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MEMORANDUM

ATTENTION

FROM

Senate Committee on University Priorities

Bill IVane, Chair

DATE

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Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

RE:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SCUS 11-03(i)(ii))

Action

undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of

January

6. 2011.

gives rise to the following recommendations:

Motions:

That SCUP approve and recommend to Senate the suspension of admission to

the Faculty of Arts and Social Science"s Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics

and Statistics effective Summer

2011.

That SCUP approve and recommend to Senate the dissoLution of the Faculty of

Arts and Social Science's Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Statistics

effective Fall2011.

The relevant documentation for review by SCUP is attached.

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DATE November 30,2010

We are recolnmending that admissions to the FASS BAs in Mathematics and

Statistics be permanently suspended. These degree programs generate almost no

student interest: in the

past ten years six F ASS students have graduated with Math

majors and five with Stats majors.

There are other reasons for stopping admission into these programs: the few

students who do take these programs seem to do so by

accident~

these students

place an unusual burden on F

ASS

advisors because the vast majority of their

course

work is in the Faculty of Science; finally, the two

FASS

BAs are virtually

identical to their

BSc counterparts.

For all of these reasons, please suspend admissions into these F ASS degree

programs as

of the end of the spring teon 2011. F

ASS

faculty have been consulted

and they

see no reason to continue the program.

Many thanks.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Paul Budra

(budra@sfu.ca).

John Craig, Dean pro tern

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Degree Program Dissolution Process

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Committee has

voted in favour of terminating the lVlath and Stats BAs and Honours degrees in FASS.

1. Program to be discontinued: The Faculty of Arts rvlathematics Major and

Honours programs; the Faculty of Arts Statistics

Major and Honours

programs.

2. Location:Burnaby

3. These programs are offered by FASS, though the vast majority of the courses

are

in the Faulty of Science

4. Anticipated final dissolution date: Summer, 2011

5. Reasons for discontinuance and dissolution of the program:

a. There is virtually no demand for these programs in F

ASS

and the few

students who have taken them in the past ten years seem to have

entered them

by accident

b. The presence of these programs, which are composed of course work

almost entirely

in another faculty, in FASS, is confusing both to

students and F

ASS advisors

c. These programs are virtually identical to their BSc counterparts in

Math and Stats.

6. Plan for phasing-out of program:

a. Students and prospective students are being told by FASS advisors

that the

Math and Stats degrees will only be offered through the

Faculty

of Science. There are presently two students in each of the

Math and Stats BAs. They will be grandfathered through. Students

intending to enter the program

will be advised to move to the BSc or

they will be grandfathered through in FASS

b. Department chairs and undergraduate chairs were consulted in

January 2010. Because all the significant courses for these programs

are

in the Faculty of Science, there is no anticipated implications for

FASS teaching and curriculum

c. As the teaching for these programs is done in the Faculty of Science,

there will be no resource reallocation implications for FASS

d. The Departments of Math and Stats were consulted on Nov. 3, 2010

and earlier

e. In a meeting with members of the Departments of Math and Stats on

Nov. 3, 2010, it was suggested that those programs mount their own

BAs in their disciplines and housed in the Faculty of Science

f. Timeline of activities: Bill Krane received a memo earlier this month

asking

for admission into the program to be discontinued; we would

like the program dissolved as of the summer of 2011

7. Please contact Paul Budra, Associate Dean, FASS, 778-782-4416,

budra@sfu.ca