SENATE SUMMARY
MEETING OF JULY 4, 2011
1.
Elementary Generalist Minor within Faculty of Education (S.11-93)
Senate approved and recommended to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal for an
Elementary Generalist Minor within the Faculty of Education, effective Spring 2012.
2.
Secondary Teaching Minor within Faculty of Education (S.11-94)
Senate approved and recommended to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal for a
Secondary Teaching Minor within the Faculty of Education, effective Spring 2012.
3.
Admission Changes to Kinesiology Major/Minor and Biomedical Physiology
Major/Minor (S.11-95)
Senate approved the admission changes to the Kinesiology Major, Kinesiology Minor,
Biomedical Physiology Major and Biomedical Physiology Minor in the Department of
Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology within the Faculty of Science, effective Spring 2012.
4.
Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (S.11-96)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting under
delegated authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective Spring 2012:
a)
School for International Studies
- Program: requirement changes for the Major and Honours Programs
- Program: requirement changes for Stream 3 for the LAS/IS Joint Major, Major,
Honours, and Minor Programs
- Course (prerequisite): IS 240
b)
Sociology and Anthropology
- Program: requirement changes for the Social Justice Certificate Program
- Course (prerequisite): SA 410, 430, 460, 463, 486
c)
World Literature
- Course (new): WL 340, Directed Studies
WL 345, Directed Studies
d)
WQB Designations
- W Designation: HUM 321, The Humanities of Critical Thinking
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- B-Soc Designation: POL 232, US Politics
5.
Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions – Beedie School of Business (S.11-97)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting under
delegated authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective Spring 2012:
a)
Business
- Program: changes to the Double Degree in ENSC and BUS program requirements
and Business concentration elective courses
6.
Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology
(S.11-98)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting under
delegated authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective Spring 2012:
a)
WQB Designations
- W Designation: IAT 206, Media Across Cultures
- W Designation: PUB 355, Online Marketing
b)
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
- Course (new): PUB 210, Writing to Purpose (effective Fall 2012)
c)
School for the Contemporary Arts
- Course (new): FPA 146, Introduction to Music Composition and Theory II
- Course (deletion): FPA 244
7.
Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (S.11-99)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting under
delegated authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective Spring 2012:
a)
Department of Biological Sciences
- Course (prerequisite): BISC 101, 102
b)
Department of Chemistry
- Course (description): CHEM 191
- Course (new): CHEM 109, Introduction to Chemistry for Health Careers
c)
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Program: Lower Division Core requirements
- Course (prerequisite): MBB 222
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- Courses (new): MBB 446, Cell Death and Cell Survival
MBB 462, Human Genomics
8.
Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Health Sciences (S.11-100)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under delegated
authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective January 2012:
a)
Health Sciences
- Course (title, prerequisite): HSCI 900
9.
Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (S.11-101)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under delegated
authority, approved the following curriculum revisions effective January 2012:
a) Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
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Program: change to number of required courses for Master Program
- Program: changes to the Comprehensive Examination Process for Doctoral Program
b)
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Courses (new): MBB 746, Cell Death and Cell Survival
MBB 761, Comparative Genomics
MBB 762, Human Genomics
c)
Physics
- Course (new): PHYS 833, Biological Physics Laboratory
10.
Elections by Senate (S.11-102)
Senate received a summary of the online election results and outstanding vacancies for the
Senate committees.
11.
Accreditation Self-Evaluation Report (S.11-103)
Senate received Simon Fraser University’s Self- Evaluation Report for the Northwest
Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) for advice.
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The Senate Minutes will be available online following the next Senate meeting. For more information
please refer to the July 2011 Senate documents at
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