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About the B.A.(Education) Program and Internship

The B.A.(Education) – Major in Education in Global Contexts in the Faculty of Education is a three-year undergraduate program that explores teaching and learning beyond the classroom and enables students to explore the growing landscape of diversification in education emerging in a variety of career sectors.

Students learn fundamentals in sociology, psychology, Indigenous perspectives, leadership studies, history, philosophy, and public policy before being placed in a non-profit, business, or government workplace settings to fulfill a mandatory 150-hour internship between May to late August or—starting in 2025—January to late April.

Students are available to work in the following sectors:

  • Non-profit
  • Government
  • Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Social Enterprise
  • Business

Students further their interdisciplinary scholarship by completing Minors, including:

  • Educational Psychology
  • International Development
  • Management

Core courses in the B.A.(Education) Major include:

  • Global Education & Social Justice
  • Effective Communication
  • Indigenous Education
  • Media, Learning, and Digital Youth Cultures
  • Professional & Research Seminar
  • Program Design & Evaluation
  • Internship
  • Critical Research Inquiry (taken the Fall semester after the internship)
  • Internship Capstone (taken the Winter semester after the internship)

SM is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. Learn more.

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