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GEOG 2275 - Applied Project - Social / Urban /

GEOG 2275
Open Closing on December 11, 2024 / 1 spot left
Langara College
Langara College
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Colin Mills
Instructor
2
Timeline
  • January 7, 2025
    Experience start
  • May 1, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
British Columbia, Canada
Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Social Enterprise
Government, Individual & family services, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Categories
Community engagement Social work Humanities Social sciences Social justice
Skills
consulting social sciences social work accounting computer literacy social sustainability
Learner goals and capabilities

This class is structured as a single large-group project. Then entire class of students (ranging from 15 - 30) Tackle a single project as a large group. Students are in human/ urban geography and the DASSSH program - Applied Social Sciences and Humanities. The students will collectively create a consultants' report as their final deliverable in the course.


Because this is a large-group project this project needs significant scope and capacity.


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.



Learners
Undergraduate
Beginner, Intermediate levels
20 learners
Project
80 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 20
Expected outcomes and deliverables

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 timeline
  • January 7, 2025
    Experience start
  • May 1, 2025
    Experience end
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.