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University of Waterloo SENATE UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
Notice of Meeting
DATE: Tuesday 21 March 2017 TIME: 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. PLACE: NH 3318
Please note: A light lunch will be served.
Agenda
Item Action 1. Declarations of Conflict of Interest
a. Excerpt from Senate Bylaw 1*
2. Approval of the 14 February 2017 Minutes* and Business Arising
Information
Decision [UGC]
3. Curricular Items For Approval & Informationa. Renison University College*………………………………………………
b. Co-operative Education*………………………………………………….
c. Arts*……………………………………………………………………….
d. Engineering*.………………………………………………………………
e. Mathematics*………………………………………………………………
f. Mathematics/Arts*…………………………………………………………
g. Science*……………………………………………………………………
h. Environment*………………………………………………………………
Decision [UGC]
SEN-regular
Decision [UGC]
Decision [UGC]
2.1.2, 2.3.1 SEN-regular Rest Decision [UGC]
Decision [UGC]
A,C SEN-regular B Decision [UGC]
Decision [UGC]
4. Academic Program Review Reportsa. Final Assessment Report – Economics (Augmented)*…………..…….……b. Two-Year Report – Applied Language Studies*……………………………c. Two-Year Report – Political Science (BA/MA/MPS)*……………………..
5. Other Business
6. Next meeting: Tuesday 11 April 2017, 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. in NH 3318
Decision [UGC] Decision [UGC] Decision [UGC]
*material attached
“SEN-consent” to be recommended to Senate for approval (consent agenda) “SEN-regular” to be recommended to Senate for approval (regular agenda) “UGC” to be approved on behalf of Senate & sent to Senate for information
16 March 2017 Mike Grivicic Assistant University Secretary
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Excerpt from Senate Bylaw 1
8. Declarations of conflict of interest
8.01 At the beginning of each meeting of Senate or any of Senate’s committees or councils, the chair will call for members to declare any conflicts of interest
with regard to any agenda item. For agenda items to be discussed in closed session, the chair will call for declarations of conflict of interest at the
beginning of the closed portion of the meeting. Members may nonetheless declare conflicts at any time during a meeting.
8.02 A member shall be considered to have an actual, perceived or potential conflict of interest, when the opportunity exists for the member to use confidential information gained as a member of Senate, or any of Senate’s
committees or councils, for the personal profit or advantage of any person, or use the authority, knowledge or influence of the Senate, or a committee
or council thereof, to further her/his personal, familial or corporate interests or the interests of an employee of the university with whom the member has a marital, familial or sexual relationship.
8.03 Members who declare conflicts of interest shall not enter into debate nor vote upon the specified item upon which they have declared a conflict of
interest. The chair will determine whether it is appropriate for said member to remove themselves from the meeting for the duration of debate on the
specified item(s).
8.04 Where Senate or a committee or council of Senate is of the opinion that a
conflict of interest exists that has not been declared, the body may declare by a resolution carried by two-thirds of its members present at the meeting
that a conflict of interest exists and a member thus found to be in conflict shall not enter into debate on the specified item upon which they have declared a conflict of interest. The chair will determine whether it is
appropriate for said member to remove themselves from the meeting for the duration of debate on the specified item(s).
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University of Waterloo
SENATE UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
Minutes of the 14 February 2017 Meeting
[in agenda order]
Present: Mario Coniglio (Chair), Katherine Acheson, Veronica Austen, Carey Bissonnette, Anna Chen,
Ray Darling, Dan Davison, Peter Douglas, Leeann Ferries, Rocco Fondacaro, Jane Forgay, Steve Furino,
Linda Jessup, Judi Jewinski, Scott Kline, Brendon Larson, Andrew McBurney, Clare Mitchell, Julia Roberts,
Marlee Spafford, Sarah Wiley, Dan Wolczuk
Resources: Blair Clarance, Amanda McKenzie
Secretariat: Mike Grivicic
Guests: Anne Fannon (3a), Danielle Jeanneault, Francis Poulin
Absent: Hailey Axhorn, Isabel Carating, Pat Duong, Heidi Gulka, Seana Hadala-Turkington
Organization of Meeting: Mario Coniglio, chair of council, took the chair, and Mike Grivicic acted as secretary.
The secretary advised that due notice of the meeting had been given, a quorum was present, and the meeting was
properly constituted. The agenda was approved without a formal motion. Coniglio welcomed new members Anna
Chen, Andrew McBurney and Clare Mitchell, as well as welcoming guest Danielle Jeanneault who will be
regularly attending meetings as a staff member from the Registrar’s Office.
1. DECLARATIONS OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
No conflicts of interest were declared.
2. APPROVAL OF THE 17 JANUARY 2017 MINUTES AND BUSINESS ARISING
It was noted that the Ian McKenzie should be removed from the absent list. A motion was heard to approve the
minutes as amended. Ferries and Bissonnette. Carried.
a. Status of CHEM 262 “Organic Chemistry for Engineering and Bioinformatics Students” and alignment
of course title with prerequisites. This was resolved via email following the past meeting.
b. Coniglio observed that the Germanic and Slavic studies report had actually been previous approved, though the
discussion did generate useful insights.
c. The Sociology report was amended following the meeting.
d. Stop and Talk events continue, with a number of successful iterations so far.
3. CURRICULAR ITEMS FOR APPROVAL & INFORMATION
a. Co-operative Education Council. Anne Fannon provided an overview of the submission. Council heard a
motion to approve the items as presented. Furino and Fondacaro. Carried.
b. Environment. Members clarified that the item was for information only.
4. OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
a. Saturday Mid-Term Examinations. Darling spoke to the submission and noted the change to the proposal
since the last meeting: applies only to Fall and Winter terms; approval of associate dean is required; scheduling of
such mid-term examinations shall be via test slots; Mathematics Society is supportive of the proposal. Members
discussed: this will help to displace the incidence of similar informal arrangements that occur on campus; where
conflicts arise, students will need only to draw the instructor’s attention to this regulation; need to communicate to
students outside of the named Faculties that may be taking courses within those Faculties. Revised wording to
clarify the intent of the motion and regulation was suggested. Council heard a motion to approve amendments to
the Guidelines on Tests During the Formal Lecture Period as follows (strikethrough = deleted text, underline =
new text):
Students shall not be required to sit for a test during the Formal Lecture Period that is held outside the time
period 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, inclusive. Instructors who choose to schedule a test
outside that time period must provide suitable alternative time arrangements within the Monday to Friday time
period for any students who request an alternative time.
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Senate Undergraduate Council
14 February 2017 Minutes page 2 of 2
The parameters for scheduling tests are as follows:
1. Tests are held during the Formal Lecture Period from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,
inclusive.
2. The Faculties of Mathematics and Science may schedule Saturday tests for large, multiple-section
courses in the fall and winter terms, if those tests are approved by the appropriate Associate Dean,
scheduled using test slots, and announced to students during the first week of classes via published
course outlines.
Tests are not permitted outside of these parameters.
Darling and Furino. Carried, with one abstention.
b. Start of Winter Classes. Darling noted that recent experience has pointed to a need to ensure one class-free day
to start the winter term, as an administrative buffer. Housing was consulted and agree with the proposal, and
Wilfrid Laurier has also been advised of the revised approach. Council heard a motion to approve amendments to
the guideline for determining the start of Winter term classes, as follows (strikethrough = deleted text, underline =
new text):
That the start date for Winter Term be January 3 when that date falls on a Monday, Tuesday or
Wednesday. Otherwise the start date is the first Monday following January 3. In the event of Monday,
January 3 being a declared holiday the term would begin January 4.
That the start date for Winter Term be set as follows:
If January 1st is a Sunday then start of classes is Wednesday, January 4th
If January 1st is a Monday then start of classes is Wednesday, January 3rd
If January 1st is a Tuesday, then start of classes is Monday, January 7th
If January 1st is a Wednesday, then start of classes is Monday, January 6th
If January 1st is a Thursday, then start of classes is Monday, January 5th
If January 1st is a Friday, then start of classes is Tuesday, January 5th
If January 1st is a Saturday, then start of classes is Wednesday, January 5th
Darling and Furino. Carried.
5. ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW REPORTS
a. Two-Year Report – Legal Studies. Davison provided comments: excellent report with questions and answers
clearly addressing issues identified; good enrollment figures; progress made on issue at retreat event. Members
discussed: hundreds of students enrolled in the major plan; lots of activity in co-op; the “Beyond Borders” program
is considerably mature and parts of the report should be rephrased in that regard; need to define “MRP” as major
research paper. Council heard a motion to approve the report as amended. Davison and Kline. Carried.
6. POSTHUMOUS DEGREES
Coniglio noted that posthumous degrees will be awarded in Engineering as well as in Applied Health Sciences.
Members discussed the normal parameters for awarding posthumous degrees, which in general require completion
of half or more of the plan in good standing.
7. OTHER BUSINESS
Coniglio observed that this council meeting will be the last for Darling, who will be moving on to a new role, and
thanked him for his contributions to the university.
8. NEXT MEETING
The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 21 March 2017, 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. in NH 3318.
13 March 2017 Mike Grivicic
Assistant University Secretary
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Memorandum
TO: Senate Undergraduate Council FROM: Judi Jewinski, Administrative Dean, Renison University College DATE: February 27, 2017 SUBJECT: Items for Decision - EMLS – Undergraduate Course Title Change Renison’s Academic Council would like to bring forward the following proposal for approval at SUC.
Change of long title and short title for EMLS 110R Effective: January 1, 2018 EMLS 110R LEC 0.50 Short Title: Crit Expression Can. Academic Communicating in Cdn Academic Long Title: Critical Expression in Canadian Academic Contexts Communicating in Canadian Academic Contexts Course Description (no change, provided for context only): Designed specifically for students for whom English is not the first language, this course introduces students to North American academic expectations. Students learn to identify attitude and intent in text, to recognize North American patterns of organization, to select and acknowledge appropriate primary and secondary sources, and to present ideas cohesively in speaking and writing. [Note: Not open to fluent speakers or writers of English.] RATIONALE: To change short title and long title of the course. This course was originally titled Canadian Academic Culture. In 2013, the title was changed to Critical Expression in Canadian Academic Contexts to better represent course content. However, students report that the current title seems negative and is not appealing. The new title addresses this issue and represents course content in a more positive manner.
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To: Senate Undergraduate Council
From: Rocco Fondacaro | Director, Student & Faculty Relations, CECA
Date: February 28, 2017.
Re: Creation of Co-op Certificates
Motion: The Senate Undergraduate Council approve the creation of co-operative education certificates and approve new calendar text (text attached) for the Co-op Degree Designation page, outlining their existence, for the effective 2018-2019 calendar.
Background
The goal of this framework is to support continuous and evolutionary innovation in co-operative education, to ensure that our program remains aligned with the needs of our stakeholders (University of Waterloo, employers, and students). After broad consultation with all stakeholder groups and endorsement from each Faculty, Co-operative Education would like to formally recognize students who have developed a deeper exposure to certain skill sets or industries through their co-op experiences.
The proposed calendar text discusses Co-op Certificates more broadly, followed by the specific requirements for the Co-op Research Certificate. Based on the consultations to date, it has been identified that there may be other Co-op Certificates that the University may wish to recognize in the future. The proposed text would establish a framework for developing such Certificates in the future.
Proposed Requirements
The Co-op Research Certificate will be available to students who complete:
• Three research work terms (approved by Co-operative Education as research according to guidelines to be developed per faculty);
• One research PD course (yet to be developed); and,
• A capstone component (yet to be developed).
Co-operative Education
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Calendar text additions outlining the existence of this certificate would be limited to the existing “Co-operative Education & Career Action” section of the calendar. See
proposed calendar text attached.
Rationale
The rationale behind the creation of this certificate aligns with the University’s strategic
plan to lead and differentiate in the areas of Transformational Research and Experiential Education Strategic. The certificate advances the recognition of research-intensive work term experiences for undergraduate students.
Additional Information
The Registrar’s Office would administer Co-op Certificates. Co-operative Education has committed to engaging the Faculties to establish the outline/syllabus for a research-focussed professional development (PD) course. WatPD has already provided their support for development of this course (contingent on funding). When the course is developed, it will come forward for approval. Finally, Co-operative Education would engage Faculty partners to assess the capstone requirements.
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New Calendar Text
Co-operative Education & Career Action
Co-operative Degree Designation
Co-op Certificates
While pursuing a co-operative degree designation, some students choose to pursue work term
experiences that allow them to develop a deeper exposure to certain skill sets or industries.
Co-op certificates are offered through Co-operative Education to formally recognize these
specialized experiences.
To be eligible to receive a co-op certificate, students must complete all the specified
requirements listed for the certificate in question and meet all of their program’s requirements
for a co-op degree designation. Note that an individual work term may not be counted toward
more than one co-op certificate.
Co-op Research Certificate
Students will be eligible to receive a Co-op Research Certificate if they complete the following
requirements:
1. Receive credit for at least three work term experiences with a Research Work Term
Indicator (i.e., “RES” indicator).
2. Receive credit for a professional development course focusing on research, which can
also count toward the PD requirements for the Co-operative Degree Designation.
3. Complete the Co-op Research Certificate Capstone. Students can earn this requirement
through successful completion of an approved workshop or an online module.
For additional details, visit the Co-operative Education website.
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To: Senate Undergraduate Council
From: Rocco Fondacaro | Director, Student & Faculty Relations, CECA
Date: February 22, 2017
Re: Amend Co-operative Education Calendar to allow Flexible Work Terms
Motion: The Senate Undergraduate Council approve the amendment to the co-operative education section of the calendar, to allow students to pursue Flexible Work Terms as specified and to approve revisions to the calendar text (text attached) to reflect current practice and add reference to Work Term Indicators and Co-op Certificates.
Current Practice
Each co-op program at Waterloo (except Pharmacy) has a sequence that includes four, five or six work terms. Students must complete four or five work terms successfully (plus PD courses and work reports) to have the Co-op Designation on their degree. Currently each work term must meet a set of criteria to determine whether a COOP credit can be issued for the successful completion of the work term.
Proposed Practice
The accreditation body for Canadian co-op programs dictates a minimum of three work terms for a university undergraduate degree program. Hence, we will require that students complete three work terms according to existing ‘Standard Work Term
Criteria’, and students can choose to complete their additional work terms according to
‘Standard Work Term Criteria’ or new ‘Flexible Work Term Criteria’.
Proposed calendar text (text attached) will make reference to these Flexible Work Terms and link to the Co-operative Education website for additional information. An additional change to this section of the calendar is the addition of Work Term Indicators, which will be required to track Flexible Work Terms and work terms contributing to Coop Certificates. Work term indicators would be assigned by Co-operative Education staff, applying criteria set in consultation with the Faculties and
Co-operative Education
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approved by the Co-operative Education Council (CEC). The Registrar’s Office has
been consulted regarding the feasibility and implementation of co-op indicators. Some minor changes are also suggested to more directly articulate the requirements of the co-op degree designation and who is responsible for administering each requirement.
Rationale and Background
The goal of this framework is to support continuous and evolutionary innovation in co-operative education, to ensure that our program remains aligned with the needs of our stakeholders (University of Waterloo, employers, and students).
Although most students will likely continue with all Standard Work Terms, there will be many students who benefit from more flexibility. Flexible Work Terms recognize students’ diverse goals in an ever-changing world of work and formally acknowledge opportunities that do not fit within the Standard Work Term criteria. (For example, Flexible Work Term criteria will provide credit for humanitarian work, or combining two work experiences over the course of four months.)
Flexible Work Terms would formally operationalize and add additional transparency to the approval of opportunities that students currently pursue on their own, and would reduce the administrative resources used to process these.
By formally recognizing an increasing number of experiences, the University of Waterloo will be able to build new relationships with new employers and have a voice in additional spheres. Any risk associated with changing co-operative education, is eclipsed by the innovative enhancements made to the framework further differentiating University of Waterloo’s co-operative education program and maintaining its prominence.
It is not the intention of the Flexible Work Term criteria to expand unpaid opportunities. This risk will be mitigated with the expansion of a rigorous alternative remuneration framework that will seek input from each Faculty. Each Faculty can identify opportunities that UW co-op students will be able to take part in that will follow the alternative remuneration framework. This is meant to address situations were it is disadvantageous for UW students to be co-op students because they can not access the experience they need from a specific industry due to its culture of not compensating students through traditional remuneration. There is a hope that by working with these employers over time the employers will recognize the value of the students through traditional remuneration.
Additional Information
Note that not all students can take advantage of Flexible Work Terms. For example, Pharmacy students complete three work terms during their program, and all will need to follow ‘Standard Work Term Criteria’.
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Original Calendar Text
(Note: Hyperlinks attached to blue text).
Co-operative Education & Career Action
Co-operative Degree Designation
Co-operative Degree Designation
Graduates completing the Co-operative Education system requirements will receive a "Co-
operative" degree designation. Co-operative registration, work term requirements, and
internal transfer of work terms credits can be found in the Co-operative Education website.
Both the completion of Waterloo Professional Development Program (WatPD) courses and a
minimum number of work reports are requirements of a Co-operative degree designation.
Work reports are administered by your faculty.
Revised Calendar Text (clean)
(Note: Hyperlinks attached to blue text).
Co-operative Education & Career Action
Co-operative Degree Designation
Co-operative Degree Designation
Graduates completing the Co-operative Education degree requirements will receive a "Co-
operative" degree designation. These requirements, determined by the Faculty, include
completion of:
Co-operative Education work terms and receiving credit for the corresponding COOP
courses. Work terms are administered by Co-operative Education, with requirements
developed in conjunction with each Faculty.
Professional development courses that are administered by the Waterloo Professional
Development Program (WatPD).
Work reports and/or reflections that are administered by the degree-granting Faculty.
The required number of work terms, professional development courses, and work
reports/reflections for each program is detailed in the Study/Work Sequence table.
To be eligible to count toward a co-operative degree designation, employment must meet
Standard or Flexible Work Term Requirements. These criteria are set jointly by Co-operative
Education and the Faculties, and allow for the degree designations to be eligible for Canadian
Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE) accreditation.
Students must complete at least three work terms meeting Standard Work Term
Requirements and must complete additional work terms (Standard or Flexible work term
requirements) as specified by their program (see Study/Work Sequence table).
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The University also offers credentials attached to co-op degree designations. These
credentials are detailed under Co-op Certificates.
Work Term Indicators
Students wishing to obtain co-op certificates or other University of Waterloo credentials may
wish to pursue work term experiences with a specific focus. For example, students wishing to
obtain a co-op research certificate would pursue a work term flagged as a research
experience.
The following indicator(s) can be applied to a work term experience and will be
displayed on a student’s academic transcript.
Indicator Work Term Indicator
RES Research Work Term Indicator
Work term indicators can only be applied to work terms with the approval of Co-operative
Education. Details on the requirements and procedures for adding a work term indicator can
be found on the Co-operative Education website.
In addition to the above indicators, work terms approved under Flexible Work Term
Requirements will be tracked in Quest, though will not have the associated Work Term
Indicator displayed on a student’s academic transcript.
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Possible ‘Standard or Flexible Work Term Requirements’
Co-operative Education Landing Page
(Note: Hyperlinks attached to blue text).
Work Term Requirements
Work terms must meet a number of criteria to be eligible to count toward a co-operative
degree designation. These criteria are set jointly by Co-operative Education and the
Faculties, and allow for the degree designations to be eligible for Canadian Association for
Co-operative Education (CAFCE) Accreditation.
At least three of a student’s co-operative education work terms must meet Standard Work
Term Requirements. The remaining work terms can meet either Standard or Flexible Work
Term Requirements. (Refer to Co-op Degree Designation in calendar for more details)
Standard Work Term Requirements
Students seeking credit for a work term experience must normally:
Receive remuneration for the work performed.
Be working full-time (35 – 40 hours per week).
Work for a period of 16 continuous weeks during the term in question.
Be working for a single employer.
Be supervised by an impartial third-party (e.g., not related to the student) who will submit an evaluation of the student’s performance during the work term.
Be working in an area related to the student’s program of study, as determined by criteria set jointly by Co-operative Education and the student’s Faculty.
Exceptions to the above requirements can be granted when circumstances exist to support
such accommodation. For example, exceptions are routinely granted to ensure that students
with disabilities have equal access to co-operative education programming.
Flexible Work Terms
Flexible Work Terms are work terms in which one or more of the Standard Work Term
Requirements are fully or partially waived. Flexible Work Terms can only be counted toward
a Co-operative Degree Designation and/or Co-op Certificate if a student has enough work
terms remaining to complete and receive credit for at least three work term experiences
that meet the Standard Work Term Requirements.
Approval of work terms under Flexible Work Term Requirements is at the complete
discretion of Co-operative Education. Not all of the Standard Work Term Requirements are
negotiable and the types of work term experiences that will be accepted as Flexible Work
Terms are dependent on criteria set by each Faculty. As a starting point for approval,
students seeking credit for a flexible work term experience must normally:
Arrange their own employment, with a rationale provided for how the
work term meets their specific career goals.
Include a minimum of 420 hours of work, normally within the standard 16-week
term.
Not include extended breaks or periods off.
Be working for a single employer, or combine work from two employers.
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Have a supervisor(s) submit an evaluation of the student’s performance during the
work term. When two evaluations are received, they will be consolidated by Co-
operative Education.
Receive compensation or meet the requirements of an alternative remuneration
arrangement which may differ by faculty and are approved by Co-operative
Education on a case by case basis.
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ARTS UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS GROUP REPORT of
December 1, 2016
REPORT TO SENATE UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL _____________________________________________
1. ACADEMIC REGULATION CHANGES [for approval] 1.1. Graduate Courses ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Residency Requirement ............................................................................................................ 1 1.3. Cross-listed Courses in Arts ....................................................................................................... 2
2. NEW COURSES [for approval] 2.1. Dean of Arts – ARTS ................................................................................................................... 5 2.2. History ....................................................................................................................................... 6 2.3. Renison University College – EASIA, SDS ................................................................................... 6 2.4. Religious Studies – RS ................................................................................................................ 8
3. COURSE CHANGES [for approval]
3.1. Accounting and Finance, School of ........................................................................................... 9 3.2. Anthropology ........................................................................................................................... 10 3.3. Renison University College – EASIA, SDS ................................................................................. 10 3.4. Sociology and Legal Studies – SOC .......................................................................................... 11 3.5. St. Paul’s University College – INDG ........................................................................................ 11
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Report to Senate Undergraduate Council
Arts Undergraduate Affairs Group Report December 1, 2016
_____________________________
Legend Bolding = new text being added Strikeout = text being removed 1. ARTS REGULATION CHANGES [for approval] 1.1. Graduate Courses
Effective September 1, 2018 Calendar page: Course Selection (http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ARTS-Course-Selection) New text: Graduate Courses Graduate Courses may be counted towards an undergraduate degree in Arts. Students must obtain approval from the departmental undergraduate and graduate chairs to enrol in a graduate course. Normally, graduate courses counted towards an undergraduate degree cannot be used to satisfy graduate degree requirements. The following regulations govern undergraduate students who take graduate courses:
If the graduate course is not intended to be part of the undergraduate degree requirements, it will be designated as NACC (no credit given, not in average), so that the course may be later counted towards a graduate degree.
Any student who wants a graduate course to count towards their undergraduate degree requirements must petition the Arts Examinations and Standings Committee. As part of the petition, the student should provide an explanation of why they are enrolling in the course.
Rationale: The Faculty of Arts has had a regulation in place for undergraduate students taking graduate courses; however, it has not been previously published in the undergraduate calendar. Although there is only a handful of students who enrol in graduate courses, it would be helpful to students, and advisors, to publish our existing regulation.
1.2. Residency Requirement
Effective September 1, 2018 Calendar page: Residency Requirement (http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ARTS-Degree-Residency-Requirement) Students are required to take, and earn credit for, at least 50% of the courses required to graduate at the University of Waterloo. These University of Waterloo courses must be graded on a numerical basis (and have received a passing grade), be in the average, and must include:
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at least half the total number of academic course units required for each degree, major, minor, or diploma;
at least 6.5 academic course units (13 courses) in Arts subjects for a Four-Year Liberal Studies degree;
at least four academic course units (eight courses) in Arts subjects for a Three-Year Liberal Studies degree.
All students in the Faculty of Arts are bound by the 50% residency requirement rule. This residency requirement applies in the case of all transfers, whether internal or external, readmissions, including second Bachelor degrees. See the Transfer Credit section for additional information. Rationale: Arts would like to clarify that the 50% of graded courses must be passed; i.e., failed courses with numerical grades, or courses with CLC, do not count towards the residency requirement.
1.3. Cross-listed Courses in Averages
Effective September 1, 2018
A) Calendar page: Course Selection (http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ARTS-Course-Selection)
Cross-listed courses Cross-listed courses are considered to be equivalent in content. Students should be aware that all courses taken under a subject which was cross-listed with a course within the student's plan of the undergraduate calendar they are following (requirement term) are included in the plan average. See Academic Standing Definition for how averages are calculated. Similarly, Sstudents enrolled in a course which is cross-listed should be aware that the course will automatically fulfill a Bachelor of Arts Breadth Requirement for either the subject in which they are registering or the cross-listed subject, but not both. For example, a student registered in PACS 203/HIST 232 may receive credit for either the Transdisciplinary Studies requirement or the Humanities requirement, but not for both. Similarly, students should be aware that all courses taken under a subject which is cross-listed with a course within the student's plan are included in the plan average. B) Calendar page: Academic Standing Definition
(http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ARTS-Academic-Standing-and-Averages) Academic standing is a measure of the student's academic achievement relative to their degree requirements, and determines their eligibility to be admitted to and/or proceed in their academic plan and to qualify for graduation. A student's academic standing is determined by the averages attained:
Cumulative Overall Average (CAV): Average of the grades in all courses taken regardless of Faculty.
Faculty (Arts) Average (FAV): Average of the grades in all Faculty of Arts courses.
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o Does not include courses with the following subjects: BASE, EFAS, SWREN, UNIV.
Major Average (MAV): Average of the grades in all courses taken within the student's major.
o All courses taken under the subject code of the student's major and those courses listed under the plan-level requirements, are included in the major average regardless of whether any of these courses is in excess of the minimum required by the major.
o All Any courses taken (under a any subject code) which is was cross-listed with a course within in the a student's major in the undergraduate calendar they are following (that is, is included in their requirement term) are is included in the major average., e.g., For example, a Psychology student enrolled in PHIL 256 (cross-listed with PSYCH 256) will have the course grade counted towards the Psychology major average only if PHIL 256/PSYCH 256 was cross-listed in their requirement term. If a course is later cross-listed and a student takes the course when it is cross-listed, it will not count in the MAV unless a student changes their requirement term to a term in which the course is cross-listed. For example, if PHIL 256 was de-cross-listed from PSYCH 256, PHIL 256 would continue to count in the student’s major average unless they switched their Psychology requirements to a later requirement term, when the pair is no longer cross-listed, at which point it would stop counting. Similarly, if PHIL 256 was not cross-listed at the time the student took the course, but became cross-listed and the student opted into a newer Psychology requirement term, PHIL 256 would now count towards the major average.
Term Average: Average of the grades in all courses taken within a particular academic term.
Minor Average: Average of the grades in all courses taken within the student's minor. o All courses taken under the subject code of the student's minor and those
courses listed as optional requirements are included in the minor average regardless of whether any of these courses is in excess of the minimum required by the minor.
o All courses taken under a subject code which is cross-listed with a course within the student's minor are included in the minor average, e.g., a student taking a minor in Psychology enrolled in PHIL 256 (cross-listed with PSYCH 256) will have the course grade counted towards the Psychology minor average. Cross-listed courses count towards the minor average in the same way they do for the major average (see above for details).
Students who meet the academic requirements for their major will be in Excellent, Good, or Satisfactory standing, depending on the major and their term and overall averages. Failure to meet minimum average requirements for the major may result in a Conditional or a Failed standing. Students will find their academic standing on their unofficial transcripts. Notes
1. For Laurier courses, see Wilfrid Laurier University Cross-Registration. 2. Students who have received transfer credit(s) should refer to Transfer Credit for further
details. 3. Students who have had grades cleared should refer to Transfer Credit section of the
calendar for further details.
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Rationale: The Faculty of Arts recently became aware of how cross-listed courses actually count in averages; that is, that they are tied to the plan requirement term, not the cross-listing status of the course at the time it was taken. With this new knowledge, we need to be clear and transparent with the students about how these types of courses will count, or not, in their plan (e.g., major or minor) averages. This is an important clarification for our students due the number of cross-listed courses throughout our faculty.
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NEW COURSES (for approval)
Dean of Arts
Effective 01-JAN-2018ARTS 130 ( 0.50 ) SEM Inquiry and Communication
This course provides an introduction to diverse intellectual modes of inquiry in thesocial sciences and humanities with an emphasis on the development of communicationskills. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics basedon instructor expertise in order to build social awareness, ethical engagement, andcommunication competencies in comprehension, contextualization, andconceptualization. Students will be expected to engage with the work of others,articulate positions, situate writing and speaking within contexts, practice writingand speaking for situations beyond the classroom, engage in basic forms of research,and workshop, revise, and edit writing.
Requisites : Prereq: First-year Arts studentsRationale : This course (plus ARTS 140) will work as a course-based replacement for the
English Language Proficiency Exam (ELPE), and will follow through on therecommendations for communication learning outcomes made by SCELCI (theSteering Committee for the English Language Competency Initiative). Thegoal of these courses is to support student success in University byproviding concrete preparation in communication competencies (especially incomprehension, conceptualization, and contextualization). These courses arealso intended to enhance students' experience in first year by ensuringthat each student has two engaging small-class experiences.
Effective 01-JAN-2018ARTS 140 ( 0.50 ) SEM Information and Analysis
This course introduces students to diverse ways of finding, examining, and using dataand information in the social sciences and humanities. In a small seminar setting,students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order tounderstand quantitative and qualitative methods of data gathering and buildcompetencies in conceptualizing, contextualizing, and comprehending methods ofinformation analysis. Students will be expected to investigate, use, and assess thepresentation of information in their own work and the work of others so that they canbetter understand the range of social, ethical, and political challenges of ourworld.
Requisites : Prereq: First-year Arts studentsRationale : This course (plus ARTS 130) will work as a course-based replacement for the
English Language Proficiency Exam (ELPE), and will follow through on therecommendations for communication learning outcomes made by SCELCI (theSteering Committee for the English Language Competency Initiative). The
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goal of these courses is to support student success in University byproviding concrete preparation in communication competencies (especially incomprehension, conceptualization, and contextualization). These courses arealso intended to enhance students' experience in first year by ensuringthat each student has two engaging small-class experiences.
History
Effective 01-JAN-2018HIST 207 ( 0.50 ) LEC The Beatles and the Sixties
The Beatles - their lives, their music, their films, and their impact - are thiscourse's lens to examine the social, political, and cultural upheavals andtransformations of the 1960s, and to consider memory, nostalgia, and mythmaking aboutthat storied decade. Primary focus is on the U.K. and U.S., with consideration ofBeatlemania as a global phenomenon.
Requisites : Antireq: HIST 291 (001) Winter 2017Rationale : This course has been developed to attract both majors and non-majors
interested in the role of popular culture in the broader world, as part ofthe department's long-range plan to offer a larger selection of 200- and300-level courses to students from across campus. HIST 207 (The Beatles andthe Sixties) offers a 200-level internationally-minded complement to thehighly successful HIST 105 (Rock 'n' Roll and U.S. History).
Effective 01-JAN-2018HIST 216 ( 0.50 ) LEC From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: A (Long) History of the Internet
This course contextualizes the information age around us: it examines both thetechnological story of the rise of the Internet, and the longer human story about theevolving concept of information, communication over time and space, and the ubiquityand complexity of the systems at the heart of our globalized world.
Rationale : This course has been developed to attract both majors and non-majorsinterested in the history of emergent technology, information, andcommunication, as part of the department's long-range plan to offer alarger selection of 200- and 300-level courses to students from acrosscampus. This course also serves to provide a historical perspective to theUniversity's strategic focus on innovation. HIST 216 (From Gutenberg toZuckerberg: A (Long) History of the Internet) provides an information andcommunication-focused complement to HIST 212 (The Computing Society), and ahistorical background to the upper-year HIST 303 (History Gone Digital),which puts the theory and history into practice.
Renison University College
Effective 01-JAN-2018EASIA 303R ( 0.50 ) LEC, SEM Business Environment in East Asia
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The course introduces students to the cultural, social, economic, political, andlegal environment for business in East Asia. It covers major economies, such asChina, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The course helps students acquirecomprehensive understanding of the business environment of this dynamic region.
Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 2ARationale : This course covers a very important aspect of East Asian studies, a topic
that is particularly useful and helpful for students who would like topursue careers in East Asian business. This course will also help make thecurriculum of East Asian Studies as a interdisciplinary program morecomprehensive.
Effective 01-JAN-2018EASIA 305R ( 0.50 ) SEM Buddhism in East Asia Today
This course examines modern developments in the Buddhism of China, Japan, and Korea.Topics such as war, urbanization, capitalism, colonialism, Christianity, Communism,the Internet, and nostalgia are explored for their impact on Buddhism.
Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 2ACross-listed as: RS 302RRationale : EASIA 305R/RS 302R consolidates material previously distributed among RS
207/EASIA 207R (Chinese Religions), RS 301/EASIA 330R (Pure Land Buddhism),RS 304 (Zen and Now: History and Influence of Zen), and RS 321 (Women inBuddhism: A Global Perspective), all inactivated as of Fall 2016. These andother changes by Religious Studies have resulted in the inactivation of all300-level Buddhism courses, as well as nearly all 300-level teaching onAsian religions in general; among other effects, this significantly reducesthe number of non-language 300-level courses available for East AsianStudies students, as several were cross-listed with EASIA or included inthe EASIA plan. Creating an upper-level course on the modern period alsoallows for reorganization of material currently included in EASIA 205R/RS201 (Religion in East Asia), EASIA 206R/RS 206 (Japanese Religions), and RS204 (Buddhism). We have verified the question of overlapping contentbetween the proposed course and the previously offered courses. There isn'tenough overlap to warrant including antirequisites.
Effective 01-JAN-2018SDS 260R ( 0.50 ) LEC Ecology, Society, and Justice: Social Development and the Environment
This course introduces theory and concepts of social ecology, an interdisciplinaryapproach to understanding the interrelationship of social and environmentalwell-being. Students critically examine the implications of environment andenvironmentalism for human society, as well as explore ideas for community action andsocial institutions that reflect a social-ecological ethic.
Requisites : Prereq: One of SDS 131R, PSCI 150, SOC 101R/101, EARTH 122, ERS 110, ENVS
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105; Level at least 2BRationale : The interconnections between social development and the natural environment
are a growing area of scholarly focus in social science disciplines of allkinds. Social Development Studies does not currently offer any courses onthis topic. The proposed course fills the gap in the Social DevelopmentStudies program and complements environmentally-oriented course offeringsin other departments.
Religious Studies
Effective 01-JAN-2018RS 301R ( 0.50 ) SEM Engaged Buddhism
This course examines Buddhist - including mindfulness - engagement with contemporarysocial issues, such as peacemaking, environmentalism, political reform, race andgender concerns, and LGBTQ rights.
Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 2ARationale : Religious Studies has inactivated all 300-level offerings on Buddhism as of
Fall 2016, as well as some 200-level offerings. RS 301R will allow for thecontinued teaching of Buddhist subjects at the upper level. Students showparticular interest in contemporary and socially-engaged topics in RS 204(Buddhism), so an expansion of Renison's offerings in this area seemsuseful, and allows Religious Studies to offer expanded support for otherprograms, such as specializations within Social Development Studies.
Effective 01-JAN-2018RS 302R ( 0.50 ) SEM Buddhism in East Asia Today
This course examines modern developments in the Buddhism of China, Japan, and Korea.Topics such as war, urbanization, capitalism, colonialism, Christianity, Communism,the Internet, and nostalgia are explored for their impact on Buddhism.
Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 2ACross-listed as: EASIA 305RRationale : EASIA 305R/RS 302R consolidates material previously distributed among RS
207/EASIA 207R (Chinese Religions), RS 301/EASIA 330R (Pure Land Buddhism),RS 304 (Zen and Now: History and Influence of Zen), and RS 321 (Women inBuddhism: A Global Perspective), all inactivated as of Fall 2016. These andother changes by Religious Studies have resulted in the inactivation of all300-level Buddhism courses, as well as nearly all 300-level teaching onAsian religions in general; among other effects, this significantly reducesthe number of non-language 300-level courses available for East AsianStudies students, as several were cross-listed with EASIA or included inthe EASIA plan. Creating an upper-level course on the modern period alsoallows for reorganization of material currently included in EASIA 205R/RS201 (Religion in East Asia), EASIA 206R/RS 206 (Japanese Religions), and RS204 (Buddhism). We have verified the question of overlapping content
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between the proposed course and the previously offered courses. There isn'tenough overlap to warrant including antirequisites.
Effective 01-JAN-2018RS 335 ( 0.50 ) LEC The Violence of the Bible
Why has the Bible inspired so much violence? This course explores how the Bible hasbeen used to justify, and to oppose, violence in historical and contemporarycontexts. It will address topics such as the crusades, slavery, the "conquest" of theAmericas, apartheid in South Africa, the residential school system in Canada, genderviolence, and the environmental crisis. [Note: This course fulfils an Area 3C forReligious Studies majors.]
Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 2A. Antireq: RS 391 taken Winter 2016Rationale : This course was offered for the first time as a topics course in Winter
2016. It drew strong interest from students, strong enrolment, andexcellent course evaluations. The course intentionally bridges twodisciplines (Religious Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies) and iscurrently being considered by the Peace and Conflict Studies Department aseither an approved content course or cross-listed course. It is anticipatedthat this will be offered in the instructor's regular course rotation everytwo years.
COURSE CHANGES (for approval)
Accounting & Finance - School of
Current Catalog InformationAFM 273 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TST Managerial Finance 1
This is the first in a two-course sequence that introduces the theory of financialdecision-making within firms. Topics include capital budgeting, cost of capital,security issuance, capital structure, payout policy and dividends, short termfinance, and risk management, among others.No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: STAT 211; Accounting and Financial Management or
Biotechnology/Chartered Professional Accountancy students only. Antireq:AFM 272/ACTSC 291, ACTSC 371, ECON 371
Effective 01-JAN-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: STAT 211; Accounting and Financial Management or
Biotechnology/Chartered Professional Accountancy students only. Antireq:AFM 272/ACTSC 291, ECON 371
Rationale : To change antirequisites. Based on the current calendar descriptions of thecourses it is no longer appropriate to list ACTSC 371 (Introduction toInvestments) as an antirequisite course as the two courses coversubstantively different material.
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Anthropology
Current Catalog InformationANTH 272 ( 0.50 ) LEC Issues in Contemporary Native Communities in Canada
An examination of First Nations and Métis cultures and cultural development from theperspective of local native communities. The course will feature lectures,discussions, and occasional guest speakers representative of the wider nativecommunity.No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Antireq: ANTH 370Cross-listed as: NATST 272
Effective 01-SEP-2018Subject/Catalog Nbr Change: ANTH 272Unit Change: ( 0.50 )Component Change: LECTitle Change: Issues in Contemporary Indigenous Communities in CanadaDescription Change: An examination of First Nations and Métis cultures and cultural development
from the perspective of local indigenous communities. The course willfeature lectures, discussions, and occasional guest speakers representativeof the wider indigenous community.
Consent Change: No Special Consent RequiredRequisite Change : Antireq: ANTH 370, NATST 272New Cross Listing : INDG 272Rationale : To change course subject (NATST to INDG), title, description, and
antirequisites. Native Studies is an antiquated term; Indigenous Studies ismore appropriate. This title and description change better reflects currentacademic language.
Renison University College
Current Catalog InformationEASIA 201R ( 0.50 ) LEC Introduction to East Asia
An introductory survey of the history and cultures of East Asia with particularreference to China, Japan, and Korea.No Special Consent Required
Effective 01-SEP-2018Subject/Catalog Nbr Change: EASIA 100RDescription Change: An introductory survey of East Asia. This course examines common grounds
and differences in the historical, cultural, economic, and politicalfoundations of East Asian societies and states. [Note: Formerly EASIA 201R]
Requisite Change : Antireq: EASIA 201RRationale : To change catalog number, description, and add antirequisite. This is the
core introductory course for the East Asian Studies program. Renumbering itas our first listing emphasizes this fact and makes it the natural gateway
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to all other East Asian Studies courses. The material is already suitablefor a 100-level course, and this change allows East Asian Studies to putmore specific (but still introductory) courses at higher numbers in the100s or at the 200-level, as appropriate. The current calendar descriptionis quite old; the new description better explains the actual content of thecourse.
Current Catalog InformationSDS 425R ( 0.50 ) SEM Educational Equity in Canada
This course examines the social foundations of education (traditionally philosophy,sociology, and history of education, but also cultural and equity studies). Throughan interdisciplinary framework, this course considers the roles that schoolingsystems, teachers, and students play in both reproducing and challenging socialinequalities and injustices. [Note: Formerly ISS 425R]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: Level at least 3A
Effective 01-JAN-2018Course Attribute Change: Also offered OnlineRationale : To add attribute. The department has entered into agreement with the Centre
for Extended Learning for development of additional online courses in orderto make it possible for students to meet the new plan requirements.
Sociology and Legal Studies
Current Catalog InformationSOC 204R ( 0.50 ) LEC Sociology of Adolescence
The social definitions of adolescence in cross-cultural and historical perspective.Social roles of adolescents in the institutional structures of urban-industrialsocieties with special emphasis on the family, education, and the economy. Therelationship of adolescents' social roles to processes of social change andstability.No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: SOC 101/101R or 120R
Effective 01-JAN-2018Course Attribute Change: Also offered OnlineRationale : To add attribute. The department has entered into agreement with the Centre
for Extended Learning for development of additional online courses in orderto help students who entered Social Development Studies prior to 2016 tomeet the discipline spread plan requirements. Currently only one SocialDevelopment Studies sociology course (SOC 224R) is available online to meetthis requirement.
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Effective 01-SEP-2018Subject/Catalog Nbr Change: INDG 272Unit Change: ( 0.50 )Component Change: LECTitle Change: Issues in Contemporary Indigenous Communities in CanadaDescription Change: An examination of First Nations and Métis cultures and cultural development
from the perspective of local indigenous communities. The course willfeature lectures, discussions, and occasional guest speakers representativeof the wider indigenous community.
Consent Change: No Special Consent RequiredRequisite Change : Antireq: NATST 272, 370New Cross Listing : ANTH 272Rationale : To change course subject (NATST to INDG), title, description, and
antirequisites. Native Studies is an antiquated term; Indigenous Studies ismore appropriate. This title and description change better reflects currentacademic language.
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TO: Mike Grivicic, Assistant University Secretary,
Secretariat & Office of General Counsel FROM: Peter Douglas, Associate Dean, U/G Studies, Faculty of Engineering SUBJECT: Items for Approval at March 21, 2017 Senate Undergraduate Council
The following items were approved by the Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Studies Committee on January 27, 2017 and by Engineering Faculty Council on February 28, 2017. I am seeking approval for these items at Senate Undergraduate Council on March 21, 2017.
Attachment #1 contains the modified portion of the following calendar descriptions: BASc and BSE Specific Degree Requirements – Complementary Studies Requirements for Engineering Students (Item I); Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Item II).
Attachment #2 contains the Catalog Reports – Mtng #49 (Item III).
Attachment #3 contains the Academic Advisement templates for: UEN05/UID10 (2017) and UEN25 (2016).
NOTE: ITEMS WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE SENATE U/G COUNCIL APPROVAL ARE SHOWN AS SMALL CAPS IN ITALICS, WITH
WAVE UNDERLINE. THESE ITEMS RECEIVE FINAL APPROVAL AT ENGINEERING FACULTY COUNCIL AND ARE FORWARDED TO
SENATE U/G COUNCIL FOR INFORMATION AND IMPLEMENTATION.
Items for Approval:
I) Complementary Studies Electives Background and Motivation
Minor changes to the CSE list are proposed:
a) A HOUSEKEEPING CHANGE TO RENUMBER PHIL 359 TO PHIL 257 (LIST C AND D).
b) Removal of KIN 155 (now 255) from List D as it was determined that this is a life science course and is listed as a technical elective for the Option in Biomechanics.
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II) Bachelor of Architectural Studies
Background and Motivation
It is proposed that the list of PD electives is expanded for Architecture students from three courses to nine courses as
follows: PD 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 (the additions are shown in red). The expanded list provides more diversity for the students. Course titles are shown in the attached program description.
Note: It is proposed that this is implemented for the class who entered in September 2016.
III) Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
Background and Motivation
The Conrad Centre is seeking approval for the following:
a) Three new courses, BET 350 (Customer Experience Design), BET 430 (Sales Fundamentals) and BET 450
(Leadership) are proposed to grow the entrepreneurship offerings on campus. These relevant electives are based
on student demand and may be taken by those in the Option for Entrepreneurship, or (non-engineering) students
in the Minor in Entrepreneurship, along with others who have interest.
b) Removal of instructor consent for BET 320 is proposed as a housekeeping change. The requirements for which
courses are needed for the option and minor are now more clearly defined and the approval process has become
a needless barrier. This will not affect students currently working towards either the Option or the Minor in
Entrepreneurship.
P.L. Douglas Associate Dean of Engineering Undergraduate Studies AGENDAS\suc submission\mar21.17
Associate Dean of Engineering, Undergraduate Studies: Professor P.L. Douglas, CPH 1325K, (519) 888-4792; E-mail: [email protected] Assistant to the Associate Dean: Susan Key, CPH 1320F, (519) 888-4567, ext. 33200; E-mail: [email protected]; Fax: (519) 725-9970
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Attachment 1
Complementary Studies Requirements for Engineering Students mark-up
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List C – Humanities and Social Sciences Courses
Course scheduling is an evolving process at the University and it is difficult to ensure access to all possible
complementary studies courses. One of the steps taken to improve students' chances of having access to their
complementary studies courses for those terms that have a complementary studies course requirement, is that course
components (lectures, tutorials or labs) of core engineering courses will not be scheduled during specified time slots.
Currently, these slots are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., as well as evening time
slots on Monday or Tuesday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The following Humanities and Social Sciences courses are permissible. In general, all literature and civilization
courses in language departments are approved as Humanities and Social Sciences courses.
Anthropology (ANTH): All
Business Entrepreneurship and Technology: BET 100, BET 300, BET 310, BET 320, BET 400
Classical Studies (CLAS): All
Drama: DRAMA 100, DRAMA 200
East Asian Studies: EASIA 201R
Economics: All except ECON 211, ECON 221, ECON 311, ECON 321, ECON 371, ECON 404, ECON 405, ECON
412, ECON 421, ECON 422, ECON 471
English: All except ENGL 109, ENGL 119, ENGL 129R, ENGL 140R, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F
Environmental Studies: ENVS 195
Fine Arts (FINE): * see home dept. Assoc. Chair
French Studies: FR 296, FR 297
General Engineering (Topics): GENE 22C (Taken on exchange by Engineering students)
General Engineering: GENE 412
Geography: GEOG 101, GEOG 202, GEOG 203, GEOG 368
Gerontology: GERON 201
Health Studies: HLTH 320
History: All except HIST 400-level courses
Human Resources Management (HRM): All
Human Sciences: HUMSC 101, HUMSC 102
International Studies: INTST 101
Kinesiology: KIN 352, KIN 354
Legal Studies: LS 101, LS 202
Management Sciences: MSCI 211, MSCI 263, MSCI 311, MSCI 411
Music: MUSIC 140, MUSIC 253, MUSIC 256, MUSIC 334, MUSIC 355, MUSIC 363
Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS): All
Philosophy: All except PHIL 145, PHIL 200J, PHIL 216, PHIL 240, PHIL 256, PHIL 257 PHIL 359, PHIL 441
Planning: PLAN 100
Political Science: All except PSCI 314, PSCI 315
Psychology: All except PSYCH 256, PSYCH 261, PSYCH 291, PSYCH 292, PSYCH 307, PSYCH 312, PSYCH
317, PSYCH 391, PSYCH 400-level courses need approval of Psych. Dept.
Recreation: REC 230, REC 425
Religious Studies: All except RS 131, RS 132, RS 133, RS 134, RS 233
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF): All
Social Development Studies: All except SDS 150R, SDS 250R, SDS 251R, SDS 350R, SDS 398R, SDS 399R
Social Work: All except SOCWK 390A, SOCWK 390B, SOCWK 398R, SOCWK 399R
Society, Technology and Values (STV): All
Sociology: All except SOC 221, SOC 280, SOC 322, SOC 498, SOC 499A, SOC 499B
Studies in Islam: SI 121R, SI 221R, SI 230R, SI 231R, SI 315R, SI 320R
Women's Studies: All except WS 365, WS 475 (may be acceptable at the discretion of the Associate Chair when a
course outline is shown)
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List D – Other Permissible Complementary Studies Courses
While the following courses may not be used to satisfy Requirements 1, 2, or 3, they may be used to satisfy
Requirement 4. For details, see your Departmental regulations.
Accounting and Financial Management: AFM 131
Applied Language Studies: APPLS 205R, APPLS 301, APPLS 304R, APPLS 306R
Business Entrepreneurship and Technology: BET 410A, BET 410B
Civil Engineering: CIVE 491
Electrical and Computer Engineering: ECE 290
English: ENGL 109, ENGL 129R, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F
English for Multilingual Speakers: EMLS 102R, EMLS 110R, EMLS 129R
Environmental Engineering: ENVE 391
Environmental Studies: ENVS 201, ENVS 401
Fine Arts (FINE): * see home department Associate Chair
General Engineering (Topics): GENE 22D (Taken on exchange by Engineering students)
General Engineering: GENE 315, GENE 411, GENE 415
Kinesiology: KIN 155 KIN 255
Management Sciences: MSCI 262, MSCI 421, MSCI 454
Mechanical Engineering: ME 401
Music: MUSIC 100, MUSIC 231, MUSIC 240, MUSIC 246, MUSIC 254, MUSIC 255, MUSIC 260, MUSIC 361
Philosophy: PHIL 145, PHIL 200J, PHIL 216, PHIL 256, PHIL 257 PHIL 359
Psychology: PSYCH 256, PSYCH 307, PSYCH 312, PSYCH 317
Recreation: REC 100
Religious Studies: RS 131, RS 132, RS 133, RS 134, RS 233
Speech Communication: SPCOM 223
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Complementary Studies Requirements for Engineering Students clean ●
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List C – Humanities and Social Sciences Courses
Course scheduling is an evolving process at the University and it is difficult to ensure access to all possible
complementary studies courses. One of the steps taken to improve students' chances of having access to their
complementary studies courses for those terms that have a complementary studies course requirement, is that course
components (lectures, tutorials or labs) of core engineering courses will not be scheduled during specified time slots.
Currently, these slots are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., as well as evening time
slots on Monday or Tuesday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The following Humanities and Social Sciences courses are permissible. In general, all literature and civilization
courses in language departments are approved as Humanities and Social Sciences courses.
Anthropology (ANTH): All
Business Entrepreneurship and Technology: BET 100, BET 300, BET 310, BET 320, BET 400
Classical Studies (CLAS): All
Drama: DRAMA 100, DRAMA 200
East Asian Studies: EASIA 201R
Economics: All except ECON 211, ECON 221, ECON 311, ECON 321, ECON 371, ECON 404, ECON 405, ECON
412, ECON 421, ECON 422, ECON 471
English: All except ENGL 109, ENGL 119, ENGL 129R, ENGL 140R, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F
Environmental Studies: ENVS 195
Fine Arts (FINE): * see home dept. Assoc. Chair
French Studies: FR 296, FR 297
General Engineering (Topics): GENE 22C (Taken on exchange by Engineering students)
General Engineering: GENE 412
Geography: GEOG 101, GEOG 202, GEOG 203, GEOG 368
Gerontology: GERON 201
Health Studies: HLTH 320
History: All except HIST 400-level courses
Human Resources Management (HRM): All
Human Sciences: HUMSC 101, HUMSC 102
International Studies: INTST 101
Kinesiology: KIN 352, KIN 354
Legal Studies: LS 101, LS 202
Management Sciences: MSCI 211, MSCI 263, MSCI 311, MSCI 411
Music: MUSIC 140, MUSIC 253, MUSIC 256, MUSIC 334, MUSIC 355, MUSIC 363
Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS): All
Philosophy: All except PHIL 145, PHIL 200J, PHIL 216, PHIL 240, PHIL 256, PHIL 257, PHIL 441
Planning: PLAN 100
Political Science: All except PSCI 314, PSCI 315
Psychology: All except PSYCH 256, PSYCH 261, PSYCH 291, PSYCH 292, PSYCH 307, PSYCH 312, PSYCH
317, PSYCH 391, PSYCH 400-level courses need approval of Psych. Dept.
Recreation: REC 230, REC 425
Religious Studies: All except RS 131, RS 132, RS 133, RS 134, RS 233
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF): All
Social Development Studies: All except SDS 150R, SDS 250R, SDS 251R, SDS 350R, SDS 398R, SDS 399R
Social Work: All except SOCWK 390A, SOCWK 390B, SOCWK 398R, SOCWK 399R
Society, Technology and Values (STV): All
Sociology: All except SOC 221, SOC 280, SOC 322, SOC 498, SOC 499A, SOC 499B
Studies in Islam: SI 121R, SI 221R, SI 230R, SI 231R, SI 315R, SI 320R
Women's Studies: All except WS 365, WS 475 (may be acceptable at the discretion of the Associate Chair when a
course outline is shown)
List D – Other Permissible Complementary Studies Courses
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While the following courses may not be used to satisfy Requirements 1, 2, or 3, they may be used to satisfy
Requirement 4. For details, see your Departmental regulations.
Accounting and Financial Management: AFM 131
Applied Language Studies: APPLS 205R, APPLS 301, APPLS 304R, APPLS 306R
Business Entrepreneurship and Technology: BET 410A, BET 410B
Civil Engineering: CIVE 491
Electrical and Computer Engineering: ECE 290
English: ENGL 109, ENGL 129R, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F
English for Multilingual Speakers: EMLS 102R, EMLS 110R, EMLS 129R
Environmental Engineering: ENVE 391
Environmental Studies: ENVS 201, ENVS 401
Fine Arts (FINE): * see home department Associate Chair
General Engineering (Topics): GENE 22D (Taken on exchange by Engineering students)
General Engineering: GENE 315, GENE 411, GENE 415
Management Sciences: MSCI 262, MSCI 421, MSCI 454
Mechanical Engineering: ME 401
Music: MUSIC 100, MUSIC 231, MUSIC 240, MUSIC 246, MUSIC 254, MUSIC 255, MUSIC 260, MUSIC 361
Philosophy: PHIL 145, PHIL 200J, PHIL 216, PHIL 256, PHIL 257
Psychology: PSYCH 256, PSYCH 307, PSYCH 312, PSYCH 317
Recreation: REC 100
Religious Studies: RS 131, RS 132, RS 133, RS 134, RS 233
Speech Communication: SPCOM 223
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Co-operative System of Study mark up
The Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Architecture Academic Program includes eight terms of study, six four-
month Co-operative work terms (of which five are required to graduate) and one "off-term." The work terms must be pre-
approved by Co-operative Education.
Note
The "off-term" in the Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies Academic Program follows the first two terms of study
(from September to April) in Year One. Students may use the "off-term" as a vacation period or they may seek temporary
employment. Any employment arrangements made for the "off-term" are the student's own responsibility. If architecture
related employment is obtained during the "off-term" following 1B, it will not be considered as a replacement for any
subsequent Work Term requirement.
The terms are arranged as indicated in "Work/Study Sequence for Architecture."
Students wishing to take time off from school must complete a Work/Study Sequence change form. Students going on an
exchange opportunity must also complete a Work/Study Sequence change form.
Professional Development - Architecture
This section is new and applies to students enrolling in Architecture in Fall 2013 and beyond. Students entering engineering
prior to Fall 2013 are directed to earlier calendars or to their program advisor for the requirements in this area.
There are a total of five Professional Development courses, four Professional Development for Architecture students courses
(PDARCH), and one Professional Development course (PD) required for the Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS)
degree. These courses are normally taken during work terms and students are expected to enrol in one such course each off or
work term until the requirement has been completed.
In the event that a student has taken a PDARCH course in each work term, but has failed the most recent PDARCH course,
the student may request permission to repeat in a subsequent academic term, the PDARCH course that was failed. Students
should contact their advisors to determine if they qualify for this alternative. Failed PDARCH/PD courses contribute towards
the accumulated fail count.
It is recommended that the PDARCH courses be taken in the sequence as set out in the Program Chart. In the instance of the
fifth Professional Development course, students are permitted to enrol in one of the following WatPD elective courses that
deal with issues directly relevant to the architectural workplace: Communication (PD 3), Teamwork (PD 4), Project
Management (PD 5), Problem Solving (PD 6), Conflict Resolution (PD 7), Intercultural Skills (PD 8), Ethical Decision
Making (PD 9), Professional Responsibility in Computing (PD 10), or Reflection and Learning in the Workplace (PD
12).
Professional Development courses are online offerings. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they have
adequate internet access during work terms to complete course requirements.
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Co-operative System of Study clean The Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Architecture Academic Program includes eight terms of study, six
four-month Co-operative work terms (of which five are required to graduate) and one "off-term." The work terms
must be pre-approved by Co-operative Education.
Note
The "off-term" in the Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies Academic Program follows the first two terms of
study (from September to April) in Year One. Students may use the "off-term" as a vacation period or they may seek
temporary employment. Any employment arrangements made for the "off-term" are the student's own responsibility.
If architecture related employment is obtained during the "off-term" following 1B, it will not be considered as a
replacement for any subsequent Work Term requirement.
The terms are arranged as indicated in "Work/Study Sequence for Architecture."
Students wishing to take time off from school must complete a Work/Study Sequence change form. Students going on
an exchange opportunity must also complete a Work/Study Sequence change form.
Professional Development - Architecture
This section is new and applies to students enrolling in Architecture in Fall 2013 and beyond. Students entering
engineering prior to Fall 2013 are directed to earlier calendars or to their program advisor for the requirements in this
area.
There are a total of five Professional Development courses, four Professional Development for Architecture students
courses (PDARCH), and one Professional Development course (PD) required for the Bachelor of Architectural
Studies (BAS) degree. These courses are normally taken during work terms and students are expected to enrol in one
such course each off or work term until the requirement has been completed.
In the event that a student has taken a PDARCH course in each work term, but has failed the most recent PDARCH
course, the student may request permission to repeat in a subsequent academic term, the PDARCH course that was
failed. Students should contact their advisors to determine if they qualify for this alternative. Failed PDARCH/PD
courses contribute towards the accumulated fail count.
It is recommended that the PDARCH courses be taken in the sequence as set out in the Program Chart. In the instance
of the fifth Professional Development course, students are permitted to enrol in one of the following WatPD elective
courses that deal with issues directly relevant to the architectural workplace: Communication (PD 3), Teamwork (PD
4), Project Management (PD 5), Problem Solving (PD 6), Conflict Resolution (PD 7), Intercultural Skills (PD 8),
Ethical Decision Making (PD 9), Professional Responsibility in Computing (PD 10), or Reflection and Learning in the
Workplace (PD 12).
Professional Development courses are online offerings. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they have
adequate internet access during work terms to complete course requirements.
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NEW COURSES (for approval)
Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology Ctr
Effective 01-SEP-2017BET 350 ( 0.50 ) LEC Customer Experience Design
In this course, entrepreneurial students will learn the principles and tools ofcustomer experience (CX) design and how developing an exceptional experience for thecustomer fits into an overall business strategy. Not only will students develop aconceptual understanding of user experience and user-centered design, they will alsolearn how to deeply understand the needs of the customer and develop engaging andinnovative products and services. Topics include: visual design principles, designthinking, user experience research, experience mapping, sketching and storyboards,interactive prototypes, and usability testing. [Offered: F]
Rationale : We have been offering a workshop on customer experience to e-coop studentsfor a number of years, and also to special groups of students from time totime. These workshops are always well subscribed. After each workshop, wealways field requests by the students for more. There is also nothing likethis course available at the Waterloo campus yet it is an essentialcompetency for anyone interested in launching a new customer-centricproduct. Because of that, we believe this course will run at capacity whileenhancing the development of entrepreneurial ventures at the university.Note: This course has no final exam.
Effective 01-SEP-2017BET 430 ( 0.50 ) LEC Sales Fundamentals
The one thing every new venture needs whether small or large, not-for-profit orfor-profit, startup or part of an already mature business, is sales. This course isdesigned to help you create and grow a successful business venture through yourpersonal marketing and sales efforts. Coursework examines key sales technologies,networking techniques, the use of marketing in sales, the sales process, andassessing the value of a particular sale from both the perspective of customer impactand the financial/strategic impact on the organization. [Offered: F]
Rationale : Only about 25% of business schools have a sales course, despite the factthat there is a core of relevant research available on sales, and nobusiness can succeed without a strong sales focus. Indeed, research showsthat students who have taken a sales course become more proficient at it,more quickly than those who have not. We have been offering shortened salescourses to our MBET students, and now want to provide a more intensiveexperience for our undergraduate students. Because this course is unique toConrad (i.e., not offered anywhere else on campus), we believe enrolmentfor it will quickly develop.
University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Catalog ReportFaculty of ENG Page No. 1
Run Date 27-JAN-2017Meeting Number(s) 49
Attachment 2
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Effective 01-SEP-2017BET 450 ( 0.50 ) LEC Leadership
Leaders make things happen. Leaders make things possible. This course explores therelevant concepts, theories and skills needed to lead successfully in anyenvironment, from new ventures to change management in large corporations,government, and not-for-profits. Course topics include: leadership and followership,group and team dynamics, change management, interpersonal dynamics, and supportingleadership skills such as self-awareness, conflict management, and communications.Course topics will be enriched through a critical study of leadership exemplars inpopular media. [Offered: W]
Requisites : Antireqs: GBDA 204, MSCI 411, SPCOM 204, 227Rationale : We are seeing a growing demand for leadership development as more students
take BET courses. While engineering already offers a senior-levelleadership course (MSCI 411), the same is not true for many otherdisciplines on-campus such as AHS, MATH, and SCIENCE, whose students takeour courses along with the Entrepreneurship minor. In addition, our areahas particular expertise in business and entrepreneurial leadership, and wecurrently teach graduate leadership courses in both the MBET and GDipprograms.
COURSE CHANGES (for approval)
Current Catalog InformationBET 320 ( 0.50 ) LEC Introduction to Commercialization Strategy
The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the commercializationprocess, based on business theory and practice, with a specific focus on assessmentof opportunities and development of a business case which may be built around thecapstone project. Course content includes business planning in a corporate context,intellectual property strategy, and development of the skills necessary to besuccessful leading change and launching new ideas in a corporate environment. (Note:Permission of instructor is required. Offered: F,W)Instructor Consent Required
Effective 01-SEP-2017Description Change: The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the
commercialization process, based on business theory and practice, with aspecific focus on assessment of opportunities and development of a businesscase which may be built around the capstone project. Course contentincludes business planning in a corporate context, intellectual propertystrategy, and development of the skills necessary to be successful leadingchange and launching new ideas in a corporate environment. (Offered: F,W)
Consent Change: No Special Consent Required
University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Catalog ReportFaculty of ENG Page No. 2
Run Date 27-JAN-2017Meeting Number(s) 49
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Rationale : The requirement for instructor approval was used to ensure students chosethe right courses to satisfy the option and minor requirements. Since theserequirements have been published and widely distributed, an approvalprocess is no longer useful.
University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Catalog ReportFaculty of ENG Page No. 3
Run Date 27-JAN-2017Meeting Number(s) 49
End of Report
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Attachment 3
Analysis of Degree Requirements
For Academic Advisement & Calendar – Effective 2017/09/01
Career: Undergraduate Program: UEN05: Engineering Co-op
RG: 2396 Crse Share Set
RG: Crse Share Set
Academic Program Milestones: Tick if
Applicable Milestones Notes
(deadlines, level required, quantity, etc.) RQ CL
Yes English Proficiency Minimum of 60 in the English Language Proficiency Exam or 60% in one of ENGL 109, 129R, EMLS 102R or EMLS 129R Must be completed by the end of their 2A term.
2799 1972
Yes WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Material Information System 2816
Academic Program Overall Requirements: Requirement Description Notes
(Subjects/courses included or excluded, etc.) RQ CL
All Required courses (listed in the Program and the Plan)
All courses (Required for the Degree) must be passed, replaced, or a credit earned by supplemental Exam
Min Total Course Credits To be verified once the plans are known. Including COOP Work term courses, WKRPTs, and Professional Development (PD) courses NOTE: will be done through the PLAN templates as all are different
8 Term Credits 8 terms with status: Promoted, Promotion Granted, Proceed to 1B, Proceed on Probation, Promoted (Aegrotat), Promotion Granted (Aegrotat), Proceed to 1B (Aegrotat), or Proceed on Probation (Aegrotat).
Done by
query
10 Max. Number of Term Attempts Students must complete their degree in not more than 10 full load terms. The count excludes any terms labelled as Required to Repeat –No Penalty.
Done in AP
0 Maximum number of terms in conditional status
No term can have a status of: Conditionally Promoted, Conditionally Promoted (Aegrotat)
Done by
query
2 Maximum Number of Negative decision terms
Terms with a status of: Required to Repeat, Required to Withdraw from Engineering, Required to Withdraw from 1A Engineering.
Done in AP
Academic Program Core/Required Courses: Quantity Course List Description Course List RQ CL Dble
Cnt1
2.50 Work-term Credits COOP ### 7381 6873 N
2.50 Professional Development -Required (PD 20 and 21) - choose three courses from list
PD 20, 21 PD# - except for 1, 2
7382 7622 7027 -7999
N
0.39 Work-term Reports -not Management or Nanotechnology (see their plan template)
WKRPT (200 or 201) (300 or 301) (400 or 401)
7383 7274 7273 7276 7275 7278 7277
N
Complementary Studies Course list A
BET 420 BME 381 ECE 390 ENVS 105 ERS 215, 315 GENE 22A
1978 Y
1 May students double count these courses to satisfy another degree requirement (Y/N)?
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GEOG 203, 368 MSCI 422, 442 NE 109 PHIL 226 SOC 232 STV 100, 202, 203, 205, 210, 302 ,404 SYDE 261 WS 205
Complementary Studies Course list B
BME 364 CIVE 392 ECE 390 GENE 22B MSCI 261 SYDE 262
1987 Y
Complementary Studies Course list C
ANTH ### BET 100, 300, 310, 320, 400 CLAS ### DRAMA 100, 200 EASIA 201R ECON ### - ECON 211, 221, 311, 321, 371, 404, 405, 412, 421 422, 471 ENGL ### - ENGL 109, 119, 129R, 140R, 210E, 210F ENVS 195 FINE (* see home department, Associate Chair) FR 296, 297 GENE 22C, 412 GEOG 101, 202, 203, 368 GERON 201 HLTH 320 HIST 1##, 2##, 3## HRM ### HUMSC 101,102 INTST 101 KIN 352, 354 LS 101, 202 MSCI 211, 263, 311, 411 MUSIC 140, 253, 256, 334, 355, 363 PACS ### PHIL ### - PHIL 145, 200J, 216, 240, 256, 257 359, 441 PLAN 100 PSCI ### - PSCI 314, 315 PSYCH ### - PSYCH 256, 261, 291, 292, 307, 312, 317, 391), 400 level courses need approval of PSYCH dept REC 230, 425 RS ### - RS 131, 132, 133, 134, 233 SMF ### SDS ### -SDS 150R, 250R, 251R, 350R, 352R, 398R, 399R SOCWK ### -SOCWK 390A/B, 398R, 399R STV ### SOC ### -SOC 221, 280, 322, 498, 499A/B SI 121R, 221R, 230R, 231R, 315R, 320R WS ###
9378 -1993
Y
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- WS 365, 475 ( may be acceptable at the discretion of Assoc. Chair when a course outline is shown)
Complementary Studies
Course List D AFM 131 APPLS 205R, 301, 304R, 306R BET 410A, 410B CIVE 491 ECE 290 EMLS 102R, 110R, 129R ENGL 109, 129R, 210E, 210F ENVE 391 ENVS 201, 401 FINE * see home department Associate Chair GENE 22D, 315, 411, 415, 452 KIN 155 MSCI 262, 421, 454 ME 401 MUSIC 100, 231, 240, 246, 254, 255, 260, 361 PHIL 145, 200J, 216, 256, 257 359 PSYCH 256, 307, 312, 317 REC 100 RS 131, 132, 133, 134, 233 SPCOM 223
2122 Y
Completed by: Linda Beaulieu Date: January 13, 2017
Validated by: Peter Douglas Date:
Analysis of Degree Requirements
For Academic Advisement & Calendar – Effective 2017/09/01
Career: Undergraduate Program: UID10: VPA - SE
RG: 3571 Crse Share Set
RG: Crse Share Set
Academic Program Milestones: Tick if
Applicable Milestones Notes
(deadlines, level required, quantity, etc.) RQ CL
Yes WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Material Information System 2816
Academic Program Overall Requirements: Requirement Description Notes
(Subjects/courses included or excluded, etc.) RQ CL
All Required courses (listed in the Program and the Plan)
All courses (Required for the Degree) must be passed, replaced, or a credit earned by supplemental Exam
Min Total Course Credits To be verified once the plans are known. Including COOP Work term courses and Professional Development (PD) courses and LE Note: will be done through the PLAN template
8 Term Credits 8 terms with status: Promoted, Promotion Granted, Proceed to 1B, Proceed on Probation, Promoted (Aegrotat), Promotion Granted (Aegrotat), Proceed to 1B (Aegrotat), or Proceed on Probation (Aegrotat).
Done by
query
10 Max. Number of Term Attempts Students must complete their degree in not more than 10 full load terms. The count excludes any terms labelled as Required to Repeat –No Penalty.
Done in AP
0 Maximum number of terms in conditional status
No term can have a status of: Conditionally Promoted, Conditionally Promoted (Aegrotat)
Done by
query
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2 Maximum Number of Negative decision terms
Terms with a status of: Required to Repeat, Required to Withdraw from Engineering, Required to Withdraw from 1A Engineering.
Done in AP
Academic Program Core/Required Courses: Quantity Course List Description Course List RQ CL Dble
Cnt2
2.50 Work-term Credits COOP ### 7381 6873 N
2.50 Professional Development -Required (PD 10, 20 and 21) -choose two courses from list
PD 10, 20, 21 PD# - except for 1, 2
7382 7622 8838 7623
N
0.39 Work Term Reports WKRPT (200 or 201) (300 or 301) (400 or 401)
7383 7626 N
0.50 Linkage Electives Course List A
CS 492 or one of the courses in this list BET 420 BME 381 ECE 390 ENVS 105 ERS 215, 315 GENE 22A GEOG 203, 368 MSCI 422, 442 NE 109 PHIL 226 SOC 232 STV 100, 202, 203, 205, 210, 302, 404 SYDE 261 WS 205
8259 7734 1978
N
0.50 Linkage Electives Course List C One course on Humanities and Social Sciences
ANTH ### BET 100, 300, 310, 320, 400 CLAS ### DRAMA 100, 200 EASIA 201R ECON ### - ECON 211, 221, 311, 321, 371, 404, 405, 412, 421, 422, 471 ENGL ### - ENGL 109, 119, 129R, 140R, 210E, 210F ENVS 195 FINE (see home department, Associate Chair) FR 296, 297 GENE 22C, 412 GEOG 101, 202, 203, 368 GERON 201 HLTH 320 HIST 1##, 2##, 3## HRM ### HUMSC 101, 102 INTST 101 KIN 352, 354 LS 101, 202 MSCI 211, 263, 311, 411 MUSIC 140, 253, 256, 334, 355, 363 PACS ### PHIL ### - PHIL 145, 200J, 216, 240, 256, 257, 359, 441 PLAN 100 PSCI ### - PSCI 314, 315 PSYCH ###
8260 9378 -1993
N
2 May students double count these courses to satisfy another degree requirement (Y/N)?
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- PSYCH 256, 261, 291, 292, 307, 312, 317, 391), 400 level courses need approval of PSYCH dept REC 230, 425 RS ### - RS 131, 132, 133, 134, 233 SMF ### SDS ### -SDS 150R, 250R, 251R, 350R, 352R, 398R, 399R SOCWK ### - SOCWK 390A, 390B, 398R, 399R STV ### SOC ### - SOC 221, 280, 322, 498, 499A, 499B SI 121R, 221R, 230R, 231R, 315R, 320R WS ### - WS 365, 475 (may be acceptable at the discretion of Assoc. Chair when a course outline is shown)
0.50 One course on Communication ENGL 109, 129R, EMLS 101R, 102R, 129R SPCOM 100, 223
8261 7735 N
Completed by: Linda Beaulieu Date: January 5, 2017
Validated by: Peter Douglas Date:
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Analysis of Degree Requirements
For Academic Advisement & Calendar – Effective 2016/09/01
Career: Undergradua
te Program: UEN25: ARCHPPENG
Co-op RG: 7377 Crse Share Set
RG: Crse Share Set
Academic Program Milestones: Tick if
Applicable
Milestones Notes
(deadlines, level required, quantity, etc.) RQ CL
Yes English Proficiency 65 in the English Language Proficiency Exam or
60% in one of ENGL 109, 129R, EMLS 102R or EMLS
129R
Must be completed by the end of their 2B term.
2799
1972
Yes WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Material Information System 2816
Academic Program Overall Requirements:
Requirement Description Notes
(Subjects/courses included or excluded, etc.) RQ CL
All Required courses (listed in the
Program and the Plan)
All courses (Required for the Degree) must be passed,
replaced, or a credit earned by supplemental Exam
Min Total Course Credits To be verified once the plans are known.
Including COOP Work term courses and Professional
Development (PDARCH/PD) courses
??
8 Term Credits 8 terms with status: Promoted, Promotion Granted,
Proceed to 1B, Proceed on Probation, Promoted
(Aegrotat), Promotion Granted (Aegrotat), Proceed to 1B
(Aegrotat), or Proceed on Probation (Aegrotat).
Done
by
query
10 Max. Number of Term Attempts Students must complete their degree in not more than 10
full load terms. The count excludes any terms labelled as
Required to Repeat –No Penalty.
Done
in AP
2 Maximum number of terms in
conditional status
At most two terms can have a status of: Conditionally
Promoted, Conditionally Promoted (Aegrotat)
Done
by
query
Academic Program Core/Required Courses:
Quantity Course List Description Course List RQ CL Dble
Cnt3
2.50 Work-term Credits COOP ### 7381 6873 N
2.50 Professional Development for
Architecture students
-Required (PDARCH 1, 2, 3, 4)
-choose one more PD course
PDARCH 1, 2, 3, 4
PD 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
8699 8108
8109
N
0.75 Work-term Reports WKRPT 103, 203, 303 8700 8107 N
Completed by: Linda Beaulieu Date: December 21, 2016
Validated by: Peter Douglas Date:
Validated by: Lola Sheppard Date: e-copied December 21, 2016
3 May students double count these courses to satisfy another degree requirement (Y/N)?
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Report of Mathematics Faculty Council to Senate Undergraduate Council
March 2017
The items for this agenda are mostly of a routine nature. • Items 2.1 and 4.1 are routine and housekeeping matters. • Item 2.4.1 is a significant addition to the FARM plan. Students will be required to manage a virtual $1,00,000
portfolio over their undergraduate career and specific achievements will be recognized by milestones in Quest. Those milestones will have to be managed by members of the department.
• Item 4.2 contains two changes to degree requirements. • 4.2.1 updates List 2 for communication courses. • 4.2.2 adds the Communication Skills requirements to the Honours Fallback Provision.
• Item 5 contains new courses (CS 431, Data-Intensive Distributed Analytics, CS 480, Introduction to Machine Learning, CS 493, Team Project 1, CS 494, Team Project 2) but otherwise has only routine updates.
1. New Plans None.
2. Plan Changes 2.1. Computer Science 2.1.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To require BCS students who do the Business Option to still satisfy our breadth and depth requirement. The new text is as follows: The Business Option is available for both the Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) and the Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) (Computer Science) plans. The requirements are the same as for the BCS and BMath (CS) plans except that 1. elective breadth and depth requirements are waived, and 2. 1. both plans include the following additional constraints on course selection. […] Rationale: We no longer allow students who do minors to avoid breadth/depth; this option is smaller still. There’s no reason why students in the Business Option should avoid taking science or humanities courses, and there’s evidence students are taking the option to avoid these requirements.
2.1.2. Effective September 1, 2018 To change the name of the Computing Technology Option to Computing Option. Rationale: More accurately identify the material found in the option: the name “Computing technology” does not make clear that the material is university-level study, and is making the option unappealing to non-Math students.
2.1.3. Effective September 1, 2018 To make the following changes in the BCS (Data Science) plan. • Change the third ‘One of’ list • Change the ‘One additional course’ list […] One of MATH 235 Linear Algebra 2 for Honours Mathematics MATH 245 Linear Algebra 2 (Advanced Level) One of MATH 237 Calculus 3 for Honours Mathematics MATH 247 Calculus 3 (Advanced Level) All of CS 348 Introduction to Database Management CS 451 Data-Intensive Distributed Computing STAT 330 Mathematical Statistics STAT 331 Applied Linear Models
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STAT 341 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis One of CS 480 Introduction to Machine Learning CS 485 Machine Learning: Statistical and Computational Foundations CS 486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence One additional course from the following list CS 448 Database System Implementation CS 454 Distributed Systems CS 480 Introduction to Machine Learning CS 485 Machine Learning: Statistical and Computational Foundations CS 486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Two of STAT 431 Generalized Linear Models and their Applications STAT 440 Computational Inference STAT 441 Statistical Learning - Classification STAT 442 Data Visualization STAT 443 Forecasting STAT 444 Statistical Learning - Function Estimation Rationale: To incorporate the new machine learning course CS 480.
2.1.4. Effective September 1, 2018 To make the following change to Note 1 in the preface to the Computer Science courses. The new text is as follows: 1. The phrase "Computer Science students" refers to students enrolled in any Honours plan offered through the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. Software Engineering, and Computing and Financial Management, and Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science) students are considered Computer Science students. Students enroled in the BMath (Data Science) plan are not considered Computer Science students. Due to course restrictions on upper-year courses, students pursuing a Computer Science minor many need to enrol as Computer Science students for part of their undergraduate studies and should contact a CS advisor for more information. Rationale: To more explicitly separate the BMath (Data Science) and BCS (Data Science) plans. Students in the BMath (Data Science) plan are given access to the courses necessary for their degree, but those who wish a stronger CS program are instead encouraged to switch to the BCS (Data Science) plan, via transfer into CS.
2.2. Statistics 2.2.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To make the following changes to the BMath (Data Science) plan. • Change the first ‘All of’ list • Add a new ‘One of’ list • Change the third ‘One of’ list • Change the ‘Two additional courses’ list [….] One of MATH 239 Introduction to Combinatorics MATH 249 Introduction to Combinatorics (Advanced Level) One of CS 136 Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction CS 146 Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction (Advanced Level) All of CS 240 Data Structures and Data Management
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CS 241 Foundations of Sequential Programs CS 245 Logic and Computation CS 246 Object-Oriented Software Development CS 251 Computer Organization and Design CS 341 Algorithms CS 348 Introduction to Database Management CS 350 Operating Systems CS 451 Data-Intensive Distributed Computing STAT 341 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis One of CS 431 Data-Intensive Distributed Analytics CS 451 Data-Intensive Distributed Computing One of CS 480 Introduction to Machine Learning CS 485 Machine Learning: Statistical and Computational Foundations CS 486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence STAT 441 Statistical Learning - Classification Two additional courses from the following list CS 480 Introduction to Machine Learning CS 485 Machine Learning: Statistical and Computational Foundations CS 486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence STAT 431 Generalized Linear Models and their Applications STAT 440 Computational Inference STAT 441 Statistical Learning - Classification STAT 442 Data Visualization STAT 443 Forecasting STAT 444 Statistical Learning - Function Estimation Rationale: We allow substitution of CS 431 for CS 451; this is sensible since statistical data scientists need to understand big data infrastructure, but do not need to directly manipulate the code of such systems. We also remove the Operating systems course since this was primarily present to enable success in CS 451. We also incorporate the new course CS 480.
2.3. Math/Farm 2.3.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To add four milestones to Math/FARM plan. The new text is as follows: Students in this plan must fulfill all the requirements in Table I and Table II and the following specific requirements along with four academic milestones which must be completed at or before specified times: […] Milestones • Students receive $1,000,000 CAD in a virtual brokerage account and they use this cash during their
study to manage a portfolio which includes stocks, bonds, options, futures, currencies and other securities from over 55 exchanges in over 30 countries. Students will be required to trade various securities, engage in various trading strategies and portfolio allocation strategies. Each milestone comes with explicit deliverables that students must submit electronically and meet to receive credit. The first milestone cannot be completed before eight months from the date of their first trade has elapsed. The last milestone must be completed in the student’s final 4B term, not less than two months prior to the end of the term. No milestone can be submitted within six months of the most recent milestone submission date.
Rationale: The purpose of these milestones is to give students real-life exposure to the financial markets. Upon completion of the simulation, students will have graduated with up to 5 years of trading and portfolio management experience. The milestones will be handled and managed by the Mathematics Business & Accountancy plans. We will provide the Registrar’s Office with the list of students who have completed the milestones at the end of each B term to be coded on Quest. Therefore, the Registrars’ Office has no concerns with the proposed milestones consent. Privacy and Security Impact Assessment (PSIA) has been done and no issues were found.
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Actions for MUO and RO: AA template, systems to create milestone codes
3. Plan Inactivations. None.
4. Changes to Regulations and Procedures. 4.1. Admission to Specific Honours Academic Plans 4.1.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To make the following changes to the ‘Admission to Specific Honours Academic Plans’ section of the calendar […]
5. Both the BMath (Data Science) and BCS (Data Science) plans are limited enrolment plans, and students are not normally admitted to either plan before their 2A term. Admission to either plan requires a math major average of at least 65% (calculated over all math and computer science courses) and a CS major average of at least 70%. In addition, students must have completed at least one term in the Faculty of Mathematics with a typical course load for a Computer Science major, have credit for either CS 136 or CS 146, and must otherwise meet all criteria for admission to a Computer Science major plan.
Transfer into the BCS (Data Science) plan from outside Computer Science, including from the BMath (Data Science) plan, is a transfer into Computer Science, and is subject to policies imposed by Computer Science upon all transfer students, including enrolment limits.
Transfer into the BMath (Data Science) plan from other plans in the Faculty of Mathematics outside of Computer Science is also subject to enrolment limits. Transfer into BMath (Data Science) does not allow a student to then transfer automatically into Computer Science plans. Rationale: To more explicitly separate the BMath (Data Science) and BCS (Data Science) plans. Students in the BMath (Data Science) plan are given access to the courses necessary for their degree, but those who wish a stronger CS program are instead encouraged to switch to the BCS (Data Science) plan, via transfer into CS.
4.2. Degree requirements 4.2.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To make the following changes to List 2. The new list is as follows: […] Any other course listed in the First Course list EMLS 103R Effective English Pronunciation EMLS 104R Reading and Listening for Academic Purposes EMLS 110R Critical Expression in Canadian Academic Contexts ENGL 101B Introduction to Rhetorical Studies ENGL 108B Global English Literatures ENGL 108D Digital Lives ENGL 119 Communications in Mathematics and Computer Science ENGL 208B Science Fiction ENGL 209 Advanced Academic Writing ENGL 210E Genres of Technical Communication ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication ENGL 251A Criticism 1 SPCOM 225 Interviewing SPCOM 227 Leadership SPCOM 228 Public Communication […] Rationale: As the implementation of the communication skills requirements matures, specific List 2 requirements are revised in light of demand from mathematics students and resourcing for ENGL courses. Actions for MUO/RO: Adjust program templates, queries, course list, web.
4.2.2. Effective September 1, 2018
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To add the Communication Skills requirement to the Honours Fallback Provision. The new text is as follows: Students who have, at any time, satisfied all of the following conditions may elect to graduate with a three-year BMath General Regular degree:
1. Minimum of 15.0 total units passed 2. Minimum of 5.0 non-math units passed 3. Maximum of 5.0 units of unusable course attempts 4. Maximum of 4.0 units failed or excluded 5. A minimum cumulative average (CAV) of 60% 6. Minimum 8.0 math units including the following courses passed 7. Satisfied the Communication Skill Requirement. (add link) Rationale: The communication courses are considered part of the core requirements for ALL math students including those who would graduate with a general degree.
5. Course Changes. 5.1. CS (catalog reports #3 and #4) 5.1.1. To change prerequisite for CS 240. 5.1.2. To change prerequisite for CS 241. 5.1.3. To change prerequisite for CS 251. 5.1.4. To change prerequisite for CS 330. 5.1.5. To change prerequisite for CS 338. 5.1.6. To change prerequisite and antirequisite for CS 341. 5.1.7. To change prerequisite for CS 348. 5.1.8. To change prerequisite for CS 370. 5.1.9. To create a new course, CS 431. (add course to Math Studies list on web) 5.1.10. To change prerequisite for CS 451. 5.1.11. To create a new course, CS 480. 5.1.12. To change course description, course title, add a TST slot, and delete lab for CS 485. 5.1.13. To change prerequisite for CS 486 5.1.14. To change prerequisite for CS 487. 5.1.15. To create a new course CS 493. 5.1.16. To create a new course CS 494.
5.2. CO (catalog report#3) 5.2.1. To change prerequisites for CO 487.
5.3. MATH (catalog report#3) 5.3.1. To delete winter offering for MATH 229. 5.3.2. To change prerequisites for MATH 249.
5.4. STAT (catalog report#4) 5.4.1. To change prerequisites for STAT 230. 5.4.2. To change prerequisites for STAT 316.
6. Other Business. 6.1. As a result of the course title change for CS 485, the following plans need to be adjusted:
• Human-Computer Interaction Option • Software Engineering Option • Software Engineering • Honours Statistics • BMath (Data Science) • BCS (Data Science)
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Computer Science - David R. Cheriton School of
Current Catalog InformationCS 330 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TST Management Information Systems
An introduction to information systems and their strategic role in business. Topicsinclude types of information systems, organizational requirements, systemsdevelopment strategies, decision support systems, data and information management,and information systems management, control and implementation. [Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: One of CS 116, 136, 138, 146; Level at least 2B; Not open
to Computer Science students. Antireq: AFM 241, BUS 415W, 486W, CS480/490, MSCI 441
Effective 02-SEP-2017Requisite Change : Prereq: One of CS 106, 116, 136, 138, 146; Level at least 2B; Not open
to Computer Science students. Antireq: AFM 241, BUS 415W, 486W, CS480/490, MSCI 441
Rationale : To change prerequisite. CS 106 is sufficient preparation for CS 330. Also,CS 106 and 330 are required for the GBDA (Stratford) degree, so students inthat plan need to be eligible to take their classes. Row on for Sept 1/17. Checked with systems, we can use an effective date of Sept 1/17 sincecourse selection for fall is in May and motion will be going to March SUC.
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NEW COURSES (for approval)
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Effective 01-SEP-2018CS 431 ( 0.50 ) LEC Data-Intensive Distributed Analytics
Introduces non-CS major students to infrastructure for data-intensive analytics, witha focus on abstractions, frameworks, and algorithms that allow developers todistribute computation across many machines. Topics include core concepts(partitioning, replication, locality, consistency), computational models (MapReduce,dataflows, stream processing, bulk-synchronous parallel), and applications. [Offered:W]
Requisites : Prereq: (CS 231 or 234 or 341) and (CS 330 or 251); Not open to ComputerScience students. Antireq: CS 451
Rationale : To add a new course. To offer a course on big-data infrastructure andanalytics to students from outside the Computer Science major, inparticular to students in the BMath (Data Science) plan.
Effective 01-SEP-2018CS 480 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Introduction to Machine Learning
Introduction to modeling and algorithmic techniques for machines to learn conceptsfrom data. Generalization: underfitting, overfitting, cross-validation. Tasks:classification, regression, clustering. Optimization-based learning: lossminimization. regularization. Statistical learning: maximum likelihood, Bayesianlearning. Algorithms: nearest neighbour, (generalized) linear regression, mixtures ofGaussians, Gaussian processes, kernel methods, support vector machines, deeplearning, sequence learning, ensemble techniques. Large scale learning: distributedlearning and stream learning. Applications: Natural language processing, computervision, data mining, human computer interaction, information retrieval. [Note: Lab isnot scheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours to complete theirwork. Offered: F,W,S]
Requisites : Prereq: CS 341 and (STAT 206 or 231 or 241); Computer Science students andBMath (Data Science) only.
Rationale : November UAC - To add a new course. To update the artificial intelligenceand machine learning curricula, and bring the calendar into harmony withwhat our practice has been for some time. January UAC - To changeprerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students, but needaccess to these courses for their plan.
Effective 01-SEP-2018CS 493 ( 0.50 ) LEC, PRJ Team Project 1
Students work in teams on substantial open-ended computer science problems as part of
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the CS 493/494 course sequence. Lectures describe project management fundamentals andethical and legal issues in computing. Students form teams, select projects, defineproject goals, perform risk assessment, establish a project plan, and develop aprototype. Possible project topics can include development of software systems,analysis of extensions to existing systems across the field, and experimentalcomputer science.[Offered: F]
Requisites : Prereq: CS 341, 350; Computer Science students only. Not open to SoftwareEngineering students.
Rationale : To create a new course. To enable CS students to complete a sustained,large-scale team project, and to give an opportunity for our students toexamine the ethical, social and legal implications of their work in acurricular setting. To highlight the outstanding work of our great studentsto outside groups.
Effective 01-SEP-2018CS 494 ( 0.50 ) LEC, PRJ Team Project 2
Students work in teams on substantial open-ended computer science problems as part ofthe CS 493/494 course sequence. Lectures describe project management fundamentalsand ethical and legal issues in computing. Students form teams, selectprojects, define project goals, perform risk assessment, establish a project plan,and develop a prototype. Possible project topics can include development of softwaresystems, analysis of extensions to existing systems across the field,and experimental computer science. [Offered: F]
Requisites : Prereq: CS 493; Computer Science students only. Not open to SoftwareEngineering students.
Rationale : To add a new course. To enable CS students to complete a sustained,large-scale team project, and to give an opportunity for our students toexamine the ethical, social and legal implications of their work in acurricular setting. To highlight the outstanding work of our great studentsto outside groups.
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Current Catalog InformationCS 240 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST, TUT Data Structures and Data Management
Introduction to widely used and effective methods of data organization, focusing ondata structures, their algorithms, and the performance of these algorithms. Specifictopics include priority queues, sorting, dictionaries, data structures for textprocessing. [Note: Enrolment is restricted; see Note 1 above. Lab is not scheduledand students are expected to find time in open hours to complete their work. Offered:F,W,S]No Special Consent Required
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Requisites : Prereq: (CS 245 or SE 212), (one of CS 241, 246, 247), (one of STAT206, 230, 240); Computer Science students only. Antireq: BME 122, CS 234,ECE 250, MSCI 240, MTE 140, SYDE 223
Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: (CS 245 or SE 212), (one of CS 241, 246, 247), (one of STAT
206, 230, 240); Computer Science students and BMath (Data Science) only.Antireq: BME 122, CS 234, ECE 250, MSCI 240, MTE 140, SYDE 223
Rationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,but need access to these courses for their plan.
Current Catalog InformationCS 241 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST, TUT Foundations of Sequential Programs
The relationship between high-level languages and the computer architecture thatunderlies their implementation, including basic machine architecture, assemblers,specification and translation of programming languages, linkers and loaders,block-structured languages, parameter passing mechanisms, and comparison ofprogramming languages. [Note: Enrolment is restricted; see Note 1 above. Lab is notscheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours to complete theirwork. CS 251 is a recommended corequisite. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: (CS 138 or 246) or (a grade of 85% or higher in one of CS 136
or 146); Computer Science students only. Antireq: CS 230Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: (CS 138 or 246) or (a grade of 85% or higher in one of CS 136
or 146); Computer Science students and BMath (Data Science) only. Antireq:CS 230
Rationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,but need access to these courses for their plan.
Current Catalog InformationCS 251 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Computer Organization and Design
Overview of computer organization and performance. Basics of digital logic design.Combinational and sequential elements. Data representation and manipulation. Basicsof processor design. Pipelining. Memory hierarchies. Multiprocessors. [Note: Studentsenrolled in CS/DHW should enrol in ECE 222. Enrolment is restricted; see Note 1above. Lab is not scheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours tocomplete their work. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: One of CS 136, 138, 146; Computer Science students only. Antireq:
BME 292, ECE 222, ME 262, MTE 262, SYDE 192Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: One of CS 136, 138, 146; Computer Science students and BMath (Data
Science) only. Antireq: BME 292, ECE 222, ME 262, MTE 262, SYDE 192Rationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,
but need access to these courses for their plan.
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Current Catalog InformationCS 338 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC Computer Applications in Business: Databases
A user-oriented approach to the management of large collections of data. Methods usedfor the storage, selection and presentation of data. Common database managementsystems. [Note: Lab is not scheduled and students are expected to find time in openhours to complete their work. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: One of CS 230, 234, 246, 330; Not open to Computer Science
students. Antireq: CS 348, 448, ECE 456, MSCI 346Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: One of CS 230, 231, 234, 246, 330; Not open to Computer Science
students. Antireq: CS 348, 448, ECE 456, MSCI 346Rationale : To change prerequisite. Result of new course (CS 231).
Current Catalog InformationCS 341 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Algorithms
The study of efficient algorithms and effective algorithm design techniques. Programdesign with emphasis on pragmatic and mathematical aspects of program efficiency.Topics include divide and conquer algorithms, recurrences, greedy algorithms, dynamicprogramming, graph search and backtrack, problems without algorithms, NP-completenessand its implications. [Note: Enrolment is restricted; see Note 1 above. Lab is notscheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours to complete theirwork. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 240 and (MATH 239 or 249); Computer Science students only.
Antireq: ECE 406Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 240 and (MATH 239 or 249); Computer Science students and BMath
(Data Science) only. Antireq: CS 231, ECE 406Rationale : To change prerequisite and antirequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are
not CS students, but need access to these courses for their plan. The newnon-major algorithms course (CS 231) is a good prerequisite for numerous CScourses, but ought be antirequisite for CS major algorithms course (CS341).
Current Catalog InformationCS 348 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Introduction to Database Management
The main objective of this course is to introduce students to fundamentals ofdatabase technology by studying databases from three viewpoints: those of thedatabase user, the database designer, and the database administrator. It teaches theuse of a database management system (DBMS) by treating it as a black box, focusingonly on its functionality and its interfaces. Topics include: introduction todatabase systems, relational database systems, database design methodology, SQL andinterfaces, database application development, concept of transactions, ODBC, JDBC,
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database tuning, database Administration, and current topics (distributed databases,data warehouses, data mining). [Note: Lab is not scheduled and students are expectedto find time in open hours to complete their work. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 240; Computer Science students only. Antireq: CS 338, ECE 356,
456, MSCI 346Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 240; Computer Science students and BMath (Data Science) only.
Antireq: CS 338, ECE 356, 456, MSCI 346Rationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,
but need access to these courses for their plan.
Current Catalog InformationCS 370 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Numerical Computation
Principles and practices of basic numerical computation as a key aspect of scientificcomputation. Visualization of results. Approximation by splines, fast Fouriertransforms, solution of linear and nonlinear equations, differential equations,floating point number systems, error, stability. Presented in the context of specificapplications to image processing, analysis of data, scientific modeling. [Note: Labis not scheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours to completetheir work. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: (One of MATH 118, 119, 128, 138, 148), (one of MATH 114, 115, 106,
136, 146), (one of CS 234, 241, 246); Not open to General Mathematicsstudents. Antireq: AMATH 242/CS 371, CS 335, MTE 204
Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: (One of MATH 118, 119, 128, 138, 148), (one of MATH 114, 115, 106,
136, 146), (one of CS 231, 234, 241, 246). Antireq: AMATH 242/CS 371, CS335, MTE 204
Rationale : To change prerequisite. Result of new course (CS 231) and housekeeping ofobsolete references.
Current Catalog InformationCS 451 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TST Data-Intensive Distributed Computing
Introduces students to infrastructure for data-intensive computing, with a focus onabstractions, frameworks, and algorithms that allow developers to distributecomputations across many machines. Topics include core concepts (partitioning,replication, locality, consistency), computational models (MapReduce, dataflows,stream processing, bulk-synchronous parallel), and applications. [Offered: F,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 341, 348 and (CS 350 or SE 350)
Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 341, 348 and (CS 350 or SE 350); Computer Science and BMath
(Data Science) students onlyRationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,
but need access to these courses for their plan. It was noted that the
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restriction for CS students only was missing.
Current Catalog InformationCS 485 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC Machine Learning: Statistical and Computational Foundations
Extracting meaningful patterns from random samples of large data sets. Statisticalanalysis of the resulting problems. Common algorithmic paradigms for such tasks.Central concepts: VC-dimension, margins of a classifier, sparsity and descriptionlength. Performance guarantees: generalization bounds, data dependent error boundsand computational complexity of learning algorithms. Common paradigms: neuralnetworks, kernel methods and support-vector machines. Applications to data mining.[Note: Lab is not scheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours tocomplete their work.]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 341 and (STAT 206 or 230 or 240); Computer Science students only
Effective 01-SEP-2018Component Change: LEC, TSTTitle Change: Statistical and Computational Foundations of Machine LearningDescription Change: Extracting meaningful patterns from random samples of large data sets.
Statistical analysis of the resulting problems. Common algorithmicparadigms for such tasks. Central concepts: VC-dimension, margins of aclassifier, sparsity and description length, other types of regularization.Performance guarantees: generalization bounds, data dependent error boundsand computational complexity of learning algorithms. Common paradigms:neural networks, kernel methods and support-vector machines, boosting,nearest neighbor classifiers. Applications to data mining.
Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 341 and (STAT 206 or 230 or 240); Computer Science students andBMath (Data Science) only.
Rationale : November UAC - To change the course description, course title, add a TSTslot and delete lab. This change updates our artificial intelligence andmachine learning curricula, and brings the calendar into harmony with whatour practice has been for some time. January UAC - To change prerequisite.BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students, but need access to thesecourses for their plan.
Current Catalog InformationCS 486 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Goals and methods of artificial intelligence. Methods of general problem solving.Knowledge representation and reasoning. Planning. Reasoning about uncertainty.Machine learning. Multi-agent systems. Natural language processing. [Note: Lab is notscheduled and students are expected to find time in open hours to complete theirwork. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 341 or SE 240; Computer Science students only. Coreq: STAT 206
or 231 or 241.Effective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 341 or SE 240; Computer Science students and BMath (Data
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Science) only. Coreq: STAT 206 or 231 or 241.Rationale : To change prerequisite. BMath (Data Science) students are not CS students,
but need access to these courses for their plan.
Current Catalog InformationCS 487 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TST Introduction to Symbolic Computation
An introduction to the use of computers for symbolic mathematical computation,involving traditional mathematical computations such as solving linear equations(exactly), analytic differentiation and integration of functions, and analyticsolution of differential equations. [Note: Lab is not scheduled and students areexpected to find time in open hours to complete their work. Offered: W]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: CS 234 or 240 or SE 240; Honours Mathematics or Software
Engineering students onlyEffective 01-SEP-2018Requisite Change : Prereq: CS 231 or 234 or 240; Honours Mathematics only.Rationale : To change prerequisite. Result of the new course (CS 231) and housekeeping
for obsolete references.
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Combinatorics & Optimization
Current Catalog InformationCO 487 ( 0.50 ) LEC Applied Cryptography
A broad introduction to cryptography, highlighting the major developments of the pasttwenty years. Symmetric ciphers, hash functions and data integrity, public-keyencryption and digital signatures, key establishment, key management. Applications toInternet security, computer security, communications security, and electroniccommerce. [Offered: W]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: MATH 135 or 145, STAT 220 or 230 or 240; Level at least 3A; Not
open to General Mathematics studentsEffective 01-SEP-2017Requisite Change : Prereq: MATH 135 or 145, STAT 206 or 220 or 230 or 240; Level at least 3A;
Not open to General Mathematics studentsRationale : To change prerequisite. This course is a popular elective for SE students,
who are not required to take STAT 220/230/240. Adding STAT 206 to theprerequisite will allow them to enrol without instructor consent. STAT 206is open only to SE students, thus will not allow other students to enrol.Checked with systems, we can use an effective date of Sept 1/17 sincecourse selection for fall is in May and motion will be going to March SUC.
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Dean of Mathematics
Current Catalog InformationMATH 229 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TUT Introduction to Combinatorics (Non-Specialist Level)
Introduction to graph theory: colourings, connectivity, Eulerian tours, planarity.Introduction to combinatorial analysis: elementary counting, generating series, binary strings. [Offered: F,W]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: (MATH 106 or 136 or 146) and (MATH 135 or 145). Antireq: CO 220,
MATH 239, 249Effective 01-SEP-2017Description Change: Introduction to graph theory: colourings, connectivity, Eulerian tours,
planarity. Introduction to combinatorial analysis: elementary counting,generating series, binary strings. [Offered: F]
Rationale : To delete winter offering. Course is no longer offered in winter terms.
Current Catalog InformationMATH 249 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TST Introduction to Combinatorics (Advanced Level)
MATH 249 is an advanced-level version of MATH 239. [Offered: F,W]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: (MATH 136 or 146) and (MATH 138 or 148) or instructor consent;
Honours Mathematics students only. Antireq: CO 220, MATH 229, 239Effective 01-SEP-2017Requisite Change : Prereq: (MATH 135 with minimum grade of 80% or MATH 145) and (MATH 136 or
146) or instructor consent; Honours Mathematics students only. Antireq: CO220, MATH 229, 239
Rationale : To change the prerequisite. Material covered in MATH 135/145 is much morerelevant to the material covered in MATH 249. Checked with systems, we canuse an effective date of Sept 1/17 since course selection for fall is inMay and motion will be going to March SUC.
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Statistics & Actuarial Science
Current Catalog InformationSTAT 230 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TST, TUT Probability
This course provides an introduction to probability models including sample spaces,mutually exclusive and independent events, conditional probability and Bayes'Theorem. The named distributions (Discrete Uniform, Hypergeometric, Binomial,Negative Binomial, Geometric, Poisson, Continuous Uniform, Exponential, Normal(Gaussian), and Multinomial) are used to model real phenomena. Discrete andcontinuous univariate random variables and their distributions are discussed. Jointprobability functions, marginal probability functions, and conditional probabilityfunctions of two or more discrete random variables and functions of random variablesare also discussed. Students learn how to calculate and interpret means, variancesand covariances particularly for the named distributions. The Central Limit Theoremis used to approximate probabilities. [Note: STAT 230 is normally taken in secondyear. Students with an average of at least 80% in Honours Mathematics courses in 1Amay enrol in STAT 230 in 1B. To enrol in STAT 231, a grade of at least 50% in STAT230 is required. However, to enrol in STAT 330, 333, 334, 341 or 340 a grade of atleast 60% in STAT 230 is required. Offered: F,W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: MATH 135 with min. grade of 60% & (MATH 128 with min. grade of
70% or (MATH 117 or 137) with min. grade of 60% or MATH 147)); Level atleast 1B Hon Math or Math/Phys students only. Coreq: MATH 119 or 138 or148. Antireq: STAT 220
Effective 02-SEP-2017Requisite Change : Prereq: (MATH 135 with min. grade of 60% or MATH 145) & (MATH 128 with min.
grade of 70% or (MATH 117 or 137) with min. grade of 60% or MATH 147));Level at least 1B Hon Math or Math/Phys students only. Coreq: MATH 119 or138 or 148. Antireq: STAT 220
Rationale : To change prerequisite. Housekeeping change. MATH 145 was forgotten when weadded MATH 135, This change will now allow advanced Math students toself-enrol in STAT 230. Checked with systems, we can use an effective dateof Sept 1/17 since course selection for fall is in May and motion will begoing to March SUC. Row on for September 1/17
Current Catalog InformationSTAT 316 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TUT Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving by Computer
This is an applications oriented course which prepares the nonmathematical student touse the computer as a research tool. Topics include aids for statistical analysis andthe preparation of documents such as reports and theses. The course provides
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sufficient background for application to other problems specific to the individual'sfield. [Offered: W]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: One of ECON 221, ENVS 278, ISS/SDS 250R, KIN 222, PSCI 214/314,
PSYCH 292, REC 371, SOC/LS 280, any STAT course; Not open to HonoursMathematics students. Antireq: STAT 304, 324, 331, 361, 371
Effective 01-SEP-2017Requisite Change : Prereq: One of ECON 221, ENVS 278, HLTH 204, ISS/SDS 250R, KIN 222, PSCI
214/314, PSYCH 292, REC 371, SOC/LS 280, any STAT course; Not open toHonours Mathematics students. Antireq: STAT 331, 371
Rationale : To change prerequisite. HLTH 204 is becoming a substitute for KIN 222 forAHS, and so it needs to be included in STAT 316 to allow the AHS studentswho have STAT 316 on their optional list to continue to have access to thecourse. HLTH 204 is an appropriate prerequisite for the material. Checkedwith systems, we can use an effective date of Sept 1/17 since courseselection for fall is in May and motion will be going to March SUC.
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Report of Mathematics Faculty Council to Senate Undergraduate Council
March 2017 The motion below passed at Math Faculty Council on February 28, 2017 and Arts Faculty Council on February 14, 2017.
1. Plan Changes 1.1. Computing and Financial Management 1.1.1. Effective September 1, 2018
To change the second “Two additional ..” course list to allow CS 251 as an elective. The new text is as follows: […] Two additional courses from CS 251, CS 340 through 398, 440 through 498, CO 487. […] Rationale: CS 251 is not required for the BCFM, but is often taken by students who then take CS 350 and successor courses. It makes sense to permit this course as an elective for CFM students.
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Faculty of Science SCIENCE FACULTY COUNCIL
REPORT TO SENATE UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
FACULTY OF SCIENCE SUBMISSION- for March 2017
For approval and inclusion in the 2018-2019 Undergraduate Calendar Content
A. NEW PROGRAMS/PLANS ....................................................................................................................... 1
i. Minor in Astrophysics ........................................................................................................................ 1
B. CHANGES TO PROGRAMS/PLANS .......................................................................................................... 2
i. Honours Physics ................................................................................................................................ 3
ii. Honours Co-operative Physics ........................................................................................................... 6
iii. Honours Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) ........................................................................... 11
iv. Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics Specialization)...................................................... 12
v. Honours Mathematical Physics ....................................................................................................... 14
vi. Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics ................................................................................. 19
vii. Honours Physics and Astronomy ..................................................................................................... 23
viii. Honours Co-operative Physics and Astronomy ............................................................................... 27
ix. Honours Life Physics ........................................................................................................................ 31
x. Honours Co-operative Life Physics .................................................................................................. 36
xi. Honours Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization) .................................................................... 41
xii. Honours Co-operative Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization) .............................................. 43
xiii. Minor in Biophysics ......................................................................................................................... 45
xiv. Minor in Physics .............................................................................................................................. 46
C. INACTIVATED PROGRAMS/PLANS........................................................................................................ 47
i. Honours Physics (Astrophysics Specialization) ................................................................................ 47
ii. Honours Co-operative Physics (Astrophysics Specialization) .......................................................... 47
iii. Honours Mathematical Physics (Astrophysics Specialization) ........................................................ 47
iv. Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics (Astrophysics Specialization) ................................... 47
v. Science Minors and Joint Programs- Joint Honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Bachelor of
Independent Studies (BIS) ........................................................................................................................ 47
D. CHANGES TO REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES ................................................................................. 48
E. COURSE CHANGES (SA Report 3- N/A)................................................................................................. 48
i) New Courses .................................................................................................................................... 48
ii) Changes to Existing Courses ............................................................................................................ 48
iii) Inactivated Courses ......................................................................................................................... 48
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SCIENCE FACULTY COUNCIL
REPORT TO SENATE UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
FACULTY OF SCIENCE SUBMISSION- for March 2017
For approval and inclusion in the 2018-2019 Undergraduate Calendar
A. NEW PROGRAMS/PLANS
i. Minor in Astrophysics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Minor in Astrophysics is available to students in Honours and General plans, except
those enrolled in Honours Physics and Astronomy.
Successful completion of this minor requires:
1. 5.0 units that include:
1.0 PHYS unit: PHYS 121 and PHYS 122
2.0 PHYS elective units selected from: PHYS 175, PHYS 270, PHYS 275,
PHYS 375, PHYS 474, PHYS 475, or PHYS 476
2.0 PHYS elective units
2. A minimum cumulative average of 60% in all PHYS courses
Notes
1. At least 1.5 PHYS lecture units must be 300-level or higher.
2. No more than 1.0 PHYS lab unit can count toward this minor.
3. A Minor in Astrophysics will not be awarded with an Honours Major in Physics
and Astronomy.
Rationale: The Astrophysics minor replaces the Astrophysics Specializations, allowing
students in programs that had the specialization, to have the same credentials by taking
the minor. Students outside these programs will now have the opportunity to take a minor
in Astrophysics, with the exception of those enrolled in Honours Physics and Astronomy.
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B. CHANGES TO PROGRAMS/PLANS
Rationale: A number of changes are being made to Physics and Astronomy programs
thus the rationale appears at the beginning of these plan changes. They are summarized as
follows:
i. As required by Faculty of Science plan standardization, all Physics programs are
changed to 21.0 or 22.0 units. Formatting of all Physics programs has been
modified to conform to the new standard.
a. Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Physics and Astronomy programs no
longer have a CHEM 123L requirement. For Physics and Astronomy
programs, this was also done to allow a common first year among the
Physics programs. A PHYS lab elective (300-level or higher) requirement
replaced the CHEM 123L requirement for Physics and Astronomy
programs. The other changes were made to keep the total unit load at an
integer value.
b. Electives were removed to bring total program units to 21.0 or 22.0 total
(‘Physics’ and ‘Physics and Astronomy’: 0.5 unit; ‘Life Physics’: 0.25
unit; ‘Mathematical Physics’: 0.0 unit).
ii. As part of Faculty of Science plan standardization, Minors have been changed to
5.0 units, including labs. Formatting of all Minors has been modified to conform
to the new standard.
iii. Co-op requirements are now detailed and explicitly listed. Work term report
courses (WKRPT) add an extra 0.39 units for co-op programs.
a. The preamble to all co-op programs more effectively articulates the
difference between co-op and regular programs.
b. New WKRPT courses have been included in the co-op requirements.
iv. A Science English Language course has been added to all Physics programs,
using “English Language Course” as a holder until the Science course number and
name are finalized.
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i. Honours Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Physics Academic Plan is in the form of a core of required courses, plus
appropriate electives. The electives available in all years allow students to strengthen
complementary areas of interest whether in some specific field in Physics or in some
other subject area. Some examples are described below under the heading "Elective
Choices."
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Physics program allows students to
take a wide variety of course combinations. With judicious selection of elective courses,
students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or experimental physics, or emphasize
particular aspects of the subject, such as optics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics,
or biophysics. Physics students can (subject to timetable restrictions) also use their
elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects (e.g., business administration,
computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy).
Continuation in Honours Physics requires both a cumulative overall average and a
cumulative Physics average of 60% and a 60% Physics average.
In order to graduate with an Honours Physics degree, the following requirements must be
met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 19.0 lecture units plus 2.25 Physics lab units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below plus an additional 2.5 units of physics
electives of which 1.5 units must be 400-level courses (PHYS 437A and 437B
may not be counted towards these 1.5 units).
3. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
1. 22.0 units that include:
9.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L, PHYS
132L, PHYS 232L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS 242L,
PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 260L, PHYS 263, PHYS 334, PHYS 342,
PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 360A, PHYS 363, PHYS 364, and PHYS
365
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
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8.25 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.5 PHYS lecture units that must include at least 1.5 units at the
400-level
o 0.25 PHYS lab units at the 300 or 400 level
o 5.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 1.5 PHYS lecture units at
the 400-level.
3. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
4. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
5. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
Recommended Course Sequence
Legend
+ Year-One CHEM may be replaced by Year-One BIOL or EARTH courses.
Year One
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 114 Linear Algebra for Science
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L+ Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122 Waves, Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 132L Waves, Electricity, Magnetism and Measurement Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year Two
Fall
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations For Physics and Chemistry
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 232L Measurement Laboratory
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 256 Geometrical and Physical Optics
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242 Electricity and Magnetism 1
PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 260L Intermediate Physics Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year Three
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 360A Modern Physics Laboratory 1
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
PHYS 364 Mathematical Physics 1
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 334 Quantum Physics 2
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 365 Mathematical Physics 2
One elective 300- or 400-level Physics lab (0.25 unit)
One PHYS lab elective 300-level or higher (0.25 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
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Year Four
Fall and Winter
Students in Year Four should normally take a total of 4.5 5.0 units, which must include
PHYS 10, and 1.5 units of 400-level Physics electives and an additional 1.0 unit of
Physics electives.
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
Three PHYS electives 400-level (1.5 units)
Two PHYS electives (1.0 unit)
Four electives (2.0 unit)
Note to all Honours Physics Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A, PHYS 434, and PHYS 442.
Students should consult with an undergraduate academic advisor and a graduate officer
regarding other electives needed for their choice of graduate program.
Elective Choices
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Physics and Honours Co-operative
Physics Academic Plans allows a great variety of combinations of courses to be taken. By
judicious selection of elective courses, students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical
or experimental physics, or emphasize particular aspects of the subject, for example
optics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, or biophysics. It is also possible (subject
to timetable restrictions) for physics students to use their elective courses to gain
expertise in other subjects, for example business administration, computing, electrical
engineering, or philosophy. The Undergraduate academic advisors are available to assist
any student who wishes to select a particular set of elective choices.
ii. Honours Co-operative Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Co-operative Physics program offers courses integrated with five four-
month work terms, and extends over four and two-thirds years. Students work and study
in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There is a double work term between
terms 2B and 3A. Co-op program information and requirements are located in the Co-
operative Education and Career Action section of the calendar and in the Science Faculty
work term report guidelines. WatPD course information is located on the Professional
Development web site.
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The Honours Co-operative Physics Academic Plan is in the form of a core of required
courses, plus appropriate electives. The electives available in all years allow students to
strengthen complementary areas of interest whether in some specific field in Physics or in
some other subject area. Some examples are described below under the heading "Elective
Choices".
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Physics program allows students to
take a wide variety of course combinations. With judicious selection of elective courses,
students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or experimental physics, or emphasize
particular aspects of the subject, such as optics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics,
or biophysics. Physics students can (subject to timetable restrictions) also use their
elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects (e.g., business administration,
computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy).
Continuation in Honours Co-operative Physics requires both a cumulative overall average
and a cumulative Physics average of 60% and a 60% Physics average.
In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Physics degree, the following
requirements must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 19.0 lecture units plus 2.25 physics lab units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below plus an additional 2.5 units of physics
electives of which 1.5 units must be 400- level courses (PHYS 437A and PHYS
437B may not be counted towards these 1.5 units).
3. A minimum of four work terms, and submission of a minimum of four
satisfactory work reports.
4. No more than 3.0 "SCI-labelled" units can be used.
5. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
6. For detailed information on co-op program requirements, please see the Co-
operative Program Evaluation information and the Co-operative Education and
Career Action section of the undergraduate calendar.
1. 22.0 units that include:
9.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L, PHYS
132L, PHYS 232L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS 242L,
PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 260L, PHYS 263, PHYS 334, PHYS 342,
PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 360A, PHYS 363, PHYS 364, and PHYS
365
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
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8.25 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.5 PHYS lecture units that must include at least 1.5 units at the
400-level
o 0.25 PHYS lab units at the 300 or 400 level
o 5.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S, WKRPT
300S, and WKRPT 400S
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123, may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 1.5 PHYS lecture units at
the 400-level.
3. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
4. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
5. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
Recommended Course Sequence
Legend + Year One CHEM may be replaced by Year One BIOL or EARTH courses.
Year 1A (Fall)
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 114 Linear Algebra For Science
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year 1B (Winter)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L+ Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122 Waves, Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 132L Mechanics, Waves and Measurement Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 2A (Fall)
Fall
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations For Physics and Chemistry
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 232L Measurement Laboratory
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 256/PHYS 256L Geometrical and Physical Optics/Laboratory
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 2B (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242/PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Laboratory
PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 260L Intermediate Physics Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year 3A (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 360A Modern Physics Laboratory 1
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
PHYS 364 Mathematical Physics 1
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year 3B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 334 Quantum Physics 2
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 365 Mathematical Physics 2
One elective 300- or 400-level PHYS lab (0.25 unit)
One PHYS lab elective 300-level or higher (0.25 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
4A and B (Fall and Winter)
Year 4
Fall and Winter
Students in Year Four must take a total of 4.5 5.0 units, which must include PHYS 10,
and 1.5 units of 400-level Physics electives and an additional 1.0 unit of physics
electives.
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
Three PHYS electives 400-level (1.5 units)
Two PHYS electives (1.0 unit)
Four electives (2.0 units)
Note to all Honours Co-operative Physics Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A, PHYS 434 and PHYS 442.
Students should consult with an undergraduate academic advisor and a graduate officer
regarding other electives needed for their choice of graduate program.
Elective Choices
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Physics and Honours Co-operative
Physics Academic Plans allows a great variety of combinations of courses to be taken. By
judicious selection of elective courses, students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical
or experimental physics, or emphasize particular aspects of the subject, for example
optics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, or biophysics. It is also possible (subject
to timetable restrictions) for physics students to use their elective courses to gain
expertise in other subjects, for example business administration, computing, electrical
engineering, or philosophy. The Undergraduate academic advisors are available to assist
any student who wishes to select a particular set of elective choices.
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iii. Honours Physics (Applied Physics Specialization)
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The “core plus electives” structure of the Honours Physics (Applied Physics
Specialization) program allows students to take a wide variety of course combinations.
With judicious selection of elective courses, students can strengthen complementary areas
of interest in a specific field in Physics or in another subject area.
The Applied Physics Specialization includes the core requirements for the Honours
Physics program and an additional 2.0 units of Physics lectures and labs (PHYS
391/PHYS 391L, PHYS 392/PHYS 392L, PHYS 460A, PHYS 460B). Thus, this
specialization has 2.0 fewer units of electives compared with the Honours Physics
program. In addition, PHYS 360B replaces the 0.25 unit PHYS lab elective choice
available in the Honours Physics program.
Continuation in Honours Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) requires both a
cumulative overall average and a cumulative Physics average of 60%.
In order to graduate with an Honours Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) degree,
the following requirements must be successfully completed:
1. 22.0 units that include:
11.75 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L,
PHYS 132L, PHYS 232L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS
242L, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 260L, PHYS 263, PHYS 334,
PHYS 342, PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 360A, PHYS 360B, PHYS 363,
PHYS 364, PHYS 365, PHYS 391, PHYS 391L, PHYS 392, PHYS 392L,
PHYS 460A, and PHYS 460B
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
6.0 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.5 PHYS lecture units that include at least 1.5 units at the 400-
level
o 3.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
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Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 1.5 PHYS lecture units at
the 400-level.
3. Students should refer to the course sequence recommended for Honours Physics.
4. A Physics advisor can assist with the addition into the sequence of PHYS 360B,
PHYS 391/391L, PHYS 392/PHYS 392L, PHYS 460A and PHYS 460B and with
the selection of course electives.
5. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
6. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
In addition to the core requirements for the Honours Physics Plan, Honours Physics
(Applied Physics Specialization) students must also successfully complete the following
courses:
PHYS 391/PHYS 391L Electronics/Laboratory
PHYS 392/PHYS 392L Scientific Measurement and Control/Laboratory
PHYS 460A Advanced Laboratory 1
PHYS 460B Advanced Laboratory 2
iv. Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics Specialization)
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) program offers
courses integrated with five four-month work terms, and extends over four and two-thirds
years. Students work and study in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There
is a double work term between terms 2B and 3A. Co-op program information and
requirements are located in the Co-operative Education and Career Action section of the
calendar and in the Science Faculty work term report guidelines. WatPD course
information is located on the Professional Development web site.
The “core plus electives” structure of the Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics
Specialization) program allows students to take a wide variety of course combinations.
With judicious selection of elective courses, students can strengthen complementary areas
of interest in a specific Physics field or in another subject area.
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The Applied Physics Specialization includes the core requirements for the Honours Co-
operative Physics program and an additional 2.0 units of Physics lectures and labs (PHYS
391/PHYS 391L, PHYS 392/PHYS 392L, PHYS 460A, PHYS 460B). Thus, this
specialization has 2.0 fewer units of electives compared with the Honours Co-operative
Physics program. In addition, PHYS 360B replaces the 0.25 unit PHYS lab elective
choice available in the Honours Co-operative Physics program.
Continuation in Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) requires
both a cumulative overall average and a cumulative Physics average of 60%.
In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics
Specialization) degree, the following requirements must be successfully completed:
1. 22.0 units that include:
11.75 PHYS units : PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L,
PHYS 132L, PHYS 232L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS
242L, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 260L, PHYS 263, PHYS 334,
PHYS 342, PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 360A, PHYS 360B, PHYS 363,
PHYS 364, PHYS 365, PHYS 391, PHYS 391L, PHYS 392, PHYS 392L,
PHYS 460A, and PHYS 460B
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
6.0 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.5 PHYS lecture units that include at least 1.5 units at the 400-
level
o 3.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in of required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S,
WKRPT 300S, and WKRPT 400S
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
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Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 1.5 PHYS lecture units at
the 400-level.
3. Students should refer to the course sequence recommended for Honours Co-
operative Physics.
4. A Physics advisor can assist with the addition into the sequence of PHYS 360B,
PHYS 391/391L, PHYS 392/PHYS 392L, PHYS 460A and PHYS 460B and with
the selection of course electives.
5. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
6. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
In addition to the core requirements for the Honours Co-operative Physics Plan, Honours
Co-operative Physics (Applied Physics Specialization) students must also successfully
complete the following requirements:
PHYS 391/PHYS 391L Electronics/Laboratory
PHYS 392/PHYS 392L Scientific Measurement and Control/Laboratory
PHYS 460A Advanced Laboratory 1
PHYS 460B Advanced Laboratory 2
v. Honours Mathematical Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Mathematical Physics Academic Plan leading to a Bachelor of Science
(BSc) degree is in the form of a core of required physics and mathematics courses, plus
appropriate electives. The electives available in all years allow students to strengthen
complementary areas of interest whether in some specific field in Physics or in some
other subject area. Some examples are described below under the heading "Elective
Choices". This plan The Honours Mathematical Physics program is designed for physics
students who are mathematically inclined and wish to concentrate their effort in
theoretical studies.
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The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Mathematical Physics program allows
students to take a wide variety of course combinations. With judicious selection of
elective courses, students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or experimental
physics, or emphasize particular aspects of the subject, such as optics, condensed matter
physics, astrophysics, or biophysics. Physics students can (subject to timetable
restrictions) also use their elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects (e.g.,
business administration, computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy).
Continuation in Honours Mathematical Physics requires a cumulative overall average of
60% and a combined cumulative Physics and Math average of 65% Physics and Math
average.
Students from Honours Physics may transfer into this program in Year Two Students can
transfer into Year Two of this program from Honours Physics, if they have grades of 80%
or higher in MATH 127, MATH 128, and MATH 114 in Year One and a minimum 65%
Physics average.
In order to graduate with an Honours Mathematical Physics Bachelor of Science (BSc)
degree, the following requirements must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 21.25 units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below.
3. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
1. 21.0 units that include:
7.25 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L, PHYS
132L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS 263, PHYS 342, PHYS
358, PHYS 359, PHYS 363, PHYS 434, and PHYS 442
2.5 MATH units: MATH 136, MATH 137, MATH 138, MATH 235, and
MATH 237
3.0 AMATH units: AMATH 231, AMATH 250, AMATH 332, AMATH
351, AMATH 353, and AMATH 373
1.0 STAT unit: STAT 230 and STAT 231
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units distributed as follows:
o 1.5 PHYS or AMATH lecture units at the 300-level or higher
o 1.5 Program elective units chosen from: PHYS 444, PHYS 454,
PHYS 476, AMATH 361, AMATH 456 or AMATH 463
o 2.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
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Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 334 may substitute AMATH 373.
3. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
4. PHYS 437A is a recommended elective for students wishing to pursue graduate
studies.
5. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should choose electives that provide
them with the desired background for their choice of a particular graduate
program and/or school. Students should consult with both a Physics advisor and a
graduate officer regarding electives needed for a particular choice of graduate
program.
Recommended Course Sequence
Legend +Year-One CHEM may be replaced by Year-One BIOL or EARTH courses.
* PHYS 334 may be substituted for AMATH 373.
Year One
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
MATH 136 Linear Algebra 1
MATH 137 Calculus 1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L+ Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122/PHYS 132L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
PHYS 132L Waves, Electricity, Magnetism and Measurement Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
MATH 138 Calculus 2
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year Two
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
MATH 235 Linear Algebra 2
MATH 237 Calculus 3
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242 Electricity and Magnetism 1
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
AMATH 231 Calculus 4
STAT 230 Probability
Year Three
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
AMATH 351 Ordinary Differential Equations 2
STAT 231 Statistics
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
AMATH 373 Quantum Theory 1*
AMATH 332 or PMATH 332 Applied Complex Analysis
AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations 1
AMATH 373 Quantum Theory 1
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year Four
Fall and Winter
Students in Year Four normally take a total of 5.0 units, which must include PHYS 10,
PHYS 442, PHYS 434, and three of PHYS 444, PHYS 454, PHYS 476, AMATH 361,
AMATH 463, AMATH 456. In addition, 1.5 units of electives must be selected
from 300- or 400- level PHYS or AMATH courses.
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 434 Quantum Physics 3
PHYS 442 Electricity and Magnetism 3
Three PHYS or AMATH electives 300-level or higher (1.5 units)
Three Program electives (1.5 units)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Note to all Honours Mathematical Physics Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A.
Students should consult with an undergraduate academic advisor and a graduate officer
regarding other electives needed for their choice of graduate program.
Elective Choices
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Mathematical Physics and Honours
Co-operative Mathematical Physics Academic Plans allows a great variety of
combinations of courses to be taken. By judicious selection of elective courses, students
can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or experimental physics, or emphasize
particular aspects of the subject, for example optics, condensed matter physics,
astrophysics, or biophysics. It is also possible (subject to timetable restrictions) for
physics students to use their elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects, for
example business administration, computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy. The
undergraduate academic advisors are available to assist any student who wishes to select
a particular set of elective choices.
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vi. Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics program offers courses integrated with
five four-month work terms, and extends over four and two-thirds years. Students work
and study in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There is a double work
term between terms 2B and 3A. Co-op program information and requirements are located
in the Co-operative Education and Career Action section of the calendar and in the
Science Faculty work term report guidelines. WatPD course information is located on the
Professional Development web site.
The Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics Academic Plan leading to a Bachelor of
Science (BSc) degree is in the form of a core of required physics and mathematics
courses, plus appropriate electives. The electives available in all years allow students to
strengthen complementary areas of interest whether in some specific field in Physics or in
some other subject area. Some examples are described below under the heading "Elective
Choices". This plan The Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics program is
designed for physics students who are mathematically inclined and wish to concentrate
their effort in theoretical studies.
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics
program allows students to take a wide variety of course combinations. With judicious
selection of elective courses, students can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or
experimental physics, or emphasize particular aspects of the subject, such as optics,
condensed matter physics, astrophysics, or biophysics. Physics students can (subject to
timetable restrictions) also use their elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects
(e.g., business administration, computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy).
Continuation in Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics requires a cumulative
overall average of 60% and a combined cumulative Physics and Math average of 65%
Physics and Math average.
Students from Honours Physics may transfer into this program in Year Two Students can
transfer into Year Two of this program from Honours Physics, if they have grades of 80%
or higher in MATH 127, MATH 128, and MATH 114 in Year One and a minimum 65%
Physics average.
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In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics BSc degree, the
following requirements must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 21.25 units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below.
3. A minimum of four work terms, and submission of a minimum of four
satisfactory work reports.
4. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
5. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
6. For detailed information on co-op program requirements, please see the Co-
operative Program Evaluation information and the Co-operative Education and
Career Action section of the undergraduate calendar
1. 21.0 units that include:
7.25 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 124, PHYS 131L, PHYS
132L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242, PHYS 263, PHYS 342, PHYS
358, PHYS 359, PHYS 363, PHYS 434 and PHYS 442
2.5 MATH units: MATH 136, MATH 137, MATH 138, MATH 235, and
MATH 237
3.0 AMATH units: AMATH 231, AMATH 250, AMATH 332, AMATH
351, AMATH 353, and AMATH 373
1.0 STAT unit: STAT 230 and STAT 231
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units distributed as follows:
o 1.5 PHYS or AMATH lecture units at the 300-level or higher
o 1.5 Program elective units chosen from: PHYS 444, PHYS 454,
PHYS 476, AMATH 361, AMATH 456 or AMATH 463
o 2.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S, WKRPT
300S, and WKRPT 400S
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
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Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 334 may substitute AMATH 373.
3. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
4. PHYS 437A is a recommended elective for students wishing to pursue graduate
studies.
5. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
Recommended Course Sequence
Legend +Year-One CHEM may be replaced by Year-One BIOL or EARTH courses.
*PHYS 334 may be substituted for AMATH 373.
Year 1A (Fall)
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
MATH 136 Linear Algebra 1
MATH 137 Calculus 1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 1B (Winter)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L + Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122/PHYS 132L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
PHYS 132L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
MATH 138 Calculus 2
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 2A (Fall)
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
MATH 235 Linear Algebra 2
MATH 237 Calculus 3
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year 2B (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242 Electricity and Magnetism 1
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
AMATH 231 Calculus 4
STAT 230 Probability
Year 3A (Spring)
Spring PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
AMATH 351 Ordinary Differential Equations 2
STAT 231 Statistics
Year 3B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
AMATH 373 Quantum Theory 1*
AMATH 332 or PMATH 332 Applied Complex Analysis
AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equations 1
AMATH 373 Quantum Theory 1
One elective (0.5 unit)
4A and B (Fall and Winter)
Students in Year Four normally take a total of 5.0 units, which must include PHYS 10,
PHYS 442, PHYS 434, and three of PHYS 444, PHYS 454, PHYS 476, AMATH 361,
AMATH 463, AMATH 456. In addition, 1.5 units of electives must be selected from
300- or 400- level PHYS or AMATH courses.
Year 4
Fall and Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 434 Quantum Physics 3
PHYS 442 Electricity and Magnetism 3
Three PHYS or AMATH electives 300-level or higher (1.5 units)
Three Program electives (1.5 units)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
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Note to all Honours Mathematical Physics Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A.
Students should consult with an undergraduate academic advisor and our graduate officer
regarding other electives needed for their choice of graduate program.
Elective Choices
The "core plus electives" structure of the Honours Mathematical Physics and Honours
Co-operative Mathematical Physics Academic Plans allows a great variety of
combinations of courses to be taken. By judicious selection of elective courses, students
can deepen their knowledge of theoretical or experimental physics, or emphasize
particular aspects of the subject, for example optics, condensed matter physics,
astrophysics, or biophysics. It is also possible (subject to timetable restrictions) for
physics students to use their elective courses to gain expertise in other subjects, for
example business administration, computing, electrical engineering, or philosophy. The
undergraduate academic advisors are available to assist any student who wishes to select
a particular set of elective choices.
vii. Honours Physics and Astronomy
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Physics and Astronomy program academic plan is intended for students
with a strong interest in astronomy. The plan It provides depth and breadth in physics
equal to the our current Honours Physics program plan, but with additional depth in
astronomy. The plan This program will allows graduates the flexibility to pursue jobs or
graduate study in either physics or astronomy. The Honours Physics and Astronomy
Academic Plan program is in the form of a core of required courses, plus appropriate
electives.
Continuation in Honours Physics and Astronomy requires both a cumulative overall and a
cumulative Physics average of 60% and a 60% cumulative Physics average.
In order to graduate with an Honours Physics and Astronomy degree, the following
requirements must be met successfully completed:
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1. Successful completion of 19.0 lecture units plus 2.0 physics lab units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below plus an additional 1.5 units of physics
electives which must include both 1.0 unit of astronomy electives and 0.5
unit 400-level PHYS courses (neither PHYS 437A nor PHYS 437B may be
counted towards this 0.5 unit).
3. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
1. 22.0 units that include:
11.25 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 122L, PHYS 124,
PHYS 131L, PHYS 175, PHYS 175L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242,
PHYS 242L, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 263, PHYS 270, PHYS
270L, PHYS 334, PHYS 342, PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 363, PHYS
364, PHYS 370L, PHYS 375, PHYS 474, and PHYS 475
1.0 PHYS elective unit selected from: PHYS 275, PHYS 239 or PHYS
476
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units distributed as follows:
o 1.5 PHYS lecture units that include at least a 0.5 unit at the 400-
level
o 0.5 PHYS lab unit 300- level or higher
o 3.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 0.5 PHYS lecture unit at
the 400-level.
3. The total 0.50 PHYS lab unit may be taken in either terms of Year Three or Year
Four.
4. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
5. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
6. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
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Recommended Course Sequence
Legend +Year-One CHEM may be replaced by Year-One BIOL or EARTH courses.
Year One
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 114 Linear Algebra for Science
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L +Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122/PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 175/PHYS 175L Introduction to the Universe/Laboratory
PHYS 175L Introduction to the Universe Laboratory
Year Two
Fall
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations for Physics and Chemistry
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 256/PHYS 256L Geometrical and Physical Optics/Laboratory
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242/PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Laboratory
PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
PHYS 270/PHYS 270L Astronomical Observations, Instrumentation and Data
Analysis/Laboratory
PHYS 270L Astronomical Observations, Instrumentation and Data Analysis Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year Three
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
PHYS 364 Mathematical Physics 1
One PHYS lab elective at the 300- or 400-level or higher (may also be taken in 3B or
Year 4) (0.25 unit)
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 334 Quantum Physics 2
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 370L Astronomy Laboratory
PHYS 375 Stars
One PHYS lab elective 300-level or higher (0.25 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year Four
Fall and Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 474 Galaxies
PHYS 475 Cosmology
One PHYS elective 400-level (0.5 unit)
Two PHYS electives (1.0 unit)
Three Four electives (1.5 2.0 units)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
Five electives (2.5 units)
Note
Students in Year Four should normally take a total of 4.5 5.0 units. In addition to the
required courses noted for fall and winter terms, these must include an additional 0.5 unit
of 400-level PHYS-labeled elective and an additional 1.0 unit of PHYS-labeled electives.
Astronomy Electives
Two of: PHYS 275, PHYS 239, PHYS 476
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Note to all Honours Physics and Astronomy Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A, PHYS 434, and PHYS 442.
Students should consult with an undergraduate academic advisor and a graduate officer
regarding other electives needed for their choice of graduate program.
viii. Honours Co-operative Physics and Astronomy
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Co-operative Physics and Astronomy program offers courses integrated
with five four-month work terms, and extends over four and two-thirds years. Students
work and study in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There is a double
work term between terms 2B and 3A. Co-op program information and requirements are
located in the Co-operative Education and Career Action section of the calendar and in
the Science Faculty work term report guidelines. WatPD course information is located on
the Professional Development web site.
The Honours Physics and Astronomy program academic plan is intended for students
with a strong interest in astronomy. The plan It provides depth and breadth in physics
equal to theour current Honours Physics program plan, but with additional depth in
astronomy. The plan This program will allows graduates the flexibility to pursue jobs or
graduate study in either physics or astronomy. The Honours Physics and Astronomy
Academic Plan program is in the form of a core of required courses, plus appropriate
electives.
Continuation in Honours Physics and Astronomy requires both a cumulative overall and a
cumulative Physics average of 60% and a 60% cumulative Physics average.
In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Physics and Astronomy Bachelor of
Science (BSc) degree, the following requirements must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 19.0 lecture units plus 2.0 physics lab units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below plus an additional 1.5 units of physics
electives which must include both 1.0 unit of astronomy electives and 0.5 unit of
400-level PHYS courses (neither PHYS 437A nor PHYS 437B may be counted
towards this 0.5 unit).
3. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
4. For detailed information on co-op program requirements, please see the Co-
operative Program Evaluation information and the Co-operative Education and
Career Action section of the undergraduate calendar.
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1. 22.0 units that include:
11.25 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, PHYS 122L, PHYS 124,
PHYS 131L, PHYS 175, PHYS 175L, PHYS 234, PHYS 236, PHYS 242,
PHYS 242L, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS 263, PHYS 270, PHYS
270L, PHYS 334, PHYS 342, PHYS 358, PHYS 359, PHYS 363, PHYS
364, PHYS 370L, PHYS 375, PHYS 474, and PHYS 475
1.0 PHYS elective unit selected from: PHYS 275, PHYS 239, or PHYS
476
2.5 MATH units: MATH 114, MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and
MATH 228
1.25 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, and CHEM 123
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units distributed as follows:
o 1.5 PHYS lecture units that includes at least 0.5 units at the 400-
level
o 0.5 PHYS lab unit 300-level or higher
o 3.5 units chosen from any subject, with a maximum of 1.5 lab units
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S, WKRPT
300S, and WKRPT 400S
Additional Program Conditions:
1. A maximum of 3.0 SCI units may be counted towards this program.
Notes:
1. Year One CHEM 120, 120L and 123 may be replaced by Year One BIOL or
EARTH courses.
2. PHYS 437A and PHYS 437B may not count toward the 0.5 PHYS lecture unit at
the 400-level.
3. The total 0.50 PHYS lab unit may be taken in either terms of Year Three or Year
Four.
4. A Physics advisor can assist students with elective course selection.
5. PHYS 434, PHYS 442 and PHYS 437A are recommended electives for students
wishing to pursue graduate studies.
6. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies should consult with a Physics advisor
and a graduate officer in order to choose electives that provide them with the
desired background for their choice of graduate program and/or school.
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Recommended Course Sequence
Legend +Year-One CHEM may be replaced by Year-One BIOL or EARTH courses.
Year 1A (Fall)
Fall
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L+ Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 114 Linear Algebra for Science
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 121/PHYS 131L Mechanics/Laboratory
PHYS 131L Mechanics Laboratory
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 1B (Winter)
Winter
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L + Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 122/PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 175/PHYS 175L Introduction to the Universe/Laboratory
PHYS 175L Introduction to the Universe Laboratory
Year 2A (Fall)
Fall
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations for Physics and Chemistry
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 256/PHYS 256L Geometrical and Physical Optics/Laboratory
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year 2B (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 242/PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Laboratory
PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
PHYS 270/PHYS 270L Astronomical Observations, Instrumentation and Data
Analysis/Laboratory
PHYS 270L Astronomical Observations, Instrumentation and Data Analysis Laboratory
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 3A (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 342 Electricity and Magnetism 2
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 363 Intermediate Classical Mechanics
PHYS 364 Mathematical Physics 1
One PHYS lab elective 300-level or higher at the 300- or 400-level (may also be taken in
3B or Year 4) (0.25 unit)
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 3B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 334 Quantum Physics 2
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 370L Astronomy Laboratory
PHYS 375 Stars
One PHYS lab elective 300-level or higher (0.25 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year 4A (Fall)
Fall and Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 474 Galaxies
PHYS 475 Cosmology
One PHYS elective 400-level (0.5 unit)
Two PHYS electives (1.0 unit)
Three Four electives (1.5 2.0 units)
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Year 4B (Winter)
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
Five Four electives (2.5 2.0 units)
Note
Students must include one, 400-level PHYS-labeled elective course (0.5 unit), and two
additional PHYS-labeled electives (1.0 unit) as part of the eight elective courses in Year
Four.
Astronomy Electives
Two of: PHYS 275, PHYS 239, PHYS 476
Note to all Honours Co-operative Physics and Astronomy Students
Students intending to pursue graduate studies may wish to choose electives that will give
them the desired background for their choice of graduate program and school. It is
recommended that these students take PHYS 437A, PHYS 434, and PHYS 442.
ix. Honours Life Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Honours Life Physics Academic Plan program is in the form of a core of required
courses, plus appropriate electives. This plan provides a solid foundation in basic
physics, chemistry, and biology while allowing a flexible, interdisciplinary, and
integrative approach to the study of the life sciences. While emphasizing physics, through
appropriate selection of electives, this plan program prepares students for careers which
that require a broad scientific knowledge or and for programs in biophysics, medical
physics, optometry, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, occupational
therapy, pharmacy, forensics, and radiotherapy. The electives allow students to prepare
for these programs and strengthen complementary areas of interest. Students are strongly
urged to consult the admission requirements of the professional schools of interest to aid
in their elective choices of electives. This academic plan is also available in the Co-
operative system of study.
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The Honours Life Physics has two specializations: The Medical Physics Specialization
and the Biophysics Specialization. (also available in the Regular system of study). The
Medical Physics Specialization requires additional courses also taken by Honours Physics
students, and medical physics courses, in preparation for a graduate level program in
Medical Physics, leading to certification or for work in Medical Physics. The Biophysics
Specialization increases the depth and breadth of physics and biology courses at an
honours level, to strengthen areas of interest and as preparation for graduate level study
or work in industry. Academic advisors for Life Physics and Medical Physics in Physics
and Astronomy, and for Biophysics in Physics and Astronomy and Biology, are available
to advise students on course sequencing. Students should consult the Life Physics website
for additional information on this program.
Academic advisors for Life Physics, and Medical Physics, in Physics and Astronomy, and
for Biophysics in Physics and Astronomy and Biology, are available to advise students on
course sequencing. Students should also consult the Life Physics website for additional
information on this program.
Continuation in Honours Life Physics requires a cumulative overall average, a Physics
average, and a Biology average of 60%. of 60% and a cumulative average of 60% in
Physics course and in Biology courses.
In order to graduate with an Honours Life Physics degree, the following requirements
must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 22.25 units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below.
3. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
1. 22.0 units that include:
0.75 PHYS units chosen from: PHYS 111 and PHYS 111L or PHYS 121
and PHYS 121L
0.75 PHYS units chosen from: PHYS 112 and PHYS 112L or PHYS 122
and PHYS 122L
4.25 PHYS units: PHYS 224, PHYS 225, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS
280, PHYS 380, PHYS 395, PHYS 396, and PHYS 491
1.0 unit MATH unit: MATH 127 and MATH 128
3.0 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, CHEM 123, CHEM 123L,
CHEM 237, CHEM 237L, CHEM 266, and CHEM 266L
2.0 BIOL units: BIOL 130, BIOL 130L, BIOL 239, BIOL 273, and BIOL
273L
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
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9.75 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.25 Program elective units chosen from: BIOL 240/BIOL 240L,
BIOL 301, BIOL 308, BIOL 373/BIOL 373L, PHYS 124, PHYS
233, PHYS 234, PHYS 263, PHYS 358, PHYS 359 and PHYS
383.
o 7.5 units chosen from any subject
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Notes
1. PHYS 242/242L may be substituted for PHYS 224.
2. A 100- or 200- level BIOL course may be substituted for BIOL 273/273L.
3. Students selecting BIOL 240/BIOL 240L as a Program elective can take it in the
fall term of Year One, Year Two or Year Three.
4. Students selecting BIOL 373/BIOL 373L as a Program elective should take it in
Year Three or Year Four.
5. Students interested in pursuing the Biophysics Specialization must take PHYS
121/PHYS 122 rather than PHYS 111/PHYS 112.
6. Students interested in pursuing the Medical Physics Specialization can take
CHEM 266/CHEM 266L in Year Four instead of Year Two.
7. Students can choose their elective subjects; however, they Electives may be taken
in any area of the student's choosing. Students should be aware that health
profession programs often require courses in one or more of the following subject
areas: English, mathematics, computer science, sociology, accounting, economics,
languages, psychology, philosophy, and humanities. The academic advisors in
Physics and Astronomy are available to assist any student in the plan and further
information is available from the Life Physics website.
8. Students considering entry into the Doctor of Optometry or Doctor of Pharmacy
programs should verify the admission requirements for each program to guide
selection of elective courses.
Legend
*Can be taken fall of first, second, or third year.
** Can be taken in third or fourth year.
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Recommended Course Sequence
Year One
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
BIOL 130/BIOL 130L Introductory Cell Biology/Laboratory
PHYS 121 (PHYS 121L or PHYS 131L) Mechanics/Laboratory
or PHYS 111/PHYS 111L Physics 1/Laboratory
PHYS 121L Mechanics Laboratory or PHYS 111L Physics 1 Laboratory
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
BIOL 239 Genetics
PHYS 122 (PHYS 122L or PHYS 132L) Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
or PHYS 112/PHYS 112L Physics 2/Laboratory
PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory or PHYS 112L Physics 2
Laboratory
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year Two
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
CHEM 266/CHEM 266L Basic Organic Chemistry 1/Laboratory
CHEM 266L Basic Organic Chemistry Laboratory
PHYS 224 Electricity and Magnetism for Life and Medical Physics
or PHYS 242/PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Laboratory
PHYS 256/PHYS 256L Geometrical and Physical Optics/Laboratory
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
PHYS 225 Modeling Life Physics
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 280 or BIOL 280 Introduction to Biophysics
BIOL 273/BIOL 273L Principles of Human Physiology 1/Laboratory
or One 100- or 200-level Biology course
BIOL 273L Principles of Human Physiology 1 Laboratory
CHEM 237/CHEM 237L Introductory Biochemistry/Laboratory
CHEM 237L Introductory Biochemistry Laboratory
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year Three
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 380 Molecular and Cellular Biophysics
Four electives (2.0 units)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 395 Biophysics of Therapeutic Methods
or PHYS 396 Biophysics of Imaging
Four electives (2.0 units)
Year Four
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 491 Special Topics in Life, Medical and Biophysics
Four electives (2.0 units)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 395 Biophysics of Therapeutic Methods
or PHYS 396 Biophysics of Imaging
Four electives (1.75 2.0 units)
Elective courses for Life Physics
Students must take a minimum of 2.25 units of the following courses:
BIOL 240/BIOL 240L Fundamentals of Microbiology/Laboratory*
BIOL 308 Principles of Molecular Biology
BIOL 373/BIOL 373L Principles of Human Physiology 2/Laboratory**
or BIOL 301 Human Anatomy
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 233 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
or PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
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PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 383 Medical Physics
x. Honours Co-operative Life Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
This Honours Co-operative Life Physics program offers courses integrated with five four-
month work terms, and extends over four and two-thirds years. Students work and study
in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There is a double work term between
terms 2B and 3A. Co-op program information and requirements are located in the Co-
operative Education and Career Action section of the calendar and in the Science Faculty
work term report guidelines. WatPD course information is located on the Professional
Development web site.
The Honours Co-operative Life Physics Academic Plan program is in the form of a core
of required courses, plus appropriate electives. This plan provides a solid foundation in
basic physics, chemistry, and biology while allowing a flexible, interdisciplinary, and
integrative approach to the study of the life sciences. While emphasizing physics, through
appropriate selection of electives, this plan program prepares students for careers which
that require a broad scientific knowledge or and for programs in biophysics, medical
physics, optometry, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, occupational
therapy, pharmacy, forensics, and radiotherapy. The electives allow students to prepare
for these programs and strengthen complementary areas of interest. Students are strongly
urged to consult the admission requirements of the professional schools of interest to aid
in their elective choices of electives. This academic plan is also available in the Co-
operative system of study.
The Honours Co-operative Life Physics has two specializations: The Medical Physics
Specialization and the Biophysics Specialization. (also available in the Regular system of
study). The Medical Physics Specialization requires additional courses also taken by
Honours Physics students, and medical physics courses, in preparation for a graduate
level program in Medical Physics, leading to certification or for work in Medical Physics.
The Biophysics Specialization increases the depth and breadth of physics and biology
courses at an honours level, to strengthen areas of interest and as preparation for graduate
level study or work in industry. Academic advisors for Life Physics and Medical Physics
in Physics and Astronomy, and for Biophysics in Physics and Astronomy and Biology,
are available to advise students on course sequencing. Students should consult the Life
Physics website for additional information on this program.
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Academic advisors for Life Physics, and Medical Physics, in Physics and Astronomy, and
for Biophysics in Physics and Astronomy and Biology, are available to advise students on
course sequencing. Students should also consult the Life Physics website for additional
information on this program.
Continuation in Honours Co-operative Life Physics requires a cumulative overall
average, a Physics average, and a Biology average of 60%. of 60% and a cumulative
average of 60% in Physics course and in Biology courses.
In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Life Physics degree, the following
requirements must be met successfully completed:
1. Successful completion of 22.25 units.
2. Mandatory (core) courses as listed below.
3. No more than 3.0 SCI-labelled units can be used.
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement.
5. For detailed information on co-op program requirements, please see the Co-
operative Program evaluation information and the Co-operative Education and
Career Action section of the undergraduate calendar.
1. 22.0 units that include:
0.75 PHYS units chosen from: PHYS 111 and PHYS 111L or PHYS 121
and PHYS 121L
0.75 PHYS units chosen from: PHYS 112 and PHYS 112L or PHYS 122
and PHYS 122L
4.25 PHYS units: PHYS 224, PHYS 225, PHYS 256, PHYS 256L, PHYS
280, PHYS 380, PHYS 395, PHYS 396, and PHYS 491
1.0 MATH unit: MATH 127 and MATH 128
3.0 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, CHEM 123, CHEM 123L,
CHEM 237, CHEM 237L, CHEM 266, and CHEM 266L
2.0 BIOL units: BIOL 130, BIOL 130L, BIOL 239, BIOL 273, and BIOL
273L
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
9.75 elective units distributed as follows:
o 2.25 Program elective units chosen from: BIOL 240/BIOL 240L,
BIOL 301, BIOL 308, BIOL 373/BIOL 373L, PHYS 124, PHYS
233, PHYS 234, PHYS 263, PHYS 358, PHYS 359 and PHYS
383.
o 7.5 units chosen from any subject
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
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3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S, WKRPT
300S, and WKRPT 400S
Notes
1. PHYS 242/242L may be substituted for PHYS 224.
2. A 100- or 200- level BIOL course may be substituted for BIOL 273/273L.
3. Students selecting BIOL 240/BIOL 240L as a Program elective can take it in the
fall term of Year One, Year Two or Year Three.
4. Students selecting BIOL 373/BIOL 373L as a Program elective, should take it in
Year Three or Year Four.
5. Students interested in pursuing the Biophysics Specialization must take PHYS
121/PHYS 122 rather than PHYS 111/PHYS 112.
6. Students interested in pursuing the Medical Chemistry Specialization can take
CHEM 266/CHEM 266L in Year Four instead of Year Two.
7. Students can choose their elective subjects; however, they Electives may be taken
in any area of the student's choosing. Students should be aware that health
profession programs often require courses in one or more of the following subject
areas: English, mathematics, computer science, sociology, accounting, economics,
languages, psychology, philosophy, and humanities. The academic advisors in
Physics and Astronomy are available to assist any student in the plan and further
information is available from the Life Physics website.
8. Students considering entry into the Doctor of Optometry or Doctor of Pharmacy
programs should verify the admission requirements for each program to guide
selection of elective courses.
Legend
*Can be taken fall of first, second or third year.
** Can be taken in third or fourth year.
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Recommended Course Sequence
Year 1A (Fall)
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
BIOL 130/BIOL 130L Introductory Cell Biology/Laboratory
BIOL 130L Cell Biology Laboratory
PHYS 121 (PHYS 121L or PHYS 131L) Mechanics/Laboratory
or PHYS 111/PHYS 111L Physics 1/Laboratory
PHYS 121L Mechanics Laboratory or PHYS 111L Physics 1 Laboratory
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
CHEM 120L Chemical Reaction Laboratory 1
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 1B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
BIOL 239 Genetics
PHYS 122 (PHYS 122L or PHYS 132L) Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory
or PHYS 112/PHYS 112L Physics 2/Laboratory
PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory or PHYS 112L Physics 2
Laboratory
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 2A (Fall)
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
CHEM 266/CHEM 266L Basic Organic Chemistry 1/Laboratory
CHEM 266L Basic Organic Chemistry Laboratory
PHYS 224 Electricity and Magnetism for Life and Medical Physics
or PHYS 242/PHYS 242L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Laboratory
PHYS 256/PHYS 256L Geometrical and Physical Optics/Laboratory
PHYS 256L Optics Laboratory
PHYS 225 Modeling Life Physics
One elective (0.5 unit)
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Year 2B (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 280 or BIOL 280 Introduction to Biophysics
BIOL 273/BIOL 273L Principles of Human Physiology 1/Laboratory
or One 100- or 200-level Biology course
BIOL 273L Principles of Human Physiology 1 Laboratory
CHEM 237/CHEM 237L Introductory Biochemistry/Laboratory
CHEM 237L Introductory Biochemistry Laboratory
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year 3A (Spring)
Spring
PHYS 380 Molecular and Cellular Biophysics
Four electives (2.0 units)
Year 3B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 395 Biophysics of Therapeutic Methods
or PHYS 396 Biophysics of Imaging
Four electives (2.0 units)
Year 4A (Fall)
Fall
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 491 Special Topics in Life, Medical and Biophysics
Four electives (2.0 units)
Year 4B (Winter)
Winter
PHYS 10 Physics Seminar
PHYS 395 Biophysics of Therapeutic Methods
or PHYS 396 Biophysics of Imaging
Four electives (1.75 2.0 units)
Electives courses for Life Physics
Students must take a minimum of 2.25 units of the following courses:
BIOL 240/BIOL 240L Fundamentals of Microbiology/Laboratory*
BIOL 308 Principles of Molecular Biology
BIOL 373/BIOL 373L Principles of Human Physiology 2/Laboratory**
or BIOL 301 Human Anatomy
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 233 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
or PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1
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PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 359 Statistical Mechanics
PHYS 383 Medical Physics
xi. Honours Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization)
Advisor: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Medical Physics Specialization allows students to take medical physics courses
required to prepare them for a graduate level study or work in Medical Physics. This
specialization includes the core requirements for the Honours Life Physics program with
the following additions:
BIOL 373
PHYS 124, PHYS 224L, PHYS 233, PHYS 358, PHYS 383 and PHYS 483
MATH 227 and MATH 228
Students should consult an academic advisor and the Life Physics webpage for suggested
sequencing of the required courses. Besides the core courses of the Life Physics plan,
these students must also take the following courses:
Continuation in Honours Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization) requires a
cumulative overall average, Physics average, and Biology average of 60%.
In order to graduate with an Honours Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization)
degree, the following requirements must be successfully completed:
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 224L Electricity and Magnetism for Life and Medical Physics Laboratory
PHYS 233 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 383 Medical Physics
PHYS 483 Advanced Therapeutic Concepts in Oncology in Medical Physics
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations for Physics and Chemistry
BIOL 373 Principles of Human Physiology 2
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1. 22.0 units that include:
8.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 121L, PHYS 122, PHYS 122L, PHYS
124, PHYS 224, PHYS 224L, PHYS 225, PHYS 233, PHYS 256, PHYS
256L, PHYS 280, PHYS 358, PHYS 380, PHYS 383, PHYS 395, PHYS
396, PHYS 483, and PHYS 491
2.0 MATH units: MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and MATH 228
3.0 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, CHEM 123, CHEM 123L,
CHEM 237, CHEM 237L, CHEM 266, and CHEM 266L
2.5 BIOL units: BIOL 130, BIOL 130L, BIOL 239, BIOL 273, BIOL
273L, and BIOL 373
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units chosen from any subject
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
Notes
1. Students should consult an academic advisor and the Life Physics webpage for
suggested sequencing of the required courses.
2. PHYS 111/111L may be substituted for PHYS 121/121L.
3. PHYS 112/112L may be substituted for PHYS 122/122L.
4. PHYS 132L may be substituted for PHYS 122L.
5. PHYS 242/242L may be substituted for PHYS 224.
6. A 100- or 200- level BIOL course may be substituted for BIOL 273/273L.
Suggested Electives for the Medical Physics Specialization
BIOL 301 Human Anatomy
CHEM 333 Metabolism 1
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 239 Computational Physics 2
PHYS 391/PHYS 391L Electronics/Laboratory
PHYS 392/PHYS 392L Scientific Measurement and Control/Laboratory
PHYS 437A Research Project
PHYS 437B Research Project
STAT 202 Introductory Statistics for Scientists
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xii. Honours Co-operative Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization)
Advisor: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Medical Physics Specialization allows students to take medical physics courses
required to prepare them for a graduate level study or work in Medical Physics. This
specialization includes the core requirements for the Honours Co-operative Life Physics
program with the following additions:
BIOL 373
PHYS 124, PHYS 224L, PHYS 233, PHYS 358, PHYS 383 and PHYS 483
MATH 227 and MATH 228
Students should consult an academic advisor and the Life Physics webpage for suggested
sequencing of the required courses. Besides the core courses of the Life Physics plan,
these students must also take the following courses:
Continuation in Honours Co-operative Life Physics (Medical Physics Specialization)
requires a cumulative overall average, Physics average, and Biology average of 60%.
In order to graduate with an Honours Co-operative Life Physics (Medical Physics
Specialization) degree, the following requirements must be successfully completed:
PHYS 124 Modern Physics
PHYS 224L Electricity and Magnetism for Life and Medical Physics Laboratory
PHYS 233 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 358 Thermal Physics
PHYS 383 Medical Physics
PHYS 483 Advanced Therapeutic Concepts in Oncology in Medical Physics
MATH 227 Calculus 3 for Honours Physics
MATH 228 Differential Equations for Physics and Chemistry
BIOL 373 Principles of Human Physiology 2
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1. 22.0 units that include:
8.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 121L, PHYS 122, PHYS 122L, PHYS
124, PHYS 224, PHYS 224L, PHYS 225, PHYS 233, PHYS 256, PHYS
256L, PHYS 280, PHYS 358, PHYS 380, PHYS 383, PHYS 395, PHYS
396, PHYS 483, and PHYS 491
2.0 MATH units: MATH 127, MATH 128, MATH 227, and MATH 228
3.0 CHEM units: CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, CHEM 123, CHEM 123L,
CHEM 237, CHEM 237L, CHEM 266, and CHEM 266L
2.5 BIOL units: BIOL 130, BIOL 130L, BIOL 239, BIOL 273, BIOL
273L, and BIOL 373
0.5 unit of ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE
5.5 elective units chosen from any subject
2. Enrolment in PHYS 10 when offered
3. Co-operative education requirements that include:
A minimum of four work terms
Four WatPD (professional development) courses that must include PD 1,
PD 11, and two PD elective courses
Four work term reports:
o 1 completed as part of PD 11
o 3 completed in required WKRPT courses: WKRPT 200S, WKRPT
300S, and WKRPT 400S
Notes
1. Students should consult an academic advisor and the Life Physics webpage for
suggested sequencing of the required courses.
2. PHYS 111/111L may be substituted for PHYS 121/121L.
3. PHYS 112/112L may be substituted for PHYS 122/122L.
4. PHYS 132L may be substituted for PHYS 122L.
5. PHYS 242/242L may be substituted for PHYS 224.
6. A 100- or 200- level BIOL course may be substituted for BIOL 273/273L.
Suggested Electives for the Medical Physics Specialization
BIOL 301 Human Anatomy
CHEM 333 Metabolism 1
PHYS 236 Computational Physics 1
PHYS 239 Computational Physics 2
PHYS 391/PHYS 391L Electronics/Laboratory
PHYS 392/PHYS 392L Scientific Measurement and Control/Laboratory
PHYS 437A Research Project
PHYS 437B Research Project
STAT 202 Introductory Statistics for Scientists
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xiii. Minor in Biophysics
Advisor: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
The Biophysics Minor is designed for students in Biology or Physics but can be taken
by. The Biophysics Minor is also available to students in other programs plans, both
within and outside the Faculty of Science.
In order to graduate with a Minor in Biophysics, the following requirements must be met:
Successful completion of this minor requires:
1. 5.0 units that include:
1.5 BIOL units: BIOL 130, BIOL 239, and BIOL 308
1.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 121L, PHYS 122, and PHYS 122L
1.5 PHYS units chosen from: PHYS 280, PHYS 380, PHYS 383, PHYS
395, PHYS 396, or PHYS 491
0.5 unit chosen from: PHYS 225 or STAT 202; PHYS 256, PHYS
256L; PHYS 233 or PHYS 234; PHYS 224, PHYS 224L or PHYS 242,
PHYS 242L, PHYS 263, PHYS 358, or PHYS 359
2. A minimum cumulative average of 60% in all in the subjects of PHYS and BIOL.
Notes
1. At least 1.5 PHYS or BIOL lecture units must be 300-level or higher.
2. PHYS 111/111L may be substituted for PHYS 121/121L
3. PHYS 112/112L may be substituted for PHYS 122/122L
4. PHYS 132L may be substituted for PHYS 122L
5. A Minor in Biophysics will not be awarded with a Minor in Biology and/or
Physics.
6. A Minor in Biophysics will not be awarded with Honours Life Physics.
1. Successful completion of 5.5 units.
2. The following courses must be successfully completed.
o BIOL 130, BIOL 239, BIOL 308;
o PHYS 121, (PHYS 111L or PHYS 121L or PHYS 131L), PHYS 122,
(PHYS 122L or PHYS 132L);
o 1.0 unit from PHYS 225 or STAT 202; PHYS 256, PHYS 256L; PHYS
233 or PHYS 234; PHYS 242, PHYS 242L or PHYS 224, PHYS 224L;
PHYS 263, PHYS 358, PHYS 359.
o 1.5 units from BIOL 280/PHYS 280, PHYS 380, PHYS 383, PHYS 395,
PHYS 396, PHYS 491
3. A minimum cumulative average of 60% must be obtained separately in all
biology and physics courses.
4. Lecture units must include at least 1.5 units from 300- or 400-level biology
and physics courses.
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Note
A Minor in Biophysics will not be awarded together with a Minor in Biology and/or
Physics. A Minor in Biophysics will not be awarded together with Honours Life Physics.
xiv. Minor in Physics
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
A Minor in Physics is available to students in programs, both within and outside the
Faculty of Science.
Successful completion of this minor requires:
1. 5.0 units that include:
1.5 PHYS units: PHYS 121, PHYS 122, and PHYS 124
1.5 PHYS units selected from required PHYS courses listed under the
Honours Physics program
2.0 PHYS elective units
3. A minimum cumulative average of 60% in all PHYS courses.
Notes
4. At least 1.5 PHYS lecture units must be 300-level or higher.
5. No more than 1.0 PHYS lab unit can count toward this minor.
6. A Minor in Physics will not be awarded with an Honours Major in Physics,
Physics and Astronomy, Life Physics, Mathematical Physics, or Chemical
Physics.
In order to graduate with a Minor in Physics, the following requirements must be met:
1. Successful completion of 4.5 Physics lecture units and 1.0 Physics lab unit, with a
minimum cumulative average of 60% in all Physics courses attempted.
2. Lecture units must include: PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 and PHYS 124 or
equivalent and at least 1.5 other lecture units in core Physics subject areas from
the courses listed under the core of required courses for the Honours Physics
academic plan.
3. Lecture units must include at least 1.5 units from 300- or 400- level Physics
courses.
Check details with a Physics & Astronomy Academic Advisor.
Note
A Minor in Physics will not be awarded together with an Honours Major in Physics,
Physics and Astronomy, Life Physics, Mathematical Physics, or Chemical Physics.
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C. INACTIVATED PROGRAMS/PLANS
i. Honours Physics (Astrophysics Specialization)
ii. Honours Co-operative Physics (Astrophysics Specialization)
iii. Honours Mathematical Physics (Astrophysics Specialization)
iv. Honours Co-operative Mathematical Physics (Astrophysics Specialization)
v. Science Minors and Joint Programs- Joint Honours Bachelor of Science
(BSc) and Bachelor of Independent Studies (BIS)
Rationale: The Astrophysics specializations are removed from Physics and Mathematical
Physics programs to reduce the total number of programs offered by the department.
Physics students, with the exception of those in Physics and Astronomy can still receive
credentials for Astrophysics with the new Astrophysics minor. The BIS degree is
inactive, effective September 2017, therefore the Joint Honours BSc/BIS page needs to
be inactivated, effective for the 2017-2018 calendar.
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D. CHANGES TO REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES
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E. COURSE CHANGES (SA Report 3- N/A)
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ii) Changes to Existing Courses
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1. ENV Courses – Attachment 1 a. New – N/A b. Revised – Addition of Anti-requisite c. Inactivated – N/A
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Final Assessment Report Economics (BA/MA), Applied Economics (PhD) September 2016 Summary of the Program Review:
In accordance with the University Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP), this final assessment report provides a synthesis of the external evaluation and the internal response and assessments of the programs (BA, MA, PhD) delivered by the Department of Economics. A self-study (Volume I) was submitted to the Associate Vice-President, Academic and the
Associate Provost, Graduate Studies Office on August 4, 2015. The self-study presented the program descriptions and learning outcomes, an analytical assessment of these three programs, and program data including the data collected from a student survey along with the standard data package prepared by the Office of Institutional Analysis & Planning (IAP). Appended were the course outlines for all courses in the program and the CVs (Volume II) for each full-time faculty member in the Department. Two arm’s-length external reviewers selected from the list provided in Volume III of the Academic Program Review, Dr. Hugh Neary, from the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Sam Bukovetsky from York University, were ranked and selected by the Associate Provost, Graduate Studies and the Associate Vice-President, Academic. In addition, one faculty member, Christina Vester from Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo, accompanied the external reviewers. Self-study documentation was sent to the reviewers in advance and the site visit was conducted on December 10-11, 2015. The visit included interviews with the Associate Provost, Graduate Studies; Associate Vice President, Academic; Manager of Quality Assurance; Dean of Arts; Chair of Economics, Acting Chair of Economics for the fall term1, faculty members, staff and meetings with a group of current graduate and undergraduate students.
Program characteristics: The Department of Economics was established as an independent unit in the Faculty of Arts,
offering a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969. A Master of Arts (MA) program in Economics was
approved in 1970 and has been operating successfully since then. The Department began its PhD
in Applied Economics in the fall of 2004.
1 There was an Acting Chair of Economics in the fall term of 2015 while the Chair was on sabbatical.
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Summary of strengths, challenges and opportunities based on self-study:
Strengths
Significant number of faculty members have been hired in the last 15 years
o At the time of the 2008 academic review, there were 23 faculty members
(including one continuing lecturer). From 2009 to 2014 ten new probationary or
tenured appointments were appointed in the Department as well as two continuing
lecturers. There were also five retirements and a number of other departures.
By 2014 there were 27 assistant, associate and full professors and three
continuing lecturers. Since the review was completed, an additional associate
professor has joined the Department.
Well-balanced expertise of faculty with significant strength in econometrics, theory and
applied research
Faculty pursue research at the frontiers of economics and are publishing in excellent
quality journals
Ability to teach a large number of courses at the undergraduate level is enhanced by a
number of lecturers (3 continuing, 3 definite term)
o Economics has approximately 13 thousand course enrollments. There were 480
students registered in one of the three Economics Major plans in 2014/15. In
2015, 121 students graduated with an Economics Major and 180 with a minor.
Approximately 160 course sections are taught annually.
Undergraduate students receive rigorous training in econometrics, theory and applied
courses
Challenges
The Department seeks to improve its international research ranking
o Higher research ranking should be achieved as the research of faculty hired over
the past decade increases in impact.
Additional expertise in macroeconomics and finance needed
Higher ratio of classes taught by sessionals than desirable
o Data reported in Volume I shows 55 sections out of a total of 160 taught by
sessional lecturers in 2014.
o We are addressing this issue by considering reforms in the delivery model of first
and second year undergraduate classes.
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Due to large class size, instructors are relying on teaching and assessment methods that
are not ideal in terms of student learning or student experience (e.g., multiple choice
exams in first year).
o The Department is addressing this issue by increasing support for students. We
have already instituted tutorials for three core courses, and as noted above, will
consider reforms in the delivery model of other classes.
Addressing the needs of students who are not bound for graduate school and who
struggle with the quantitative nature of many economics classes (e.g., scheduling formal
tutorials in courses students find difficult)
Ensuring adequate resources for student success (e.g., having adequate number of TAs
for tutorials)
Recruitment of Canadian graduate students to the graduate programs
Lack of space
Budget restrictions affect the department in various ways such as the ability to provide
an adequate seminar series to support the department’s research mission and the
ability to support student success through tutorials, etc.
Opportunities
Further development of international partnerships with Chinese universities (e.g., 2+2
program, as well as the 1+1+1 programs for Master’s students)
Reform of the undergraduate program was initiated at the same time as the recent Arts
standardization plan. The Department hopes to better meet the diverse needs of
students whether they are seeking employment immediately upon graduation or
heading to graduate school
Focus on skill development of MA students through coaching on professional skills
Summary of key findings from the external reviewers:
The reviewers found that “all programs within the Department of Economics were consistent with the discovery, application and communication of knowledge, all of which is a central tenet of the mission statement of the Faculty of Arts.” They were also very impressed with “the clarity with which the department communicated its degree requirements at all three levels”
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Program response to external reviewer recommendations: Recommendations
1. Carefully monitor the consequences of the undergraduate curriculum reform.
Response The Undergraduate Associate Chair will closely monitor trends in undergraduate enrollments and majors as well as learning outcomes and student experience. The Undergrad Committee will consider whether any further curricular changes are warranted, and in consultation with the Department will take the appropriate steps for implementation.
2. Carefully monitor work demands on staff and resources.
Response The Department (the Chair and Associate Chairs) will continue to monitor work flow, particularly those arising out of new responsibilities (i.e. the Management Studies Minor), changes to university procedures (i.e. course scheduling), and extra advising required with the transition to the reformed undergraduate curriculum. Furthermore, the Department will request additional resources and/or changes to work load in order to ameliorate the situation. However, the Department does state that particular aspects of staff responsibilities and their remuneration is determined by the Human Resources Department and not the Department. Nonetheless, the Department recognizes the volume and complexity of the work conducted by Economics staff.
3. Conduct an ad hoc review of the questions raised about the graduate programs – in
particular, the balance between theory and application.
Response The Department reviewed these questions at their Departmental retreat in August 2016. Further discussion will take place at subsequent graduate committee meetings throughout 2016-17. Once the consultation phase is over, the Graduate Committee will be responsible for implementing any recommendations.
4. Monitor the success of formal tutorials scheduled for the first time for Fall 2016 in Econ 211,
Econ 221, and Econ 322.
Response The Department will review effectiveness of tutorials at the end of every term with respect to student feedback and student success. This will be closely monitored by the Associate
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Chair, Undergraduate Studies. The tutorials will be considered a success if we receive positive student and instructor feedback.
5. Pursue closer ties with current 2+2 partnerships and expand to additional universities.
Response
The Department will maintain regular communication with partner universities, including
visiting partner universities once per year if budget allows. The Department will also push
through additional agreements that were initiated in 2015. Representatives from the
Department visited China in Fall 2016 and plan to have additional 2+2 agreements in place
by early 2017.
6. Consider developing international partnerships with institutions outside of China.
Response
The Department recognizes that it is preferable to have partnerships with universities from
diverse nations. As a result, the Chair will request Waterloo International to notify the
Department of potential new international partnerships. The Department views this as a
long term goal and will revisit this recommendation in Fall 2018.
7. Work with alumni network through Arts Advancement to look for additional sources of funds
for lecture series.
Response
The Department will continue to seek ways to engage alumni and intends to plan special
events for alumni and current students as resources permit. It is hoped that some of our
Economics alumni will be willing to provide financial support for our annual Distinguished
Lecture.
8. Assist PhD students to find a thesis supervisor more quickly.
Response
The Department has implemented a new requirement whereby PhD students must
complete a second year research paper under the supervision of a faculty member. The
Department hopes that this will assist students in finding a supervisor by building
relationships with students and faculty members. In Economics, PhD students do not
normally choose a supervisor until their second year.
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9. Address concerns of MA students that they are not adequately prepared for co-op interviews
in January.
Response
The Department has introduced more applied, policy courses in the fall of 2017 that should
better prepare students for job interviews and the job itself. The department now offers the
opportunity to sit through mock interviews with faculty members to prepare for specific
jobs in economics.
External reviewer recommendations that were not selected for implementation:
1. If qualified foreign applicants are willing to pay the higher foreign fees, they should be admitted.
Response
The reviewers suggest that it may be worthwhile to admit foreign graduate students without any financial support. However, it is university practice to off-set the international tuition differential and to offer graduate students the same funding no matter their origin. Hence implementation of this suggestion lies outside the purview of the Department.
2. Delegation of more responsibility for admission decisions to the departmental level might
help attract a better mix of graduate students.
Response Responsibility for ensuring that admissions criteria are followed lies with the GSO. While offers to non-standard candidates are allowed with sufficient rationale, the judgement as to what is qualifies as a valid rationale lies with admissions specialists in the GSO. The Department would appreciate more flexibility in justifying the admission of exceptional cases.
3. “Space constraints continue to be a problem within the department (and within the
Faculty of Arts). If it can be accommodated within the university’s resource allocation framework, an increase of 20% is needed in the (combined) space used for faculty, graduate students and staff offices, seminar rooms, and computing facilities throughout the Faculty of Arts.”
Response
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Inadequate space is an on-going challenge for Economics and for the Arts Faculty. Office space for graduate students, better space for the Economics Undergrad Society, computer lab space for undergraduate teaching and research lab space are of particular concern. The Chair and Associate Chairs will do their best to continue to raise these issues in the appropriate venues in hopes that a solution can be found.
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Implementation Plan:
Recommendations Proposed Actions
Responsibility for Leading and Resourcing (if applicable) the Actions
Timeline for addressing Recommendations
1. Carefully monitor the consequences of the undergraduate curriculum reform.
Watch trends in undergraduate enrollments and majors, make changes as needed
Undergraduate associate chair
Report at the end of each term
2. Carefully monitor work demands on staff resources
Check in at monthly staff meetings. Deal with problems as they arise.
Department Chair Monthly basis
3. Conduct an ad hoc review of the questions raised about our graduate programs – in particular, the balance between theory and application.
Departmental retreat in August 2016
Department Chair and Graduate Associate Chair
Retreat in August 2016 and at subsequent graduate committee meetings throughout 2016 -2017. If changes are deemed to be desirable, we would begin the process in 2018.
4 Monitor the success of formal tutorials scheduled for the first time for Fall 2016 in Econ 211, Econ 221, and Econ 322.
Review success at the end of every term with respect to
Undergraduate Associate Chair
Review will be conducted every term.
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student feedback and student success.
5. Pursuing closer ties with current 2+2 partnerships and expand to additional universities.
Maintain regular communication with partner universities, visiting once a year as budget allows. Push through additional agreements which have been started.
Chair of International Programs Committee
Trip to China to visit partner universities is planned for Fall 2016. Additional 2+2 agreements should be in place by early 2017. Update: Economics anticipated travelling in 2016 to China with a delegation from Science. This trip did not happen. However two of our faculty members have visited China on their own in the past year, and have visited some of our partners.
6. Consider developing international partnerships with institutions outside of China.
Ask Waterloo International to keep us aware of potential new international partners.
Chair of International Programs Committee
A long term goal to be reviewed in Fall 2018.
7. Work with our alumni network through Arts Advancement to look for additional sources of funds for our lecture series.
Continue to seek ways to engage alumni. Plan special
Chair of the Alumni and Student Relations Committee
Review success in summer 2018
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events for alumni and students as resources permit.
8. Assist PhD students to find a thesis supervisor more quickly.
Implementation of the new requirement that PhD students complete a second year research paper under the supervision of a faculty member.
Graduate Associate Chair Change has been implemented. Review success in summer 2017.
9. Address concerns of MA students that they are not adequately prepared for co-op interviews in January.
Offer more applied, policy oriented courses in the fall. Provide the opportunity to participate in mock job interviews.
Graduate Associate Chair Change has been implemented for fall 2016. Review success in spring 2017.
The Department Chair/Director, in consultation with the Dean of the Faculty shall be responsible for monitoring the Implementation Plan.
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Two Year Progress Report Applied Language Studies (Minor and Diploma)
November 2016 Background: The first Program Review of Applied Language Studies (APPLS) was completed in December 2014. In March 2015, a Response to the External Reviewers’ Report was submitted to the Associate Vice-President, Academic’s office. The present document is the Two Year Progress Report written to track progress in meeting the recommendations of the external reviewers.
Progress on Implementation Plan: The external reviewers made six recommendations, which are recorded below. A response follows each recommendation indicating to what extent the recommendation has been acted upon since the submission of the External Reviewers’ Report.
Recommendations
1. The reviewers recommended that the APPLS program define a clear discrete identityfrom the English Second Language (ESL) program. Although the program greatly benefitsfrom its close association with the teaching activities of the English Language Institute(ELI), APPLS is too often seen in a supporting role. The reviewers believe that APPLS hasthe potential to further develop into a distinct “brand,” focusing on the links betweensecond-language acquisition, multilingualism, and the global economy.
Status: Ongoing.
Details: At Renison, a restructuring has occurred that brought the Applied Language Studies
program into the new department of Culture and Language Studies. This restructuring
places APPLS in the same department as professors in East Asian Studies, who offer
courses in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Furthermore, Culture and Language Studies is
preparing to offer courses in American Sign Language. This new departmental affiliation
associates APPLS more closely with other second language teaching programs that are
not ESL programs, and makes the multilingual focus of APPLS more explicit.
We have used the vehicle of a cornerstone assignment in APPLS 304R: Second Language
Teaching Methodology to connect more explicitly with other language departments on
campus. In the main assignment for the course, students observe professors teaching in
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second language classrooms in order to apply theoretical frameworks to observed
classroom contexts. In the past, the majority of these observations were completed in
ESL classes offered through the ELI. Over the last two years, students have observed in
German, French, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Chinese, and Korean language classes. We
sincerely appreciate the generosity of the hosting professors who are supporting APPLS
students in this way. These placements build connections between language teaching
departments and the APPLS program, and enhance on-campus awareness of APPLS.
In addition, the practice of pairing APPLS students with English language learners for the
purposes of guided conversational interaction has moved from being an arrangement
between individual APPLS and ESL professors to an integral part of the Conversation
Partner Program run through Renison’s International Office. English language learners
who participate in this program may still be students in the ELI, but increasing numbers
of participants are international students studying in a variety of faculties across
campus. This defining feature of the first APPLS course (APPLS 205R: Second Language
Acquisition) lends greater institutional support to the APPLS program and brings the
course into the mainstream of Renison’s international activities.
2. The reviewers recommended that students gain earlier enrolment in the program to
ensure an adequate timeline for completion of the requirements. This may be achieved through marketing the course more deliberately in 100-level courses. Status: In progress.
Details:
The APPLS marketing material has been updated to reflect the new program structure (which took effect in 2015), and the brochures have been distributed to undergraduate academic advisors.
At the time the APPLS Program Review Report was completed (December 2014),
Renison was intending to restructure its marketing team to provide more focused
promotion of all of its programs. This restructuring has not yet occurred, so a more
systematic promotion of the APPLS program at a college-wide level has not been
achieved. However, the College has recently completed the interview process required
to hire a marketing manager. We anticipate that the successful candidate will develop
a college-wide plan for program promotion that will benefit APPLS.
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3. The reviewers recommended that the APPLS program be promoted in a more
systematic way. Recruitment and program promotion are mostly concentrated internally, focusing mainly on students already in an APPLS course. Most students first hear about APPLS in a language course, but there are students in other programs (particularly Psychology) and other Faculties who are pursuing the minor. Ensuring that the program is well promoted at Waterloo should raise the profile of the program and make it available to students from any discipline. The beautiful brochure, recently developed by Renison, is a first step in that direction. Status: Ongoing.
Details: Since the APPLS program review, the APPLS promotional brochures have been updated
and distributed to undergraduate advisors. APPLS participated in the Social
Development Studies Information Session (March 2015), the University of Waterloo
Open House (March 2015), and the ARTS Declare Your Minor Day (November 2015).
Participation in these university-wide marketing events will continue.
4. The reviewers recommended that the Renison administration and the APPLS Co-
ordinator review staffing needs for the APPLS program and consider establishing a dedicated part-time position to handle administrative tasks.
Status: Completed.
Details: In May 2015, Renison hired a full-time assistant whose responsibilities include
administrative tasks and marketing support for the Applied Language Studies minor.
With the repositioning of APPLS within the new Department of Culture and Language
Studies, this assistant now provides support for all departmental publicity activities,
with a strong emphasis on APPLS. This addition to the unit has increased the capacity of
the APPLS program to establish and increase its visibility on campus and plan events for
APPLS students. Additionally, the department has a part-time special events
administrative assistant who is available to provide further support to APPLS events.
5. The reviewers recommended that the APPLS program connect more systematically with existing Renison language programs and other Renison programs (e.g., Social Work,
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Social Development Studies) and collaborate more closely with other Waterloo departments, especially Germanic and Slavic Studies, French, and Spanish.
Status: In progress.
Details: The restructuring at Renison that brought APPLS into the new Department of Culture
and Language Studies makes the connections between the other language units at
Renison (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) explicit through shared administration. APPLS
works closely with the undergraduate advisor in French to ensure major courses do not
conflict, and the connection with Germanic and Slavic Studies is maintained as a faculty
member in that department teaches one of the APPLS core courses. In addition,
foundational APPLS assignments are used to build awareness of the APPLS program in
other language departments across campus. (Please see response to #1
recommendation above for further details).
In the meantime, APPLS works closely with administrators from other language
departments to ensure the timing of APPLS courses does not conflict with that of major
required courses in those departments. For example, in winter 2017, APPLS 306R (one
of the core courses for the minor) was originally scheduled at a time that conflicted with
FR 473 (a core course for students in the French Teaching Specialization [FTS] stream).
Once this was discovered, we were able to reschedule the APPLS class to permit the FTS
students to attend the course. Our flexibility ensures students are able to complete the
minor prior to graduation.
6. The reviewers recommended that the APPLS Co-ordinator continue to discuss an APPLS
major program with Renison administration, Faculty of Arts administration, and Language departments (especially Germanic and Slavic Studies, French, and Spanish). Under the existing funding formula, it is unlikely that the College would be able to resource the program. More tenured and tenure-track faculty would be needed for the increased teaching and administrative load. There are two factors that might make the major more viable: 1) the reduction of Arts Honours BA requirements to a 16-course minimum and the interdisciplinary nature of APPLS; 2) if the BIUs for Honours APPLS majors could be transferred to Renison, it would make the program more cost-effective.
Status: The possibility of turning APPLS into a major program is an appealing prospect
that continues to be discussed at Renison from time to time. However, moving the
APPLS to a major program is not economically feasible at this time.
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Details: As the reviewers noted, increased financial resources are required to grow the APPLS
program to a major, and the College is not able to designate these. Renison is
committed to the success of the APPLS minor and will continue to search for
opportunities to grow the program. The process of securing permission to hire a new
tenure-track professor in APPLS (shared with the English for Multilingual Speakers unit
of the Culture and Language Studies department) is underway, with an anticipated hire
in 2018.
Explain any circumstances that have altered the original implementation plan:
As noted above, we had hoped that Renison would hire a marketing manager to engage in a more systematic promotion of the APPLS program earlier. However, the interview process to hire a candidate is now complete, and we anticipate the individual will begin work in spring 2017.
Address any significant developments or initiatives that have arisen since the program review process, or that were not contemplated during the review: There are none.
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Updated Implementation Plan:
Recommendations Proposed Actions
Responsibility for Leading and Resourcing (if applicable) the Actions
Timeline for addressing Recommendations
1. Define a clear discrete identity from the ESL program.
Ongoing. N/A
N/A
2. Encourage earlier enrolment in the program to ensure students have adequate time to complete the minor requirements.
Marketing efforts are ongoing.
Director, English Language Studies Chair, Culture and Language Studies
Continue to the next program review.
3. Promote the program in a more systematic way. Marketing efforts are ongoing.
Director, English Language Studies Chair, Culture and Language Studies
Continue to the next program review.
4. Establish a dedicated position to handle administrative tasks.
Recommendation acted upon. No further action is required.
N/A N/A
5. Connect more systematically with existing Renison language programs and other Renison programs (e.g., Social Work, Social Development Studies) and collaborate more closely with other Waterloo departments, especially Germanic and Slavic Studies, French and Spanish.
Collaborative efforts have begun and are ongoing.
Director, English Language Studies Chair, Culture and Language Studies
Continue to the next program review.
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6. Continue to discuss a Major program with Renison administration, Faculty of Arts administration, and Language departments (especially Germanic and Slavic Studies, French and Spanish).
This possibility remains in discussion at Renison.
Director, English Language Studies Chair, Culture and Language Studies
Continue to the next program review.
The Department Chair/Director, in consultation with the Dean of the Faculty is responsible for monitoring the Implementation Plan. Report on anything else you believe is appropriate to bring to Senate concerning this program: We have nothing further to report at this time.
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Two-Year Progress Report Political Science (BA/MA/MPS) October 2016 Background: The Department of Political Science submitted their self-study to Office of the Associate Vice-President, Academic (AVPA) on June 27, 2014 with a site visit by external reviewers conducted on October 7-8, 2014. The external reviewers’ report was received on November 25, 2014 and the Department’s response and implementation strategy, with timelines, responsibilities and resource needs assessment, was unanimously approved at a Department of Political Science (PSCI) meeting on December 11, 2014, received on December 18, 2014 and approved by the Dean of Arts on December 27, 2014. The self-study was approved in March 2015 by the Senate Undergraduate Council and was subsequently approved by Senate in April 2015.
In September 2016, the recommendations from the Final Assessment Review approved by Senate were referred to the Political Science Department’s Undergraduate Committee, Graduate Committee and MPS Advisory Committee for consideration and updating. Each committee provided written responses which were collated and presented to a Departmental meeting for discussion and approval on October 20, 2016.
Progress on Implementation Plan:
General Recommendations
1. The priority of the Department in the coming years should be to consolidate the changesimplemented in recent years rather than making additional major changes.
Status: Completed Details: The Department strongly endorses this recommendation. The main focus of the Department is indeed to consolidate both the new specializations/plans as well as the new pathways (e.g. experiential learning.) Please see below for further specific completed action items in this regard.
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BA POLITICAL SCIENCE PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS
2. We strongly support the Department’s efforts to encourage the shift from the General BA option toward the Honours BA and believe that eventual elimination of the General BA option would be a good idea.
Status: Not pursuing
Details: The Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies and Chair met with the Associate Dean of Arts, Undergraduate Studies to discuss this recommendation in February 2015. In light of the Plan Standardization changes across the Faculty of Arts, the Department determined that an elimination of the General BA was no longer optimal, particularly since no other department in the Faculty of Arts was pursuing an Honours-only BA offering. Instead, through the plan standardization process, the Department determined that it would demand the same requirements of students pursuing the Honours BA and the 4Yr General BA (the remaining difference is the 70% average needed to graduate with Honours and 65% with a 4Yr BA). The impact of this is twofold: first, all Political Science majors require training in research methods or theory, that they pursue experiential learning through one of our pathways, and that they take at least two courses at the 400 level. This means that the majority of students will intend to pursue an Honours degree, and the 4Yr BA will be a fallback option, not an opt-in. A second, and related, impact is the Department’s ability to retain students in our major who want to pursue political science but who have major averages between 65 and 69%.
3. The distinction between International Relations and Global Governance is not clear and the
Department is not able to consistently offer all courses required for each specialization. More work needs to be done on streamlining these offerings.
Status: Completed Details: The Department agreed with this recommendation and ensured that a stronger differentiation between the International Relations and Global Governance specialization was completed for the 2016-2017 academic calendar. The new specializations include the successful completed of six courses. The Department of Political Science long-term staffing plan makes explicit provisions that the required courses in each of the specializations are offered at least once a year or more.
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Global Governance Specialization
Old Global Governance Specialization:
The Specialization in Global Governance requires successful completion of four academic course units (eight courses):
• PSCI 281 (World Politics) • HIST 268 (Comparative History of
Empires) • six of PSCI 369 (Politics of
Decolonization), 387 (Globalization), 389 (Global Governance), 428 (State & Economic Life), 432 (Global Enviro Gov), 439 (Global Social Policy), 480 (China & GG), HIST 266 (British Empire)
New Specialization (2016-2017 Academic Calendar) PSCI 281 (World Politics) PSCI 283 (Int’l Political Economy) PSCI 387 (Globalization) PSCI 389 (Global Governance) Two of: PSCI 369/HIST 369 (Decolonization), PSCI 375 (Transnational Migration), PSCI 404 (Globalization, Business, Development); PSCI 432 (Global Environmental Gov); PSCI 439 (Global Social Policy); PSCI 480 (China & GG); PSCI 486 (Diplomacy); PSCI 488 (Global Food & Agri)
The International Relations specialization is a joint specialization with History. The Associate Chair, Undergraduate met with the Association Chair, Undergraduate in History and an agreement was made regarding requirements for a new specialization. The Department of Political Science long-term staffing plan makes explicit provisions that required courses will be taught at least once a year or more. For students following requirements under earlier calendars, the Faculty of Arts will allow “mix and matching”, which means that students who are following the requirements of earlier calendars can take advantage of these streamlined specializations offered by the Department.
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International Relations Specialization
Old International Relations Specialization The specialization in International Relations requires successful completion of four academic course units (eight courses):
• Two of: PSCI 281 (World Politics), PSCI 282 (Foreign Policy), HIST 311 (International Relations 1890-1951)
• Three of: HIST 220 (The Vietnam War and American Society), HIST 230 (Introduction to the Modern Middle East), HIST 268 (A Comparative History of Empires), HIST 275 (The Modern World in Historical Perspective), HIST 282 (History of Modern South Asia), HIST 315 (US and the World), HIST 350 (Canada and the Americans), HIST 389 (Canada in World Affairs)
• Three of: PSCI 355 (Politics Among the Soviet Successor States), PSCI 369 (The Politics of Decolonization), PSCI 375 (Transnational Migration), PSCI 382 (Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy), PSCI 383 (no longer offered), PSCI 481 (Interstate War), PSCI 482 (Critical Security Studies), PSCI 486 (Special Topics in International Diplomacy), PSCI 487 (International Relations Theory)
New Specialization (2016-2017 Academic Calendar) PSCI 281 (World Politics) PSCI 282 (Foreign Policy) Three of: HIST 220 (The Vietnam War and American Society), HIST 230/PSCI 257 (Introduction to the Modern Middle East), HIST 268 (A Comparative History of Empires), HIST 275 (The Modern World in Historical Perspective), HIST 282 (History of Modern South Asia), HIST 311 (International Relations 1890-1951), HIST 315 (US and the World), HIST 350 (Canada and the Americas), HIST 389 (Canada in World Affairs) One of: PSCI 402 (International Trade), PSCI 481 (Interstate War), PSCI 482 (Critical Security Studies), PSCI 486 (Special Topics in International Diplomacy), PSCI 487 (International Relations Theory).
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4. Responsibility for the experiential learning stream should be assigned to someone with strong community linkages in the Waterloo area. We also recommend that the Faculty of Arts provide support for programs developing experiential learning components to their programs.
Status: Completed
Details: The experiential learning pathways have been developed and are in effect for the 2016-2017 academic calendar. The Department has assigned two faculty members to oversee the implementation of its experiential learning requirements. The first is the Experiential Learning Coordinator, who teaches the new required course PSCI 299 (Political Science Beyond the Classroom) and advises our new majors on their experiential learning options within the degree. The Experiential Learning Coordinator also develops much of the content for the experiential learning courses offered at the fourth year level within the Civic Engagement Pathway (PSCI 497A, 497B, 498A, 498B, and 498C). The second faculty member is the Experiential Learning Instructor, who oversees, advises, and evaluates students within the Civic Engagement Pathway. The other two experiential learning experiences that our students can choose from are the Co-op Pathway (students apply in their 2A term and are accepted into the departmental co-op at the beginning of their 2B term) or the Research Pathway (where students write an Honours Essay by taking 499A and 499B).
Through the work of the Department of Political Science, the PSCI 299 (Political Science Beyond the Classroom) course has engaged with the broader university for support from Cooperative Education and Career Action Centre, Waterloo International, and the Student Success Office in order to prepare our new majors for the experiential learning opportunities within their PSCI degree. Each of these partners are linked to PSCI 299 through presentations, assignment requirements, and reflective learning components. The Faculty of Arts has created a new EDGE certificate (Experiential Education Certificate), of which PSCI 299 and some of the civic engagement experiential learning courses count as “experience” towards that certificate. This will give our PSCI majors an advantage if they want to work towards that designation during their undergraduate degree.
While both of the faculty members who are largely responsible for experiential learning have some community linkages, the Department is involving all of our faculty members in this regard. We are continually compiling a list of potential civic engagement opportunities for students through our own networks. CECA also allows all students to use their databases for volunteer job searches. Students have already shown themselves adept at using their
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community contacts to create volunteer opportunities that relate to government and politics. The department has been clear to students that, while we will offer resources and supports, they have to find their own community placements if they wish to pursue a direct community placement. The students who want that particular experience appear ready to rise to that challenge. Other students have expressed interest in earning their experiential learning credit through research apprenticeships, study abroad opportunities, or pursuing independent study on a current issue in politics. The opportunity for experiential learning can also be found in two of our field courses. Model Arab League is a course that includes as a component a five-day trip to Washington, DC where students participate as delegates in a Model Arab League. Our Cultural Literacy and Trade course focuses on international trade, entrepreneurship, and culture in Israel. The course culminates in a two-week trip to Israel where students meet, among others, business leaders and ambassadors, while also visiting and learning about key cultural and historic places in that country.
5. The Department should move toward requiring a half credit methods course for all
undergraduate majors in Political Science. Status: Completed Details: All Honours and 4Yr General PSCI BA students are required to take a course (equivalent to 0.5 units) in either research methods or political theory. The change was approved by the department and implemented in the 2016-2017 academic calendar. The Political Science Department long-term staffing plan is explicit in ensuring one or more of the listed PSCI courses in this requirement are offered each year. Additionally, ARTS 280 (Statistics for Arts Students) is offered at least twice a year, with the spring offering usually online (making it a convenient option for PSCI majors). 6. The undergraduate committee should consider how it can be ensured that students are
introduced to political theories and ideologies at an early point in their degrees. Status: Completed
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Details: With the requirement of a methodology or theory course as part of the 4Yr General and Honours BA we are ensuring that students are introduced to theories and ideologies at an early point in their degree. It is also notable that the required course PSCI 299 is deliberately designed to, among other things, introduce students to the evolution of political science as a discipline, and to what separates it from other social sciences. This course (along with the required theory courses) also introduces the logic and tools used by political scientists to ask both normative and empirical questions.
7. The Department may wish to consider introduction of fully online or blended learning
teaching methods in coming years. In particular, blended learning strategies and online assessments have been shown to be highly effective in improving student learning in recent research.
Status: In progress
Details: The Department is progressing on its commitment to increase the amount blended learning and online assessments. A number of these strategies are already in use by many department faculty members including intensive use of LEARN course management system of online assessments, quizzes, electronic dropboxes, discussion boards, etc., including both of its large introductory first year courses (PSCI 100 and PSCI 150). PSCI 299, offered for the first time in Fall 2016, was designed to include intensive use of blended learning. All assignments are submitted and graded online, it is making extensive use of the Discussion Board for students to earn their participation marks, and next fall students will also be using the e-portfolio (the PSCI 299 class should have an average of 45-50 students going forward, but this fall, because of the popularity of plan standardization across the Faculty of Arts, PSCI 299 has close to 90 students enrolled, making it more difficult to employ the e-portfolio function in the course’s first iteration). The experiential learning courses within the Civic Engagement Pathway are entirely online (PSCI 497A, PSCI 497B, PSCI 498A, PSCI 498B, and PSCI 498C). While students will be meeting with each other and the Experiential Learning Instructor throughout the term, their writing reflections, sharing of experiences through discussions, and final projects will all occur through the LEARN management system. As these courses are implemented (the first offering will occur in Winter 2017), the Department will continue to monitor their success for blended learning and make improvements and revisions where required to optimize the students’
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experiential learning opportunity. It is also worthy to note that, in the past, International Studies 101 has been offered as an online course (before the Department took on the International Studies minor). While the course itself would have to be completely rebuilt to reflect a political science approach, there is an online shell available to us to begin this process.
8. There are very small numbers of international students registered in the undergraduate program and the Department may wish to discuss with university administration how it can do a better job in recruiting strong international students.
Status: In progress
Details: Please see #9 below. It continues to be the case that political science is not a direct entry plan for Arts students and, as a result, recruitment of international students can only take place incidentally through recruitment of students to the Faculty of Arts more generally. The Department does take part in Faculty-sponsored activities such as the Fall Open House and Declare Your Major, as well as internal department events such as the Political Science Major Information Session. Through these events we do try to reach out to all students who are interested in pursuing a major in Political Science, including students who are attending the university from abroad.
9. The Department is working to enhance the internationalization of its programs, by working
to create dedicated exchange opportunities for Political Science students. It would be helpful if more resources were available to support Political Science students who wish to take advantage of these exchanges. The Department could also take advantage of the numerous international connections of the Balsillie School to increase the visibility of its programs.
Status: In progress Details: The Department continues to encourage our students to take advantage of existing exchange opportunities. In addition to what the Department has already done (including identifying strong political science departments and working to identify course equivalencies in advance which is anticipated to increase uptake of such opportunities by UW students, creating a
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webpage dedicated to international exchange opportunities open to students in Political Science and currently highlighting six exchange opportunities - Warwick, Graz, Hong Kong, Queensland, Oslo, and Sussex - which are of particular relevance to students of political science with listings of specific political science relevant courses) we have also created “Travel Abroad” as one of the experiential learning opportunities that PSCI students can undertake to fulfill the experiential learning requirement of the PSCI 4Yr and Honours degree. PSCI 497A and PSCI 497B were deliberately designed to encourage our students to take an academic term abroad. While they are away, students will be writing reflections about their experience. When the students return to Waterloo, they will take PSCI 497B and complete a final project about their experience in a different country. PSCI 299 introduces this experiential learning possibility to our new majors which includes a presentation by Waterloo International, the conduit through which students arrange their international exchange. It is our expectation that many more students will opt in to the travel abroad experience since it will also count towards their experiential learning requirement. The Department will be keeping track of this data. 10. We recommend that representatives of the Department, particularly the Associate Chair,
Undergraduate, meet directly with the Coop office in order to discuss the needs and skills of Political Science students with respect to placement and possibilities for improving the types of placements these students receive.
Status: Ongoing Details: Plan standardization within the Faculty of Arts has provided the Department with an opportunity to invigorate its co-op programme. With the Honours major average lowered to 70% (from 75%) the department anticipates a greater number of PSCI students opting to apply to the Co-op pathway as their experiential learning requirement in the degree. Co-op is also something faculty members hear a lot about from interested students during the Fall Open House, the Ontario Universities Fair, Declare Your Major, and the department’s own Co-op Information Session. As a result, the Department has formally uncoupled the Co-op Advisor role from the responsibilities of the Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies. The Department now has a dedicated Co-op Officer, Professor Dan Henstra, who oversees our current co-op students and actively works to recruit and approve new PSCI majors into the co-op stream. Through an in-class presentation by UW Co-op, our new majors in PSCI 299 are introduced to co-op and the
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role of CECA more broadly. Professor Henstra also makes a presentation to the students about the details of the PSCI co-op programme, and he holds a second, stand-alone co-op information session at the end of October each year. Professor Henstra has developed a PSCI-specific co-op handbook and is tracking the kinds of jobs that our students get through the co-op competition. He will continue to work closely with CECA and Rachel Jenson, the new manager of Co-op for the Faculty of Arts, to assess the types of jobs that are attractive to our students. It is also important to note that in PSCI 299 students engage in a serious, reflective exercise in which they assess their own skills, values, and goals. Students use this exercise to think about the kinds of jobs they may want to pursue, the kinds of skills they still require to successfully compete for those jobs, and then design a plan (through course planning, volunteering, etc.) for how they can develop those skills and achieve their goals. The co-op office has identified to us that the more students we can attract to the PSCI co-op, the more likely the supply of appropriate and attractive jobs will be available to them. The Department continues to move forward on strengthening our co-op for the benefit of our majors.
ADDITIONAL NOTES – UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM Explain any circumstances that have altered the original implementation plan: Plan Standardization, as spearheaded by the Faculty of Arts, changed the Department’s plan with regard to elimination of the 4Yr General BA. This is no longer a recommendation that the Department will be pursuing. Doing so would put us at a disadvantage vis-à-vis other departments in the competition to keep and retain majors. It is worth reiterating that, as a result, the Department has made the requirements for the Honours and the 4Yr General BA identical, save for the major average required to be conferred a Honours degree. In either case, a PSCI major will have training in either political theory or methodology, they will have finished an experiential learning pathway, and they will have completed at least two 400 level PSCI courses. Most students will aim to graduate with Honours, and the General degree will act more as fallback rather than as an “opt in”.
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Address any significant developments or initiatives that have arisen since the program review process, or that were not contemplated during the review:
The most significant development since the review has been the implementation of experiential learning in the PSCI degree. The University of Waterloo is an international leader of experiential learning through its co-op program. The fact remains, however, that not all students want to be in the co-op programme but there is wide agreement that students should still have some kind of “experience” in order to successful compete for jobs when they are finished their undergraduate degrees. In the 2016-2017 academic calendar (and all calendars that will follow), the PSCI department requires their majors to choose an experiential learning pathway. Three are offered: the co-op pathway (where students gain experience through the co-op program), the research pathway (where student have experience researching and writing a major piece of scholarship at the undergraduate level), and the civic engagement pathway (where students have a choice of studying abroad, following a current issue in politics for a term, providing research assistance to a PSCI faculty member, or through volunteering in a community placement that has to do with politics and government). All of these opportunities – and the reflective learning and writing that accompanies them – are taught in PSCI 299 “Political Science Beyond the Classroom”. PSCI 299 is a required course and it teaches our students a variety of objectives, including the ability to identify learning goals, skill gaps, and create a plan to achieve them; recognize, adopt and practice deep-learning strategies for political science; demonstrate an understanding of the basic logic and tools used by political scientists to explain the political world; and finally to develop effective skills for reading, writing and presentation in political science. It promises to be a deeply valuable course for students in Political Science. While the new experiential learning courses in the Civic Engagement Pathway have not yet been offered (start date of Winter 2017), our students are already excited about them. The Department is committed to tracking the data associated with those courses, including the numbers of students who select each one, the placements they go on, the quality of research they do for faculty members, the kinds of issues they wish to follow, and the number and location of international exchange experiences. Among the departments within the Faculty of Arts, Political Science is taking experiential learning very seriously and our plan is to have smart, knowledgeable, engaged, and experienced students graduating with our degree.
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MA Political Science Program Recommendations
1. Collect data on the level of funding offered to MA students by other universities in southern Ontario. If Waterloo is indeed more generous, it should make it known
Status: Completed Details: In spring 2015, the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies gathered data on funding offered by political science programs at other universities in Ontario and beyond. From the information we could obtain, it appeared that our regular funding package was generally competitive. Our financial offers were more competitive when we were able to offer top-up funding from the research grants of individual faculty members. As recommended, our revised website highlights the details of our funding packages much more than it did in the past. 2. Narrowing the enrolment range to 20-30. Improve take up rate.
Status: Completed Details: We have narrowed the range to 13-18, targeting around 15 each year. In response to the last program review, we have taken a number steps to improve the take up rate: 1) identify top-up funding and convey this to students at the time of admission, 2) have professors contact each admitted student, encouraging them to join our program, 3) survey incoming and current students on an ongoing basis to see what have attracted them to our program, and 4) reach out more to undergraduates with the graduate school info session (with excellent attendance). We believe these efforts have paid off. In the last two years we have had very good take-up rates among admitted students. This year, over 60 percent of our offers were accepted.
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3. The Department should encourage more students to choose the coop option and invest in its
relationship with the Cooperative Education program to improve the opportunities for Political Science students.
Status: Completed Details: For the last two years we included a presentation by the university’s co-op office (CECA) in new graduate student orientation. We have carried out the commitment made in response to the last review to reinstate the “Departmental Co-op officer” position, which is now occupied by Professor Dan Henstra. He has provided further assistance to students interested in learning more about co-op. For the last two years, we have had two MA students participating in the co-op program each year. All of them report very good educational experiences through their placements in private, public and non-profit organizations. This year an unprecedented eight students have been accepted into the co-op program. 4. In order to recruit international students, the Department should continue to develop close
partnerships with foreign institutions, as the Department is currently undertaking with the University of Warwick Department of Politics and International Studies. It is important that the Department receives support from the Faculty of Graduate Studies in attracting foreign students.
Status: Ongoing Details: We are interested in bringing international students to our program. We see two ways to do so. One is to directly encourage international applicants. We receive many inquiries from international applicants and continue to encourage them to apply. The department has been told by the Associate Dean of Arts, Graduate Studies, that we could only fund 1-2 international students each year. As noted in the original response to the reviewers’ recommendation, “In the past three years, the Department has either met or surpassed this target. Given the strong pool of international applicants in the current graduate application round, the Department is confident that it will again meet this target.” The other way to recruit international students is through exchange programs with foreign institutions, which does not include funding provided by UW. Given the short duration of our MA program (one year), there are practical difficulties in arranging for exchange students with other programs, including the one at the University of
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Warwick. However, we have been very supportive of the initiative of the MA program in Global Governance (with which we are closely affiliated and on whose program committee the department is represented) to proceed with a formal exchange relationship with Warwick and we have been happy to see Warwick students now in our MA classes. We continue to be open to exploring possibilities for formal exchange relationships that fit with our program structure. MPS PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS
1. The University should keep investing in the MPS program.
Status: Ongoing
Details: UW has continued to invest in the program in many ways and champion it in externally and internally. We have worked with media relations in the University, and there have been two recent articles that have noted the opportunities as a student and the general growth in the program. It is now the largest grad co-op program in the university. The articles can be found here https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/news/master-public-service-co-op-student-works-parliament-hill and here https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/co-op-education-prepares-graduate-students-public-service. We have also invested significant resources in building a dedicated alumni network which regularly attends social events in Toronto and Ottawa. MPS alumni are enthusiastic champions of the program and are vital resources by acting as mentors to incoming students, providing help on resumes, conducting mock interviews, and offering detailed advice and knowledge on how the public service works, and qualities which are necessary to become a successful public servant. This engagement is important as these are skills that cannot be taught in a classroom. The appointment of John Milloy, former Ontario cabinet minister and member of provincial parliament for Kitchener Centre, as a lecturer, has reaped significant dividends for the program. He has managed to bring a real world perspective, which is mandatory for a professional program and has also successfully spearheaded some key initiatives. First, he manages a mentorship program in which fifteen of our top students are matched to highly placed individuals in municipal, provincial and the federal governments. The program
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encourages networking and allows students to understand the skills required to succeed as professional public servants. A second investment facilitated by Dr. Milloy, has been the creation of an Advisory Group consisting of former reputed public servants. The primary responsibility of a Group member is to offer career advice to MPS students on the culture of the public service and key ingredients for success. The existence of the Advisory Group is also a branding initiative, which should generate more awareness and interest in the program as well as networking and employment opportunities for MPS students. Perhaps the most important investment has been the creation of a new program space on campus. This will enable students to forge stronger relationships with graduate students from other programs and professors, and take advantage of considerable resources, which are difficult to access at the current space. The opening of the new program space (August-September 2017) also provides and important opportunity to highlight and showcase the MPS program both within the University community, the broader local community, and the wider public service community. Plans for the opening will be developed in spring 2017 under the direction of the program Director, the internal UW MPS Advisory committee, and the external Advisory Group.
2. The main challenge in terms of MPS enrollment involves space. Were the University to
decide not to renew the lease in 2017, moving the program will have to be planned with extreme care. Ideally, the University would accept leasing more space (enough to enable an enrollment range of 45-55) for the program in a professional environment. Given the revenues generated for the University by the program, we believe this latter solution to be a valuable one. If the University decides to renew the lease, the enrollment problem caused by the lack of space (discussed above) would continue. The enrollment target of 48 would then have to be reduced to a more realistic figure.
Status: Completed
Details: It has been conclusively determined that the MPS Program is moving back to main campus into one of the former Blackberry buildings. The plans have been approved by the Program Director and Program Officer and is very similar to the existing space. The new space can accommodate 54 students which will enable more flexible enrollment targets. The space also has a state of
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the art theatre that is conducive to hosting guest lectures. Another difference in the new facilities is the construction of three offices in addition to separate spaces for the Program Director, Officer, and Assistant. The additional offices will allow associated faculty to spend longer time periods at the MPS space, which would be extremely beneficial to students and enable the program to potentially host visiting public servants on exchange programs. Our objective is to have an annual Scholars in Resident program, which hosts distinguished public servants who have been granted a sabbatical. 3. We strongly support the Department’s argument for an additional staff person to support
the MPS program. Status: Completed
Details: A two-year limited term Program Assistant was approved in January 2015. The Program Assistant has been invaluable and has facilitated an efficient allocation of duties among the Program Director, Program Officer, and Program Assistant. The creation of a Program Assistant responsible for ensuring that program guidelines and administrative requirements are strictly adhered to by current as well as co-op students, has allowed the Program Officer to focus on student well-being, and branding initiatives, marketing, and recruitment. The effort spent by the Program Assistant on administrative responsibilities is absolutely critical as it opens more time for the Program Officer for outreach and awareness, and ensuring that we maintain our enrollment targets. We look forward to this position becoming permanent once the program returns to main campus. 4. The program should in fact aim to have all of its courses taught by regular
professors, especially that students pay higher tuition to be in this program (note that all the MA courses in the Department are offered by regular professors). Other departments, however, could be encouraged to contribute to the program (through some form of compensation), thereby reducing the number of sessional teachers in the program.
Status: Not pursuing Details: This is an area on which the MPS directorship has spent considerable effort. Currently, there are five tenured or tenure stream professors from Political Science (Daniel Henstra, Angela
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Carter, Emmett MacFarlane), English (Ashley Kelly), and Economics (Anindya Sen) who teach in the program as part of their regular course load and are expected to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Currently, there are also three sessionals who are making a long-term and continuing contribution to teaching in the program: Rosemary McGowan (School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University); Augie Fleras (Sociology, University of Waterloo); and Corey Van De Waal (Economics, University of Waterloo). The MPS advisory committee has decided to continue to retain these specific sessional lecturers as they are experts in their fields and have received very strong teaching reviews and praise from former students. While having regular faculty is important, our view is that students also benefit from sessional lecturers who happen to be outstanding teachers and who fit the program needs. It should also be noted that all of our sessional lecturers happen to be respected researchers who have published in well ranked peer reviewed journals.
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Updated Implementation Plan:
Recommendations Proposed Actions Responsibility for Leading and Resourcing (if applicable) the Actions
Timeline for addressing Recommendations
1. More blended learning in course offerings Increase blended learning in all courses; monitor the blended learning implemented in PSCI 299 and the PSCI 49X Experiential Learning Courses.
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Experiential Learning Coordinator Experiential Learning Instructor
Review of PSCI 299 and PSCI 49X courses in Spring 2017, and again each term.
2. Internationalization of programs
Monitor whether an increase of international exchanges through PSCI 497A/B brings more students to UW PSCI; continue discussions with BSIA about potential for affiliated programs.
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Review exchanges each Spring (because of timeline for arranging international exchanges); BSIA?
3. Co-Op and improved placements for PSCI students.
Greater intake of PSCI co-op students; continue to work closely with CECA vis-à-vis desirable jobs for PSCI students
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Co-op Officer
Review in Spring 2017 and Spring 2018 of job placements by the new cohorts; annual review of jobs taken by PSCI students in upper cohorts.
4. MA PSCI – Recruit international students through contacts with international institutions
Stronger international recruitment efforts and enhanced contacts with international institutions
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
Review international recruitment efforts (Spring 2017) following graduate application and admissions cycle; examine and propose potential
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international partnership institutions for enhanced student opportunities (Spring 2017)
5. MPS – Ensure that the University continues to invest in the MPS program
Review program (internal and external) promotion efforts and communications strategy Develop plans to leverage promotional opportunities provided by opening of new on-campus space
Director, MPS program MPS Internal UW Advisory Committee External Advisory Committee
Review program promotion efforts (Spring 2017) Develop plans to leverage promotional opportunities provided by opening of new on-campus space (September 2017)
The Department Chair/Director, in consultation with the Dean of the Faculty shall be responsible for monitoring the Implementation Plan.
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New Course
BET 350 LEC 0.50 Course ID: Customer Experience Design In this hands-on course, entrepreneurial students will learn the principles and tools of customer experience (CX) design and how developing an exceptional experience for the customers fits into an overall business strategy. Not only will students develop a conceptual understanding of user experience and user-centered design, they will also learn how to deeply understand the needs of the customer and develop engaging and innovative products and services. Topics include: visual design principles, design thinking, user experience research, experience mapping, sketching and storyboards, interactive prototypes, and usability testing. Consent: No consent Instructor contact hours: LEC 3.0 Final exam: no Prerequisites: none Anti-requisites: none Co-requisites: none Rationale: We have been offering a workshop on customer experience to e-coop students for a number of years, and also to special groups of students from time to time. These workshops are always well subscribed. After each workshop, we always field requests by the students for more. There is also nothing like this course available at the Waterloo campus yet it is an essential competency for anyone interested in launching a new customer-centric product. Because of that, we believe this course will run at capacity while enhancing the development of entrepreneurial ventures at the university. Taught for the first time: F17 Semesters offered: F,W,S
Term and year of offering: Fall 2017
Course number and title: BET 350, Customer Experience Design
Lecture times, building and room number: 3-hour classes once per week; evening
classes; prefer workshop/breakout style room
Instructor’s name, office location, office hours, contact: Karin Schmidlin; 295 Hagey
Blvd, Suite 230; Tues 2-4, Thurs 2-4; [email protected], x38801.
Course description:
“In this hands-on course, entrepreneurial students will learn the principles and tools of
customer experience (CX) design and how developing an exceptional experience for the
customers fits into an overall business strategy. Not only will students develop a
conceptual understanding of user experience and user-centered design, they will also
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learn how to deeply understand the needs of the customer and develop engaging and
innovative products and services. Topics include: visual design principles, design
thinking, user experience research, experience mapping, sketching and storyboards,
interactive prototypes, and usability testing.”
Course objectives:
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
Apply the basic principles of customer experience
Understand all the touch points a customer has with an organization
Demonstrate and critically evaluate how the role of the customer, their
behaviours, perceptions, and expectations affect their interaction with products
and services
Understand the role of design and its competitive advantage for organizations
Use a wide range of design, ideation, and prototyping techniques
Required readings: Course package (see details under Topics to be covered in lectures:
Readings, below)
Additional readings from:
Pine II, Joseph B., & Gilmore, James H. (2011). The experience economy, updated edition. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing. Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y, Bernarda, G., & Smith, A. (2014). Value proposition design: How to create products and services customers want. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc. Weinschenk, S. (2011). 100 things every designer needs to know about people. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Kalbach, J. (2016). Mapping experiences. A complete guide to creating value through journeys, blueprints, and diagrams. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
Topics to be covered in lectures:
Date Lecture Topic Readings
Class 1 Introduction to customer experience Rawson, Duncan, Jones: The Truth
about Customer Experience. HBR,
2013
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Class 2 Design Thinking 101 Brown: Design Thinking, Unlock your
organization’s creative potential, 2016
Class 3 The Customer: User-Centered Design (UCD) Contextual research
Boyd: 3 User-Centered Design
Principles & Examples, HOW, 2015
Class 4 Human behaviour, motivation and
engagement
Weinschenk: The Psychologist’s View of UX Design. UXmag, 2010 Fogg: A Behavior Model for
Persuasive Design
Class 5 User interviews & observation Nielsen: Interviewing Users,
NNGroup, 2010
Class 6 Experience & Customer Journey maps 1: Mapping the multi-channel experience
Kalbach: Mapping Experiences,
chapter 2 – Fundamentals of Mapping
Experiences, O’Reilly, 2016
Class 7 Experience & customer journey maps 2: Identifying pain points
Adaptive Path: Experience Mapping
Class 8 Prototyping part 1 (sketches and
storyboards)
Class 9 Visual design and design principles Kennedy: 7 rules for creating
gorgeous UI. Medium, 2014
Class 10 Usability testing
Class 11 Prototyping part 2 (Adding interactivity)
Class 12 Group presentations
Evaluation:
The course grade will be based on in-class participation, individual assignments, and a
final group project. The breakdown is as follows:
In-class participation & online conversations 30%
Individual assignments 30%
Final group project 40%
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Participation:
Students are expected to actively participate in this course, either in class or via the
LEARN discussions about the weekly reading assignments.
Projects and Workshops:
Individual Assignments
In order to balance theory with practical applications, lectures will be supplemented
with hands-on workshops during class time. Although each class will have some activity
component, 3 workshops will be graded. Each is worth 10%. Students are strongly
encouraged to complete all readings and actively participate in these workshops. The
three topics are:
1. Customer Survey
2. Experience Map
3. Usability Test
Final Group Project
Based on the weekly learnings, students will be working on a group project throughout
the duration of this course. In teams of 2-5, students will improve the customer
experience of either their own venture or an existing company. Marks will be based on
the project (75%) and the in-class presentation (25%).
Academic integrity, grievance, discipline, appeals and note for students with
disabilities:
Academic integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of
the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness,
respect and responsibility. [Check the Office of Academic Integrity for more
information.]
Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her
university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a
grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt,
please be certain to contact the department’s administrative assistant who will provide
further assistance.
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Discipline: A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid
committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. [Check
the Office of Academic Integrity for more information.] A student who is unsure
whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid
offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for group work/collaboration
should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the
undergraduate associate dean. For information on categories of offences and types of
penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline. For typical penalties,
check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Appeals: A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70, Student Petitions and
Grievances (other than a petition) or Policy 71, Student Discipline may be appealed if
there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should
refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals.
Note for students with disabilities: AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall,
Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate
accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic
integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the
impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of
each academic term.
Turnitin.com and alternatives: Text matching software (Turnitin) will be used to screen assignments in this course. This is being done to verify that use of all material and sources in assignments is documented. In the first week of the term, details will be provided about the arrangements for the use of Turnitin and alternatives in this course.
Note: students must be given a reasonable option if they do not want to have their assignment screened by Turnitin. See Academic Integrity - Guidelines for Instructors for more information.
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New Course
BET 430 LEC 0.50 Course ID: Sales Fundamentals The one thing every new venture needs whether small or large, not-for-profit or for-profit, startup or part of an already mature business, is sales. This course is designed to help you create and grow a successful business venture through your personal marketing and sales efforts. Coursework examines key sales technologies, networking techniques, the use of marketing in sales, the sales process, and assessing the value of a particular sale from both the perspective of customer impact and the financial/strategic impact on the organization. Consent: No consent Instructor contact hours: LEC 3.0 Final exam: yes Prerequisites: none Anti-requisites: none Co-requisites: none Rationale: Only about 25% of business schools have a sales course, despite the fact that there is a core of relevant research available on sales, and no business can succeed without a strong sales focus. Indeed, research shows that students who have taken a sales course become more proficient at it, more quickly than those who have not. We have been offering shortened sales courses to our MBET students, and now want to provide a more intensive experience for our undergraduate students. Because the course is unique to Conrad (i.e., not offered anywhere else on campus), we believe enrolment for it will quickly develop. Taught for the first time: F17 Semesters offered: F,W,S
Term and year of offering: Fall 2017
Course number and title: BET 430, Sales Fundamentals
Lecture times, building and room number: 3-hour classes once per week; evening
classes; prefer workshop/breakout style room
Instructor’s name, office location, office hours, contact: TBD.
Course description:
“The one thing every new venture needs whether small or large, not-for-profit or for-
profit, startup or part of an already mature business, is sales. This course is designed to
help you create and grow a successful business venture through your personal
marketing and sales efforts. Coursework examines key sales technologies, networking
techniques, the use of marketing in sales, the sales process, and assessing the value of a
particular sale from both the perspective of customer impact and the financial/strategic
impact on the organization.”
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Course objectives:
Students completing BET 430 will be expected to:
• Know how to use market research to accelerate their sales efforts;
• Be able to define and document the key steps in the sales process;
• Develop and communicate the important value propositions from a customer
perspective;
• Use results, benefits, and ROI calculations to quantify and identify appropriate
sales opportunities;
• Improve closing ratios;
• Increase sales and bottom line results.
Required texts: Hurson, T., & Dunne, T. (2014). Never be closing: How to sell without
screwing your clients, your colleagues, or yourself. New York: Penguin/Portfolio.
Additional readings: Course package.
Topics to be covered in lectures:
Date Lecture Topic Readings
Class 1 Course introduction.
Sales program preparation and identifying your
selling style.
Class 2 Why sell?
Market research for sales results. Prospect
profiles – from demographics to psychographics.
Never Be Closing – Part I
Class 3 Individual and business marketing strategies,
types of sales, branding, and identifying minimal
cost marketing opportunities.
From course package
Class 4 Value proposition, client contacts, and business
requirements workbook.
From course package, and
content on Learn
Class 5 Sales processes: stages, preparing the business
case, identifying key stakeholders, and developing
a value case workbook.
From course package, and
content on Learn
Class 6 Preparing for the first meeting: scripts, success
criteria, getting to yes, and five questions.
Never Be Closing – Parts II
and III
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Class 7 The first meeting: building credibility, earning the
right to ask, staying in the question.
Never Be Closing – Part IV
Class 8 Completing the needs analysis and creating
effective proposals.
From course package
Class 9 Reviewing the major types of objections and
creating strategies to overcome each type. Closing
the sale, without ending the relationship.
Never Be Closing – Part V
Class 10 Measuring sales success, conducting a full
program review, and setting timelines.
From course package
Class 11 An introduction to CRM systems, Part 1.
Class 12 An introduction to CRM systems, Part 2.
Evaluation:
The course grade will be based on in-class participation, assignments, and a final exam.
The breakdown is as follows:
In-class participation 20%
Assignments 50%
Final exam 30%
Assignments:
Assignments involve the practical application of concepts presented in each lesson. The
purpose of these assignments is to provide opportunities to master the theory while
developing specific sales skills. Students will be invited to sell, to comment on sales
processes that they observe, to build a performance profile, and to interview sales
professionals. Additional assignments will include building a personal sales profile,
documenting an after action review (AAR), completing a KnoWonder, and using the Q-
note template.
Assignment deadlines: Assignment deadlines will be communicated to students in the
first class.
Late submissions: Late penalties will be assessed for all assignments at a rate of 10% for
every day or part day past due.
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In-class Participation:
There will be a lot of class discussions, presentations, practical activities, feedback, and
self-reflection.
Academic integrity, grievance, discipline, appeals and note for students with
disabilities:
Academic integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of
the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness,
respect and responsibility. [Check the Office of Academic Integrity for more
information.]
Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her
university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a
grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt,
please be certain to contact the department’s administrative assistant who will provide
further assistance.
Discipline: A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid
committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. [Check
the Office of Academic Integrity for more information.] A student who is unsure
whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid
offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for group work/collaboration
should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the
undergraduate associate dean. For information on categories of offences and types of
penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline. For typical penalties,
check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Appeals: A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70, Student Petitions and
Grievances (other than a petition) or Policy 71, Student Discipline may be appealed if
there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should
refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals.
Note for students with disabilities: AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall,
Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate
accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic
integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the
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impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of
each academic term.
Turnitin.com and alternatives: Text matching software (Turnitin) will be used to screen assignments in this course. This is being done to verify that use of all material and sources in assignments is documented. In the first week of the term, details will be provided about the arrangements for the use of Turnitin and alternatives in this course.
Note: students must be given a reasonable option if they do not want to have their assignment screened by Turnitin. See Academic Integrity - Guidelines for Instructors
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New Course
BET 450 LEC 0.50 Course ID: Leadership Leaders make things happen. Leaders make things possible. This course explores the relevant concepts, theories and skills needed to lead successfully in any environment, from new ventures to change management in large corporations, government, and not-for-profits. Course topics include: leadership and followership, group and team dynamics, change management, interpersonal dynamics, and supporting leadership skills such as self-awareness, conflict management, and communications. Course topics will be enriched through a critical study of leadership exemplars in popular media. Consent: No consent Instructor contact hours: LEC 3.0 Final exam: yes Prerequisites: none Anti-requisites: GBDA 204, MSCI 411, SPCOM 204, SPCOM 227 Co-requisites: none Rationale: We are seeing a growing demand for leadership development as more students take BET courses. While engineering already offers a senior-level leadership course (MSCI 411), the same is not true for many other disciplines on-campus such as AHS, MATH, and SCIENCE, whose students take our courses along with the Entrepreneurship minor. In addition, our area has particular expertise in business and entrepreneurial leadership, and we currently teach graduate leadership courses in both the MBET and GDip programs. Taught for the first time: F17 Semesters offered: F,W
Term and year of offering: Fall 2017 Course number and title: BET 450, Leadership
Lecture times, building and room number: 3-hour classes once per week; evening
classes; prefer workshop/breakout style room
Instructor’s name, office location, office hours, contact: Marc Hurwitz; 295 Hagey Blvd,
Suite 240; Tues and Thurs 10:00 to noon; [email protected], x31946.
Course description:
“Leaders make things happen. Leaders make things possible. This course explores the
relevant concepts, theories and skills needed to lead successfully in any environment,
from new ventures to change management in large corporations, government, and not-
for-profits. Course topics include: leadership and followership, group and team
dynamics, change management, interpersonal dynamics, and supporting leadership
skills such as self-awareness, conflict management, and communications. Course topics
will be enriched through a critical study of leadership exemplars in popular media.”
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Course objectives:
Students completing BET 450 will be expected to develop leadership, followership, and
collaboration skills that improve their ability to foster innovation in any organizational
context. Students will also have a critical perspective on older, theories of leadership so
that they can be informed consumers of leadership ideas that are being promoted in the
media and through journals such as HBR. At the end of the course, students should be
able to:
Describe the major leadership and followership theories of the 20th century
including transformational leadership, authentic leadership, behavioural and
trait-based leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX), contingency models,
Chaleff’s courageous followership approach, and Kelley’s followership model;
Understand the context of innovation (and therefore leadership) within new
ventures and existing businesses;
Apply modern theories of collaboration and leadership/followership to building
teams and organizations;
Know how to optimize individual and team dynamics for innovation including
collaborative decision making, communications, shared goals, and performance
management;
Develop a set of skills and tools to improve personal effectiveness in an
innovation environment such as appreciative inquiry, coaching, and decision
support.
Required text: Hurwitz, M, & Hurwitz, S. (2015). Leadership is Half the Story: A Fresh
Look and Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, Rotman Imprint.
Course package: A course package will include additional material on the major
leadership theories.
Additional readings and media: As assigned by Instructor.
Topics to be covered in lectures:
Date Lecture Topic Assignments Readings
Class 1 Course introduction.
Developing a personal vision
In-class
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Class 2 Trait-based, behavioural, and
contingent leadership theory.
Assignment 1 From Course Package
Class 3 Transformational, charismatic,
and authentic leadership.
Assignment 2 From Course Package
Class 4 Followership in theory and
practice.
Assignment 3 From Course Package, LIHTS
chapters 1-3
Class 5 Interpersonal collaboration
and agility.
In-class LIHTS chapters 4 & 5
Class 6 Creative team dynamics In-class LIHTS chapter 7
Class 7 Collaborative decision-making. In-class LIHTS chapter 9
Class 8 Individual and team goals.
Performance management.
Assignment 4 LIHTS chapters 8 & 13
Class 9 Communication and
connections.
In-class LIHTS chapters 6, 10, & 12
Class 10 Self-management and wellness Assignment 5 From course package.
Class 11 Conflict management In-class From course package.
Class 12 Ethical considerations in
leadership
In-class From course package.
Evaluation:
The course grade will be based on in-class participation, assignments, and a final exam.
The breakdown is as follows:
Assignments 40%
In-class participation 40%
Final exam 20%
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Assignments:
There will be five assignments each worth 10%. Marks will be based on the best four of
five assignments. These assignments are expected to be done individually.
Assignment deadlines: All assignments are due by Sunday of that week, at 11:59pm.
Assignments 1, 2, and 3 have two parts; the first part will be due on Thursday evening at
11:59pm. It is the second part that will be due by the Sunday deadline. More details on
assignments will be given during the first class.
Late submissions: Late penalties will be assessed for all assignments at a rate of 10% for
every day or part day past due.
In-class Participation:
There will be a lot of small group discussions, full class discussions, case analyses,
presentations, practical activities, commentaries given and received, and self-reflection.
The course is very reading and writing intensive. It is critical to come prepared by
having read and analysed the readings before each class.
What you should expect of your instructor: The instructor’s role is to stimulate and
guide discussion, plan and frame the content for each class, be a content expert, and
evaluate your achievement and comprehension as accurately and thoroughly as
possible.
Do expect to be asked questions that probe the depth of your understanding of
issues.
Do expect to be asked questions pertinent to the assigned readings.
Do expect to be given timely feedback, to have your concerns treated fairly and
professionally, to be critiqued but not criticized, and to be given individual
consideration.
Expectations of you: The course is about developing your understanding of leadership, followership, and collaboration along with personal skill development. As such, getting full value from the course requires that you are willing to introspect, self-reflect, actively engage with the material, and experiment with new ideas.
You should also be prepared to
Seek clarification if you don’t understand something
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Read assigned material as if you had to use it (you will)
Listen to your peers with the purpose of understanding
Bring additional material for the class to consider
Build on what others say in class, and
Respectfully disagree sometimes.
The best classes are those with a sharing of perspectives that lead to each person
discovering the relevance and applicability of conceptual ideas, the subtleties and finer
points of a situation, and the rationale for various options. To achieve this, critical
requirements are:
1. Participation – Much of the deep learning and personal growth comes from
classroom discussion and active engagement with the material.
2. Preparation – Read the assigned material and prepare fully. You may be called upon
to start or contribute to a class on any day, on any topic. If you have been unable to
prepare adequately, let your instructor know in advance.
3. Contribution - Be an active contributor to the course: comment, question, expand,
rephrase, disagree, and analyse. Participation will help you hone your own views and
create opportunities for peers to learn from you. You can contribute in small group
discussions, larger classroom discussions, online forums, or during group activities – all
are valued.
4. Regard – Keep your comments and points to ideas, refrain from disparaging people or
organizations, treat guest speakers like gold (they are!), and your fellow students the
same.
Academic integrity, grievance, discipline, appeals and note for students with
disabilities:
Academic integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of
the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness,
respect and responsibility. [Check the Office of Academic Integrity for more
information.]
Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her
university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a
grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt,
please be certain to contact the department’s administrative assistant who will provide
further assistance.
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Discipline: A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid
committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. [Check
the Office of Academic Integrity for more information.] A student who is unsure
whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid
offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for group work/collaboration
should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the
undergraduate associate dean. For information on categories of offences and types of
penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline. For typical penalties,
check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Appeals: A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70, Student Petitions and
Grievances (other than a petition) or Policy 71, Student Discipline may be appealed if
there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should
refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals.
Note for students with disabilities: AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall,
Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate
accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic
integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the
impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of
each academic term.
Turnitin.com and alternatives: Text matching software (Turnitin) will be used to screen assignments in this course. This is being done to verify that use of all material and sources in assignments is documented. In the first week of the term, details will be provided about the arrangements for the use of Turnitin and alternatives in this course.
Note: students must be given a reasonable option if they do not want to have their assignment screened by Turnitin. See Academic Integrity - Guidelines for Instructors for more information.
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