Bachelor of Arts

Undergraduate Calendar 2011-2012 BACHELOR OF ARTS FACULTY OF ARTS General Office: Tilley Hall, Room 22 Mailing Address: Faculty of Arts University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4655 Fax: (506) 453-5102 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.unbf.ca/arts/ Dean: James S. Murray, BA, MA, PhD Associate Dean: Weiqiu Yu, BSc, MA, PhD Assistant Dean: Stephanie Slauenwhite, BA Coordinator, Deborah Johnston, BA, MA, DPhil Student Support Services: The Faculty offers the following programs: DEPARTMENT(S) SUBJECT AREAS PROGRAMS Anthropology Anthropology Honours, Major, and Minor Anthropology, and Classics and Archaeology Honours, Major, and Minor Ancient History Classics and Ancient History Classics Honours, Major, and Minor Classical Studies Honours, Major, and Minor Culture and Language Studies German Honours, Major, and Minor German Studies Honours, Major, and Minor Multimedia Studies Major Music Minor Spanish and Latin American Cultures Honours, Major, and Minor World Literature and Culture Studies Honours, Major, and Minor Economics Economics Honours, Major, and Minor Economic Studies Major Economics and Political Science Public Policy Minor 1 of 9 Undergraduate Calendar 2011-2012 English English Honours, Major, and Minor Drama Minor in Drama French French Honours, Major, and Minor History History Honours, Major, and Minor Philosophy Philosophy Honours, Major, and Minor Ancient Philosophy Minor Ethics Minor History of Philosophy Minor Political Science Political Science Honours, Major, and Minor Psychology Psychology Honours, Major, and Minor Biopsychology Honours, Major Sociology Sociology Honours, Major, and Minor INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS Film Studies Minor International Development Studies Joint Honours, Double Major, and Minor Law in Society Joint Honours, Double Major, and Minor Women’s Studies Joint Honours, Double Major, and Minor CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Culture and Language Studies Film Film French French Muriel McQueen Fergusson Family Violence Research Centre for Family Violence General Information Courses offered by Departments in the Faculty of Arts generally have a rating of 3 ch per term. For a detailed description of the credit hour system, see Section B of the Calendar. The course weighting is based on assumptions concerning the total amount of time each course can reasonably be expected to take up in a working week. In the Faculty of Arts most courses are given a weighting of 3 ch per term, so that a one-term course will count for 3 ch, and a full-year course for 6 ch. In both these cases, students should plan to devote a total of nine hours to the subject (class meetings and private study) each week. "Private study" means study undertaken 2 of 9 Undergraduate Calendar 2011-2012 outside the regular class hours: reading, preparation of assignments, assimilation of information, etc. Some courses have a stated prerequisite. This means that in order to enrol, a student must have successfully completed the prerequisite course. Unless the Department specifically requires a grade of C, it can be assumed that a grade of D satisfies the requirement. Students who enrol in the four-year Bachelor of Arts program are exposed to a wide variety of disciplines in their first two years. There the emphasis falls on the Western cultural inheritance, on the different ways we have of understanding the world in which we live, and on acquiring some of the communication skills necessary to succeed in the modern world. In the last two years of the program, students concentrate on one or two disciplines, identified as the "Major(s)." Students with consistently high grades may specialize more intensively, with a view to earning a Bachelor's degree with Honours. Such students are identified as Honours students, as distinct from Major students. Most students at this level do, however, have room in their program for "elective" courses: that is, courses that are not an obligatory part of the specialized program. Majors, in particular, are encouraged to look beyond the Departments in which they are majoring when deciding on their elective courses. A BA student may choose among a number of different disciplines, listed above. It is also possible to earn a BA degree by specializing in a Science discipline: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Statistics or Physics. (For details of programs in the Sciences, interested students should direct their inquiries to the Department concerned.) In planning their program of study, students should note that programs in the Third and Fourth Years are greatly dependent on their choice of subjects in the First Year and, more particularly, in the Second Year. They should note also that in order to enrol in some courses, they must have successfully completed a stated prerequisite course. Students should therefore read carefully the regulations in the pages entitled Description of Courses, and should make full use of opportunities for consultation with the faculty members concerned. All programs of study must have the approval of the Dean. General Regulations Any point not covered by the General Regulations of the Arts Faculty will be governed by the General University Regulations stated in Section B of this Calendar. In particular, these Regulations should be noted by students who fail to complete the work associated with a course (with regard to the regulations concerning the notation of INC or incomplete), by students applying for a second undergraduate bachelor's degree, by students transferring from other institutions, and by students changing degree program. Questions concerning the application of regulations should be directed in writing to the Registrar. The 120 credit hours to be successfully completed for the degree are organized in the following manner. 3 of 9 Undergraduate Calendar 2011-2012 Lower Level Upper Level First Year: credit hours 1-30 Credit hours 61-120 Second Year: credit hours 31-60 1. To earn a BA degree, a student must successfully complete a minimum of 120 ch, must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 (C), and must have completed the requirements for an Arts Major or Honours program. 2. The normal credit hour load for a student is 15 ch each term or 30 ch each academic year. In order to maintain full-time standing a student must enrol in at least 12 ch each term. The maximum number of credit hours for which a student may normally register is 18 each term. Course loads outside of the range of 12 to 18 ch in a term may be permitted only with the approval of the Dean. 3. Normally, students shall not enrol in any course to meet the requirements of any year or level of the degree program unless they enrol at the same time in every course that they still need to complete the requirements of the preceding year or level of the program. For example, first-year students who have successfully completed 24 of the 30 ch required for First Year must register for the course or courses necessary to complete the first-year requirements at the same time that they register for courses associated with the second-year requirements. 4. Students who elect to register for courses taught outside the Faculty of Arts should note that, for purposes of the BA degree, courses receive either a 3 or a 6 credit hour weighting, for term and full-year courses respectively. Exceptions to these credit hour designations in the BA program may be made under the authority of the Dean of Arts and the Registrar. 5. Students can receive credit from any appropriate courses in the Faculties of Science and Computer Science. 6. Students can receive no more than 12 ch (in total) from courses in other Faculties toward the completion of the BA program. Before taking such courses, students must obtain approval from the Dean of Arts Office. 7. A few selected Arts Major(s) and Honours programs are available to students in the Faculty of Business Administration (e.g., Major in Economics, and Double Major or Joint Honours in Law in Society), and to students in the Faculty of Science (e.g., Double Major in Mathematics and Economics). 8. Students transferring from other institutions should note that at least one-half of the credit hours required for the BA degree must be taken at UNB and must normally include at least 30 ch toward completion of the Upper Level regulations. 9. These regulations are designed for the Fredericton campus of the University of New Brunswick. Students from the Saint John campus wishing to transfer to Fredericton after the First Year (credit hours 1-30) shall have their full First Year accepted as equivalent to that offered in Fredericton. Normally, UNBSJ students transferring to UNBF will take their final 60 ch at Fredericton. 4 of 9 Undergraduate Calendar 2011-2012 FIRST YEAR REGULATIONS ( 1-30 Credit Hours) Students must successfully complete courses equaling 30 ch. No more than 6 ch can be taken in any discipline. Students must successfully meet the following requirements: 1. Arts 1000 (6 ch). 2. Six credit hours in each of three other disciplines. Three of the four groups of disciplines (A, B, C, D) listed below must be represented (18 ch). 3. The remaining six credit hours may be taken in one discipline, or taken as three credit hours in each of two disciplines, including multimedia (6 ch). A (Languages) 1 B (Humanities) C (Social Sciences) D (Science) 2 Arabic Classics Anthropology Astronomy Chinese English Economics Biology French History Political Science Chemistry German Philosophy Psychology Computer Science Greek (Ancient and Modern) WLCS Sociology Geology Japanese Mathematics Latin Physics Russian Statistics Spanish Notes: 1. Other languages such as Maliseet, Micmac, and Italian (when available), may, with permission of the Dean's Office, be taken to satisfy the requirements of Group A. 2.

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