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MEMORANDUM
ATTENTION
FROM
RE:
Senate
Gordon Myers, Chair
Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
Faculty of Environment (SCUS 13-06)
DATE
PAGES
February 8, 2013
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For information:
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of February 7, 2013, SCUS approved the
following curriculum revisions:
1. Faculty of Environment (SCUS 13-06a)
(i) Course Number change for ENV 199, 198 effective Fall 2013.
2. Department of Archaeology (SCUS 13-06b)
(i) Title, description and prerequisite change to ARCH 365 effective Spring 2014.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON
COURSE CHAN GE/ DELETI0 N
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
EXISTING COURSE, CHANGES RECOMMENDED
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ENV 198
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ENV 197
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TITLE
(1) LONG tide for calendar and schedule, nomore than 100 characters including spaces and punctuation.
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(2) SHORT title for enrollment and transcript, no more than30 characters including spaces and punctuation.
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DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
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TO:
PREREQUISITE
PREREQUISITE
Does this course replicate the contentof a previously approved course to such an extent thatstudents should not receive credit for both courses?
If so. this should be noted in the prerequisite.
FROM:
TO:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
RATIONALE
ENV 198 Environment Seminar I and ENV 199 Environment Seminar II were approved in January
2013. However there is already an ENV 199 so we are requesting that the courses be change to
ENV 197 and ENV 198
Effective term and year
2012 april
SCUS 13-06a(iv)
SFU
SENATE COMMITTEE on
COURSE CHANGE/DELETI0N
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
EXISTING COURSE, CHANGES RECOMMENDED
Please check appropriate revision(s):
• Course number
•
Credit
• Tide
• Description
• Prerequisite
DCourse deletion
•
Learning Outcomes
Indicate number ofhours for: Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Lab
from
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ENV 198
Course Subject/NumberJzL____ZZ
Course Subject/Number
Credits
Credits.
TITLE
(1) LONG title for calendar and schedule, no more than 100 characters including spaces and punctuation.
FROM:
tO:
(2) SHORT title for enrollment and transcript, no more than 30 characters including spaces andpunctuation.
FROM:
TO:
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
FROM:
TO:
PREREQUISITE
PREREQUISITE
Does this course replicate the content of a previously approved course to such an extent that students should notreceive credit for both courses?
If so, this should be noted in the prerequisite.
FROM:
TO:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
RATIONALE
ENV 198 Environment Seminar I and ENV 199 Environment Seminar II were approved in January
2013. However there is already an ENV 199 so we are requesting that the courses be change to
ENV 197 and ENV 198
Effecthe term and year
September 2013
2012 april
SCUS 13-06b
SFU
SENATF. COMMITTEE ON
COURSE CHANGE/DELETION
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
EXISTING COURSE, CHANGES RECOMMENDED
Please check appropriate revision(s):
•
Course number
•
Credit
H Title
HI Description
H Prerequisite
•
Course deletion
•
Learning Outcomes
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Seminar
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Course Subject/Number
ARCH 365
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TITLE
(1) LONG title forcalendar and schedule, no more than 100 characters including spaces and punctuation.
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TO:
Ecological Archaeology
Archaeological Perspectives on Human
Ecology
(2) SHORT title for enrollment and transcript, no more than 30 characters including spaces and punctuation.
FROM:
TO:
Ecological Archaeology
Perspectives on Human Ecology
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
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Deals with the techniques for reconstruction of past environments, as
Examines methods, theories, and concepts for
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interacted with heir bio-physical surroundings. Integrates diverse kinds ot data
well asthe effect of environment on past settlements and people.
and know|edge t0 undefS\aynd these relationships. Topics to be addressed
Environment as considered in the course will encompass the
include local and traditional ecological knowledge, paleoenvironmental
presence of other settlements, and deal with relationships among
reconstruction, human-environment interaction, human-induced environmental
settlements.
changes, paleod:et. and domestication.
PREREQUISITE
PREREQUISITE
Does this course replicate the content ofa previously approved course tosuch anextent that students should notreceive credit for both courses?
If so. this should be
noted in the prerequisite.
ARCH 201:or any twoof ARCH100. REM 100. GEOG 100, EVSC 100: and 45
FROM: ArCh 201
TO: credlIS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will develop:
1)an understanding ofthe many ways inwhich traditional (subsistence-based, non-industrial) peoples interacted with their bio-physical
surrounding;
2) an understanding ofthe techniques and kinds ofknowledge thatare used to make inferences about these interactions; and
3) the ability to critically evaluate the literatureabout past human-environmental relationships.
RATIONALE
To make ARCH 365 more accessible to FENV students.
Effective term and vear
2014-1
NOVEMBER 2012
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