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MEMORANDUM

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE

STUDIES

FACULTY OF ARTS - CHANGES -

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Date

NOVEMBER 15, 1972

MOTION: "That Senate approve, as set forth in S.72-135,

changes in requirements in the Department of English,

as follows:

1. Majors in English

Normally a Simon Fraser University English Major shall

obtain credit or standing in five lower division

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English courses as follows:

(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. Compo-

sition courses of a purely remedial nature are not

accepted for credit and therefore do not satisfy this

category.

A student with 15 transfer credits in English will be

deemed to have met the department's prerequisites for a

major in English provided some of those credits represent

studies in both category (a) and category (b) above.

Students deficient by not more than 3 credits in the

department's prerequisites

by reason of inadequate transfer

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credits or for other reasons may be accepted as English

Majors but must make up the deficiency. Such make-up

shall normally be attempted at the first opportunity,

but the department may permit its deferment to avoid time-

table conflicts or for other good cause. Students

deficient in more than 3 credits in the department's pre-

requisites will not be accepted as English Majors until

the entire deficiency has been made up.

2. Decrease the present credit values of English 202 and

English 203 each from 4 credits to 3."

Note: Recommendations for changes in English Department

requirements were earlier submitted to Senate under

S.72-101, but were referred back for further con-

sideration. The above includes changes made

following discussions within the Department of

English and with SCUS.

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MEMORANDUM

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Subject

SENATE

FACULTY OF ARTS - CHANGES -

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SENATE CO}24ITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE

STUDIES

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On

reconunendation

of the Faculty of Arts, the Senate

Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved changes in require-

ments of that Department for entry to majors in English and for

change in credit hours

for English 202 and English 203 from 4

to 3, and recommends approval to Senate.

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S.72-101 & SCUS 72-74

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Following the SCUS meeting of September 21st, proposals were put

to this department and to the Faculty of Arts, and accepted by both, the

purpose of which was to meet the objections of Senate to 1973-74 calendar

changes submitted by the department. Senate had objected to that part of

the department's proposed general regulations which concerned pre-requisites

for English majors who entered this university with substantial transfer

credits, the objection being that in certain cases those students' English

pre-requisites would total only 12 credits, against 17 for students who did

all or most of their lower level work here. Two changes were therefore

proposed, and accepted; as follows:

majors in English

(1) First to change the second paragraph under

Majors in English from

"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."

to

"A student with 15 transfer credits in English will be deemed

to have met the department's requirements for a major in English

provided some of those credits represent studies in both category

(a) and category (b) above. Students deficient by not more

than 3 credits in the department's pre-requisites by reason of

inadequate transfer credits or for other reasons may be accepted

as English Majors but must make up the deficiency. Such make-up

shall normally be attempted at the first opportunity, but the

department may permit its deferment to avoid time-table conflicts

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or for other good cause. Students deficient in more than 3

credits in the department's pre-requistes will not be accepted

as English majors until the entire deficiency has been made

up."

(2) Second, to decrease the present credit values of English 202 and

English 203 each from 4 credits to 3.

The effect of the first of these changes is to increase the English

pre-requisites

for English Majors transferring from other institutions to

a minimum of 15. The effect of the second is to reduce them for other

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students from 17 to 15. Thus parity is attained for both groups.

Justification

No justification for increasing the minimum pre-requisites for transfer

students appears necessary. Indeed they are not increased by this proposal;

they are merely restored to what they currently are. The department

recognizes the cogency of Senate's objection to its earlier plan to reduce

them, and has modified its plan accordingly.

The reduction in credits assigned to English 202 and 203 is now

proposed not only to achieve parity between regular students and transfer

students, but also to recognize the results of over two years of experience

with these courses. They were first offered in 70-2, each with 4 credits, each

with the vector (2-1 1/2-0). The half hour of tutorial time beyond normal

has indeed proved

academically valuable, to such an extent that the department

wishes to retain it, but not to such an extent that the extra hour of credit

now ascribed to it can be readily justified. That the students benefit

from it there is no question; but there is serious question whether it causes

them to do sufficient additional work to earn a full hour of additional credit.

Administratively, also, the existence of two 4-credit courses in lower levels,

where 3-credit courses are standard and the normal semester load-limit is 16,

causes complications, making difficulties for a student who wishes to take both

in the same semester, as he may otherwise find it advantageous to do. The 4

credits now given these courses also create apparent anomalies in transfer of

200-range 3-credit courses taken elsewhere. For all these reasons the department

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sees benefits for faculty, for students, and for administration, in reducing

their credit-values from 4 to 3.

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CHANGES IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

CALENDAR REGULATIONS

Date AUGUST 21, 1972

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I. MUGRIDGE, CHAIRMAN

SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

MOTION:

"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:

a)

Any two of English 101, 102 and 103;

b)

Both of English 202 and 203 (or lii 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

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uirements, 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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