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FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT

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TEL 778.782.8797

FAX 778.782.8788

MEMORANDUM

ATIENTION

FROM

RE:

Jon Driver

Chair, SCUP

J oho T. Pierce,

Dean, Faculty of Environment

Development

Studies Program Name Change

SCUP 10-06

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DATE

January 18,2010

Attached please find a memo from the Director of the Development Studies Program, Dr. Robert

Anderson, outlining

the Development Studies Program Steering Committee's decision to request a name

change to the

Devc/opmellf (lI1i1 SlIslaillabilily Program.

The rationale is as follows:

This name supports key strategic directions of the new Faculty of Environment and better conveys the

focus of the program.

It

provides greater clarity for students interested in studying in this

interdisciplinary area and for the identity of the program and the discipline of development within the

Faculty and the University. This is part of a set of initiatives (sec appendix attached) and no additional

resources are required

to support this name change.

This

name change is supported by the Dean's Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Environment and I

recommend this name change

to SCUP for approval.

I.

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

THINKING OF THE WORLD

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Shrum Science Centre, K9666

Telephone: 778-782-4265

Fax: 778-782-4024

"randerso@sfu.ca"

To: John Pierce, Dean

Faculty of Environment

8888 UNIVERSITY DRIVE

BURNABY,

BRITISH

COLUMBIA

CANADA V5A 156

23 December 2009

Following consultations, the Steering Committee of this Program met on 7 December 2009 and

approved a change of the name of the Development Studies

Program to the

Development and

Sustainability Program

in the Faculty of Environment.

This choice of name was preceded by a year of discussion among members about a name that

signals

our entry into the new Faculty of Environment. In November 2008 a majority of

members indicated a preference for a name including Isustainability' because it would more

fully express the productive tension between development and its problems. The insertion of

an additional term 'environment' in the program name was carefully considered. At the

committee meeting on 1 April

2009, knowing the name of the new faculty, there was lengthy

discussion of the need

to make our new name interesting and meaningful to students and

others outside the university.

On 1 and 1H September 2009 the Committee submitted a 3-Year

Plan

to the Dean of the Faculty incorporating the proposed name

Development and Sustainability

Prog,oam.

The steering committee member who is also responsible for the Centre for

Sustainable Community Development, the director of

REM, and the director of the School of

International Studies at

SFU were consulted about the change of name.

The university has adopted a strong agenda to change its operations and outlook to be 'more

sustainable'. We understand the term Isustainability' to include 'environment', and

our place

in the new faculty will

be a strong signal too. Given these reasons we are confident that this

change will be accepted and will strengthen

our program, and thus the Faculty as a whole. The

high level of international teaching and research of people in this program

is also consistent

with

SFU's emphasis on internationalization.

Most universities in North America have programs in development studies and a great

number of those programs also have a Isustainability' focus.

UBC has a new Institute of

Environment, Resources, and Sustainability.

UVic has a program on Business and

Sustainability.

Our focus on development and sustainability will complement others.

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No further resources are required for this name change. The program will continue to develop

within the new Faculty and in collaboration with other interdisciplinary teaching, research and

programming within the University.

We recommend approval of the name change to tire

Development and Sustainability Program.

Respectfully Submitted,

W

Bob Anderson, Director

Development Studies Program

cc: Steering Committee

3.

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Appendix to SCUP with Name Change Request

January

2010

Appendix

Development Studies Program Initiatives

Faculty

of Environment

(3 December 2009)

This document outlines the major initiatives to be taken (and a tentative time-line) to build and strengthen this

program in the

FENV.

1. New name for Development Studies Program: We are currently in the process of consultation on a new

name, and

will prepare a memo on the new name of our program early in January 2010. Our program is

currently listed in the SFU calendar as "Development Studies Program" in FENV.

2. Formalizing Core Course of Graduate Certificate in Development Studies: We will prepare a new course

proposal (also in January

2010) to establish formally the core course for the Graduate certificate in

development studies

(provisionally "DEV 801") as a course 'owned' by our program and located in the FENV.

We expect to see this process completed in time for the next offering of the course in fall 2010. The core

course

for the graduate certificate in development studies has been offered every year since the program was

created in

2005. To date, 52 graduate students (masters and doctorate) have taken the core course. The

course has so far been offered as a selected topics course, cross listed in CMNS and POL. It should now stand

alone.

3. Create new courses for proposed undergraduate programming: Development studies program currently

only offers a graduate certificate. We are proposing

two undergraduate courses (200 and 400-level). The 400-

level course (provisionally, DEV 401) will be offered as selected topics course in summer 2010, and the 200-

level course ("DEV 201") will be offered in 2011. These two courses will form the basis of a new undergraduate

curriculum

to be developed by our program (see para. 5)

4. Resources: The program requires a modest amount of new resources and/or the re-allocation of existing

resources (in the form

of secondments, course buy-outs, or cross-appointments) in order to offer these

courses.

Since our program has no faculty complement, instructors with teaching commitments in other units

would have

to be relieved from those obligations in order to teach these courses.

Team teaching

will

be a

common method

of instruction in the program.

Summer 2010 - DEV 401 Course Leader, James Busumtwi-Sam

Fall 2010 -

DEV 801 Course Leader, Bob Anderson

Spring

2011- DEV 201 Course Leader?

5. Obtain approvals for creation of undergraduate Minor Degree: The program steering committee has

approved the development of undergraduate programming to complement our existing graduate program.

This program will

be built on the two undergraduate courses (201 and 401) offered as selected topics courses.

We therefore propose to create an undergraduate minor degree, a process that will occur in two steps:

Step

1: Obtain all necessary approvals for an undergraduate component to our program.

Step 2: Develop detailed curriculum for a minor degree program and obtain all necessary approvals. We expect

to begin these processes in the summer and fall of 2010 in order to establish the minor in fall 2011.

Robert Anderson

Director,

Development Studies Program

FENV