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McGILL UNIVERSITY SENATE Report of the Academic Policy Committee D11-14 431st REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC POLICY COMMITTEE TO SENATE on APC meetings held on 15th September and 6th October 2011 I. TO BE APPROVED BY SENATE (A) NEW TEACHING PROGRAMS REQUIRING SENATE APPROVAL (approvals of new minors and options added to existing programs and major revisions to programs are reported in Section IV.A.1.a. for information) - none (B) ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ISSUES / POLICIES / GOVERNANCE/AWARDS - none. (C) CREATION OF NEW UNITS / NAME CHANGES / REPORTING CHANGES Faculty of Arts Creation of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) – APPENDIX A At a meeting on 6th October 2011, APC reviewed a proposal for the creation of a research centre, the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) in the Faculty of Arts. The proposal, fully endorsed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, was approved by the Research Advisory Committee on 26th May 2011. APC therefore recommends that Senate approve the following resolution: Be it resolved that Senate approve the proposal for the creation of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC)/ Centre d'études du monde de l'océan Indien (CEMOI) in the Faculty of Arts and so recommend to the Board of Governors. (D) CHANGES IN DEGREE DESIGNATION - none. II. TO BE ENDORSED BY SENATE / PRESENTED TO SENATE FOR DISCUSSION - none III. APPROVED BY APC IN THE NAME OF SENATE (A) DEFINITIONS – none (B) STUDENT EXCHANGE PARTNERSHIPS / CONTRACTS / INTERUNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS 1. Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management 2. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore 3. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 4. Norwegian School of Economics 5. University of St. Gallen 6. University of Cologne, Wiso-Faculty 7. Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) 8. Stockholm School of Economics At a meeting on 15th September 2011, APC approved Student Exchange Partnerships between McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management and the above listed institutions. The Desautels Faculty 431st Report to Senate / 19th October 2011 – D11-14 of Management has been involved in the Partnerships in International Management (PIM) Consortium of universities and is setting up bilateral exchanges with specific institutions within that Consortium. IV. FOR THE INFORMATION OF SENATE (A) APPROVAL OF COURSES AND TEACHING PROGRAMS 1. Programs a) APC approvals (new options/concentrations and major revisions to existing programs) i. New concentrations/options within existing programs - none ii. Major revisions of existing programs - none b) APC Subcommittee on Courses and Teaching Programs (SCTP) approvals Summary reports: http://www.mcgill.ca/apc/sctpreports/. i. Moderate and minor program revisions Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Approved by SCTP on 22nd September 2011 B.Sc. (F.Sc.); Food Science; Food Science; Major (90 cr.) B.Sc. (F.Sc.); Food Science; Food Chemistry; Major (90 cr.) M.Sc.; Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry; Non-Thesis (45 cr.) Faculty of Dentistry Approved by SCTP on 22nd September 2011 Ad Hoc Ph.D.; Craniofacial Health Science ii. Program retirements - none 2. Courses (SCTP meeting dates, as indicated) a) New Courses: nd Faculty of Arts: 3 (2 Aug. 2011) th Faculty of Education: 1 (9 Aug. 2011): nd Faculty of Medicine: 2 (22 Sept. 2011). b) Course Revisions: nd Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: 8 (22 Sept. 2011); th Faculty of Arts: 10 (27 May 2011). c) Course retirements: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: 4 (22nd Sept. 2011). (B) OTHER By-Laws for the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) th At a meeting on 6 October 2011, APC approved By-Laws for the IPLAI. 431st APC Report to Senate Page 2 431st APC Report to Senate - APPENDIX A Application for Recognition as a McGill Research Centre I. Identification Name: Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) Faculty: Arts Proposer: Professor Gwyn Campbell, Department of History and Classical Studies Consultations Review Approval Dates Christopher Manfredi, Dean of Arts Letter attached Juliet Johnson, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) , Faculty of Arts II. Rationale II.a. Context (Disciplinary, Societal. Institutional) The centre was part of the mandate of my CRC in Indian Ocean World History awarded in 2005, and was fully supported by McGill. It is interdisciplinary (the affiliation of members varies from History and Classical Studies, Geography and Linguistics to Human Genetics) and includes researchers based at Canadian and non-Canadian institutions. The Indian Ocean World (IOW) is a macro-region that witnessed the early emergence of major centres of production and a monsoon-based system of trans-oceanic trade that led to the emergence by at least the tenth century of a sophisticated and durable system of long-distance exchange of commodities, monies, technology, ideas and people. The IOW was thus home to the first 'global' economy, one that dominated the macro-region until at least the mid eighteenth century – some would argue the nineteenth century, and which is again resurgent. Today the IOW comprises 50 per cent of the planet's population and is forecast to become the leading world economy by 2020. II.b. Past history (Research collaborations, Grants obtained, Publications and other evidence of collaboration) II.b.i Research Collaboration IOWC Associates and Research Directors • Abdul Sheriff, Director of the Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (ZIORI) and Professor Adjunct of the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill. • Angela Schottenhammer, Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ghent University; Professor Adjunct, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill; and Supernumerary Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department for Asian Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. • Elizabeth Elbourne, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. IOWC Associates • William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of 1 London, England. • Ulrike Freitag, Director, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin and Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. • Michael Pearson, Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. • Om Prakash, Editorial Fellow, Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, India, and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. • Himanshu Prabha Ray, Associate Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. • Himla Soodyall Director of the Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit (HGDDRU) established by the South African Medical Research Council in conjunction with the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. • James Warren, Department of History, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. • Nigel Worden, Department of History, University of Cape Town, South Africa. IOWC Research Associates • Pedro Machado, Assistant Professor of South Asian and Global History in the Department of History at Santa Clara University, USA. • Hideaki Suzuki, Research Fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan. • Marcus Vink, Associate Professor in History at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. • Thomas Vernet, Assistant professor, Department of History, Univeristy of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne and member of the Laboratoire Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAF) – a combined initiative of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne research group. IOWC McGill Affiliates • Myron Echenberg, Department of History and Classical Studies. • Brendan S. Gillon, Department of Linguistics. • Jon Unruh, Department of Geography. IOWC International Research Projects: 1. Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI): “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction” Collaborators: International • James Warren (School of Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Australia) • Alfons van der Kraan (School of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of New England, Australia) • Li Tana (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University) • Angela Schottenhammer (Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ghent University) • Akifumi Iwabuchi (Marine Culturology, Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology) • Tansen Sen (Asian history and Religons, Baruch College, City University of New York) • Pedro Machado (History, Santa Clara University, USA) • Geoffrey Wade (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) • Alessandro Stanziani (Economics/History, CNRS-Paris) 2 • Lakshmi Subramanian (History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India) • Himanshu Ray (Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dew Delhi, India) • Ulrike Freitag (Islamic Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany) • Himladevi Soodyall (Human Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) • Nicholas Ostler (Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, England) • Suzanne Leroy (Institute for the Environment, Brunel University, England) Collaborators: Canada • Brendan Gillon (Linguistics, McGill) • Jon Unruh (Geography, McGill) • Margaret Kalácska (Geography, McGill) • Raja Sengupta (Geography,