Nor at SFU--historically.
We are instituting a requirement that students take two writing-intensive
courses in the disciplines. And we have long required "general education"
credits, which means students must take a number of 1st year courses in
philosophy, history, or Engish. And Engineering requires its students to
take a course in "Engineering Communication." And Business has not
discouraged the belief that our 1st year writing course is required of
Business majors. Perhaps there is more such that I don't know about.
So I guess we do not have a required writing course, nor a required
literature course in the sense that Betsy and Ginny want to know about, but
. . . .
Cheers,
Rick
At 04:11 PM 10/22/2004 -0300, you wrote:
>For what it's worth, there's no requirement at St. Thomas at
>all.
>
>And also for what it's worth, if nobody else starts it I'll try
>to assemble the postings on this issue so far into a coherent
>digest (I've done it before, and have a sort of algorithm for
>editing that kind of thing). Maybe next week.
>
>-- Russ
>
>On 22 Oct 2004 at 15:45, Virginia Ryan wrote:
>
> > Hello again to everyone.
> >
> > Earlier this week, Betsy Sargent posted a query to CASLL concerning
> > English requirements at Canadian colleges and universities. Well, it
> > turns out that I have an immediate need for the same information, and
> > I'm hoping that someone from those institutions that haven't already
> > been represented with responses could please take a few minutes to
> > respond in kind.
> >
> > What Betsy and (now) I need to know is whether your institution has a
> > specific, cross-the-board English course requirement for graduation or
> > program-entry purposes, and whether that requirement must be satisfied
> > by taking "literature", "English", "writing" courses, or some
> > combination of these.
> >
> > So far (I hope I haven't missed any), I've collected responses from
> > University of Winnipeg, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
> > University College of the Cariboo/Thompson Rivers University, Simon
> > Fraser University, and Uof T Arts and Science.
> > Could Inkshedders from Canada's other universities and colleges please
> > answer, too? It seems there are big changes looming at post-secondary
> > institutions across the country; better that we be involved in them than
> > merely informed of them after the fact...
> >
> > I thank you all in advance and apologize for "pestering"; I know full
> > well how busy everyone is at this time of year.
> >
> > Ginny Ryan
> > Memorial University of Newfoundland
> >
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