Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Standing committee (Reporting Category "B")

Last updated June 09, 2023

Members	Conditions	Term	Expiry Date	Name
Associate Vice-President, Academic	Chair, Ex-officio
Associate Vice-President, Learning and Teaching	Vice-Chair, Ex-officio			Elizabeth Elle
Registrar and Executive Director, Student Enrollment (or designate)	Ex-officio			Tom Nault
University Librarian (or designate)	Ex-officio			Mar Gonzalez-Palacios
Applied Sciences	Faculty delegates* (usually Chairs of Faculty Undergraduate Curriculum Committees)			Ed Park
Arts and Social Sciences				Lara Campbell
Beedie School of Business				Kamal Masri
Communication, Art & Technology				Arne Eigenfeldt
Education				Margaret MacDonald
Environment				Paul Kingsbury
Health Sciences				Nienke van Houten
Science				Nancy Hawkins
Undergraduate Student	Elected by Senate	1 year	May 31, 2023
Undergraduate Student		1 year	May 31, 2023	Lynn Masri
Undergraduate Student (Alternate) **		1 year	May 31, 2023	Abhishek Parmar
Director, University Curriculum	Ex-officio			Jill Sutherland
Assistant Registrar, Senate & Academic Services	Secretary, Ex-officio (non-voting)			Kris Nordgren

* As nominated by the Faculty Dean.

** NOTE: In general an "alternate" member is invited to attend meetings when a regular member is not available. Please confirm the role of the alternate member on this committee with the committee secretary.

Terms of Reference

Taking into consideration the need for coordination and development of undergraduate programs within the University, SCUS shall:
1. review and make recommendations to Senate on curriculum changes of a major nature and general matters affecting the curriculum
2. under delegated authority, review and approve, where appropriate, all proposed new courses, course deletions, course changes and program revisions of a minor nature. These changes shall be reported in summary form to Senate.
3. review and make recommendations to SCUP regarding new programs and credentials.
To recommend to Senate grading, examination, standing and continuance policies.
To recommend to Senate policies on undergraduate admissions, re-admissions, and credit transfer and where necessary, to provide general direction to the Registrar's Office in the interpretation of such policies.
To consider and decide on policy recommendations concerning undergraduate course registration and course withdrawal procedures and on the administration of undergraduate student records.
To consider and recommend to Senate policy recommendations from the Diverse Qualifications Adjudication Committee.
To consider and recommend to Senate policy recommendations regarding the WQB requirements.
The Committee quorum shall be eight voting members.
In the event that the representative from a Faculty is unable to attend a meeting of SCUS, the Faculty is authorized to appoint a faculty member replacement.
The Committee may establish sub-committees.
With a two-thirds majority vote, SCUS may delegate some of its powers to such sub-committees, or to the Chair/Vice-Chair. Undergraduate students must be represented on all sub-committees.

Meetings convened at the call of the Chair.

2023 Meeting Schedule

Meetings are scheduled from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm in Room 3101, Strand Hall.

Contact Kris Nordgren at 778-782-5350 or email kdn1@sfu.ca for more information.

Date of Meeting	Material Deadline
January 5, 2023	December 9, 2022
February 2, 2023	January 13, 2023
March 2, 2023	February 10, 2023
April 6, 2023	March 17, 2023
May 4, 2023	April 14, 2023
June 1, 2023	May 12, 2023
July 6, 2023	June 16, 2023
August 3, 2023	July 14, 2023
September 14, 2023	August 25, 2023
October 12, 2023	September 22, 2023
November 2, 2023	October 13, 2023
December 7, 2023	November 17, 2023