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    SFU
    Dean of Graduate Studies
    Maggie
    Benston
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    8888 University Drive
    Burnaby,BC
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    GradStudies
    MEMORANDUM
    attention
    Senate
    from
    Wade Parkhouse, Dean of Graduate
    RE:
    Studies
    Faculty of Environment
    date
    9 January 2013
    No.
    GS2013.02
    LOV
    For information:
    Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of7January 2013, SGSC approved the following
    curriculum revision:
    Effective Date is Fall 2013
    Faculty of Environment
    [GS2013.02I
    a)
    Development and Sustainability
    1.
    New courses:
    DEV 802-5 Selected Topics in Development and Sustainability
    DEV 803-5 Directed Studies in Development and Sustainability
    b)
    I.
    Department of Geography
    Course to be reinstated; was temporarily WD S.12-7
    GEOG 657-4 Geovisualization Interfaces
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    MEMORANDUM
    ATTENTION
    FROM
    RE:
    FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT
    TASC 2 Building, Room 8900
    8888 University Drive. Burnaby, BC
    Canada V5A 1S6
    TEL 778.782.8787
    FAX "8~82.t
    Wade Parkhouse, Dean of Graduate Studies
    Scan Markey, Associate Dean, Faculty ot Environment
    DEYS Courses
    GS2013.02
    fenv-info@sfu.ca
    www.fenv.sfu.ca/
    date December 7, 2012
    pages 1/1
    Dear Wade.
    Attached, please find a proposal from the Development and Sustainability (DEVS) program for two new
    courses. Robert Anderson, DEVS Director, presented the courses to the FEnv GPC meeting on November
    27". 2012 - where they were passed unanimously. Please review and add them to the SGSC agenda.
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    DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
    Faculty of Environment
    TASC2. Suite H900
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    Burnabv, B.C. V5A iSft Canada
    20 November 2012
    Sean Markey
    Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee (FENVCC)
    Faculty of Environment
    Dear Sean,
    Please find attached a request for discussion at FENVCC, and approval: DEVS 802 and DEVS
    803.
    This request has been approved by the DEVS Steering Committee.
    DEVS802 Selected Topics in Developmentand Sustainability: intensive analysis of a particular
    topic in the fields of development and sustainability.
    Rationale: DEVS currently has no method by which to mount a special topics course: Instruction would
    be by the Director or guest instructor, whether from outside the university or inside it; for example, if a
    senior researcher in the China Council would be able to give a course on environmental policy making in
    China, this is the method we would use. Students in DEVS 802 will experience an intensive analysis in a
    seminar setting on a selected topic in the fields of development and sustainability. which may include the
    work of a visiting professor or SFU faculty member. This course is intended for advanced DEVS
    students, who have completed DEVS 801. and who will gain a deeper understanding ofa particular
    topic/issue related to development and/or sustainability. Students will be able to clearly explain and
    articulate how this topic relates to 1) comparative approaches to development and sustainability, bearing
    on the quality oflife, 2) drivers ofand resistance to environmental change and development, and 3)
    governance at international, national, regional and local levels in environment and sustainability.
    DEVS 803 Directed Studies in Development and Sustainability: independent reading, research,
    and/or field placement, defined in consultation with supervising instructors.
    Rationale: DEVS graduate students are expected to become versatile, and to explore new possibilities.
    We do not have a Coop program, but may wish to enable students to do a field placement and get
    experience, or to work in someone's lab, etc - this course would be supervised by the Director, or his/her
    designate. Students in DEVS 803 will experience asupervised directed study in the fields ofdevelopment
    and sustainability. which may include off-campus learning, field placement, research and research
    methods, and/or reading. The subject content ofDirected Studies will be decided by the Director ofthe
    Program in consultation with the DEVS Steering Committee and the Office of the Dean of FENV. as
    opportunities and resources permit. This course is intended for advanced DEVS graduate students who
    have completed DEVS 801 and who will gain adeeper understanding ofa particular issue related to
    development and/or sustainability.
    Students will be able to clearly explain and articulate how this directed study relates to 1) comparative
    approaches to development and sustainability, bearing on the quality of life, 2) drivers ofand resistance to
    environmental change and development, and 3) governance at international, national, regional and local
    levels in environment and sustainabilitv.
    Robert Anderson. Director.
    Development & Sustainability Program

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    When a department proposes a new course it must first be sent to the chairs of each faculty graduate program
    committee where there might be an overlap in course content. The chairs will indicate that overlap concerns have
    been dealt with by signing the appropriate space orvia a separate memo ore-mail (attached to this form).
    The new course proposal must also be sent to the Library for a report on library resources.
    Once overlap concerns have been dealt with, signatures indicate approval by the department, home faculty and
    Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
    Other Faculties
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    D^h^A^^S^ h0 T11 norm|iLy teach this course
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    When adepartment proposes a new course it must first be sent to the chairs of each faculty graduate program
    committee where there might be an overlap in course content. The chairs will indicate that overlap concerns have
    been dealt with by signing the appropriate space or via a separate memo or e-mail (attached to this form).
    The new course proposal must also be sent to the Library for a report on library resources.
    Once overlap concerns have been dealt with, signatures indicate approval by the department, home faculty and
    Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
    Other Faculties
    The signaturels) below indicate that the Dean(s) or designate ofotherFaculties affected by the proposed new course
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    Department / School / Program
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    Contact email

    MEMORANDUM
    ATTENTION
    FROM
    RE:
    FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT
    TASC 2 Building,Room 8900
    8888University Drive,Burnaby, BC
    Canada V5A 1S6
    TEL 778.782.8787
    FAX 778.782.8788
    Wade Parkhouse, DGS
    Sean Markey, FEnv Associate Dean
    Geog 657, Reactivate
    GS2013.02
    fenv-info@sru.ca
    www.fenv.sfu.ca/
    date December 21, 2012
    PAGES
    1/1
    Dear Wade,
    Please reactivate Geography 657 Geovisuahzation Interfaces, for Spring 2013.
    Thank you, and your office, for your efforts to address this mothball oversight on such short
    notice.
    Best,
    fO
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    ENGAGING THE WORLD

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