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FACULTY OF

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I ATTENTION

Jo Hinchliffe, Aaaiatant Registrar

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FROM Paul Budra, Associate Dean FASS

IRE BGS motion at SCUS

I DATE March 2, 2010

Would you please add the foHowing motion to the agenda for the SCUS meeting

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Mar. 4th, 201 O. This motion is to clarify the intent of the motion SCUS 09-45c,

passed on Sept 17

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Rationale:

• SCUS

09~45c

specifies that "Starting Fall 2010, the Bachelor of General

Studies (BOS) degree will.be available only as a graduation option for

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students. Students interested in this

option must meet with a faculty advisor in Arts Central (AQ 3020) and will

be required to complete an application fonn in order to seek fonnal

approval from the Associate Dean

in

the Faculty of Arts and Social

Sciences." Students who are applying for admission to SFU will not be in a

position

to get such approval.

• In

general, F ASS is trying to dissuade students from the BOS option in

favor of the BA (and especially the new BA with two minors). BOS

students, because they often have no area of concentration, may not have

the prerequisites necessary

for the upper division courses they need to

complete their degrees. Additionally, students value the BOS less than the

BA because it is a less known degree. And, anecdotally, students who do

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ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

register into the BOS often mistake it for a BA in general subjects rather

than a different degree.

• If, for whatever reason, a student insists on pursuing a BGS, we would like

the opportunity to advise her on how construct a cohesive academic plan

and structure her degree to eliminate possible graduation completion

problems. Because BOS students have no home departments they are

difficult

to track and advise; we want to be sure they see the Associate

Dean before committing to the degree path.

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Chair, FASSCC

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