MEMORANDUM

To:

Senate

From:

J. Munro, Chair

Senate Committee on

Academic Planning

Subject:

Faculty of Arts -

Date:

November 20, 1992

Graduate Curriculum Revisions

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning and the Senate

Graduate Studies Committee, gives rise to the following motion

Motion: "that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors,

as forth in S.92- 73 the curriculum revisions for the Faculty of Arts as

follows:

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i)

S.92-73a

ii)

S.92-73b

iii)

S.92-73c

iv)

S.92-73d

v)

S.92-73e

Graduate Regulation 1.9.10 -

Composition of Examining Committees

Department of Economics

Department of History

Department of Political Science

Department of Psychology

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Change to Graduate Studies Regulations

SGSC Reference:

Mtg. of October 26, 1992

SCAP Reference:

SCAP 92-45a

Change to Graduate Regulation 1-9-1C - Composition of Examining Committees

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

FACULTY OF ARTS

MEMORANDUM

To:

Marian McGinn

From

Andrea Lebowitz

Assistant Registrar

Chair, Faculty of Arts

Graduate Studies

Graduate Studies Committee'

Subject:

Graduate Regulation 1.9-1C

Date:

15 October, 1992

Composition of Examining

Committees

At its meeting of 15 October, 1992,

the

Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee approved the

following addition to its regulation forMasters Examiners.

Graduate Regulation 1.9.IC

c)

a member of faculty at the university or a person otherwise

suitably qualified, who is not a member of the student's

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supervisory committee.

For a thesis defense in the Faculty of Arts, a Master's Examiner may not be a member of the same

department as the one granting the degree. An examiner external to the department is not required for

projects. extended essays. and field exam nations. Waivers, however, sought by the department

granting the degree. will be decided by the Associate Dean of Arts in his/her capacity as Chair of the

Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee.

At the present time, the Faculty of Arts' regulation concerning Masters Examiners appears only in the

Graduate Studies Handbook. Therefore, we request that the above statement be added to 1.9.IC of the

Graduate General Regulations in the Calendar.

Please place this item on the agenda of the next meeting of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee.

Thank you.

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Andrea Lebowitz

Chair, Faculty of Arts

Graduate Studies Committee

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Bruce Clayman

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Dean, Faculty of

Graduate Studies

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SGSC Reference: Mtg. of October 26, 1992

SCAP Reference: SCAP 92-45b

Change to Ph.D. Admission Requirements - Economics

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DEPARTMENT OF

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Ph.D. Program

Admission Requirements - 2nd Sentence

FROM:

In addition, for clear admission the department requires an M.A. degree with graduate

work in the core areas equivalent to ECON 802-3, 805-4 and 835-4.

TO:

In addition, for clear admission the department requires an M.A. degree with graduate

RATIONALE:

The statistical sophistication required for doctorate work in Economics necessitates more

advanced training in Econometrics.

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SGSC Reference:

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SCAP Reference:

SCAP 92-45c

Additions to Ph.D. Fields - History

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF

HISTORY

SMEMORANDUM

TO:

Andrea Lebowitz

FROM: Jack Little,Chair

Associate Dean of Arts

Graduate Program Co

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RE:

History Graduate Programme

DATE: 25 August 1992

Field and course revisions

One minor item remains from the major changes made to the History Department's graduate programme

last year, namely revisions to the PhD fields and the MA readings courses. The PhD field list has become

completely outdated, and the MA readings courses must also be altered to reflect changing interests in the.

department.

A.

PhD Fields

CURRENT/PROPOSED TITLES:

REPLACES:

Canadian

Social and Cultural History

(remains as is)

Canadian Political and Economic History

(remains as is)

Gender and History

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Women and the Family in North Americaand Europe

Rural History

(new field)

Mediaeval Europe

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(new field)

France since 1789

(remains as is)

Germany since the 18th century

(remains as is)

Russia since Peter the Great

(remains as is)

The British Isles since 1485

(remains as is)

European international relations since the Early 19th Century (remains as is)

European Social History

(remains as is)

European Cultural History

(remains as is)

European Intellectual History

(new field)

Great Britain as a Great Power since 1763

(new field)

State and Society in the 19th century Ottoman Empire

(remains as is)

State and Society in the 20th century Middle East

(remains as is)

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SGSC Reference:

Mtg. of October 26, 1992

SCAP Reference:

SCAP 92-45d

i)

Change in Degree Requirements for the M.A. Program - Political Science

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New course-intensive Field Examinations Option

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Memorandum to:

Professor Andrea Lebowitz, Chair,

Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee

and Associate Dean of Arts

From: Professor Douglas A. Ross,

Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science

Date:

31 August 1992

Subject:

Proposed Calendar Description Change for the M.A.

Program in Political Science, and an Outline of the New Course-

Intensive Field Examinations Option for M.A. Students--Revised in

light of approval at the FAGS meeting of 5 May 1992

The current listing in the calendar on

pp.

286-287 of the 1992-93

calendar reads as follows:

Degree Requirements

MA

Program

Students will undertake formal course work and write a thesis. The formal course

work will include four one-semester courses of which POL 801 is compulsory. Of the

remaining three, students will be required to choose at least two from any two of the five

fields listed below. Students may also be encouraged to take additional courses in

methodology and languages.

Although Political Science graduate coureses are normally offered in English,

instruction may also be made available in French, when desired by all graduate students

enrolled in the course and subject to a Francophone instructor being available at such time.

Change I:

The two paragraphs above are to be deleted. Proposed new text for

the calendar description will read as follows.

Degree Requirements

MA

Program

The degree program may be completed in one of two ways. In the thesis option

students are required to complete four graduate courses and to write and defend a thesis of

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Political Science is concerned the creation of a course-intensive

field examinations option is intended to enable our students to

expedite progress in their M.A. programs without sacrificing

intellectual rigour. What may be lost in terms of intensive thesis

specialization will be more than made up for in terms of increased

intellectual breadth and an improved pace of student career

progress.

Based on statistical analysis provided by the Dean of Graduate

Studies, for the period 1985-1 to 1991-3 the average length of time

to complete the M.A. for students graduating in Political Science

took more than 11 semesters. The Department has felt for some

time that this was an excessively long period of time for most

students to allocate to M.A. studies. During this same period the

shortest recorded time in the program to successful completion was

four semesters--but only one student managed this feat. Five of the

19 M.A. graduates in this period obtained their degree after 15 or

more semesters (i.e., more than five years). Of almost equal

significance, for a group of 11 students who ultimately withdrew

from the program, the average elapsed time spent in the program

before actual withdrawal was some eight and one-third semesters.

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Again, this is an unacceptably long time. Reform of the degree

process is therefore essential.

It is also of note that the Department is adding a specified

length of approximately 25,000 words" for M.A. theses. In the past

too many students have produced theses of length far in excess of

what is reasonable at the M.A. level. This publicly specified length

will help to induce students to produce tightly organized, succinctly

written theses.

Professor Douglas Ross,

Chair Graduate Studies, Political Science

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SCAP Reference:

SCAP 92-45e

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Department of Psychology

FACULTY OF ARTS

MEMORANDUM

To:

Andrea Lebowitz

From: Roger Blackman

Chair, F.A.G.S.

Chair, Psychology

Subject:

Proposed 93/94 Calendar Change

Date:

5 October, 1992

Would you please place the following calendar change, for the Department of

Psychology, on the agenda of the next meeting of the Faculty of Graduate Studies

Committee.

FROM:

PSYC 905-3

SEMINAR IN HISTORY

TO:

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PSYC 905-

SEMINAR IN HISTORY

RATIONALE:

When the 700-level proseminars were established, the Department was

undecided whether they should be valued at 3 or 5 credits. The amount of work

involved pointed to 5, but we were reluctant to allow the total number of credits

for the 6 courses required of students in the Experimental Psychology MA

Program to be as high as 30. We chose to specify the credit as 3 hours, and

scheduled the courses for 3 contact hours. The same concerns led to the 900-

seminars being valued at 3 credits, even though these courses are usually

scheduled for 5 hours (they are typically paired with 400-level undergraduate

seminars that have 5 contact and credit hours). In the event, the amount of work

required in these graduate courses dearly warrants 5 credits. While the other 900

courses were changed to 5 credits, this course was not included.

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