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2011-12

June 2012

Request for Decision: Graduate Studies and Research -- Post-Graduate Degree Specialization Certificate in Corrections
Request for Decision:  College  of Graduate Studies and Research - MEd in Curriculum Studies area of study:  Educational Technology and Design
Request for Decision: College of Medicine - admission qualification change for Out-Of-Province applicants

Items for Information: 
Pharmacy and Nutrition: Change to Academic Calendar for fourth-year students
CGSR: Increase in Physical Therapy program credit units
CGSR: Change of program name to Biological Engineering
Education: Change of name for Vocational EducationCertificate
Veterinary Medicine: Increase in Veterinary Medicine Year Four program
Nomenclature Report: Addition of mobility terminology
Annual Report of the committee for 2011-12

May 2012

No reports approved due to lack of quorum

April, 2012

Request for Decision: Agriculture and Bioresources- B.Sc. in Animal Bioscience

March, 2012

Request for Decision:  Edwards School of Business: revision to admission requirements and related program changes for Aboriginal Business Administration Certificate

Request for Decision:  Academic Courses Policy:  late withdrawals from courses and Withdraw Fail grade comment

Report for Information:  Items for Information: 
Agriculture and Bioresources: Change of name of Minor to Minor in Agribusiness Entrepreneurship
Pharmacy and Nutrition: Temporary change in Nutrition admission quota
Medicine: Change in program credit units due to change ingenetics course

January, 2012

Request for decision: CGSR: Revised admission qualifications for Master of Business Administration 
Request for decision: Engineering: Revisions to Engineering programs in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Engineering
Request for decision: Arts & Science: Increased language requirement for B.A. Humanities majors 
Request for decision: Arts & Science: Program termination of BA Four-year and Honours Sociology (Indigenous Peoples and Justice Program) major and the Minor in Indigenous Peoples and Justice 
Request for decision: University of Saskatchewan Admissions Policy 
Request for decision: Revisions to Academic Calendar Procedures 
Item for Information: 2012-13 Academic Calendar

December, 2011

Request for decision: Arts and Science: Replacement program for Bachelor of Music in Music Education and termination of combined Bachelor of Music in Music Education/Bachelor of Education program
Item for information:  Arts and Science: termination of minor and recognition in Russian 

November, 2011

APC Request for Decision - termination of BA Three-year programs in Ukrainian

APC Report for Information - Minor in Ukrainian Studies, change to Moribund Course deadlines

2010-11

June 2011 
For Decision --College of Graduate Studies & Research: Master of Northern Governmence and Development
For Decision -- College of Graduate Studies & Research Dual Degree Policy
For Decision -- Nomenclature report to Council     Nomenclature Report 2011 page
Notice of Motion -- University of Saskatchewan Admissions Policy APC Annual Report 2010/11

May 2011
For Decision -- Changes to BA requirements and termination of Advanced and Honours Certificates in Arts
For Decision - College of Medicine Global Health Certificate
For Decision - Academic Courses policy report to Council    Academic Courses Policy page
Notice of Motion -- Nomenclature report to Council   
Requesf for Input - University of Saskatchewan Admissions Policy

April, 2011
For Decision -- Medicine: change to definition of Saskatchewan Resident
For Decision -- Medicine: increase to enrolment target
For Decision -- WCVM:  admission requirements
Notice of Motion -- Academic Courses policy on course delivery, examinations, and assessment of student learning

March 2011
For Decision -- Change to Admission Requirements for Master of Nursing, Nurse Practitioner Option
For Input -- Draft of the University Nomenclature Policy 2011
For Information -- Course-based Program Option in Philosophy Master of Arts program; Change of Field of Specialization name to MSc and PhD inPhysics & Engineering Physics

January, 2011
Request for Decision -- Post Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Agriculture & Land Management
For Information -- New Minor in Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good. smf  Double-listing for PUBH/PUBP 861.3 Health, Post-Secondary Education and Social Programs: Funding, Structure and Reform

December, 2010
Request for Decision -- approval of MA in Religion & Culture
Request for Decision - termination of LUEST program
Request for Decision - termination of Prairie Studies program
Report for Information - academic schedule for 2011-12;  Minor in Digital Culture & New Media;  terminations of Co-Op Option in RUP program and of Minor in Philosophy, Science & Biotechnology 

November, 2010
Request for Decision on approval of degree names
 Request for Decision on change of degree name to BE in Biological Engineering

October, 2010
Request for Decision Medicine admissions criminal records check
 Item for Information  change to academic schedule  - Fall 2010 Withdraw Deadline

September, 2010
Request for Input  Academic Courses Policy draft

2009-10

June 2010
11.1  Request for input:  Graduate Program Review 
11.2   Request for decision:  Changes to Mathematics admission requirements for direct entry colleges
11.3   Request for decision:  Changes to Medicine admission requirements
11.4   Request for decision:  New program:  BSc in Pharmacology and Physiology, and deletion of BSc in Physiology
11.5   Request for decision:  New program:  MFA in writing
11.6   Request for decision:  Replacement program:  Bachelor of Education
11.7   Request for decision:  Replacement program:  Bachelor of Science in Nursing
11.8   Report for information:  Kinesiology minor in Entrepreneurship, and annual report

May 2010

12.1   Request for decision:  BA&Sc in Interactive Systems Design
12.2   Report for information

• Change of name for Bachelor of Laws to Juris Doctor
• Change of name for graduate program in Educational Communications to Educational Technology and Design
• Change of name for Nursing program option from NEPS Second Degree Entry Option to Post Degree BSN Option
• New specializations program options in Physics

April 2010

11.1   Item for approval:  BSc in Environmental Biology
11.2   Item for approval:  Termination of BA in Sociology of Biotechnology
11.3   Item for approval:  Termination of BSC in Cell Biology and Biotechnology
11.4   Items for information:

• Honours in Linguistics;  
• change of name for Religious Studies major to Studies in Religious Traditions
• Change in program options in Women’s and Gender Studies with related changes to courses and deletion of departmental specializations

February 2010

9.1   Request for approval:  Arts and Science programs in  Religion and Culture
9.2   Items for information :Approval of new minors in Arts and Science

• Minor in Canadian Literature in English
• Minor in Jewish and Christian Origins
• Minor in Catholic Studies

January 2010

10  For Information:  Academic Schedule for 2010-11 (final)

December, 2009

8.1  For Decision:  Agriculture & Bioresources - Honours in Agribusiness

8.2  For Information:
Academic Schedule for 2010-11 
Agriculture & Bioresources
-change of program name to Food and Bioproduct Sciences
- addition of new minor in Food and Bioproduct Sciences 
- addition of cross-college minor in Nutrition 
- deletion of minors in Food Science and in Applied Microbiology

November, 2009

9.1  For Decision: CGSR/School of Public Health - new PhD in Epidemiology; and name change for graduate programs in Department of Community Health and Epidemiology to Community and Population Health Science

9.2  For Information:  Engineering - Name change for Engineering Communication Option to Professional Communication Option

September, 2009

9.1  For Information Special Topics Course SOC 398.3

2008-09

October, 2008:
October, 2008 (for approval - SESD: revised examinations) - tabled
October, 2008 (for information -- Ag & Bio delete Coop Option)

November, 2008:
November, 2008 (For approval - SESD: Change policy on Spring Convocation) November, 2008 (For input - Articulation and Transfer)
November, 2008 (for information -- Pharmacy & Nutrition minor in Food Science;  Arts & Science third offering of NS 298 course)

January, 2009:
Medicine:  termination of BSc in physical therapy degree program
SESD:  revisions to criteria for admission (criteria for students from American-curriculum high schools; criteria for establishing English proficiency)
Items for information (Academic schedule for 2009-10; Edwards School of Business: change of name of major; Letter regarding review of Masters programs in occupational therapy and speech language pathology; Update on other committee activities

February, 2009
Examination regulations:  request for input for procedural changes in examination regulations
College of Graduate Studies and Research:  Master of Public Policy, PhD in public policy
College of Arts and Science:  Changing BSc requirements to allow students to receive more than one Bachelor of Science degree; termination of the Advanced Certificate and Honours Certificate in Science
Report for Information:  New level of concentration for science majors in Arts and Science "specializations" within a major 

March, 2009
Request for approval:  CGSR:  termination of plant sciences specializations in the Master of Agriculture (M. Agr.) and Post Graduate Diploma (P.G.D.)  programs
Request for approval:  ESB:  termination of biotechnology management major in  the Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm) program 
Request for approval:  administrative revisions to the examination regulations TABLED

April, 2009 
8.1  Administrative revisions to examination regulations  
8.2  College of Arts and Science: Bachelor of Science Four-year and Honours in Psychology   
8.3  College of Arts and Science:  Termination of the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology field of specialization in the BA Four-year and Honours programs 
8.4  Request for approval:  College of Nursing:  Termination of the Post-Registration Bachelor of Science in Nursing
8.5  Items for information:  Change of names for majors in Microbiology and Immunology ; Approval of Cross-College Minor in Toxicology for College of Agriculture and Bioresources; Programs under review; Transfer and Articulation workshop

May, 2009
8.1 Arts and Science:  Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASC) Four year and Honours, in the field of specialization of Environment and Society   
8.2 ESB: Aboriginal Business Administration Certificate (ABAC) and International Business Administration Certificate (IBAC)  
8.3 Agriculture and Bioresources: replacement of the BSA Plant Science major and its themes with three majors in the fields of specialization of Crop Science, Horticulture Science, and Applied Plant Ecology, and with two minors in the fields of specialization of Applied Plant Ecology and Rangeland Resources and the termination of the major in Plant Science
8.4 Items for information: Changes to proposal forms; STM section numbers; Programs under review

June, 2009
9.1  Arts & Science:  BA Four-year and Honours in Community Planning and Native Studies
9.2  Arts &  Science:  BA Three-year and Four-year degree programs in Modern Languages, and deletion of the BA three-year programs in German, Russian and Spanish, BA Four-year and Honours in Comparative Literature & Languages, and BA Four-year and Honours in Linguistics & Languages 
9.3    CGSR:  Post Graduate Degree Specialization Certificate:  Nurse Practitioner 
9.4    CGSR: Master of Science and PhD in Biostatistics   
9.5    CGSR: Master of Arts in Anthropology 
9.6    College Admission changes:  Nursing (English proficiency), Education (Sask First policy)
9.7    Items for information: Course-based Program Option, Master of Education in Educational Psychology & Special Education; Cross-College Minor in Nutrition (Pharmacy & Nutrition, Kinesiology); Approval of double listing of BIOL 224 and BMSC 224 Animal Body Systems; Designator for Bachelor of Arts & Science degree; 
Consultation on draft Academic Courses Policy
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