SOCI 402 - Sociology Field Placements Spring/Summer 24
General
- Undergraduate; 4th year
- 14 learners; individual projects
- 75 hours per learner
- Dates set by projects
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 5/15 project matches
- Alberta, Canada
- Academic experience
- Family owned, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Social enterprise
- Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Human resources & recruitment, Individual & family services, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Public relations & communications
Categories
Skills
Overview
- Details
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- Critical thinking and analysis skills
- Sociological knowledge and skills, understanding of sociological theories and applications to various environments
- Understand social inequalities, group dynamics, and diverse perspectives
- Writing clear reports
- Working with and developing programs, initiatives, and resources for diverse groups
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and productively participate in group situations.
- Demonstrate academic knowledge and apply skills in work contexts.
- Identify durable and transferable skills and apply academic knowledge.
- Effectively demonstrate professionalism.
- Senior students (3rd/4th year)
- Learner skills
- Group dynamics, Transferable skills analysis, Sociology
- Deliverables
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Students can provide 50 - 75 hours of service and/or project work. Specific deliverables will be unique to the organization's needs and can include a number of things:
- Presentations
- Written reports
- Resources created
- Policy review and recommendation
- Communications drafts
- Program and workshop design
- etc
Project Examples
MacEwan Sociology students are seeking field placement opportunities for this summer, ideally starting by mid-May. Placements can be approximately 50-75 hours and can involve service directly within an organization, completing a meaningful project for an organization, or a combination of both.
Specific roles can vary widely across diverse organizations. We are seeking roles that can engage students in:
- Identifying and analyzing social problems.
- Critically evaluating social institutions and social policies.
- Applying sociological knowledge, skills, and methods to assist community partners.
Examples of assignments/tasks that students may do within their placement role:
- Designing and delivering interactive and engaging educational workshops to children and youth in the community.
- Collecting, organizing, and analyzing qualitative data to identify trends, patterns, and insights, entering data into databases, and communicating findings through oral presentations and written reports.
- Communicating with various stakeholder groups to support good working relationships.
- Conducting literature reviews/searches and writing technical/research reports.
- Collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information from various sources, including academic and gray literature.
- Delivering/facilitating programming focused on social problems and addressing and/or analyzing social problems
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Will a mentor be able to commit to regularly meeting with student(s) and providing input and feedback for the duration of the placement/project?