The objective is to provide Honours BA students with the opportunity to integrate four, four-month work placements into their academic experiences. Those accepted will have their first work terms at the end of year two.
Students then alternate between academic terms and paid work terms to the end of the degree program.
Sociology Co-op students are employed in a wide variety of settings, such as businesses, government and private research organizations, personnel departments, consulting firms, educational institutions, hospitals, rehabilitative treatment, or recreational services, social services, police forces and correctional institutions. Co-op students working in these settings may engage a wide variety of tasks. This may include such things as conducting research in conjunction with ongoing projects, data or program analysis, attending to quality control, marketing products or services, or pursuing administrative duties, doing technical writing, or working in human resource positions, customer or public relations, or control agencies or front-line rehabilitation services. People's responsibilities may extend to a variety of computer based skills including the use of statistical and graphics software, spreadsheets and database management. Generally speaking, responsibilities are apt to become more challenging as students progress through their academic and work terms as a result of their developing knowledge, skills, and abilities.