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SENATE 

ACADEMIC PLANNING COMMITTEE 

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Subject... REVISION 

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FOR THE 

GENERAL STUDIES DEGREE 

Date....NOVEMBER18,1971 

MOTION TO "That Senate approve that requirement (c) 

REVISE: 

'a minimum of 15 semester hour credits in 

each of the general areas of humanities, 

social sciences, and natural sciences,' 

for the General Studies degree be dropped 

(S.436 revised)." 

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ACADEMIC PLANNING COMMITTEE 

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18, 1971 

THE GENERAL STUDIES DEGREE 

Recommendation 

That requirement (c) "a minimum of 15 semester hour credits in 

each of the general areas of humanities, social sciences, and 

natural sciences," for the General Studies degree be dropped 

(S.436 revised). 

Reasons for the Recommendation 

The intent of the requirement as stated in S.436 was to en- 

courage students to broaden their exposure into all areas of 

learning. Unfortunately, Departments had considerable diffi- 

culty in separating their courses into the general areas of 

Humanities, Social Science and Natural Science. 

The Academic Planning Committee considered the following 

alternatives: 

(1) require 15 hours within the Faculty of Science, and 30 

hours in Arts and/or Education 

(ii) eliminate all area requirements. 

The original intent in establishing the Bachelor of General 

Studies degree was to provide an educational opportunity for 

those students who are interested in obtaining a broad general 

education without the currently required specialization in one 

subject area. Given this intent, the Committee could reasonably 

have recommended the first of the above alternatives. 

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In recommending the latter alternative, the Committee is cognizant 

that opportunity will now exist for students to obtain degrees 

reflecting either highly diversified or narrowly concentrated 

courses of study. However, since adequate academic counselling 

is now available either through the Dean of the Division of General 

Studies or the University's Academic Advising Office, the Committee 

favors eliminating the area requirements thereby placing on the 

student responsibility for the development of an academic program 

which meets his interests while at the same time reflecting the 

University's intent in establishing the degree. 

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SENATE .NEETING.,....DECEMBER...6.,...19.71 

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NOVEMBER.. 1.8,19.71................................. 

PAPERS S.71-130 THROUGH S.71-136 

INCLUSIVE, CURRICULUM AND CALENDAR 

CHANGES, FACULTY OF ARTS 

For each of the above mentioned papers motions are 

suggested to enable Senators to focus on salient points and 

to provide a method for considering the large volume. Alter- 

native motions and amendments would be in order if required 

at the Senate meeting. 

In those instances where it is clear that discon- 

tinuance of a course is related to a new course, the entries 

appear on the same line opposite each other (paired). In 

general, the order of listing of the courses in the motions 

corresponds to the order in which the first main mention of 

the course appears in the general submission. 

In a number of instances items in the general sub- 

missions have been underlined by this office as an aid in 

identifying proposals and the underlinings are not indicative 

of any special emphasis to be attached thereto. 

Editorial and other changes have been made by this 

office where considered necessary. Further editorial changes 

may be made, particularly in the submission concerning 

Philosophy and the use of "level" as this could lead to 

misunderstanding if sections were to be reproduced in the 

calendar in the.present form. 