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Paper S-111(a)

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Secretary of Senate

Faculty of Arts

Sublect .

Criteria for Honors and Honors

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.1968

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At the last meetinq of Senate a motion was tabled that

criteria approved by Senate for the Faculty of Science be adopted

for the Faculty of Arts.

I do not have the. wordin

of the motion which was

approved by Senate re

arding

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Faculty of Science but the motion

which I now wish to submit on behalf of the Faculty of Arts is:

"Following Senate's decision of December 4 that Honers deorees he

classified as Honors and Honors First Class, the criteria for

deciding the class of Honors to he awaraed be determined by the

department recommending the award, but that these criteria

normally be:

for Honors: a cumulative grade roint average of not less than

3.0 either in all courses in the Honors field, or in all

courses covering the 72 hours of upper level work:

for Honors First Class: a cumulative rirade point veraoe of

not less than 3.5

in courses defined as for Honors. Some

relaxation in the grade point recuirement can be permitted in

consideration of the Honors Essay."

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Paper S-111(b)

To: Senate

From: Registrar

23 February, 1968

Subject: Survey of Degree Transcripts at

Canadian Universities

In. the latter part of last year a survey was conducted

covering 24 Canadian Universities to discover the practice of

making a distinction on the degree transcripts and/or parchments.

The results of the survey were as follows:

Of the 19 Universities who showed a classification, only

one criterion was used for all faculties.

19 Universities showed a classification on their transcripts

and 5 did not.

11 Universities showed a classification on their degree

parchments and 13 did not.

The following methods were used for determining the

classification:

8 Universities used the average on all courses undertaken in

the final two years;

7 Universities used the overall-average for all courses for which the student

2 used the last three years;

registered;

1 used the work of the final year only, and

1 used the average of all Honors courses and comprêhensives.

D.A. Meyers

Acting Registrar

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