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From ..... . Academic PlannirigCommitt.e 

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......... P.e.f. in. it.i.on 

.... of. a Minor 

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Date .... ..... December 22, 1970 

RECOMMENDATION: 

That Senate define a minor program in the following manner: 

14-18 upper division credit hours in a subject area with the distribution 

of those upper division hours and the establishment of the number and 

nature of lower division requirements to be left to the discretion of 

program committees in the Division of General Studies, individual 

departments or Facultie:. 

BACKGROUND: 

The Faculty of Education has received approval from Senate for the 

establishment of two alternative minor structures. If a student is 

in arts or science and desires a minor in education, he shall be 

required to take 15 upper division hours with a maximum of 9 pre- 

requisite lower division hours; a student in education will be 

required to take 14-18 upper division hours coupled with a maximum 

of 9 credit hours of lower division prerequisites. The Faculty of 

Arts has recommended, a minor consisting of 24 credit hours at the 

upper division level. This recommendation has been deferred by Senate 

pending receipt of this paper from the Academic Planning Committee. 

In and of themselves, these 'differences pose no problem. However, 

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there has been some discussion of establishing a double minor degree 

in which a students' two minors would not necessarily have to be in 

the same faculty. Under these conditions, it appears desirable to 

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establish some minimum constraints so that there will be some degree 

of uniformity across faculties in the offering of a minor. Since the 

Faculty of Education has already had a minor approved by Senate, the 

requirements contained therein have been used as the basis for formulating 

the proposed University-wide requirements. 

IMPLEMENTATION: 

Within the overall guidelines set out above, program committees in the 

Division of General Studies, individual departments or Faculties will 

be responsible for formulating the requirements for a minor in their 

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particular discipline or subject area and forwarding their proposal 

through established channels to Senate for its approval. 

The identification of those courses which constitute a subject area 

will be left to the discretion of individual departments. 