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MEMORANDUM
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FROM
RE:
S.13-57
OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC AND
ASSOCIATE PROVOST
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Senate
Gordon Myers, Chair
Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
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WQB Requirements for Second Degree (SCUS 13-13)
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Acting undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of
March 7, 2013, gives rise to the following recommendation:
Motion
That Senate approve the permanent exemption of all second-degree students from
WQB requirements, with the exception that the upper-division Wcourse in the
major and a three-credit Qcourse
will still be required for a second degree.
SIMON FR ASER UNIVERSIT Y
ENGAGING THE WORLD
MEMO
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UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM & INSTITUTIONAL LIAISON
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT ACADEMIC AND PROVOST
SCUS 13-13
ATTENTION Jo Hinchliffe, Associate
Registrar
TEL
FROM SUSAN RHODES, Acting Director, University Curriculum and
Institutional Liaison
RE WQB Requirements for Second Degrees
DATE February 25, 2013
TIME
9:56 AM
In February 2007, Senate approved (S.07-22) a four-year extension to the university-
wide partial exemption from the WQB requirements for students pursuing second
degrees. The exemption states that such students are deemed to have met all
of the
breadth requirements by way
of the first degree, and are exempted from the lower
division W requirement and three units
of the Q requirement. Second-degree students
must fulfill the upper-division W within their major and one three-unit Q course at any
level.
Within the original discussion for proposing the exemption was the recognition that
second degrees are 45-unit programs, and incorporating the full 36-unit WQB
requirements into the shortened timeframe would be impractical and would not
acknowledge work completed as part of the first degree.
The approved four-year exemption was predicated on giving the Faculties the time to
review any implications of such an exemption. In 2012, the University Curriculum
Office sought feedback from the Faculties to determine whether a permanent
implementation of this exemption was desired. The response was a unanimous
affirmation to continue the exemption as it is structured.
The University Curriculum Office therefore proposes SCUS approve the following
motion:
that the exemptionfrom WQB requirementsfor second-degree students with the
exception
ofthe upper-division Win the major and a three-unit Q requirement be
made permanent.
SIMON PRASES UNIVERSITY
THINKING OF THE WORLD
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