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CALENDAR REGULATIONS
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I. MUGRIDGE, CHAIRMAN
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Date AUGUST 21, 1972
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"That Senate approve changes in the English
Department calendar regulations, as set forth
in Paper S.72-101, with the changed regulation
to read as follows:
MAJORS IN ENGLISH
Normally a Simon Fraser University English major
shall obtain credit or standing in five lower
division English courses, as follows:
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a) Any two of English 101, 102 and 103;
b)
Both of English 202 and 203 (or 111 or 201 in
place of either);
c)
Any one of English 101, 102, 103, 212 and 225 -
or transfer credit for some English course
which has no direct equivalent at Simon Fraser
University. Composition courses of a purely
remedial nature are not accepted for transfer
credit and therefore do not satisfy this
category.
English majors with 60 transfer credits, including
12 in English satisfying all or part of both
category a) and category b) above, will be given
an automatic waiver of lower division English
requirements, and may immediately enter the majors
program. Students with 57 transfer credits may be
given the same waiver on application to the department,
at its discretion. Applications must be made before
registration if practicable; otherwise at least one
day before the end of the course-change period.
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A student may declare an intended Major in
English and come under the guidance of the
Department's advisers at any time, but his
declaration shall not be considered official
until that semester in which he attains his
61st academic credit. Before or during that
semester, at preregistration or later, he
should make a formal Declaration of Major to
the Department.
In his upper level studies an English major
may follow either Plan A or Plan B, for a
minimum of 30 credits In 400-range English."
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CHANGES IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT?
CALENDAR REGULATIONS
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SENATE 'COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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AUGUST
21, 1972
The Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies has
approved proposed changes in calendar regulations for the
Department of English, as set forth in SCUS
72-20,
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recommended by that Department and the Faculty of Arts, and
recommends approval to Senate.
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At its meeting of July 13, 1972, the Faculty of Arts carried
the following motion:
"That the changes in the English Department Calendar
entries as detailed in Paper P.72-3 be adopted."
A copy of paper F.72-3 is attached.
D. H. Sullivan
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CHANGES IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CALENDAR REGULATIONS
At its meeting of June 29, 1972, the Faculty of Arts
Curriculum Committee approved changes in the Department
of English Calendar regulations to be included in the
1973-74 edition of the Undergraduate Calendar. A com-
plete text of the Calendar revisions will be circulated
in a separate document to all Faculty for approval at
a later date.
One change included in the Calendar submission is
believed to be one that would be of considerable bene-
fit in
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commodating transfer students who have done
all or most of their lower level studies in regional
colleges or other external institutions. The Faculty
of Arts Curriculum Committee would like to strongly
recommend that approval of this proposal be expedited
so that the new regulation may be implemented in the
Fall, 1972. The Faculty of Arts is therefore asked to
vote on this section as a separate proposal at this
time.
The proposed Calendar regulation reads as follows:
MAJORS IN ENGLISH
Normally a Simon Fraser University English major shall
obtain credit orstanding in five lower division English
courses, as follows:
(a)
Any two of English 101, 102 and 103;
(b)
Both of English 202 and 203 (or Ill or 201 in
place of either);
(c)
Any one of English 101, 102, 103, 212 and 225 -- or
transfer credit for some English course which has no
direct equivalent at Simon Fraser University.
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position courses of a purely remedial nature are not
accepted for transfer credit and therefore do not
satisfy this category.
English majors with 60 transfer credits, including 12 in
English satisfying all or part of both category (a) and
category (b) above, wi I I be given an automatic waiver of
lower division English requirements, and may immediately
enter the majors program. Students with 57 transfer credits
may be given the same waiver on application to the department,
at its discretion.
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pplications must be made before regis-
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ion If practicable;
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otherwise at least one day before
the end of the course-change period.
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A r;tudent may declare an intended Major in English and
came under the guidance of the Department's advisers at
r]ny
time,
but his declaration shall not be considered
official until that semester in which he attains his 61st
academic credit.
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Before or during that semester, at pre-
registration or later, he should make a formal Declaration
of Major to the Department.
In his upper level studies an English major may follow
either Plan A or Plan B, for a minimum of 30 credits in
400-range English.
Justification
The Department of English feels that the rights of
English departments in B.C. regional colleges to set
their own curricula should be respected and that students
coming to us from them should not be penalized by enforced
conformity with an entirely rigid system here. It recog-
nizes a huge variety of texts proper to the study of
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literature, and a diversity of suitable approaches to them,
and accepts that exact equivalence between an English
course here and an English course elsewhere is a rarity.
It feels that before entering upper division English
courses, its majors should have done some study of modern
literature in its various forms and some survey studies
of earlier literature, but that the precise amount of each
need not be rigidly observed. It therefore proposes two
measures to relax its present requirement that its majors
have credit or standing in three modern literature and two
survey courses.
First for the benefit of those students who have done a
substantial portion, but not all, of their lower level
studies elsewhere, it will modify its present prerequisites
to two of the three modern literature courses plus both the
two survey courses plus any one other of its own lower
division courses or any other transferable English course.
Although this change may have been speeded by the department's
concern over transfer students, it would probably have come
soon anyway. It will necessarily apply equally to those
students who do all or most of their lower level English here
and represents, not a weakening of the Department's standards,
but a recognition of the validity of certain ancillary English
courses given here and elsewhere.
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A problem arises regarding remedial writing courses. The
department does not advocate credit for its own writing
course, English 001, which it considers something more
than remedial. It continues close study of writing courses
given elsewhere, and is disposed to recommend transfer
credit for them only if, as often, they intimately involve
studies in literature as literature,
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it seeks more infor-
mation on writing courses proposed or used in U.B.C. and
University of Victoria wherein a student receives credit
in English if he attains a certain grade but is not charged
with a failure if he does not.
Second, for the benefit of those students who have done all,
or nearly all, of their lower level studies elsewhere, the
department proposes to drop its prerequisites entirely and
in lieu of them to accept any four transferable lower
division English courses. Although this change must apply
to all students of that status, wherever they come from,
the department chiefly views the B.C. regional colleges in
making it. The Department of English regards it as a move
toward a system which, with co-operation and accommodation
among all post-secondary educational institutions in B.C.,
will make two years work in any one of them acceptable as
two years work in any other, without loss or loose ends.
