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SIMON FflASER UNIVERSITY
Registrar,
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The curriculum changes shown in the attached papers have been
approved by the Arts Faculty Curriculum Committee and have been cmdorsed
by a referendum vote of the Faculty.
I now request that the curriculum changes he paced on the
Senate agenda at the earliest opportunity.
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FACULTY OF ARTSUNDEPGRADUATE CURRICULUM
PROPOSAL I
The
following changes are proposed
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in the History curriculum:
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(a)
History
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100-3
Introduction to the Study of History
A general
introduction to history, examining some of
the major problems
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which historians deal
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with and how they attempt to resolve
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The course
will
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consider
the nature and methods of historical
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study,
philosophies of
COURSE
history, ?
impersonal
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forces
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in history,
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and the problem of
continuity and
change.
(1-2-0)
(b)
History ?
95-5
Methodology and Philosophy of History
REVISED
COURSE
(0-5-0)
(c)
History 496-3
Directed Honors Readings
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Ordinarily this course will serve as an introduction to the events and
literature of a broad area
of
student interest. From these directed readings
in a general field of study
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the student will choose a more specific topic
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on which to concentrate future honors
work.
(0-3-0)
l (d)
History
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Directed Honors Readings Ii
REVISED ?
A continuation
of
History 496, with
readings normally closely related
COURSE
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to the proposed subject of the Honors Essay and directed towards its final
preparation.
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History 498-5
Honors
Essay
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The Honors Essay, written under the direction of an individual faculty
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member, will reflect a familiarity with the events and literature of
particular area of
study.
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History
499-38 ?
Honors Semester
A
semester in which reading and research
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a specialized area of
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study
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be
undertaker. ?
Conduced ?
in close cooperation
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faculty, ?
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18-hour
COURSE
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culminate ?
in
an Honors Essay, ?
a
work which shall ?
reflect an
ability
to analyze and synthesize the events
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literature
of
the specific
subject being considered.
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JUSTIFICATION FOR PROPOSAL I
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I (a)
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History 100-3 Introduction to the Study of History
NEW COURSE. RepIaes History 101 as the singie course required of all
History majors. History $01 wilI remain in the calendar.
This new course is designed to explain the nature of history, outline
the problems it presents (and the historians' response.to
them), and
introduce students to the methodology of the discipline. At present, History
is perhaps the only discipline taught at this University which does not
explain its basic concepts to the student at the introductory level. Such
a course will enable the student more fully to benefit from subsequent
courses in History.
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I (b) ?
REVISION TO THE HONORS PROGRAM
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A student intending
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to enter Honors in History shall make app i cat iori
to the Department's Undergraduate Studies Committee, ordinarily at the end
of his fourth level. The normal sequence of Honors courses for all students
in their fifth and sixth levels will be: 495 and
496.
Before entering the
seventh level , the student must choose one of two p I ans:
Plan A Designed to at low the student to pursue a broader education, this
plan allows more choice of courses outside the department while
still pra
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i d i ng the student with the opportun I ty, through add it iona I reading
and
the
Honors Essay to concentrate on a particular area of historical
inquiry. The basic requirement for Honors students under this plan is fifty-
one hours of course work in History, divided into seven 400-level courses
and four Honors courses
Plan B This alternative offers the student a chance to free himself from
pressure typical of the semester system and to concentrate fully
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further research in his specific area of historical interest, and on his
Honors Essay. The basic requirement for Honors students under this plan is
fifty-six hours of course work in History, divided into six 400-level
courses, two Honors courses, and the Honors Semester. A student enrolled in
499 will not be permitted to take any other course for credit in the same
semester.
The following outlines a typical program of study under the two plans
(H-History; 0--Optional; H495 to H 499- Honors Courses):
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LEVEL 6
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H 400-5 ?
H 400-5
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H 400-5 ?
H
400-5
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H 495-5 ?
H 496-3
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0 200-3 ?
.0 400-5
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REV IS ION TO THE HONORS PROGRAM (continued)
Upon completion of level 6, the student must choose, after consultation
with faculty, either Plan A or Plan B for his final two semesters.
PLAN A
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PLAN B
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LEVEL 7
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LEVEL 8
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LEVEL 7
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LEVEL 8
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H 400-5
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H 400-5
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H 400-5
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H
499-18
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H 400-5
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H 498-5
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H 400-5
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H 497-3
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0 400-5
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0 400-5
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0 400-5
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0 200-3
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This revised program combines History 491 and 492, to avoid unnecessary
repetition and to make problems of research more immediately relevent by
combining consideration of methodological problems along with philosophies of
history. The proposed prograrri also will allow the student to do more reading
in the area or areas of his interest and to investigate in greater depth his
chosen topic in preparation for the Honors
Essay.
History 499-I8
With respect to 499, the department believes that this
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package' course
provides additional advantages to the Honors students. Specifically, 499 is
designed to free the student from the normal pressures of a semester in which
he must meet the specific and varying demands of some four or five separate
courses. The resultant freedom is not seen as merely giving the student more
time to do the reading for and the writing of his Honors Essay. In addition,
and most important, it is seen as giving him time to explore more fully
methodolo g
ical problems involved in his projected essay and to explore other
disciplines, possibly through auditing courses in these areas, etc., which
relate to his research. He will do this work under- close supervision of an'
individual faculty member. The department believes that such freedom from
normal course requirements is a desirable goal and that honors students are,
on the average, most capable of benefiting from such freedom.
It should be noted that it would be the student's responsibility both to
find a faculty member to
SUpeIVS€
him and to choose the area of study. The
supervision of honors essays would not count as part of the faculty teaching
load.
June 18, 1969
FACULTY OF ARTS UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
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PRAPflAL
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The following new courses are proposed by the Philosophy Department:
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Philosophy 407-3 Explanation
Deductive statistical, and contextual theories of explanation;
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causal vs. motive explanation; the thesis of the symmetry of explanation
and prediction; the existence of historical and sociological laws; the
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role of versethen' in explanation; teleological explanation.
(2-1-0)
Philosophy 473-2 Reading Course in Explanation
II (b)
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Philosophy 413-3 Philosophy of Perception
An examination of the role of perception in the acquisition of
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knowledge. Topics to include: selected historical theories of
perception; the nature of the 'given' in sense experience; the
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incorrigibility of sensation reports; the problem of perceptual error;
the objectivity of observational reports.
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(2-1-0)
Philosophy 475-2 Reading Course
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Philosophy of Perception
JUSTIFICATION FOR PROPOSAL II
II (a) ?
Philosophy_407and Philosophy
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473: This course (lecture and seminar) is in
the areas of Philosophy of Science and of Epistemology, which are major
areas of concern. Several faculty members are mutually interested in this
topic. As well as being an important topic for Philosophy students, it is
thought by the Department that students from other de
p
artments --e.g., PSA,
Psychology and History -- would wish to take the course.
II (b) Philosophy 413 and Philosophy 475: This course (lecture and seminar) is in
the area of Epistemology and is the first ostensibly epistemological upper-
division course, Upper-division courses in this area are needed to augment
the History and Philoso p hy of Language courses.
As well as Philosophy students, the Department thought that
Psychology students would bç interested in taking this course.
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June 18, 1969
