SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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FOR INFORMATION - REPORT
Sic
Members of Senate
From
Senate Committee on.Conti.nuing Studies
Subject Extension Credit Courses, 1974-1975
Date October 15, 1975
The attached report describes course and enrollment figures for the
Extension Credit Courses offered by the Departments and Faculties of
Simon Fraser University during the period September 1, 1974 to August 31. 1975.
During
this period both the number of courses offered and enrollment increased
significantly relative to the same period of 1973-1974. Enrollment was directly
related to the number of courses offered, with each course averaging about 29
enrolees.
For the information of Senate, some brief comments follow concerning
activities since August 31, 1975.
Beginning this Semester eight Departments now offer programs of appropriately-
sequenced courses enabling part-time students to complete major and minor
baccalaurate requirements through evening study alone. These Departments are
Archaeology, Biological Sciences, Computing Science, Economics and Commerce,
English, Geography, History, and Psychology. The Departments of Kinesiology and
Criminology began programs enabling students to fulfill the requirements of a minor.
In the Spring 1976 Semester, the Department of Communications Studies will begin
offering courses leading to a major.
The Simon Fraser University Kelowna Program, developed and offered in
cooperation with Okanagan College, began this Semester. A total of eight upper
division courses leading to the completion of degree requirements in the fields
of Biological Sciences and Psychology are currently being offered. Sixty-five
enrollments have been recorded in these courses. Okanagan College officials
have indicated that enrollment in lower division courses offered in these fields
by the College has increased as a function of the degree completion opportunities
now available in that region.
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Members of Senate
Page Two
October 15, 1975
Fifty-two persons are currently registered in five correspondence courses
written during 1974-75.
The proportion of Extension Credit Courses taught as part-of-load is
increasing. During 1974-1975, about 25 per cent of the courses were taught
on this basis. The percentage of courses taught as part-of-load for the current
Semester is 37 and for the Spring 1976 Semester it will be about 47 per cent.
Approximately 1300 of the 2600 undergraduate enrollments in Extension Credit
Courses during the current Semester are evening only--that is, enrollments of
part-time students who are unable to attend classes during the day. The other
enrollments are those of students who attend both day and evening courses. More
complete data in this and other variables are currently being collected and will
be available in January, 1976.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON
CONTINUING
STUDIES
REPORT ON
EXTENSION CREDIT COURSES
SEPTEMBER 1, 1974 - August 31, 1975
This report describes undergraduate extension credit course and
student enrollment figures for the period September 1, 1974 to August
31, 1975. Where appropriate, comparisons are made with course and
student enrollment figures for the same period of 1973-1974. For
purposes of this report, an undergraduate extension credit course is
defined as one that was offered for undergraduate degree credit after
4:30 p.m. on weekdays during the Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters,
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during the days and evenings of Intersession (May-June) and Summer
Session (July-August), and on Sundays and off-campus.
Data relevant to graduate extension programs in the Department of
Economics and Commerce and the Faculty of Education and the off-campus
Professional Development Program (Education) are presented in an
appendix to this report.
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A. Overview
During the period September 1, 1974 to August 31, 1975, a total
of 9,829 enrollments were recorded in 333 undergraduate extension
credit courses. Enrollments were 68% greater than for the same period
of 1973-74. Course offerings had increased 60% relative to the
previous year. The total number of enrollments for each of the three
1974-75 semesters and for the comparable semesters of 1973-1974 is
depicted in Figure 1 (open bars). Two things are apparent: enrollment
in each of the 1974-1975 semesters was greater than for the same semesters
of 1973-74; and enrollment during the Summer semester period (includes
Intersession, Summer Session and Summer semester evening) was about twice
as great as for the Fall and Spring Semesters.
The total number of undergraduate extension credit courses offered
during each of the six semesters of the 1973-1975 period is also
presented in Figure 1 (shaded bars). It is apparent that enrollment in
each semester was a function of the number of courses offered. The.
average enrollment per semester course during the 1973-1974 period was
28.1 During the 1974-1975 period it was 29.5.
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B.
On-campus undergraduate extension credit courses.
On-campus enrollment during the three semesters of the 1974-1975
iriod was 9,408, or 95.7% of the total extension course enrollment.
The remaining 4.3% of the enrollments (421) were in off-campus courses.
These will be discussed in a subsequent Section.
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A summary. of the total number of on-campus courses offered and the
total enrollment in these courses during the three semesters of 1974-
1975, for the Faculties of Arts, Education, Interdisciplinary Studies
and Science, is presented in the upper portion of Table 1. Comparable
information for the period 1973-1974 is presented in the lower portion
of this table.
During 1974-1975, the Faculty of Arts offered the most courses and
attracted the greatest enrollment, 59.0% and 53.5%, respectively, spread
about equally over the three Semesters. The Faculty of Education offered
22.7% of the courses and had 31.3% of the enrollment. However, nearly
three quarters of Education extension courses were offered during the
Summer Semester period. The Faculties of Interdisciplinary Studies and
Science offered 9.8% and 8.5% of the courses, respectively, and attracted
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10.1% and 5.1% of the enrollment, respectively. The same pattern of
course offerings and enrollments existed for the four faculties in 1973-1974.
A number of on-campus extension credit courses were offered on
Sundays during the Fall, 1974 and Spring, 1975 semesters. Over the two
semesters the Faculty of Arts offered 7 courses, attracting 130 enrollments,
and the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies offered three courses with
a total enrollment of 44. The Sunday course offerings have been
discontinued, at least temporarily, due to the difficulty of obtaining
instructors willing to teach on Sundays.
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Off-Campus undergraduate extension credit courses.'
Faculties have offered extension credit courses in such off-campus
locations as Britannia Community Services Centre in Vancouver, Kamloops,
Kelowna, Prince George, and Sooke. During the Summer semester of 1974,
a total of 8 Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education courses were offered
with a total enrollment of 304. No off-campus courses were offered during
the Fall semester of 1974. However, a total of 16 off-campus courses were
offered during the Spring and Summer Semesters of 1975. There were a
total of 421 enrollments in those courses. The Faculty of Arts offered
six of those courses with a total enrollment of 30. (These courses were
offered in Kelowna, Prince George, and Kamloops during the Spring 1975
semester on an experimental basis. A combination of such factors as poor
winter weather, distribution of advance information in these centres,
and last minute changes in class-room locations contributed to the
relatively low enrollment.) The Faculty of Education offered 8 courses
and had a total enrollment of 326. The Faculties of Interdisciplinary
Studies and Science each offered one course with enrollments of 36 and
29, respectively.
D.
New student and continuing student enrollments in
undergraduate extension credit courses.
Approximately 14.5% (1428/9829)
of the total enrollment in ext ens i on
credit courses during 1974-1975 were new enrollments--that is, enrollments
of students registering as Simon Fraser University Students for the first
time. The comparable figure for 1973-1974 was 13.6% (797/5842). The
1. Data relevant to Marine Science courses, offered in cooperation
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with the University of British Columbia and the University of
Victoria, are not included.
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distribution of new and continuing (previously registered) students for
ti'e three semesters of 1974-1975 and the three semesters of 1973-1974 is
presented in Table 2. The percentage of new enrollments was greatest in
the Fall semesters and smallest in the Summer semesters.
E.
On-campus summer extension credit courses.
The Summer semester interval (May-August) has three separate
extension credit courses offering periods: Intersession (May-June),
Summer Session (July-August) and Summer Semester Evening (May-August)
A summary of the number of course offerings and total enrollment, by
faculty, for each period of the summer of 1975 (upper panel) and summer
of 1974 (lower panel) is presented in Table 3.
Enrollment for the summer of 1975 was 58% greater than for the
summer of 1974. The number of courses offered during the summer of 1975
was up 52% relative to the summer of 1974.
During the summers of 1974 and 1975 the Summer Sessions had the
greatest number of course offerings. Intersessions, despite somewhat
fewer course offerings, attracted a larger enrollment, with an average
enrollment of 38.6 per course for the two Intersessions relative to 27.5
per course for the two Summer Sessions. Course offerings during the
evenings of the Summer Semester were few relative to the Intersess ions
and Summer Sessions. However, the enrollments in these courses was
substantial, 'particularly during 1?75 when an average enrollment of 28.3
per course was recorded.
Over 80% (122/144) of the courses were offered by the Faculties of
Arts and Education during the summer of 1975 (over 90% in 1974). The
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Faculties of Interdisciplinary Studies and Science together offered 22
courses during the summer of 1975 with an average enrollment of 20.4 per
course. This average enrollment was, however, much higher than the 6.9
average recorded in the 7 Interdisciplinary Studies and Science courses
offered during the summer of 1974. (A substantial part of the increase
in Science courses and enrollment during the summer of 1975 resulted from
a decision on the part of the Department of Biological Sciences to
experiment with offering all courses, usually scheduled over the Summer
Semester day period, during the Intersession and Summer Session.)
Although more Faculty
'of
Arts courses were offered than Faculty of
Education courses during the summer of 1975, Education courses attracted
more students. The average enrollment in Education courses was 46.3 as
compared to 23.7 in Arts courses. Similar findings with respect to
average course enrollment existed during the summer of-1974 for these
two Faculties.
F.
Extra-load and part-of-load courses.
Approximately three-quarters of the extension credit courses
offered during the three semesters of 1974-1975 were extra-load; that
is courses taught by instructors who were also fulfilling regular
teaching committments within their departments or appointed expressly
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this purpose. These courses were stipended out of Continuing
Studies
funds. The remaining one-quarter of extension credit courses were taught
by instructors as part of their regular teaching load. The ratio of extra-
load to part-of-load courses did not differ appreciably from that for
the three semesters of 1973-1974. The number and pecentage of extra-
load and part-of-load courses for each of the three semesters of 1974-1975
and 1973-1974 is presented in Table 4.
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C.
Independent study (correspondence) courses.
Five independent study courses were written during 1974-1975. These
courses were developed in a modular fashion with each module related to
a set of clearly-defined learning objectives. Course authors were
assisted with the design, development, and evaluation of the modules by
an instructional design consultant. Each course was "field-tested"
during the Spring 1975 semester and revised on the basis of those results.
The courses have been made available to students as of September, 1975.
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New and Continuing Student Enrollments in Undergraduate,Extensjon Credit
Courses in the Three Semesters of 1974-1975 and the Three Semesters of
1973-1974.
ENROLLMENTS
Year
Semester
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Percentage
New Enrollments
Fall
546
1659
24.8
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Spring
518
2188
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Summer
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4554
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1428
8401
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318
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223
1377
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256
2929
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Number and Percentage of Extra-load and Part-of-load Extension Credit Courses
for the Three Semesters of 1974-1975 and the Three Semesters of 1973-1974.
NUMBER
PERCENTAGE
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Year
Semester
Extra-load Part-of Load Total •':Extra-load
Part-of-load
Fall -
63
18
81
77.8
22.2
1974-1975
Spring
74
25
99
74.7
25.3
Summer
111
42
153
72.5
27.5
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248
85
333
74.5
25.5
Fall
30
13
43
69.8
30.2
1973-1974
Spring
47
15
62
75.8
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Summer
87
16
103
84.5
153
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164
44
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APPENDIX
Graduate Extension Credit Courses and Professional Development
. Program
The Faculty of Education and the Department of Economics and Commerce
(Masters of Business Administration Program) offered a total of 23 on-
campus graduate courses to part-time graduate students during the three
semesters of 1974-1975. The total enrollment was 454, up 19.2 per cent
relative to the same period of 1973-1974. A summary of the number of.
courses offered and enrollment in these programs for the three semesters
of 1974-1975 as well as the comparable figures for 1973-1974 are presented
in Table A-i.
The Faculty of Education offered one graduate course in Vernon
during the Fall 1974 Semester and another during the Spring 1975 Semester
with enrollments of 15 and 13, respectively.
Professional Development Program courses, offered by the Faculty
of l
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ducation, attracted a total enrollment of 231 during the three semesters
of 1974-1975 in the off-campus centres of Vernon, Kamloops, Kelowna,
Prince George, Vancouver, and Burnaby. The total enrollment in those
centres for the same period of 1973-1974 was 99. The Program is currently
operating in the above named centres and in Chilliwack, Coquitiam, Mount
Currie, North Vancouver, Penticton andSalmon Arm.
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TABLE A-i
On-Campus Graduate Extension Credit Courses and Enrollments in the
Faculty of Education and the Department of Economics and Commerce for
the Three Semesters of 1974-1975 and the Three Semesters of 1973-1974.
Part-time Graduate Programs
Department
of
Faculty of
Economics
and
Education
Commerce (MBA)
Totals
Year
Semester
Courses
Enrollments
Fall
10
80
2
116
12
196
1974-1975
Spring
7
72
2
116
9
188
Summer
2
70
-
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2
70
Total
19
222
4
232
23
454
Fall
9
65
2
110
11
175
1973-1974
Spring
6
65
2
106
8
171
Summer
2
35
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35
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17
165
4
216
21
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