ELECTIVE COURSE LIST 

ADDITIONS 

R. C. BROWN, ACTING DEAN 

DIVISION OF GENERAL STUDIES 

APRIL 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate delegate to the Senate Committee 

on Undergraduate Studies the authority to act on 

the recoimnendation g 

of the area study steering 

committees in the Division of General Studies 

regarding the addition and/or remission of 

existing departmental courses to their list of 

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electives, and that further action by Senate 

not be required." 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Senate. . ..... ... ........... ........ .... .........

A/Dean, Divis ion of General Studies

Subject ....

April 25th, 1972

The three area study programs within the Division of General

Studies were organized under the concept that they would each have a core

of interdisciplinary courses which would be required of all students enrolling

in them, but that the majority of courses would be drawn from existing

departmental

offerings, recommended by the appropriate Steering Committees

and approved by Senate.

Since all of these courses had previously been subjected to the

approval of Senate and its appropriate committees when approved as

departmental offerings, detailed descriptions of them were not required for

their inclusion within the area study programs. During the time since

initial programs were approved, the Steering Committees have recommended

that other courses be added to their approved lists. Some of these are new

courses that departments have added to their programs, some were merely

overlooked when the original lists were compiled. It seems superfluous that

the titles of these courses need be brought before Senate for a second time

when the task could be delegated to one of its operating committees. Therefore,

I recommend that Senate delegate to the Senate Committee on Undergraduate

Studies the authority to act on the recommendations of the area study steering

committees regarding the addition and/or remission of existing departmental

courses to their list of electives, and that further action by Senate not be