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• This course examines all aspects of the public safety system from an organizational perspective and evaluates public safety organizations in the larger environmental context. • Students will analyse external organizations, public interest, and provincial and national policy and explore the changing and expanding role of the public safety system. • Current issues will be examined through case studies. • This course will examine the impacts of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on law enforcement and investigation practices. • Students will learn how to effectively communicate with the general public through social media platforms. • Students will be exposed to the current policies and legislation dealing with delivering sensitive information. • Conversely, students will be exposed to cultural criminal theories, critical Marxist theories and Foucauldian theory. • In addition, students will identify how real-time virtual public platforms allow law enforcement officials to discover, conduct and analyze evidence in solving online crimes. • Law enforcement officials will be able to use social platforms as agents of social control to assist in reducing the amount of online/virtual deviance, i.e., cyberbullying.

• Work independently to develop appropriate co-op work term positions and meet the departmental goal of 100% employment each term. • Prepare a marketing plan to promote Business & Economics, Arts and Science students which includes researching, defining and developing job opportunities within an assigned territory. • Conduct development calls (in-person and remote) with potential employers across all levels of the organization, including senior executives, line managers, and human resources representatives. • Approximately 65-75 job development calls, plus follow-up employer meetings are conducted annually, depending on the size of the territory and other program responsibilities. • Prepare appropriate presentations for employers. • Build effective relationships with new and current employer clients through personal, proactive and responsive service to develop opportunities in the areas of management accounting, finance, chartered accounting, operations, marketing, HR, business technology management and for all arts/science disciplines. • Co-ordinate the recruiting process. • Advise employers on ethical recruiting strategies and guidelines; guidance on salaries, academic programs, including multiple options within business, double degrees, arts, science and graduate co-op programs. • Track and update recruiting database, which includes 8,500+ employers and 10,000+ contacts. • Contribute to the educational, professional and personal growth of participating students by helping them explore career options, develop job search skills, secure rewarding work term opportunities and gain marketable employment skills. • Interview and select students for admission to co-op in those programs where enrolment is limited, and admission is competitive. • Guide and support newly admitted students one-on-one and in sessions throughout each of two terms. • Prepare and present workshop on introduction to co-op for assigned group, respond to questions and provide feedback, ensuring their understanding of the co-op process and requirements. • Advise students on job search strategies to prepare them for the work term; guidance on resume and cover letter writing, interview preparation, career and industry opportunities through a co-op speakers’ series, report writing, social adjustment and appropriate work habits. • Advise students on the development of learning objectives for their work terms and assess their initial written submissions. • Review progress in meeting objectives with both students and their employers at the work term visit, and in student work reports and their final self-evaluation at debrief meetings. • Monitor the quality of positions, student performance during work terms and satisfaction levels of stakeholders. • Assist employers in developing job descriptions and approving them prior to posting, approximately 500-700 job postings annually. • Schedule and conduct work term visits, 250-300 annually, to monitor quality of positions and satisfaction of stakeholders. • Provide mediation and guidance to students and employers during the work term, including availability after hours to resolve issues such as performance problems, inappropriate job responsibilities, and interpersonal conflicts which can result in highly charged, emotional situations. • Investigate terminations and provide students with guidance about the appeal process when their status in co-op is reviewed. • Ensure employers complete evaluations of students and they are reviewed by all stakeholders as appropriate. • Promote and provide information about co-op at Laurier. • Establish and maintain linkages with assigned professional associations for networking and professional development; organizations may include Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario, Insurance Institute of Canada, Supply Chain Canada, CPA Ontario, and various boards of trade. • Provide information and guidance to faculty, high school students, and parents at events such as the Ontario University Fair and Campus Open Houses; communicate and meet individually with students and their parents. • Manage individual projects to support the department. • Collaborate in the development of policies and procedures to facilitate the effectiveness of the Co-op Office • Ad hoc projects as required.

• Reflect on values and practices in social work • Analyze relationship with Indigenous Peoples • Engage with Indigenous worldviews and values • Reflect on responsibility for relational transformation

• Focus on advanced techniques for designing and analysing algorithms • Explore their use in various application areas including sorting and search algorithms, graph traversal algorithms, and combinatorial search. • Students learn the skill of recognizing computational complexities of computing problems and designing solutions for them.

• Help students learn about environmental communication • Emphasize climate change adaptation and biodiversity loss

• Examine Canadian and international perspectives on women and girls' struggles for equality • Pay special attention to how women’s efforts shaped and were shaped by cultural mores and regulatory frameworks

• OL202 is a continuation of the discussion started in OL201 and is intended to capitalize on student’s past work and personal experiences to help reframe them as opportunities for learning about leadership. • This course continues the discussion of how to integrate academic leadership concepts with a student’s personal narrative. • Whereas OL201 was mostly focused on one’s own point of view, OL202 will extend this discussion by gathering information from “other” point of view by including discussion of secondary data analysis techniques such as surveying/interviews. • Academic leadership topics, including followership, ethics, communication skills, and presentation skills will be discussed. • Finally, the course will focus on the application of the academic leadership content to a student’s personal/professional narrative to integrate the academic information with firsthand experiences.

• This seminar-based project management course provides students with an opportunity to develop and apply leadership and project management skills to issues • This senior level course provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of the people, technical, organizational, and leadership challenges and strategies involved in project management • Successful completion of this course will qualify students to write the Project Management Institute's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® test. • This course has multiple sections and a common course outline • This course will be coordinated • All instructors will be required to follow a proposed course outline.

• Develop and apply leadership and project management skills to issues • Provide an understanding of the people, technical, organizational, and leadership challenges and strategies involved in project management • Coordinate the course with all instructors required to follow a proposed course outline

• Introduces students to the quantitative methods used to collect, analyze and present summative UX data • Learn how to select appropriate metrics for assessing usability, utility, and satisfaction with products and services • Justify design decisions with data