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Dissolution of the Major In Latin American Studies
Committee
Approvals
The LAS Steering Committee agreed last year to stop admitting new students to the
Major. We discussed the dissolution of the major and voted on the resolution in our
meeting
on September 6, 2011. The agreement to stop admission has passed
through
FASSCC and SCUS.
Rationale for dissolution
It is
with
great regret that we propose that at this time the Major in Latin American
Studies be dissolved. We will retain the Minor in LAS. We must do this because in
recent years we have lost most of the faculty who teach in this program, making it
impossible
for us to offer the courses students require in order to complete the
undergraduate major, particularly
LAS 100. While one faculty hire in Latin American
Studies would allow us to avoid this decision, we have been critically understaffed
for nearly two years, and see no relief in the foreseeable future. As it stands, the
program
is simply not viable.
LAS will retain the Minor in Latin American Studies and the Latin American Studies
MA, but
will
no longer offer a Major in Latin American Studies. This will impact Joint
majors
in
Anthropology,
Archaeology,
Business
Administration,
Communications,
Economics,
Geography,
History,
International
Studies,
Political
Science,
and
Sociology. We anticipate that students wanting to do the work of the Joint Major
will be directed towards the Minor in Latin American Studies.
1. Location of the program:
Burnaby
2. Faculty(ies), Department(s), or School(s) offering the program;
The program fs offered principally through the FASS, but a couple of our Joint
Majors
(see above) are offered
in other
Faculties.
3. Anticipated final dissolution date;
May 2012. That said, there are six students at the university who have completed
some
of
the
program
requirements
and
will
wfsh to
finish the Joint Major after that
date. We will grandfather these students through their degrees.
4. Reasons for discontinuance and dissolution of the program, including:
The Dissolution of the program
is due to financial resources, principally the strains
caused
by several retirements and other faculty losses, none of which have been
replaced. Between
2010 and 2011 alone we lost a faculty complement that offered 6
courses per year. We are simply not viable under these circumstances.
5. Plan for phasing-out of program, including:
a. Steps taken to inform students and prospective students
Students
will be informed on the website (which will continue to be maintained, as
the undergraduate major is only one part of our work), and through undergraduate
advisors in the Departments that
offer the joint majors. The six students presently
declared into an
LAS Major will be contacted and arrangements made for their
degree completion.
b. Steps taken to inform instructors and staff
This does not impact staff or instructors, as there are no duties to be re-assigned.
c. Description of the reallocation or any remaining program and
associated resources when program
is dissolved
LAS will maintain a graduate program, a graduate certificate, and an undergraduate
minor.
At present there are no resources dedicated to the undergraduate Major. We
would also request that
LAS
remain permitted to offer
LAS
412 and
LAS
300
periodically, as these courses represent the only venues on campus in which Latin
American Literature courses are taught
LAS 412 is being offered during the Fall
2011 Semester, cross listed with a World Literature course. It has 30 students
registered. This demonstrates that there
is a robust demand for Latin American
Studies on campus
(a fact made further clear by the enrollment in courses on Latin
America offered within the disciplines). We thus require resources to continue to
meet campus demand for Latin
America.
d. Confirmation of consultation with other impacted departments and
Faculties
Consultations have been ongoing for over
a
year. No other department has been able
to offer the resources needed to maintain the Major.
LAS
has contacted the other
departments
with
which If offers joint majors.
e. Impacts on and/or reorsanlzatfon of curriculum in cognate disciplines
While this affects joint majors, it does not impact the ability of other programs to
offer stand alone majors.
f. Timeline of activities
We will immediately remove information about the Major from our Website. During
this year the
PASS undergraduate Committee will voted for the dissolution of the
major.
We anticipate this will be finalized by the end
of
the academic year 2011-
2012.
6. More information:
Paul Budra
Associate Dean
FASS
2-4416
budra@sfu.ca
Alexander Dawson
Director
Latin American Studies
Program
2-3405
aldawson@sfu.ca
Appendix to SCUS 11-SOi revised:
The dissolution
of the LAS major means the following joint majors will also be terminated.
There are no students presently enrolled in these programs.
• Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and Geography
• Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and History
• Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and Economics
• Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and Political Science
•
Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and Anthropology
• Joint Major Program, Latin American Studies and International Studies
•
Joint Major Program, Business Administration and Latin American Studies
•
Joint Major Program, Sociology and Latin American Studies
•
Joint Major Program, Communications and Latin American Studies
• Joint Major Program, Archeology and Latin American Studies
