Bold new education initiative at SFU

In fall 2006, SFU will implement a bold new education initiative that will see new admissions and graduation requirements for students admitted to the undergraduate program.

Unique in Canada, the new SFU curriculum will require all students to complete 36 credit hours in courses specially designed to foster breadth of knowledge, quantitative reasoning and logic, and writing ability.

"These new courses, in combination with our already outstanding major and minor programs, will equip our graduates for success in a world where lifelong learning is essential," says John Waterhouse, vice-president, academic. "This approach to building a new educational foundation will help them to cope with constant change – to lead it, to evaluate it, to criticize it."

The new curriculum includes revised admissions standards requiring set minimum scores in mathematics 11 and 12 and English 12.

While this new curriculum is unique in Canada, it is similar to one being proposed by one of the world’s best universities, Yale.

For more detailed information, visit www2.sfu.ca/ugcr/

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