Explore the available placement courses in your program below. Placements are designed to help students develop competencies and skills learned in the classroom with hands-on work experience in an organizational setting.
These placements focus on career exploration, employability, and professional skill development, with an emphasis on achieving specific course learning outcomes. Since placements are tied to a course, students earn academic credit and are completed on a part-time basis to ensure students can balance their coursework and other commitments.
The field placement course provided me with the practical knowledge and skills that I needed to both find employment in the emergency management field, but more importantly to be successful within this field. Learning and understanding how an emergency management program operates first-hand is essential to making the transition from university into the workforce.
- Ben Gallagher, Disaster & Emergency Management '19
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English Honour Thesis/Work Placement
EN 4099 6.00
Provides an opportunity for sustained research under the direction of a member of the department on topics not covered in the English curriculum. The research may take the form of either a thesis or a work placement.
Work Placement in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies
GSWS 4531 6.00
This course provides students with hands-on experience applying their knowledge of gender, sexuality and women’s studies within a community setting. Students will engage with local organizations, while critically reflecting on theoretical concepts in real-world contexts.
The Professional Anthropologist: The Anthropologist as Practitioner
ANTH 4130 6.00
This course combines analytical study with a part-time placement in a non-governmental partner agency. Students will complete around 176 hours of placement over 8 months.
Sociology Field Placement
SOCI 4100 6.00
This course places sociology students in not-for-profit, government, and community organizations in order to gain experience and skills in workplaces that respond to social inequalities. In addition, the students will meet regularly in a seminar setting to reflect upon their experience, and connect it to their sociological training.
Social Economy Practicum
SOSC 4046 6.00
Take your studies out of the classroom and apply the skills you’ve learned in an real work situation! Typically taken in fourth year, the Social Economy Practicum course allows you to apply for a position within an organization and work part-time for course credit. Students receive hands-on experience, opportunities to network with people working in your chosen field, and insight into different career pathways.
Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
TESL 3300 6.00
The course provides an experiential education opportunity to put theory into practice, integrating blended online and in-class instruction alongside placement at a variety of English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction settings. Students complete 50 practicum hours (30 hours observation and 20 hours practice teaching).
Practicum in Public Administration
PPAS 4995 6.00
Public policy and administration students in their fourth year may register for this placement course, which combines volunteer work experience in an agency with an academic analysis of that experience. Enrolment is by permission only and permission will be granted only in September depending on the number of placements available and the competitiveness of the student pool.
Labour Studies Work Placement
SOSC 4240 6.00
The purpose of the course is to provide students with first-hand experience regarding the different ways organizations pursue workplace improvements and broader social and political change for all working people. The course has both seminar (in-class) and placement (cooperative learning) components. The placement component of the course involves work directed by a supervisor (usually a staff person or leader of a union, community-based or social justice organization).
Italian for Professional Purposes
IT 4500 6.00
This course offers a unique opportunity for the students of Italian to develop advanced language competency, with a focus on formal registers of Italian for professional purposes. In addition to earning academic credits, students will gain hands-on work experience, while using Italian in a variety of course-based placements in profit and non-profit organizations in the GTA.
International Development Placement Course
SOSC 4605 6.00
This course allows students to combine learning about the workings of development non- governmental organizations, through a hands-on experience with an NGO and more conventional academic activities in the classroom. The placement will be fulfilled with an NGO involved in international and/or local development within the Greater Toronto Area.
Human Rights & Equity Studies Work-Focused Placement Course
HREQ 4460 6.0
This work-focused, course-based placement provides HREQ majors with an intensive experiential education opportunity in their fourth year in exchange for academic credit. Participants will apply their skills and knowledge in the area of human rights and equity as they work with community organizations, government agencies, non-profit agencies, or other relevant groups.
Financial Accountability Practicum
FACC 6850 6.00
Placements in organizations provide students with the opportunity to explore the relationship between theory and practice in financial accountability as well as obtain relevant employment experience to prepare for careers.
Bachelor of Social Work Practicum
SOWK 4000 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Bachelor of Social Work program.
Engaging Health in the Community: Advanced Health Research in the Field
AP/SOSC 4144 6.0
This course applies academic knowledge of health, health advocacy, and health care systems to experience in community settings through classroom study and the application of social science research methods in student placements in health-related organizations and agencies.
Emergency Management: Field Experience
DEMS 3705 3.0
Apply theories of emergency management and gain work experience through a part-time placement opportunity with a variety of organizations within the private, public and NGO sectors. Students will complete 12 hours of placement per week over 11 weeks (132 hours).
Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production
HUMA 3207 6.00
Offers students opportunities to engage with the local cultural sector in order to better understand the relevancy of cultural organizations in a multicultural city. The course explores cultural relationships, combining theoretical and experiential components in a blended learning environment where students hone transferable skills and develop professional contacts.
Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production
HUMA 4207 6.00
Students discover how local cultural production is fostered, disseminated, and in some cases restricted in and by the communities they serve. Building on cultural theories and concepts of public pedagogy, students work in small groups with partner organizations to engage in a choice of research or community focused experiential learning activities to be used for a range of real-world applications.
Disaster & Emergency Management Practicum
DEMS 5080 6.00
Placements in the field provide students with the opportunity to apply theories of disaster and emergency management in a variety of organizations within the private, public and non-governmental organization sectors.
Digital Authoring Practicum
PRWR 4001 6.00
This practicum allows fourth-year students in PRWR to design and implement online writing and marketing campaigns for community organizations. Community service learning is central to this course. Students are matched with individuals and organizations that need digital help. Students write blogs, build websites, execute social media campaigns, and write and design material appealing to multiple audiences using a variety of technologies. Students critically reflect on issues related to online communication.
Criminology Placement Course
CRIM 4667 6.00
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge of criminological issues and approaches in a practical context. The course begins with in-class workplace-related skills training followed by placement in a government, community, or non-governmental organization working with people in conflict with the law, victims of crime, or in crime prevention. Application required.
Communications Field Experience: Corporate and Cultural Industries
CMDS 4140 6.00
Take your studies out of the classroom and apply the skills you’ve learned in a real work situation! Available to all fourth-year Communication & Media Studies students, this course allows students to apply to an organization and work part-time for academic credit. Students receive hands-on experience, opportunities to network with professionals in the communications sector, and insights into different career pathways.
Children, Childhood & Youth Work-Focused Placement Course
CCY 4900 6.00
This course provides hands-on, Work-Focused EE opportunities to fourth-year Children, Childhood & Youth (CCY) students. Students complete part-time, supervised placements with non-profit or community organizations to gain relevant work experience for academic credit.
Black Canadian Studies Practicum
HUMA 4305 6.00
This course provides students with practical experience analyzing issues through the lens of Black Canadian Studies with placement in the offices of elected officials.
Bachelor of Social Work Practicum
SOWK 4001 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Bachelor of Social Work program.