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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

S.06-11

MEMORANDUM

To: ?

Senate

From:

C. MacKenzie, Chair

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Subject: ?

Curriculum revisions

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

(SCUS Reference: SCUS 05-23)

Date: ?

December 15, 2005

For information:

Acting under delegated authority, at the November 1, 15 and 29, December 13 2005 meetings, SCUS

approved the following curriculum revisions in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Archaeology

b. Breadth requirements

Latin American Studies

I. Philosophy

m. Political Science

Sustainable Community Development

Certified Writing, Quantitative and Breadth Courses

Any Senator wishing to consult the full report of curriculum revisions should contact Bobbie Grant,

Senate Assistant at 291-3168 or email bgrant@sfu.ca

Department of Archaeology

New course: ARCH 252-3 Ancient Egypt and Africa

Changes to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences breadth requirements effective Fall 2006

so that students are required to take a minimum of 30 credit hours outside their honors, major

or extended minor area as follows: 18 credit hours of designated breadth —6 credits each of B-

Humanities, B-Social Science, B-Science, plus 12 further credit hours of breadth.

Asia-Canada Program: Changes to the requirements for the Certificate in Chinese Studies

ognitive Science program: Changes to the lower and upper division requirements.

School of Contemporary Arts

Course changes: FPA 227, 170, 171, 270, 271, 372, 373,

472

374 ,

375,262,263,265,268,269,362,363,364,365,36

8 , 369

370, 371, 470, 471, 473

New courses:

FPA 235-3 Experimental Film and Video

FPA 248-3 Conducting I

FPA 348-3 Conducting II

FPA 272-3 Production Practicum I

FPA 273-3 Production Practicum II

FPA 372-3 Production Practicum III

FPA 373-3 Production Practicum IV

FPA 472-3 Production Practicum V

I ?

FPA 473-6 Production Practicum VI

Changes to the upper and lower division requirements in the Major Program in Theatre

(Production and Design Stream)

Cha

nges to the upper and lower division requirements in the Extended Minor Program in Theatre

(Production and Design Stream)

Changes to the lower and upper division requirements for the Fine and Performing Arts Minor

Program

Department of Economics:

Course changes: ECON 331,402,403,422,425,428,431,435,455,460,4K

492,

499, BUEC 495

to BUEC 427

New courses: ECON 104-3 Economics and Government

ECON 426-3 Industrial Organization: Governance and Institutions

Changes to early access to upper division courses and the addition of access to advanced upper

division courses for the major program

Chnges to the requirements for the Honors Program in Economics and the Joint Honors in

Business Administration and Economics

Department of English

New courses:

ENGL 201-3 Medieval Literature

ENGL 203-3 Early Modern Literature

ENGL 330-4 Studies in Victorian Literature

ENGL 399-4 Big Stories

ENGL 400-4 Advanced Old English

ENGL 404-4 Topics in Medieval Literature

ENGL 407-4 Topics in Early English Drama

ENGL 427-4 Topics in the Romantic Period

ENGL 434-4 Topics in the Victorian Period

ENGL

435-4

Topics in the Literature of the Long

19th

Century

ENGL 436-4 Topics in the Literature of Transition

19th20th

Centuries

ENGL 438-4 Topics in Modernism

ENGL 440-4 Topics in British Literature post-1945

ENGL 447-4 Topics in American Literature before 1900

ENGL 449-4 Topics in American Literature since 1900

ENGL

453-4

Aboriginal Literatures

ENGL 454-4 North American Poetry and Poetics

ENGL

455-4

Topics in Canadian Literature

ENGL 465-4 Topics in Critical Theory

ENGL 468-4 Topics in Drama

ENGL 470-4 Studies in the English Language

ENGL 475-4 Topics in Rhetoric

ENGL 482-4 Topics in Cultural Studies

ENGL 484-4 Topics in Literature and Media

ENGL 486-4 Topics in Gender, Sexuality and Literature

ENGL 487-4 Topics in Children's Literature

ENGL 492-4 Topics in World Literatures in English

Course changes to: ENGL 199,205,206,207,210,214,216,300,304,306,310,311,313,

320,322 327,340,342,347, 349,

354,357,359,364,

371, 372,375,376,383,387,392,

441,442,443,444, and 496. 377 to 378

Course deletions: ENGL 204,212,301,308,314,316, 325, 329,333,336,338,350,352,

360, 366, 368,369,370,380, 382, 394,445,446, and 494.

Changes to the Major, Honors, Joint Major and Minor Programs

h. Department of French

New Cooperative Education Program

New calendar entry for French Co-operative Education Program including new courses:

FREN 185-0 Practicum I

FREN

285-0

Practicum II

FREN 385-0 Practicum III

FREN 485-0 Practicum IV

Course title change: FREN 430

L Department of Geography

New courses:

GEOG 363-4 Urban Planning and Policy

GEOG 377-4 Environmental History

GEOG 391-4 Qualitative Research Methods

GEOG 432-4 Problems in Environmental History

GEOG 440-4 Law and Geography

GEOG 468-4 Society and Environment in China

Prerequisite change: GEOG 449

Course deletions: GEOG 448,470

Changes to the requirements for the Certificate in Urban Studies

Changes to the requirements for the Geography-Environmental Specialty Major Program

Department of History:

Course changes: HIST 106, 319, 332, 334, 335, 404, 405, 419, 420, 432, 450, 454

New courses:

HIST 130-3 Modern World History

HIST 256-3 The People's Republic of China

HIST 311-4 Selected Topics in Hellenic Studies

HIST 345-4 Selected Topics in European History

HIST 366-4 Social History in China since 1800

HIST 368-4 Selected Topics in the History of the Wider World

HIST 373-4 Conquest in North America, 1500-1900

HIST 374-4 Selected Topics in the History of the Americas

HIST 376-4 North American West

HIST 377-4 Environmental History

HIST 378-4 The United States in the World since

1865

HIST 442-4 America's Empires

HIST 456-4 The Late Ottoman Empire: State, Culture and Social Transformation,

1750-1923

HIST 457-4 The Turkish Republic: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1918-Present

HIST 472-4 Problems in World History

HIST 479-4 Change, Conflict, and Resistance in Twentieth-Century China

Course deletions: HIST 309, 312, 365, 386, 387, 434, 435,474

Latin American Studies

Program title change from Latin American Studies to Latin American Development

Studies

New courses:

LAS 493-3 Directed Readings

POL 320-4 Canada and Latin America

SA 404-4 Andean Society and Culture

WS 323-4 Latin American Women in Literature and Society

Coirse changes: LAS 200, 320, 323,410,498

Course deletions: LAS 100, 140, 300, 320, 323, 337, 392,403, 410, 422, 440, 450, 483

Temporarily withdraw (mothball) courses: LAS 300, 312

See further changes on page 5 

1. Department of Philosophy

Course changes: PHIL 244,301,210

New courses:

PHIL 302-3 Topics in Epistemology and Metaphysics

PHIL 322-3 History of Ethics

PHIL 352-3 17

Century Philosophy

PHIL 3573 18th Century Philosophy

PHIL 356-3 Topics in the History of Philosophy

Changes to the

General Information

section of the department's Calendar listing and other

catgory headings

Changes to the requirements for the Major and Honors programs and the Minor program in

Philosophy

Course deletions: PHIL 353, 354, 355

Deletion of temporarily withdrawn (mothballed) courses: PHIL 340,

452,

453,456

Department of Political Science

New courses:

POL 373-3 Human Security

POL 437-4 Governance and Globalization

Sustainable Community Development

Title changes to the certificate and diploma programs

Course changes: CED 201, 301, 401, 403, 404, 410, 412

Certified Writing, Quantitative and Breadth Courses

SCUS approved 43 Writing courses; 1 Quantitative course; and 

33 Breadth courses (2 B-Soc; 28 B-Hum; 1 B-Hum/Sd;. 1 B-Hum/Soc/Sd; 1 B-Sc) 

k. (continued) Latin American Studies 

Calendar Introductory 

text revised 

Latin American Studies Minor program - changes to requirements 

Extended Minor - language requirements 

Joint Major Programs - LAS requirements 

Exclusive and Partial Latin American Content course lists - Changes to 

the two lists of LAS related courses offered throughout the university 

Field School, Co-op Education requirements revised 