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Course repeat limitations are harmful to students
February 1, 2021by Jacob Mattie, SFU Student Currently, SFU maintains a punitive stance on course repeats, allowing one repeat per course and five in total. Exceptions can be made for students willing to go through the difficult task of seeking the permission of their faculty’s dean — but that may increase potential feelings of shame from failing a course. Regulating duplicate courses also limits students’ ability to progress through education at their own discretion. These policies are ultimately restrictive and serve no purpose other than to add unnecessary stress to students’ studies. Passed by the SFU Senate in 1982, this policy on…
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SFU becomes first university to offer asexuality studies
February 6, 2018Simon Fraser University was the first institution in the world to offer a full-length undergraduate course in asexuality studies. According to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, an online asexual community, an asexual person is defined as someone who does…
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SFU’s course withdrawal system needs to be dropped
August 2, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his year has been a rough one for me, personally and academically. Between a cancer scare and my mental health feeling like it has been rapidly deteriorating, school has unfortunately not been the number one priority. This being my first…
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Woohoo, Boohoo
November 23, 2015Woohoo: Natural Selection Ahh, natural selection — not just that unit of biology you slept through during high school, but so much more! I know it sounds like a boring nature-centric Songza playlist you’d hear at a shoddily-run YMCA yoga…
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New forensics course sparks program expansion
January 10, 2015Due to the overwhelming interest in SFU’s latest course, CRIM 449: Major Crime and Forensic Analysis for Law Enforcement, the School of Criminology will be expanding its offerings even further this year. Ryan Prox, a special constable with VPD and…
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Protesting professors launch course on civil disobedience
January 6, 2015Two SFU professors are bringing their experiences from the front lines of the Kinder Morgan pipeline protests to the frontiers of the classroom in this spring’s President’s Dream Colloquium, titled “Obedience and Disobedience: Taking Action on Climate Change.” The colloquium…
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Unique degree explores environmental controversies
November 17, 2014SFU’s Faculty of Environment (FENV) launched Canada’s first Bachelor’s of Environment program, which aims to create environmental problem-solvers and decision-makers capable of making a contribution to mitigating climate change. A balance of the social sciences and the natural sciences, the…
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