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MEMORANDUM
SENATE
H. M. EVMS, SECRETARY
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CONNITTEEONGRADUAT'E STUDIES
REGISTRAR AND SECRETARY OF SENATE
GRADUATE COURSE IN HISTORY
MARCH 19, 1970
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This is to advise that the Executive Committee, Senate
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Committee on Graduate Studies at its meeting of March 18, 1970
passed the following motion in regard to History 896-5 (Supervised
Research Seminar):
"That the 896-5 course description be referred
back to the History Department for the Department
to clarify the relation of this course to the
thesis."
This course is being brought before Senate in its present
form with the understanding that the History Department will provide
for Senate the information requested by the Executive Committee,
Senate Committee on Graduate Studies, for distribution at the Senate
meeting of April 6, 1970.
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Chairman, Senate Committee
I). H. Sullivan, Dean
on Graduate Studies
Faculty of Arts
1eW Graduate History Course
March 6, 1970
AtIthe February 27, 1970 meeting of the Faculty of Arts
Graduate Studies Committee the attached paper, G.17.6,
was approved.
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1970
In accordance with the decision of the last meeting of the Faculty
of Arts Graduate Studies Committee, I am re-submitting for transmittal to the
Senae Committee on Graduate Studies, the following request from the History
Department for the addition of a new graduate course.
896-5 - Supervised Research Seminar.
The purpose of this course is to allow the student to do detailed research and
prepare a seminar paper in his primary field of study. The course presupposes
a goo background in the area of study and is designed for the student who
enters the M.A. program after having done an intensive B.A. honors de
g ree. As
such the course will add flexibility to the M.A. program.
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
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Subject . ..S. 352a - GRADUATE COURSE IN
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H. M. EVANS
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REGISTRAR AND SECRETARY
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OF SENATE
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2, 1970
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In response to the request of the Executive Committee, Senate
Committee on Graduate Studies to the Department of History, as
outlined in Paper S.352, the History Department has provided a
clarifying statement which was received and approved by the Executive
Committee at its meeting on April 1, 1970.
This statement appears below.
"History 896-5 Supervised Research Seminar. A seminar in the
candidate's major field of study. The course
will consist principally in the preparation of
a seminar paper on a specific topic in the field
of study.
Clarifying Statement:
The principal relationship of 896-5
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o the student's
thesis is that both will be in the same area of
study (e.g. Canadian History). Furthermore, it is
likely, though certainly not mandatory, that the
student will develop interests in the preparation of
the paper for 896-5 that will be incorporated in his
thesis. In some cases portions of the research paper
may be included in the thesis. It should be clearly
understood, however, that the thesis represents much
more detailed research and the elaboration of ideas
than is possible in the seminar paper. In short, it
.will go far beyond anything foreseen in 896-5. On
one final point: the Executive Committee, or some
members of it, queried whether 896-5 was not destroy-
ing the balance of the M.A. degree between courses
and research. As all graduate work in history is
research oriented (i.e. all courses are essentially
research seminars) there is no real distinction
between formal course work and research."
Note: ' This Paper S.352a should be attached to Paper S.352, distributed
earlier to Senators.
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