Agenda
Thursday, November 7, 2019
3:00 p.m.
N940 Ross Building (Dr. Robert Everett Senate Chamber)
1. Welcome and Chair’s Remarks
2. York Cares United Way Campaign Presentation (.pptx) | Events (.docx)
Stephen Childs and Nadia Dar
3. Minutes of Previous Meeting (October 3, 2019) (.docx)
4. Business Arising from the Minutes
5. Dean's Remarks and Discussion
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i) Academic Innovation Fund
ii) Graduate Appointments for Teaching Stream Faculty
6. Changes in Admission and Degree Requirements
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Graduate Program in Finance
Change to admission requirements regarding quantitative background Advanced standing for introductory course Finance 5100 3.0 Creation of part-time option (.pdf)
Learning outcomes (.pdf)
7. Changes in Admission Requirements
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Graduate Program in Public & International Affairs
Change to admission requirements to add additional French proficiency tests: TCF and DALF (.doc)
Learning objectives (.xlsx)
8. Changes in Degree Requirements
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Graduate Program in Accounting
Change in course requirements (.pdf)
Learning outcomes (.pdf)
9. Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award
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Changes to award guidelines (.docx)
10. Curriculum Changes
Approved October 15, 2019, by the FGS Academic Planning & Policy Committee’s Academic Affairs Subcommittee, and received for information by FGS Academic Planning & Policy Committee on October 16, 2019
Councillors may view these documents by contacting M. Michael Schiff, Coordinator, Faculty Governance.
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Graduate Program in Accounting
New Course Proposal
Accounting 66010 3.0: “Management Accounting: Strategy and Performance”/Prerequisite: Accounting 6301 3.0/Only open to Accounting students registered in the CPA program
Graduate Program in Business Administration
New Course Proposal
Strategic Management 5800 3.0: “Economic and Policy Foundations for Strategic Analysis”/Prerequisites: All 5100-series required courses/Corequisites: All 5200-series required courses
Change in Course Title
Entrepreneurship 6400 3.0: from “Applied Entrepreneurship Field Study: Competitiveness of Entrepreneurial Firms” to “Field Study: Innovating with Entrepreneurs, Unlocking New Venture Potential”/Prerequisite: all 5000-series required foundations of management core courses
Change in Prerequisite and removal of course credit exclusion
Entrepreneurship 6655 3.0: “Social Entrepreneurship”/ Prerequisite: all 5000- 5100-series required foundations of management core courses/Course credit exclusion: Non-Profit Management 6350 3.0
Change in Course Description
Finance 6850 3.0: “Fixed Income Securities”/Business Administration and International Business Administration prerequisites: Finance 6800 3.0; Finance prerequisite: Finance 5600 3.0; Finance co-requisite: Finance 6800 3.0
Marketing 6321 3.0: “Entertainment and Culture Marketing”
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
New, Integrated Course Proposals
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 5611 3.0: “Analog Integrated Circuits Design”/Integrated with the undergraduate course Lassonde School of Engineering Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 4611 3.0
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 5614 3.0: “Electro-Optics”/Integrated with the undergraduate course Lassonde School of Engineering Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 4614 3.0
Graduate Program in Financial Accountability
New Course Proposal
Financial Accountability 6900 3.0: “Leadership and Management Skills for Emerging Leaders Charged with Governance”
Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies
New, Crosslisted Course Proposal
Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies 6133 3.0: “Gender and International Human Rights: Law, Citizenship and Borders”/Same as Socio-Legal Studies 6055 3.0
Graduate Program in Health
New Course Proposal
Health 5060 3.0: “Qualitative Methods for Health Studies”
Graduate Program in International Business Administration
Change in prerequisite
International Business Administration 6490 3.0: “International Negotiations: Analysis, Strategy and Practice”/Prerequisites: All MBA1 required foundations of management core courses or permission of the instructor/Not open to IMBA students
Graduate Program in Law
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Administrative Law
New Course Proposal
Administrative Law 6100 6.0: “Canadian Immigration Law”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Constitutional Law
Change in Course Title and Description
Constitutional Law 6787 3.0: from “Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter” to “Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Charter”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Criminal Law
New Course Proposals
Criminal Law 6787 3.0: “Selected Topics in Criminal Justice”
Criminal Law 6788 3.0: “Topics in Advanced Criminal Law”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Energy & Infrastructure Law
Change in Course Weight
Energy & Infrastructure Law 6564 3.0 to 6.0: “Urban Infrastructure Planning and Regulation”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in General Law
New Course Proposal
General 6210 3.0: “Advocacy in Practice: Written and Oral Advocacy”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Health Law
New Course Proposal
Health Law 6866 3.0: “Disability and Health Law”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Intellectual Property
Change in Course Weight
Law 6751 from 3.0 to 6.0: “Trade-Mark Law”
– Part-Time LLM Specializing in Privacy & Cybersecurity
New Course Proposals
Privacy & Cybersecurity 6166 3.0: “International Laws and Multilateral Frameworks for Data Protection and Cybersecurity”
Privacy & Cybersecurity 6167 3.0: “Crime in the Digital Age”
Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering
New Course Proposals
Mechanical Engineering 6106 3.0: “Radiative Transfer”/Prerequisite: permission of the instructor
Mechanical Engineering 6508 3.0: “Design and Analysis of Experiments”/ Prerequisite: Adequate background in basic statistics, linear algebra, matrix calculations, and multivariate calculus
Graduate Program in Psychology
New Course Proposal
Psychology 6138 3.0: “Computational Methods for Statistical Modelling”
11. Senate Synopsis
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Summary of Senate meeting of September 26, 2019 (.pdf)