SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
•A Meyers
Secretary of Senate.
General
Subject
EducationCourses
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Dean of Science,
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The following General Education courses are available or
planned to be offered within the Faculty of Science:
Biological. Sciences
Biol. 001-0
Genetics and the Population Explosion
Biol. 002-0
Social Implications of Biological Science
Furthermore, Biolog
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1.01-4 a
Biology
102-4 should he
regarded as General Education ovr;es.
Chernr
Chem. 001-2
Chemis;' and Problems of Contemporary
Civi.iiofl
Chem. 002-2 Discovery and the Development of Modern
Chemistry
No other
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courses in the Department of Chemist
r
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designated for General Education.
Thor are plans for mounting General Education cours's in
thePopartmcnts of Ph
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sics ar'Li Mathematics. No suck. c.OT.1.rses have
been a p'oied as of this date.
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SIMON E1ASER UNIVERSITY
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....Mr.D.A.Meyers .
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Secretary of Senate.
Subject
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Genera.Education
Chem.00l-2 and Chem.002-2
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DeanSc.ienc.
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Date
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The Faculty of Science, at its meeting of April 23, 1.968,
passed a motion approving the following courses:
Chemistry 001-2
2-0-0
Chemistry_ and
_Problems
o!teimry_Civilization
Science in Society, Industry, and Universit
y
; hi.g science ancl its
imnact i.pon the economy; the chemistry of our envi.ronent, cuergy
Sources, pollution.
Chemistry 002-2
2-0-0
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The evolution of the 'laws
l
of science; atoms and molcr.ule; the
birth of the atomic age; moleu!ar architecture; the impart of
qunti.nn mechanics; the nature of natural and man-made materials.
The following motion was also passed by the Faculty:
"That the Faculty recognize the Chemistry Pcp'rtmcnt's
recommendation that these courses not he a'ii"Je
for c redi t
for
Chemistry Majors."
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY'
Paper S-130(b)
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Genal..Edat..ion ......................................................
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Date
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April 29.,....19.8
Attached are reports as requested by Senate on General Education:
1. Centre for Comrnunicatiois and the Art..
2.
Physical Development Studies
3.
Professional Foundations
4.
Behavioural Science Foundations
4.
5.
Social and Philosophical Foundations - This is a new Department.
Particular offerings to be made in General Education are
under consideration.
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GENERAt. EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Extract from Minutes of Centre Meeting held on April 3, 1968
"Centre members were in unanimous agreement on three points:
A.
That the Communications 100 and 200 courses should
be considered for provision on a "Pass-Fail" basis only
if all University 100 and 200 courses were so
designated.
B.
That the general education courses should be
considered in the context of other developments in the
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University and that such programs as the Interdisciplinary
program In the Faculty of Arts should be examined for its
relationship to General Education.
C.
That "General Education" was a term that was already
badly tarnished and that some major refocus was necrsary
if we were to save the kernel of the idea."
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department irsts on standard grading procedures
until such time as there Is full university
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support and general departmental commitment
towards P or F grading system).
Non-Credit Recreational Courses:
Summer, 1968 -
Badminton
I section
.Beg. Swim
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Sailing
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Kayaking
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Beg. Modern Dance
section
Int. Modern Dance
section
Scuba Diving
section
Archery
section
Cricket
section
(it is possible addltionàt G.E. courses will be scheduled for summer
semester during the first week of registration)
Fall - 1968 -
Elective Credit Courses
P.D.S. 242-3
Man and Movement
P.D.S. 2
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44-3
Asthetic Aspects of Human Movement
Non-Credit Recreation Courses
We will offer approximately 28 courses servicing
550
students and faculty.
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P.D.S. 21+0-3
Seminar in
Contemporary Health Issues
P.D.S. 2
1
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Man and Movement
Non-Credit Recreation Courses
We wi'1 offer approximately 24 courses servicing
450
students and faculty.
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At the meeting of the Professional Foundations Department on Monday rnroning,
April
22nd,
the General Education offerings and proposed offerings of this
department were discussed. The following conclusions were reached.
a)
Presently, students from other departments may take a seminar in
PF451, either for credit or for non-credit. In the case of a non-
P. D. P. student taking PF 451 for credit, he must have approval
from his major advisor and from the Dean of the Faculty concerned.
This extended offering of PF 451 will continue, and. does reflect the
goals of the General Education program.
h)
It is proposed that in future semesters the general sessions offered
to P. D. P. students (e. g., Educ. 402) will be more widely advertised
so to be available on a non-credit basis for any students in the
University.
This department will not be developing new courses for General Education at
this time. The extensions of present offerings noted in a) and .b) above
constitute the departments immediate plans for participation in the General
Education program. These plans will not affect departmental budget..
c) A further aspect of the General Education program proposal is being dev-
eloped by Professiohal Foundations and will be :ubraitted to senate at a
later time.
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Subject ... . ......
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General Education Proposal
From.
John Matthews, Dean
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Faculty
of Arts
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Date
May 1, 196
I have collected some opinions from departments in the Faculty.
Departmental views on this subject are, I submit, more meaningful than
any conclusions reached after debate in Faculty meeting. No kind of
consensu
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s or majority view is discernable. Different conclusions were
reached between departments and within departments. Sometimes the same
conclusion was reached for different reasons.
In summary, the following points of view may he listed:
1.
Very many arts courses serve the purpose of education.
For
example Geography 101 (General Geography) "Introduces students
to a very broad area of learning". It is further argued that
any subject provides some general education if the teacher is
generally well educated and teaches well.
2.
The introduction of special pass/fail courses labelled "General
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Education" found little favour. The majority view appears to he
that courses for credit
.
should ,
be graded.
3.
There was little objection to non-credit courses being offered.
4.
With present departmental resources stretched to the extreme,
departments find it difficult to address their minds seriously to
possible general education courses which they might offer in the
future.
S. There was greater interest in the proposal for the organization
of interdisciplinary courses which has been brought forward by a
committee of this faculty and has now gone to departments and the
faculty undergraduate Curriculum Committee for consideration.
6.
Some departments would be happy to enroll "outsiders" on a pass/fail
basis in certain courses; for example, in the Department of Modern
Languages, courses 220 (Introduction to Linguistics) and 221
(Descriptive Techniques).
7.
The possibility that all 100 level courses should he graded on a
pass/fail basis has been advocated. This would avoid the suspicion
that certain courses, i.e., those run on a pass/fail basis are.
mickey-mouse courses.
S8. Graduate courses might properly be conducted on a pass/fail basis.
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Paper S-130 (d)
TO:
SENATE
FROM:
D. A. Meyers
Secretary of Senate
May 1, 1968
SUBJECT:
Credit Course Offerings on a Pass-Fail Basis
• I have now received a reply to Senate's enquiry as to whether or
not the Department of Education would be willing to allow Simon
Fraser University students to qualify for the Government of
British Columbia scholarships on the basis of a Pass-Fail course,
as constituting three (3) semester hours of the minimum of 15
required to qualify for these awards.
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The Registrar of the Department of Education has advised that in'
order for an individual to be considered for a British Columbia
Government scholarship award, he must be undertaking a full load
of not less than 15 semester hours of work, and the average for
scholarship must be calculated on the gradings in each of the courses
constituting the minimum load of 15 semester hours.
The use of a Pass-Fail course, therefore, would not be possible
under these requirements for scholarship.
An alternative was presented, but not recommended. This would
be to treat all 'pass' gradings as carrying the minimum grading
in relation to other subjects. It was the Department's feeling
that this would lead to arguments on behalf of certain students,
who felt they had done extremely well in the Pass-Fail course,
as compared with other students, who had received a marginal 'pass'
grade.
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