DASSH 2199 - Applied Project - Social Sustainability focus.
General
- Diploma; 2nd year
- 1 learner; teams of 4
- 80 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Educators assign learners to projects
Preferred companies
- 1 projects wanted
- British Columbia, Canada
- Academic experience
- Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Social enterprise
- Government, Individual & family services, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Categories
Project timeline
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May 1, 2024Experience start
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June 14, 2024Mid-Project Review
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August 9, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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May 1, 2024Experience start
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June 14, 2024Mid-Project Review
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August 9, 2024Experience end
Overview
- Details
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My students are in the DASSH program - Applied Social Sciences and Humanities.
Ideal projects involve addressing a problem or issue related to helping professions, social services, government, and agencies addressing social sustainability.
In this class students simulate the creation of a social services agency or consulting firm and take the community partner as a 'client'.
Students have a range of skills including a foundation in the social sciences and humanities, as well as foundational skills in accounting, business entrepreneurship, computer skills and computer business applications skills.
- Deliverables
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Students are tasked with creating consultants' reports meeting the needs of clients, delivered at the end of term.
Community partners are asked to participate in 3 meetings through a term - 1 at the start of term, 1 in the middle of the project and one at the end of the project to provide feedback.
Students work as an independent group and do not require oversight or working space.
Project Examples
Idea projects involve innovating solutions to problems and providing insight on social issues. Past projects include assisting the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health in determining policy relating to opening public parks to alcohol consumption. In another past projects students assisted Vancouver Coastal Health in building an internal system to contact, evaluate, and enrol community based organizations to become partners with VCH for rapid distribution of information and resources to vulnerable members of the community in the event of a climate crisis (such as a heat dome) to reduce harm and death.
Project groups consist of 2 - 5 students.