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The Senate Agenda Committee asked me to bring to your attention

a possible conflict between two papers to be discussed at Senate on

the 18th of January, 1971. Paper S.71-4 - Definition of Minor Program -

sets out University requirements for a designation of "Minor" on a

student's transcript. The recommendation is that Senate define a

Minor Program to include 14-18 upper division credit hours in the

subject area. On the other hand Paper S.71-14 under the heading:

Report of the Faculty of Arts, uses a somewhat more restrictive designation

for a Minor Program. Consequently the approval of Paper S.71-4 prior

to consideration of Paper S.71-14 would imply changes in the latter paper..

The Senate Agenda Committee also wished to point to certain

divergence of nomenclature in the description of courses and

programs presented at different times to Senate. The Agenda Committee

suggests that Senate'approve the word level to refer to the status

of an individual student's program For example the first four

undergraduate levels (i.e. the first 60 semester. hours of credit) would

be referred to as the lower levels.

The levels beyond level four

would be referred to as the upper levels.

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The word division would

then be restricted to the description of undergraduate courses. Under-

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graduate courses numbered in the 100 and 200 series would be referred to as

lower division courses; those numbered 300 and above would be referred

to as upper division courses."

The restriction of the word level to the stage in a student's

program and relating division to the course numbering would, In the

opinion of the Committee, eliminate ambiguities in the wording of

papers and regulations appearing in the University Calendar.

B. G. Wilson

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