MACE - Community Engagement
Offered By:
School of Public Health
Below are the courses available from the MACE code. Select a course to view the available classes, additional class notes, and class times.
An elective course on selected topics in community engagement.
An introduction to the conceptual foundations of the practice of community- engaged research and evaluation, with application across diverse disciplines, and forms of engagement (e.g., health care, community development) and community contexts, (e.g., government, Indigenous). Students will examine models, processes and practices of community engagement that incorporate principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. A required course for students in the Master of Arts in Community Engagement program; others interested must seek consent of the instructor.
An examination of the theoretical foundations (e.g., Marxism, Post/Anti-Colonialism, Feminism) that have shaped the study and practice of community engagement. Students will explore this through a broad spectrum of disciplines and themes. A required course for students in the Master of Arts in Community Engagement program; others interested must seek consent of the instructor.
An introduction to research which broadly includes quantitative, qualitative, Indigenous methods and mixed methods. Research design, formulating community partnerships, formulating research questions, selecting appropriate methods, sampling, data analysis and knowledge mobilization will be included. This course is designed as a seminar, while some classes will be structured, the intent is for participants to learn from each other's experiences and research examples.
An introduction to the main methods in qualitative inquiry, data collection strategies, qualitative data analysis, rigor, ethics, and proposal preparation. Students may not receive credit for both COMM 597 (Introduction to Qualitative Inquiry) and MACE 550.
Introduction to the basics of evaluation, including the foundations, approaches, steps, strategies, and ethical considerations of evaluation, with an application across diverse disciplines, sectors and community contexts (e.g., health care, community development, government, Indigenous, not-for-profit). During a week-long intensive course, graduate students will work together with undergraduate students and community stakeholders. Students will work through case studies (project-based curricula) to develop evaluative responses to community-informed case studies issues (project-based curricula). Students may not receive credit for both MACE 597 (Evaluation in the Community Context) and MACE 552.
Students will gain practical, hands-on experience by contributing to a community-based project that draws on multiple facets of community engagement scholarship. The community experience will be supported by a seminar that explores critical, ethical, inclusive, equitable, decolonizing and reflective approaches to the everyday practice of community engagement. Restricted to MACE students. Prerequisite: consent of the department.
Students will gain practical, hands-on experience by contributing to a community-based project that draws on multiple facets of community engagement scholarship. The community experience will be supported by a seminar that explores critical, ethical, inclusive, equitable, decolonizing and reflective approaches to the everyday practice of community engagement. Restricted to MACE students. Prerequisite: consent of the department. Students may not receive credit for both: CSL 550 and MACE 560.
Students will gain practical, hands-on experience by contributing to a community-based project that draws on multiple facets of community engagement scholarship. The community experience will be supported by a seminar that explores critical, ethical, inclusive, equitable, decolonizing and reflective approaches to the everyday practice of community engagement. Restricted to MACE students. Prerequisite: consent of the department. Students may not receive credit for both: CSL 550 and MACE 560.
An elective course on selected topics in community engagement.
In collaboration with a faculty member, the student will propose a course of study to be undertaken. Course may be repeated.
A community-engaged (applied) culminating project. Restricted to MACE students in the course-based route.
A community-engaged (applied) culminating project. Restricted to MACE students in the course-based route.