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S-72-/4,^7 

MEMORANDUM

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To-

AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST STUDIES -

Date 

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NOVEMBER

15, 1977 

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MOTION: 

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"That Senate approve, as set forth in S.72-145, 

change in requirements for entry to upper 

division courses ÂME 401-5, 402-5, as follows: 

Change from: They are open to all students with 60 hours 

or more or with the consent of the Coordinator! 

Director of the Program. 

To: ? 

They are open to all students with 60 hours or 

more, or to students with a 

minimum

of 45 hours 

with the consent of the instructor concerned 

and subject to the approval of the Coordinator/ 

Director of the Program." 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

72-

/46

MEMORANDUM

To— 

Subject 

SENATE 

AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST STUDIES - 

ENTRY TO UPPER DIVISION COURSES 

AME 401-5, 402-5 

From 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

Date ? 

NOVEMBER 15, 1972 

.

On recommendation of the Division of General Studies, the 

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies has approved changes to 

requirements for entry to upper division courses in Africa/Middle East 

Studies 401-5, 402-5, as set forth in SCUS 72-27, and recommends 

approval to Senate, as follows: 

Change from: They are open to all students with 60 hours or more 

or with the consent of the Coordinator/Director of 

the Program. 

To: ? 

They are open to all students with 60 hours or more, 

or to students with a minimum of 45 hours with the 

consent of the instructor concerned and subject to 

the approval of the Coordinator/Director of the 

Program. 

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SIIVLON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

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A/Dean, General Studies

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I attach a recommendation from the Director of the

African./Middle Eastern Studies Programme that the 60 hour

requirement for admittance to the A/ME seminars be reduced

to 45 hours. I concur with his reasoning and endorse his

Statcknent of Rationale re Admission of Students with Less than

60 hours'credit to Upper Division African Middle Eastern Courses

On page 271 of the 1972-73 Calendar, under the heading

Description of Courses - 1. Interdisciplinary Seminars, it is

laid down that AME 401 and AME 402 are

"open to all students with 60 hours or more

or with the

consent

of the Coordinator!

Director of the Program."

The last phrase permits the Coordiiator to admit any

student to the courses concerned, irrespetive of the number

of credit hours a student may have obtained, and to this extent

it permits flexibility. The Coordinator need not consult the

instructors of the courses concerned.

The Faculties of Arts and of Education permit students

to fulfill their lower level requirements by

obtaining

not more

than 15 semester hours'credit through courses numbered 300

and above. The Faculties of Science and General Studies

do not rule on this question.

The 60 hours' restriction does not apply to Can. S. 400 and

401 nor to LAS 402, 403 and 404.

It has come to notice that certain Honours' students in the

Faculty of Arts consider that their opportunities to obtain the Minor

in African/Middle Eastern Studies are unduly restricted because

of the demands made on them by their Departments. As three

Upper Levels' courses are required to qualify for the Minor, and as

at least fifty hours must - vide page 84 - be in one subject, there

is some validity in this statement. It depends on whether the

Department is prepared to recognize five hours credit gained

outside the Faculty of Arts, in terms of the asterisked sentence

under Honours Program - Upper Levels. The problem can

become more real should such students wish to take one lower

level course to complete the requirements for the Minor.

To bring AME Studies into line with Canadian and Latin

American Studies; to protect the instructors in AME 401 and

AME 402; to encourage students in Arts and Education to

participate in work leading to the Minor and particularly to

allow potential Honours students to complete the Upper

Division

requirements

for the Minor over five semesters rather than

over four, rewording of the section quoted above is suggested.

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"open to all students with

hours or more,

or to students with a minimum of 45 hours

with the consent of the instructor concerned

and subject to the approval of the Coordinator/

Director of the Program."

The Coordinator's approval would be automatic in

normal circumstances; the need to obtain his approval ought

to prevent abuse arising.