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Placement Course

Engaging Health in the Community: Advanced Health Research in the Field

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.

Disaster & Emergency Management Practicum

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.

Financial Accountability Practicum

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

Placement Option MA

In certain instances a Candidate for the Masters degree may elect to complete a placement in order to fulfill course requirements.

Italian for Professional Purposes

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 […]

Human Rights & Equity Studies Work-Focused Placement Course

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.

Criminology Placement Course

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 […]

Children, Childhood & Youth Work-Focused Placement Course

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.

Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production

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 […]