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•oHNEvans 

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McDougall 

Secretary of Senate 

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request that you place the following motions on the Agenda for 

the September 8 meeting of the University Senate. 

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THAT 

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Senate rescind its decision of the Augus.t 4 meeting 

refer proposed new course PSA 474 back to the Faculty 

of Arts Curriculum Committee; 

THAT Senate accept PSA 474 as a new course as outlined in 

Snate paper 

5-253, 

page 111; 

T-1AT Sena 

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suspend its rule, arising out of a motion passed 

at the SepLember, 1967, meeting (Minutes of that meeting, 

page 8) to the effect that no new coursemay be-scheduled 

for a given semester unless it has been approved b Senate 

at least one month before the beginning of thxt semester; 

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THAT Senate instruct the Registrar to schedule and accept 

the registrations in PSA 474 for the 69-3 semester. 

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supPort of these motions, the attached paper 5.s submitted as a 

rebuttal ofthe arguments which led Senate to refer PSA 474 back to the 

Faculty Curriculum Committee. 

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COIC.rRNB(J DR. CAPJ OS OBJLCT!O 

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the August 4 meeting of the Univerity Senate, the Dean of 

the Faculty of Arts put forward for approval three new courses to be                        

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offered this Fall (semester 69-3) 

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the P3A i)epirtment (senate paper 

S-253) Dr. Roy Carlson, Senator and Director of Archaeological Studies 

• put forard objections to all of these courses and PSA, 474, a proposed 

upper level course in Cultural Evolution, was referred back to the 

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Facultyof Arts Curriculum Committee asa.result of these objections 

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the PSA submission, It was stated that there was no course 

overlap between PSA 474 and other courses offered in the Department, 

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nown cburse overlap within the Faculty. Dr. Carlson objected 

that thre was overlap, specifically with PSA 272, Archaeology of the 

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Old V1ordQ Why he chose this time to present his 'dissenting view is not 

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.'known - all new courses were circulated to the Faculty 

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Arts in a ? 

referendum and presumably the Curriculum Committee acted in part on 

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the basis of this referendum in putting the courses forward to Senate 

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Carlson presented what appeared to be a well documented case 

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course outlines, etc0,.. 

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is not the case, 

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Dr.Carlsons basic objections were 'as follows:- 

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a) Course content overlap, specifically with PISA 272; 

Nb) Duplication of reading material on other PSA courses; 

These objectionsmay he considered ad seriatim, 

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support his argument that there was course content overlap, 

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Carlson read the calendar description of PSA 272 and the first of 

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for .PSA 474. 

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These are as follows:- 

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Calendar description 

..,Asurvey of the Old World Prehistory from the Paleolithic 

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the Bronze Age. 'Basic concepts used In reconstructin 

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_prehistoric cultures, and the artifactual, fossil, 'and. 

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evidence for the e.yolution of man and culture 

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(emphasis supplied), 

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PSA 474 Course decripti6n • 

The origins of culture and language and the biosocial 

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.evaluation of inan. The evolutionary basis of the develop- 

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ephasis on the growth 

and decline of 

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of sub-ha 

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primate societies for the origin of the. cocial i.vision 

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of labour and territoriality. 

.Dr. Carlson neglet€-: to read the remaiJnç para 

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rcphs of the des•- 

Qriptin. These read 

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Examples are taken from conte2orT "primitiv societie.s 

to examine clan 3ociety 

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that such contempor 

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radically affected 

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by contact with advanced agrarian and industrial societies, 

often exploitative. 

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We will attempt to cevelop a theory of culture change which 

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will rest upon the formulations of historical :ateriaiism 

ofarx-Engels and other 

19th and

20th century political 

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philosophers, at the same time subjecting logical positivism 

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which dominates present anthropological theory to critical 

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scrutinye.mphasis supplied). 

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And a post scripturn to the reading list: 

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Needless to say, our point will be to generate, not reca- 

pitulate, theory. 

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no other Senator had this information at the 

meeting. To elaborate, PSA 272:will be given in semester 69-3 

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Hobleri The course outline for that offering has just been published 

(August 11) and reads as follows: 

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Asurvey course dealing with the prehistory of the Old World - 

Europe, Africa, Asia. The course traces the hi 

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and evolu- 

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tlon of culture from its begirtrings some two million years ago 

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Africa to the fourth or fifth millennium before Christ0 The 

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obiems surrounding the understanding of the biological 

biological-- 

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tibn of man and the effects culture may have had upon this are                       

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cbverado Racial 

taxonomies

viewed from the perspective of bio 

logical evolution are also covered. 

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An emphasis will be placed upon the theoretical concepts used 

in the reconstruction of prehistoric cultures. The disciplIne                      

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..—of Archaeology will be outlined and its interdisciplinary re- 

latonships with other fields will be explored. 

Even a casual glace at these outlines will show that these 

courses do not by any means conflict; indeed they compliment each 

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if anything, a condition devoutly to be hoped for in any Depart- 

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duplication of

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PSA 474 and other of 

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an objection of this .sort from 

an academic 

academic 

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is startling to say the least. Taken 

to its 

logical conclusion it 

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mean that 

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one especially students, should ever read a book 

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twice! 

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prehension and his critical faculties grOw, a continual re-assessment                   

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the content of hi discipline is mandatory if his intellectual de- 

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veioprent is to mean anything at all, 

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To te the specific e:mles ci:d 

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Carlson, the 

• three books. listed as required rea.in,c' for ?.A 474, 

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EngelsOrf_in of the Fail 

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• gan's Ancient Sociv, have been sroun for 35 an 9L 

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years respec- 

tively, are considered classics in their field (which is not Archae- 

ology), 

and preümably have been read and re-read ocàasionlly in that 

time0 The third, Elman Service's Primitive 

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cial Cr .iz.tion, re- 

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presents, in the author's own words, an argument in favor of hypo 

theses" 

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(page 182) and as such raises many' que 

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stions in the field of 

cultural evolution and ethnography. The book as a v:hole constitutes 

a fertle source of ideas which can be discussed ovr and over again; 

• all disciplines have books of this nature, which students of the dis- 

ciplin6 cannot afford to ignore. Little wonder students ae directed 

to thei in more than one course, 

Dr. Carlson also made the point that 

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a number of books 

• listedas other readings on the PSA 474 outline 

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were irchaeoiogica1 

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in.content or orientation. This is not too su'prising, since Archae-- 

ologyis usually subsumed under Cultural Anthropology. (Dr. Carison's 

own degree is in Cultural Anthropology.) However, on a perua1 of' 

nine reading lists of Archaeology courses, only two books listed 

under

PSA 474 appear - Oakl'ey's 14an the Tool-Maker 

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iongait's Archaeolocy 

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Looking closer at these reading lists for Archaeology, it 

• appears that Dr. Carlson does after all, approve of students reading 

the sathe books 

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twice, at least in ArchaeOlogy courses0 For example, 

in semester 

67-3

both .PSA 272 and PSA 372 were given to Archaeology 

students, and these were two books common to the reading lists - 

Hammond's Thysical 

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and Childé's A Short ? 

Introduction to Archaeolo. The first 

.     named book had also been used 

..in PSA 273, 

New World. Archaeology, given in semester 

67-1.

In semester 

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PA 273 

and

PSA

373

were both given with a book common to both 

reading lists- 

Kroeber's Cultural and Natural Areas of.Native North 

America. Hammond's book,was also-on the reading list.for PSA273 

Wi1ly and Phillips Method and Theory in American Archaeology has ap- 

peared on different courses as has Willey's An Introduction to. North 

American Archaeology. So by some of Dr, Carlson's own criteria his 

argumerts in objection toPSA 

474

are ruted0 Vinally, as between 

PSA 272 

to be 'given in semester 

69-3 

and -the reading list of the 

proposed •SA 

474

there is only one common book. Hardly a condition 

for bourse content overlap, 

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An inspecbon of the offerings given to Anthropology majors in 

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the PSA Depament also shows very littIe overlp of reading material 

with courses given to Archaeology majors, except for the infrequent 

semesters when either Mr. Hobler or Dr. Carlson have given PSA 172, 

Anthropological Concepts, or PSA 274, Primitive Economy and Technology, 

Dr. Carlson objected to another point raised in the oigina1 

áub1ssion. This was the statement, "As well, ArchEeology students 

would find the course useful" (Senate paper S-253, pate 111). Dr Ca: 

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objected that the material of SA 474 was covered in other cours 

for Archaeology students. This is not 

the

case, and indeed Archaeoio, 

students might benefit from contact with the study of living 

human

beings and their cultural evolution. 

To stun up: the courses given as Archaeology and the courses 

given ds Cultural and Social Anthropology vary widely in their conte: 

and ieadinglists. Specifically, PSA 272 and the proposed PSA 474 ar, 

ore sequentially related than overlapping in content. PSA 

272

stops 

Short of data from living societies and depends for its orientation 

on tracing cultural evolution through "ärtl±'actual, fossil, and 

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con

Stextial evidence." PSA 

474 is 

to rely on examples "taken from contem 

pora'y 'primitive' .soieties 

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to develop a theory of culture 

change." This appears perfectly reasonable, unless Dr. Car.leon would 

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like 

to argue that cultural evolution stopped somewhere around "the 

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fourh or fifth millennium before Christ." ? 

SIMON FRASEI UNIVERSITY

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From.. ?

D.H. Sullivan ? 

Dear............. 

Faculty of Arts 

Date

As requested by Senate, the Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee met to re-consider .PA 

474.

Following is a report 

of.the decision made at a meeting September 8 

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1969. 

NOTION 

Rh e um'e r - - Craw ford 

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After a meeting of the Curriculum Committee of 

the Faculty of Arts in which Professors Hickerson 

and Carlson participated, the Committee reaffirmed 

its original recommendation that PSA 

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included in the PSA course offerings. 

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In the 

light of the long history of deliberations, the 

Committee further recommends that PSA 

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offered in the current semester as originally 

1anned. 

The Committee also recommends that at such time 

as the Archaeology unit formally proposes to expand 

its course offerings, PSA 

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474

be referred back to the 

Committee for examination as to its position within 

he Faculty of Arts. 

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MOTION CARRIED 

UNANIMOUS 

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