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MEMORANDUM
ATTENTION
FROM
RE:
Senate
Gordon Myers, Chair
Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
Faculty of Environment (SCUS 13-19)
DATE
PAGES
April 5, 2013
1/1
For information:
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of April 4, 2013, SCUS approved the
following curriculum revision effective Spring 2014:
1. Department of Geography
(i) Removal of the W designation for GEOG 453
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UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM & INSTITUTIONAL LIAISON
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT ACADEMIC AND PROVOST
SCUS 13-19
ATTENTION Jo Hinchliffe, Associate
Registrar
TEL
FROM SUSAN RHODES, Acting Director, University Curriculum and
Institutional Liaison
RE Deletion of W designation for GEOG 453
DATE March 21, 2013
TIME 2:16 PM
The Department of Geography has formally requested removal of the W
designation attached to GEOG 453 Theoretical and Applied Remote Sensing,
effective Spring 2014 term.
The department has indicated that a new faculty member now teaches the
course. Having taught the course once with W pedagogy, he would prefer to
teach it without. The course is already a highly specialized Q course and the
faculty
member believes the W deflects more students than it attracts.
GEOG 453W was not taught for several years while the department waited for
permission to hire a new remote sensing specialist. There are a number
of
alternative upper-division W course options in Geography, so majors are not
impeded in their degree progress. Rather than constrict the course structure
with W pedagogy, the program would prefer to focus on the Q content.
Based on this rationale, the University Curriculum Office approves the removal
of the W designation for GEOG 453.
Cc: Ivor Winton, Geography
UCC Chair
Alex Clapp, Associate Dean, FEnv
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MEMORANDUM
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
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BURNABY
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WWW.SFU.CA/GEOGRAPHY
SFU
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
TO:
Dr. Alex Clapp
Associate Dean FE / Chair FE Curriculum Committee
FROM:
Ivor Winton, Chair USCC, Geography
SUBJECT:
UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM CHANGES
FALL 2013 CALENDAR
DATE:
March 21,2013
Dear Alex;
The Geography department would like to request the reinstatement of GEOG
453 (non-W version) in order for us to offer it this fall semester. The rationale
for our need to offer this course is the hiring of a new faculty member who
plans to teach this course as a non writing intensive course.
Best regards,
Ivor Winton
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
THINKING Of THE WORLD
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