PO627
Policy Research in Action
0.5 Credit

This community engaged course is structured around a local partnership where students have the opportunity to contribute to an applied research project in an area of Canadian social policy. Students gain in-depth academic knowledge of a social policy area (e.g., housing, social assistance, neighborhood development, poverty reduction), and experiment with applying policy concepts to a pressing social problem. Throughout the course, visitors are hosted from the community, not-for-profit sector, and governmental bodies. By the end of the course, students are able to critically examine policy developments in an area of Canadian social policy, with attention to questions of inequality and social transformation.