Applied Sciences One

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Yesterday's FAX meeting (Faculty of Applied Sciences Executive)
discussed the concept of "Applied Sciences One" - a program of
first year courses that provides students with broad exposure
to programs in applied sciences.   This would add admission to
the Faculty as a complementary admission option to the existing 
direct admission routes for each School.   There appear to be
a considerable number of high-GPA students who are interested
in a year of general studies prior to making a commitment to
a particular program.   

The goal of the proposal is to recruit good students that we
might otherwise lose.   For example, the Faculty of Science would 
prefer to admit students that are interested in programs within
that Faculty rather than Applied Sciences "want-to-bes."

Upon completion of Applied Sciences One, students would normally be 
expected to pursue admission to a major or honours program in 
one of the Schools.  Ideally, the program will also encourage 
multidisciplinarity in the form major-minor combinations, as well.

A first draft proposal is available for your comment as
FAS UCC Paper 2002-8.  
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2002/2002-8/2002-8.html

UCC Chairs:  The key issue with the proposal is to ensure
that there are good routes from such a general first year
program into programs in each of the Schools.   In some
cases, it may be necessary to add courses in the third
semester (summer) in order for students to proceed into
the second year.  I need advice from each of you on this.

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