Complement your studies with valuable work experience and career readiness supports. Get paid or earn course credit – plus essential, in-demand employment skills and experience in your field – with a variety of work integrated learning experiences. These opportunities allow you to network within your chosen field and develop valuable work experience while also putting theory into practice.

Work Integrated Learning Funding
The Work Integrated Learning fund is here to help you enhance your classes with innovative ideas. From guest speakers to field trips and community projects, this initiative is all about enriching educational experiences across all disciplines.
Work Integrated Learning Opportunities
Use the search below for work integrated learning opportunities by academic department.

Applied Marketing Management
Community-Based Projects
ADMS 3220 3.00
Students analyze marketing problems and develop solutions to real-world situations. Course components include: situation analysis, segmentation, targeting, positioning, marketing strategies, evaluation and control.

Applied Public Policy Analysis
Community-Based Projects
PPAS 4200 6.00
An applied analysis of specific areas of public policy chosen to reflect current public debates. Students apply their knowledge of policy analysis in the context of case studies and/or real world projects with community partners.

Bachelor of Social Work Practicum
Social Work Practicum
SOWK 4000 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Bachelor of Social Work program.

Bachelor of Social Work Practicum
Social Work Practicum
SOWK 4001 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Bachelor of Social Work program.

Black Canadian Studies Practicum
Placement Course
HUMA 4305 6.00
This course provides students with practical experience analyzing issues through the lens of Black Canadian Studies with placement in the offices of elected officials.


CCY Work-Focused Placement Course
Placement Course
CCY 4900 6.00
This course provides hands-on, Work-Focused EE opportunities to fourth-year Children, Childhood & Youth students. Students complete part-time, supervised placements with non-profit or community organizations to gain relevant work experience for academic credit.

Communications Field Experience: Corporate and Cultural Industries
Placement Course
CMDS 4140 6.00
Take your studies out of the classroom and apply the skills you’ve learned in a real work situation! Available to all fourth year Communication & Media Studies, this course allows students to apply with an organization and work part-time for academic credit. Students receive hands-on experience, opportunities to network with people working in the communications sector, and insight into different career pathways.


Criminology Placement Course
Placement Course
CRIM 4667 6.00 (Crosslisted to SOSC 4667 6.00)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge of criminological issues and approaches in a practical context. The course begins with in-class workplace-related skills training followed by placement in a government, community, or non-governmental organization working with people in conflict with the law, victims of crime, or in crime prevention. Application required.

Digital Authoring Practicum
Placement Course
PRWR 4001 6.00
This practicum allows fourth year students in PRWR to design and implement online writing and marketing campaigns for community organizations. Community service learning is central to this course. Students are matched with individuals and organizations that need digital help. Students write blogs, build websites, execute social media campaigns, write and design material appealing to multiple audiences using a variety of technologies. Students critically reflect on issues related to online communication.


Disaster & Emergency Management Practicum
Placement Course
DEMS 5080 6.00
Placements in the field provide students with the opportunity to apply theories of disaster and emergency management in a variety of organizations within the private, public and non-governmental organization sectors.


Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production
Placement Course
HUMA 4207 6.00
Students discover how local cultural production is fostered, disseminated, and in some cases restricted in and by the communities they serve. Building on cultural theories and concepts of public pedagogy, students work in small groups with partner organizations to engage in a choice of research or community focused experiential learning activities to be used for a range of real-world applications.


Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production
Placement Course
HUMA 3207 6.00
Offers students opportunities to engage with the local cultural sector in order to better understand the relevancy of cultural organizations in a multicultural city. The course explores cultural relationships, combining theoretical and experiential components in a blended learning environment where students hone transferable skills and develop professional contacts.

Emergency Management: Field Experience
Placement Course
DEMS 3705 3.0
Apply theories of emergency management and gain work experience through a part-time placement opportunity with a variety of organizations within the private, public and NGO sectors. Students will complete 12 hours of placement per week over 11 weeks (132 hours).

Engaging Health in the Community
Placement Course
SOSC 4144 6.00
This course applies academic knowledge of health, health advocacy, and health care systems to experience in community settings through classroom study and the application of social science research methods in student placements in health-related organizations and agencies.


English Honour Thesis/Work Placement
Independent Study
EN 4099 6.00
Provides an opportunity for sustained research under the direction of a member of the department on topics not covered in the English curriculum. The research may take the form of either a thesis or a work placement.

Financial Accountability Practicum
Placement Course
FACC 6850 6.00
Placements in organizations provide students with the opportunity to explore the relationship between theory and practice in financial accountability as well as obtain relevant employment experience to prepare for careers


Foreign Language and Digital Media: Developing Skills for Online, Spanish-English Publications
Community-Based Projects
SP 4990 3.00
In this capstone course, students engage in high-impact Community Focused Experiential Education. Activities focus on writing, researching, editing and publishing works for an online university undergraduate magazine.


HREQ Work-Focused Placement Course
Placement Course
HREQ 4460 6.0
This work-focused, course-based placement provides HREQ majors with an intensive experiential education opportunity in their fourth year in exchange for academic credit. Participants will apply their skills and knowledge in the area of human rights and equity as they work with community organizations, government agencies, non-profit agencies, or other relevant groups.

IBM Learning Space
Students in certain LA&PS undergrad, graduate and master’s programs have the opportunity to study at our state-of-the-art Learning Space in IBM Canada’s headquarters – a high-profile and dynamic environment populated by academic researchers, entrepreneurs, start-ups and developers.

International Development Placement Course
Placement Course
SOSC 4605 6.00
This course allows students to combine learning about the workings of development non- governmental organizations, through a hands-on experience with an NGO and more conventional academic activities in the classroom. The placement will be fulfilled with an NGO involved in international and/or local development within the Greater Toronto Area.

International Refugee Protection Regime II
Community-Based Projects
PPAS 4112 3.00
The current state of the international refugee protection regime will be examined to reveal the underlying forces and dynamics at the root of the critical problems and the probable solutions facing those seeking international protection. The second course in the series analyzes specific international asylum and refugee issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will conduct independent research on international asylum and refugee issues and will have an Experiential Education opportunity with an organization working with refugees.


Italian for Professional Purposes
Placement Course
IT 4500 6.00
This course offers a unique opportunity for the students of Italian to develop advanced language competency, with a focus on formal registers of Italian for professional purposes. In addition to earning academic credits, students will gain hands-on work experience, while using Italian in a variety of course-based placements in profit and non-profit organizations in the GTA.


Labour Studies Work Placement
Placement Course
SOSC 4240 6.00
The purpose of the course is to provide students with first-hand experience regarding the different ways organizations pursue workplace improvements and broader social and political change for all working people. The course has both seminar (in-class) and placement (cooperative learning) components. The placement component of the course involves work directed by a supervisor (usually a staff person or leader of a union, community-based or social justice organization).

Marketing Live Client Learning
Community-Based Projects
ADMS 4211 3.00
Work on real-life projects with companies and non-for-profit organizations, and participate in national case competitions through the Marketing Live Client Learning course.

Master of Social Work Practicum
Social Work Practicum
SOWK 5350 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Master of Social Work program.

Master of Social Work Practicum
Social Work Practicum
SOWK 5310 6.00
The practicum is a degree requirement of the Master of Social Work program.

Organizational Writing Practicum
Community-Based Projects
PRWR 4003 6.00
This practicum offers students the opportunity to experience the expectations of the business world by applying the principles of effective organizational communication to create their own branded identity as a Professional Writing Consultancy that develops relationships with clients in the York University Community. Working in dedicated project teams, students perform client needs assessments, develop proposals, create project plans, produce, edit and publish materials, and manage deliverables in both print and digital media.


Placement Option MA
Placement Course
ANTH 5040 3.00
In certain instances a Candidate for the Masters degree may elect to complete a placement in order to fulfill course requirements.


Placement Option PhD
Placement Course
ANTH 6040 3.00

Practicum in Public Administration
Placement Course
PPAS 4995 6.00
Public policy and administration students in their fourth year may register for this placement course, which combines volunteer work experience in an agency with an academic analysis of that experience. Enrolment is by permission only and permission will be granted only in September depending on the number of placements available and the competitiveness of the student pool.


Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Placement Course
TESL 3300 6.00
The course provides an experiential education opportunity to put theory into practice, integrating blended online and in-class instruction alongside placement at a variety of English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction settings. Students complete 50 practicum hours (30 hours observation and 20 hours practice teaching).

Program Evaluation I
Community-Based Projects
PPAS 4310 3.00
Provides students with the fundamental methodological tools necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of government and NGO programs. Students will learn to develop research designs for formative evaluations, summative evaluations and needs studies. Students will have an opportunity to put research designs into practice for program evaluations in partnership with public and not-for-profit sector organizations. Both courses must be taken in the same year.

Program Evaluation II
Community-Based Projects
PPAS 4320 3.00
Provides students with the fundamental methodological tools necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of government and NGO programs. Students will learn to develop research designs for formative evaluations, summative evaluations and needs studies. Students will have an opportunity to put research designs into practice for program evaluations in partnership with public and not-for-profit sector organizations. Both courses must be taken in the same year.

Public History
Placement Course
HIST 4840 6.00
This course examines the forms, goals, and practices of making history in museums, archives, historic sites, and other institutions of public history. It enables students to learn the meaning and methods in the production of memory and introduces them to the practical skills for the public presentation of historical knowledge. The course combines analytical study with a part-time placement in a public-history site.


Research Seminar in Economics
Community-Based Projects
ECON 4089 3.00
This course assists students in developing strong analytical, quantitative, and communication skills through independent research and by working in collaboration with a partner organization. It familiarizes students with some of the major issues and research approaches in economics through discussions and presentations of various topics.

Social Economy Practicum
Placement Course
SOSC 4046 6.00
Take your studies out of the classroom and apply the skills you’ve learned in an real work situation! Typically taken in fourth year, the Social Economy Practicum course allows you to apply for a position within an organization and work part-time for course credit. Students receive hands-on experience, opportunities to network with people working in your chosen field, and insight into different career pathways.

Sociology Field Placement
Placement Course
SOCI 4100 6.00
This course places sociology students in not-for-profit, government, and community organizations in order to gain experience and skills in workplaces that respond to social inequalities. In addition, the students will meet regularly in a seminar setting to reflect upon their experience, and connect it to their sociological training.

The Professional Anthropologist: The Anthropologist as Practitioner
Placement Course
ANTH 4130 6.00
This course combines analytical study with a part-time placement in a non-governmental partner agency. Students will complete around 176 hours of placement over 8 months.