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MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board 

of Governors the changes in requirements for the B.A. 

degree General and Honors programs as set forth in S.75-161. 

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SiMON FRASER

MEMORANDUM

UNIVERSITY

7f-

Mr. H.M. Evans, Secretary of 

From

L. Boland, Chairman 

Senate 

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Arts Curriculum Committee 

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Subjed...$

5........1,97,5 

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Attached are materials relating to the recent Senate action 

concerning the proposed changes in the Faculty of Arts' 

curriculum. At a special meeting of the Faculty of Arts 

Curriculum Committee, held on December 3rd, the Committee 

reconsidered its initial recommendation, as approved by SCUS, 

and elected to forward it again to Senate without chang,ç. 

In so doing, the Committee did not wish to appear to be 

unresponsive to the concerns expressed by Senate, but felt 

that the original recommendations continued to reflect validly 

their collective judgment on the matter. In addition, 

however, the Committee instructed a small sub-committee 

consisting of ProfessorSSwartZ, Boland and Smith to. prepare 

a statement of rationale and a chronology of events which 

would be forwarded with the original recommendations to 

Senate in 

the hope that they would speak to Senate's concerns. 

There was also an opportunity at the, special meeting for 

comment from the student representative. In presenting the 

results of several student surveys, the general opposition 

to the mandatory science requirement was underscored. 

While it is the hope of the Arts Curriculum Committee that 

this matter might be considered again at the special meeting 

of Senate to be held on Monday, December 8th, it is recognized 

that the shbrtness of time has not permitted opportunity for 

major additonal consultation with interested groups. However, 

as the attached chronology will indicate, the Committee feels 

that in the preparation of the original materials, sufficient 

consultation did occur. 

L. BoLand 

cc.All Members, Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee 

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CHRONOLOGY OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS'? 

RECOMMENDATIONS OF FACULTY REGULATIONS 

.

May - July 

FACC over a period of 5 lengthy meetings, examined 

the present Regulations and drafted a new set of 

Regulations. 

Representatives were present from all Arts Departments, 

the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, and.the 

Faculty of Science. 

Although the Terms of Reference provide membership 

for a student representative on the Committee, with 

full voting rights on curricular matters, apparently 

no student representative chose to attend any meeting 

during this time. 

July 31st 

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FACC approved a draft of the new regulations by a 

unanimous vote and distributed the draft 12 days 

later to all academic departments and student unions 

and asked that comments and reactions be forwarded 

to the Committee within 5 weeks, i.e., by September 

19.

. Sept. 18th 

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Various academic departments asked for a bit more 

time to discuss our proposals with their department 

Curriculum Committees and to submit their reactions 

to the draft. The FACC agreed to postpone discussions 

until October 2. 

Oct. 2nd 

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Every Arts Department,* the Deans of Education and 

Science, and some individual faculty members submitted 

comments. The FACC deliberated on all of the comments 

and suggestions and modified the draft in light of 

thei. Subsequently the final version of the regulations 

was put to the vote. The faculty members on the 

Committee approved them unanimously. A new student 

representative, who was attending his first meeting, 

abstained. 

The proposed new regulations were placed on the agenda 

for discussion at the Faculty of Arts meeting, and 

copies were distributed to all faculty members in Arts. 

Oct. 7th 

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At the Faculty of Arts meeting there was a lengthy 

and productive debate on the proposals. When put 

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to the vote, the proposals passed with very strong 

support. 

* Some of whom had student representation on their - 

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Departmental Curriculum Committees. 

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Oct. 14th Having been duly passed by 

were sent to SCUS. There, 

they might be allowed more 

The debate was put off for 

the proposals from reaching 

meeting. 

the Faculty, the regulations 

student members asked that 

time to study the proposals. 

3 weeks. This delay prevented 

Senate for the November 

Nov. 4th 

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SCUS debated the new proposals, and in due course 

approved them by'a vote of 9-3-1. From SCUS, the 

proposals were transmitted to Senate and were placed 

on the Agenda for December 1. 

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BRIEF RATIONALE FOR PROPOSED CHANGES IN? 

THE FACULTY OF ARTS CURRICULUM 

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The current regulations in the Faculty of Arts have 

grown piecemeal over the ten years of the University's existence. 

In contrast to the requirements of the other Faculties, the 

Arts' regulations are baroque and unwieldy. For example, the 

Science faculty is able to state their total requirements in 

one-half of a page; the Arts faculty presently requires 2 

pages in the Calendar. So lengthy are they in fact, that few 

students and few faculty members, even those that are most 

familiar with them, that is, the faculty members who are advisors, 

know them thoroughly and are able to avoid their pitfalls. 

This summer the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee 

set itself the task of trying to bring order out of the chaos 

in the Regulations. This time, however, the repair was to 

be no mere patchwork. The Committee set about to re-think 

and re-evaluate the total package; in effect to try to come 

up with integral set of regulations which captured its pro- 

fessional view as to what a liberal arts education should 

consist of in the late 1970 

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s. No part of the current regulations 

were to be automatically preserved; each and every part of 

the new proposals were to be individually justified; no part 

was to have a guaranteed place simply because of tradition 

or its former entrenchment in the regulations. 

Working papers were drawn up discussing each item in 

the current program. The Committee addressed itself to the 

question as to which parts still had academic justification 

and viability, and gave careful and long deliberation to each 

of the alternatives which it could imagine or find precedent 

for it elsewhere. 

It quickly became apparent that several parts of the 

present regulations could no longer be justified. The 

Committee could find no compelling reasons to continue the 

imposition of the following restrictions: 

(1)

The requirement that Arts majors take 45 

hours of lower division courses; 

(2)

that upper division courses taken in students' 

lower levels would not be counted toward their 

major requirements; 

(3)

that a student could not begin a major until 

his/her upper levels. 

All of these very considerable restrictions were removed. 

Students were to be given much more freedom of choice than in 

the former regulations: they could take as few lower division 

courses as they liked commensurate with the pre-requisite 

structure of courses; they could take, and have counted, upper 

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division courses in their lower levels; and they could begin 

a major as soon as they had met the prerequisites for it, 

thus making it easier to take two majors or a major and a 

minor, etc. 

What was deadwood and needlessly restrictive in the 

present regulations was readily agreed upon and eliminated. 

But having decided what was no longer to be required in the 

Arts program, the Committee then faced the more difficult 

problem of specifying what it thought ought to be included. 

On this score many proposals were examined minutely and at 

great length. These included such things as: a language re- 

quirement, especially French; an English requirement, in 

particular a course in English grammar or composition; a 

requirement that a student take one course in each of the Arts 

departments; a requirement that students take at least one 

course in each of 10 different departments in the University; 

etc., etc. 

In reaching its final consensus, the Committee often 

returned to the following unanimously held principle: that 

Canadian Universities should provide two kinds of education 

in a liberal arts program, (1) generalist or broad education 

and (2) a concentration in a particular field. 

. As to the specific content of the concentration in a 

particular field, this was readily agreed to be best decided 

by the individual academic departments, subject only to some 

broad outlines stipulated by the Faculty. (The examination 

of these outlines, e.g., total number of pre-requisite hours 

in a Major, is still to be undertaken by the Committee. But 

any decisions reached in these matters are academically and 

administratively independent of the proposed changes in the 

Arts' Regulations.) 

The Committee then addressed itself to the question of 

how to secure breadth in an Arts program and just what specifics 

should be required. This question, as expected, was the single 

lengthiest item in the entire exercise of re-examining the 

Regulations. 

The question arose as to whether the traditional tri- 

chotomy, Humanities, Social Science, and Natural Science, was 

still a valid classificatory scheme in the 1970s, or whether 

these sorts of conceptual divisions were no longer useful or 

meaningful. In the professional opinion of the Committee, 

these distinctions are significant: there is, for example, 

a very real difference between English on the one hand and 

Mathematics on the other. Of course, persons may argue as to 

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whether or not, this ought to be; that is, argue whether 

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these sorts of distinctions ought to be preserved; but this 

is not to deny that they exist; it is rather to point up the 

very fact that they do. 

Given that the Arts program is a structured one, what 

specifically was to be included in it? The Committee fairly 

readily came to the conclusion that every liberal arts student 

ought to have some exposure to each of the three areas of 

knowledge just mentioned. In a way, this conclusion was 

reached by way of the view that human knowledge is becoming, 

and ought to be, more interdisciplinary; that students in 

English, PsychOlogy and Philosophy (to mention just a few 

areas) ought to have some appreciation (although not necessarily 

expertise) in the methodologies of other fields as well, e.g., 

Mathematics, Physicsand/or Biology. In short, the Committee 

felt that if Liberal Arts students were to be given a degree, 

in effect if they were to be certified as being university- 

educated, and had not been exposed to a diversity of disciplines, 

then they would have been done a disservice; that the Faculty 

would have shirked its responsibility to construct a program 

of academic integrity. 

In the end, the Committee decided to recommend a program 

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which would ensure that each arts student has some exposure 

in each of the fields, Humanities, Social Science and Natural 

Science. This recommendation has the effect of adding 

Natural Science to the already existing requirement for courses 

in

the Humanities and the Social Sciences. But although 

this is the effect, it was not its motivation. For there 

was no prior decision, intention, or even expectation, that 

the Committee would reaffirm the requirement for courses in 

the Humanities (i.e., the so-called Group A requirements) 

nor that we would reaffirm the requirement fOr courses in the 

Social Sciences (the-so-called Group B 

• requirements). The 

Committee was totally open-minded on these matters and was 

motivated only by the question as to what, in our professional 

judgment, constituted an academically viable Liberal Arts 

degree. As it turned out, the Committee endorsed the principle 

that students have courses in each of the three areas. But 

this wasn't simply an accretion upon the present requirements; 

it was the proposing of a total integrated package. 

As mentioned, the effect of this decision is to require 

future arts students to take some natural science courses 

whereas present students need not. But this requirement is 

neither innovative or reactionary. A random perusal of the 

Calendars of some 31 other Canadian Universities has subsequently 

revealed that 15 of them now require Natural Science courses 

of their Arts majors. In short, the proposal that Arts 

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students have some mandatory exposure to natural science is 

not unusual Canadian practice. And it is, in the professional 

judgment of the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee, (a judgment 

which was subsequently endorsed by the Faculty) of genuine 

academic value. ? 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

S7,'^/

MEMORANDUM

SENATE 

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Date.,.

10th November,,. 1975

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From.. SENATE

cOM!'flT1 ON .

UN

DER

G

A

UA

STUDIES

SUbO

Requirements for the B.A.degr

At its meeting of November 4th, 1975, the Senate 

Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved the motion: 

That the changes and requirements for the B.A. 

Degree General and Honors Programs, as set 

forth in SCUS. 75-42a, be approved and 

recommended to Senate for approval. 

It was noted that the requirement that 60 and 72 semester hours 

be taken in Arts subjects in the major and honors programs 

respectively represented an increase of only one hour over 

existing requirements rather than ten, since the hours required 

under separate existing regulations come to 69 and 81 for the 

two programs. 

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Members of SCUS focused considerable attention on the 

group requirements and specifically on the requirement for two 

science-courses. Three arguments were brought to bear 

,

in support 

of this requirement: 

1.

that basic scientific "literacy" is essential to 

an understanding of today's society; 

2.

that balance in a liberal education requires at 

least some work in science; and 

3.

that demystification is important if the non- 

scientist is to avoid placing undue credence on 

science. 

Moreover it was noted that 86%' of the 218 arts graduands in 

the 74-1 semester had enrolled in courses that would meet the 

science requirement being proposed and. that fifteen of thirty- 

one Canadian universities surveyed have a science requirement 

for arts students. Several members of SCUS argued strongly 

against the science requirement primarily on the grounds that 

most of the proposed revisions to B.A. requirements represented 

a liberalizing of requirements whereas the science requirement 

represented undue compulsion. 

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It was noted that departments in the Faculty of Science 

offer a number of courses for the non-scientist, primarily courses 

relating science to society. In addition, each science department 

includes in its regular curriculum courses which have no science 

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prerequisites other than those required for admission to the 

University. Furthermore, the Faculty of Science Curriculum 

Committee has indicated its willingness to encourage the 

development of additional courses of particular interest to Arts 

students. Finally, the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee is 

prepared to consider for recognition for credit in group C (Science) 

some courses outside the Faculty of Science in such Departments as 

Kinesiology, Psychology, and Geography. 

Daniel IL Birch 

ams

att. 

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FACULTY OF ARTS 

Change in Requirements 

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80

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Faculty of     

From: 

Arts Require-     

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ments for the 

B.A. ? 

Degree 

so

Lower ? 

General 

Levels ? 

and

(For a complete outline ofGcneral University Requirments please

refer

to Sec.

Honors 

tion 6.4 of the Calendar).

Program 

Faculty of Arts Requirements for the B.A. Degree 

p. ? 

81

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Upper ? 

General 

Levels ? 

Program 

The Faculty of Arts requirements fall into three categories: 1. The distribution

of the total credit hours among the Faculties of the University as well as the vari-

ous departments within the Faculty of Arts (see Group Requirements). 2.

Requirements for acceptance into and continuance in degree programs. 3. The

establishment of minimum academic standards via the Grade Point Averace

(GPA) for successful completion of the various degree programs.

1. Distribution

of Total

Credit Hours

All Levels

A minimum of 120 credit hours of \VltiCh at least 60 hours

General

must be taken within the Faculty o' Arts.

Degree

Program

All Levels

A minimum of 132 credit hours of which at least 72 hours

Honors

must he taken within the Faculty.

Degree

Program

Note: Lower division courses include all credit courses numbered between 001

and 299. Upper division courses include all undergraduate credit courses

numbered 300 and above.

Lower level courses are those courses completed within the lirt 60 hìours of

credit. 5Upper level courses are those courses completed isithin credits

accumulated after completion of the first 60 hours.

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General and Honors Program

At least 60 credit hours of shich:

I. At least 24 must satisfy the appropriate Facuhy of Arts

Group A & B requirements (see Group Requirements on

page 82).

Lower

2. The lower division requirement

) for at least one Arts major

degree program should be completed.

Levels

3. At least 45 credit hours must be in lower division

COUtSCS.

NOTE: Any upper division courses -ill not count towards

the upper level requirements if taken prior to admission to

the upper levels.

4. No more than 16 may be taken in an

one seineter withcut

the written consent of the Dean.

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General 11rogr.*in

At least 60 credit hours

which:

At least 45 credit hours must be in upper division courses.

Of that 45, a minimum of 30 upper division hours must be

completed in the Arts major subject. At least 15 upper divi-

sion hours are required for a minor in an Arts subject (see

Majors, Double Majors and Major/Minors on pages 83 and

84.)

At least 15 credit hours must be in upper and/or tower divi-

sion courses outside the major subject area.

This require-

ment is automatically

fulfilled

when a student completes

requirements for an approved double major or major/minor

program.

Al least 45 credit hours must be t4 en within the Faculty

Arts and be used for credit toward the dcgrce.

This restric-

tion doer not apply in those cases where a student is enrolled In

an approved degree program involving two or more Faculties

such as a double major or major/minor degree program.

No more than 18 credit hours may be taken in any one.

semester without the written consent of the Dean.

From

Upper

Levels

Students in their first 60 credit hours may not take 

more than 16 credit hours in any one semester and 

students in their final 60 credit hours in the 

General Program or 72 hours in the Honors Program 

y not take more than 18 credit hours without the 

written consent of the Dean. 

GENEtAL PRO(SAM 

At least 120 semester

, hours of credit which

includes:

(1)

To:

a) A minimum of 12 semester hours in courses in Group

A, including courses from

at

least two different Group

A departments;

b) A minimum of 12 semster hours in courses in Group

B, including courses from at least two different Group

B departments;

A minimum of two courses in Group C;

A minimum of 30 semster hours outside one's Arts

major program.

(Note:

courses taken outside

one's 

major program as

part of 

the Group Requirements,

i.e., a, b, and c above, may

ho counted towards 

Requirement d);

0)

The lower division prqrequisites for at least one

Arts major program. (Note: these semester hours

may be counted towards the appropriate Group Requireme

above);

f) A minimum of 45 semester hours

in

upper division

courses includiçg a minimum of 30 hours in an Arts

major program;

g) a minimum of 70 semester

hours in Art; subjects. 

A department niiy deK igir.ite up to 8 cr+dl L

urc of tipper Di vi i an ou re

f fc r ct

by other depart ment:

!if

iii tu Li 1Iin

this 1'e(lllipoi'

Change in Requirements 

P. 81 ? 

Upper 

?

Honors 

?

From: 

Levels ? 

Program 

j

I(b1s

l'rogrin,

At least

credit

hours of hicti: 

I. At 

least 60

credit 

hours lutist b.

tlp;r ii'.

ision 

Of that 60, at least 50 lutist he in 

one

Upper

At least IS credit 

hours

must be iii 

upper

::nil/or 

l.wcr

l

ii-

siOn Courses outside the major subject 

area.

This

requir'-

Leehs 

?

meat is autwnc:tica/fy futjillcd w/xn a .cuLnt

ri'quir,nents fur an appi'ove(/

(IOU/)/e ,i:c'nr

Program.

3.

At least 57 credit 

hours

must be taken ' ihn the Fdcultv of 

Arts

and he used for credit towards th decree. 

This restric-

tion does not appl

in those cases 'there a s/u J'nt is enrolled in

an approved degree program in volvjn

tltQ

or ,nore I-ac-u 'ti s

such as a double major or ,?Iaur/,,z/flnr dc--rcc program.

4.

No more than 18 credit hours may be taken in any one 

semester without the written consent of th Dean. 

department may designate up to 12 credit hours of upper 

division 

courses

offered by other departments as being 

acceptable in fulfilling part of this requirement. 

To:

HONORS PROGRAM 

(ii) 

At leant 137 semester hour. , 

; ef crcdit whi 

includes: 

a) A minimum of 12SPmester hours in Courses in Group 

Group 

A, including 

A departments; 

Courue from 

tL

Jc,at 

two

different 

b) A minimum of 12 semester hours in courses in Group 

B, including courses from at least two different 

Group B departments; 

A minimum of two courses in Group C; 

d)

A minimum of 30 semester hours outside one's Arts 

i.e., 

honors 

honors 

a,

program 

program. 

b, and 

as

c

(Note: 

above, 

part of 

may

co

the

urses, 

be

Group 

counted 

taken 

Req

towards 

outside 

uirements, 

one's 

R

e q

uirement d); 

e)

The Thwer division prerequisites for at least one 

Arts honors program. (Note: these semester hours 

may

above); 

be counted towards the a 

p

propriate Group Require 

f)

a minimum of 60 semester hours in upper division cours.s 

program;* 

Including a minimum of 50 hours in an Arts honors 

g) a minimum of 82 semester hours in Arts ubji.cts. 

*A

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department may designate up to 12 credit hours of upper 

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division courses offered by other departrnnts as being 

acceptable in 

Lul

fillirir part of this req1ljrrrn 

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Rationale 

p. 81 Faculty 

Artsof 

Re-

???

The

for

during 

gradually 

Regulations 

the

the

apless 

evolved 

ten years 

in

student 

into 

the

of

a

Faculty 

and

the

system 

for

University's 

of

which 

the

Arts 

unwary 

is

have 

riddled 

faculty 

xistence. 

grown 

with 

advisor. 

iecemeal 

They 

Pitfalls 

have 

ments 

quire- 

?

Then, 

never 

the Faculty 

too, 

in fact 

some 

of

enforced. 

Arts 

of-theregulatjons 

prepared 

Just 

to

what 

impose 

sanctions, 

although 

in the case 

enfo

for

rceable,are 

of

xample, 

a Student 

is

who

levels? 

does 

As

not

it

complete 

turns outs 

his

the

'Group 

Faculty 

u

remen-s' 

has never 

in

imposed 

his lower 

sartctjor 

in cases of 

ansgression against this regulation.Why, then 

) ..not remove the regulation? 

During the course of several meetings this Summer, the 

Faculty 

be

of

eactions 

evising 

egulatdiscussed 

Arts 

Curriculum 

the

can

s and 

both 

be

gulations. 

is

returned 

in

Committee 

herewith 

Departrto 

It

q

the

ueporting

i

ndertook 

hoped 

Committee 

and in 

its

that 

to

Student 

?

recorr

review 

these 

Uniorin 

Lrnendatjons 

the

ror)osals 

and

culty's 

f

tht

owj

W ?

mittee by 

eptember 19. 

• The major changes proposed are these: 

1. The distinction between lower level and upper leve] 

students is to be abolished. A student may take any 

pre

course 

-requisites. 

at any time 

Thus 

p

r

a

o vi 

student 

ded he 

need 

meets

not

the

wait 

specific

until 

course

his Sixtieth hour to begin the upper division courses 

required for a major. A student may enter a major degree 

is

program 

lower 

the

division 

longstanding 

as soon 

pre

as

-

he

Pequisites 

actice 

has sat1sfid 

in

for

he

that 

Faculty 

the

program. 

specific

of Science.) 

(This 

credit 

is

Cur

simply 

rently 

hours 

to

we

be

in

require 

abolished. 

lower 

divisi

udents 

on

courses. 

take

at

This 

least 5 

3.

Under 

Greater 

the

diversity 

present 

in

gulations 

course selection 

it is Possible 

will be 

for

equired. 

a

of

only 

student 

aculty 

five 

two

of

to

departments 

would 

epartmentsScience.get 

a

be

B.A. 

?

equi 

?

including

degree 

pUnder

ec; to 

by

the

at

taking 

.teaSc

proposed 

least 

-

?

sample 

One

new

in

tie

egulatj 

t:e

in

wares 

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81 Faculty 

..of 

Arts 

Requirements 

COMMIENTS 

5

Rationale (cont.) 

a)

Currently students need 

sample 

the wares of only 

one Group A Department. 

b)

Currently students need 

sample 

the wares of only 

one Group B Department. 

c)

Under present regualtions, students are not required. 

take any science courses.. The Faculty of Arts 

Curriculum Committee recommends that students have 

some mandatory exposure to science. 

d)

Presert 

regulations ensure only that a student will 

have 

27

of a 

total 120 hours outside his major. 

Increasing 

this number to 30 is a modest change. 

e)

Nochange. ? 

.

?

.

f)

No change. 

g)

Current regulations require a minimum of 69. 

The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee 

supported the 

change Lo 

allow mor 

students to count courses taken outside 

the major towards their malar requirements. 

The Committee felt ttt thi 

chTlgC

would 

allow departments 

to respond to 

jfldi\JLdUai

students' programmes nc1 goals. 

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Change in Requirement; 

Group Requirements 

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From: 

"Students entering with Advanced Crcdit 

(Grade XIII, B.C. or equivalent) 

Upon written authorization of the Academic 

Advice Centre, certain Group F subjects 

(designated by the Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee) may be applied up to a maximum 

of 6 hours towards the Arts Group Requirements. 

Normally it is desirable that coursefulfi1ling 

group requirements be spread more or less 

equally over the first four levels." 

To

All students registered in the Faculty of 

Arts must have a minimum 

'

of 12 semester 

hoursourses in Group A, including courses 

from at least two different Grou p 

A

departments; a minimum of 12 semester hours 

in courses in Group B, including courses 

from at least two different Grou 

p

B

departments; a minimum of two courses in 

Group C. 

Rational 

In accordance with two changes in the 

Group Requirements, firstly that students 

no longer are required to take them in 

Lower Levels, secondly, that 2 courses in 

Group C (the Faculty of Science) are 

required, it was decided that the six hour 

exemption was no longer desirati.e. 

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As

Arts students transferring from another 

institution would have satisfied the 

requirements of one Group, and usually 

the Group C requirement, it is felt that 

the completion of the remainder: of the 

courses is not a heavily restrictive 

requirement. Students transferring from 

Science will have completed the Group 

C requirement and most likely 6 hours 

of Group A or B requirements. As they 

must take a total of 70 hours of Arts 

subjects, the completion of Group 

requirements would not force them to take 

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additional courses. It was felt that i 

hours of courses in each Group was 

a minimum requirement which should nt he 

waived. 

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Change in Regulations 

p.

814

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Requirements for Acceptance 

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From: 

and Continuance 

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Upon registering for that semester 

in

2.1 General Program 

?

which he will take his Gist credit, 

the student 

enters 

upper ,  

levels work in hi 

degree program at this time he must 

forma-ly decaire on his registration 

for the specific degree program he wished 

to pursue. This formal declaration 

establishes the exact requirements for 

graduation as they appear in the Calendar 

in force at the time of the declaration. 

Students are urged to keep a copy of 

this Calendar known as their' "Gradtating 

Calendar" for reference.' 

To:

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Prior to or upon registering for that 

semester in which the 61st credit is 

taken students must formally declare 

a major program. This formal declaration 

establishes the exact requirements for 

graduation as they appear in the Calendar 

in effect at 

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he time of declaration. 

Students are urged to keep a copy of 

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this calendar, known as their "Grad uat:ing 

Calendar" for re Ference. 

Change in Regulations O1IT Although 

students may indicate their intentions 

to pursue a specific degree program prior 

to entering the upper levels and seek 

advice concerning the program within the 

appropriate department(s), this does n,.-.)t 

have formal validity and a formal 

declaration must he made at the proper 

time on the registration form. 

2.2 Honors Program 

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Change in Regulations 

,From: 

Upon registering for that semester in wh_ 

i

he will take his 61s1 credit, a student 

may apply for admission to t1t Honors 

program of a particular depar't:ment . 

Prior to or upon regis t eri.ng [or I:hit 

semester in which 

the Cl.

L erect 

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be taken a student: may apply for 

ddlflisS

:1 on 

to the Honors program of a par'ticuJ.lr.' 

department. 

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Rationale 

Abolition of 

the

distinction 

between

upper and lower levels makes 60 hour:.; 

an arbitrary 

time

for each student to 

declare a major. Some students will 

be pursuing a major program prlor to 

reaching 60 

hours,

therefore they should 

be permitted to 

formally

declare a major 

when they begin their upper division 

studies, so that they are governed by 

the Calendar 

which

they are following. 

Dr. Dan Birch , .c.airin.ai..,.....S..,c...0....S...... 

SiMON FRASER

MEMORAP

UNIVERSITY

C r

IDUM 

From..

Norman Swartz, Acting. ean/ 

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Faculty of Arts 

November 3, 1975. 

Date.,

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SubjectS ?

Requirement - Faculty 

of Arts ? 

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Paper C 96-23, distributed to the F.A.C.C. at its meeting of 

July 17, 1975, presents a survey of 218 students* with respect to 

the completion of Groupnd B requirements and Math and Science 

courses. The following trend is reflected. Of the 218 students 

surveyed, 99 were enrolled in Science courses while 89 had enrolled 

in Math courses. . On a percentage basis, 86% of the 218 students 

surveyed were enrolled in courses that would meet the science 

requirement currently being proposed by the Faculty of Arts. 

*All Arts Graduands 74-1 

C.C. Mr. H. Evans

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