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TO: Senate
FROM Wade Parkhouse, Dean, Graduate Studies
RE Facult of Science
GS2010.16
CC Derek Bin ham
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DATE June 15,2010
For information
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of 14 June 2010, the SGSC approved
the following curriculum revisions:
Faculty
of Science
[GS2010.16]
a.Department of Biomedical Physiology
&
Kinesiology
i) Change to Description
,
add On-line offering: KfN 806-3 Special Topics
ii) Change to Title and Description: KfN 835-3 Neuromuscular
Prostheses
b.Department of Physics
i) Changes in Grading: PHYS 801-2
Senators wishing to consult a more detailed report of curriculum revisions
may
http:
www.sfu.ca/senate
/
Senate agenda.html
following
the posting
of the agenda. If
you
are unable to access the information, please
call
778.782.3168
or
email
shelleygair
@
sfu
.
ca
.
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We would like to request that Kin 806: Special Topics be modified to include the offering
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designed a course entitled Prevention and Management
of Cardiovascular Disease to be
held in summer
2010 under Kin 806. This course had been created to appeal to health
professionals and others with an interest
in health in the cardiovascular field to improve
their breadth
of knowledge and skills. By offering it as a distance education course, this
will allow potential students outside
of the Lower Mainland to enroll and participate.
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Course Title: Neuromuscular Disorders
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Course Title: Neuromuscular Prostheses
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Course Description for Calendar:
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Rationale for grading basis change to PHYS 801
Physics 801,
Student Seminar, is a course that is required of all graduate
students and provides training in technical presentation. Students attend
and
give seminars over multiple semesters, and finish the course when they
have given a minimum number of successful presentations. Currently the
course
is graded Pass/Fail and there is ambiguity around when the student
should register to obtain credit for the course. The change to In Progress/No
Credit
removes this ambiguity, allows us to continue to require the course for
degree completion, and does not substantively change the student assessment
process.
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