Placement Course

The Professional Anthropologist: The Anthropologist as Practitioner

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.

Communications Field Experience: Corporate and Cultural Industries

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, this course allows students to apply with an organization and work part-time for academic credit. Students receive hands-on experience, opportunities to network with people working in the communications […]

English Honour Thesis/Work Placement

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.

Public History

This course examines the forms, goals, and practices of making history in museums, archives, historic sites, and other institutions of public history. It enables students to learn the meaning and methods in the production of memory and introduces them to the practical skills for the public presentation of historical knowledge. The course combines analytical study […]

Black Canadian Studies Practicum

This course provides students with practical experience analyzing issues through the lens of Black Canadian Studies with placement in the offices of elected officials.

Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production

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.

Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

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).

Social Economy Practicum

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 […]

Labour Studies Work Placement

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 […]

International Development Placement Course

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.