PO 627

Policy Research in Action

This community engaged course is structured around a local partnership where students will have the opportunity to contribute to an applied research project in an area of Canadian social policy. Students will gain in-depth academic knowledge of a social policy area (ex. housing, social assistance, neighbourhood development, poverty reduction), and experiment with applying policy concepts to a pressing social problem. Throughout the course, we will host visitors from the community, not-for-profit sector, and governmental bodies. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically examine policy developments in an area of Canadian social policy, with attention to questions of inequality and social transformation. Exclusions: PO691C.