Assistant Professor
Department of [add here]

Courses for Fall 2024
SUST 301 (Sustainability Challenges)

Course Description

SUST 301 focuses on sustainability challenges based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The course equips students with knowledge of sustainability, which incorporates environmental, economic, social, and cultural components. It also highlights the interconnectedness of today’s wicked challenges through systems thinking.

Desired Projects

Desired projects enable students to contribute to wicked challenges related to sustainability such as anti-racism, equity, sustainability audits and reporting, sustainable and socially just practices and procedures, and education about sustainability. The purpose of the project is to contribute to the organization’s capacity towards and knowledge of sustainability issues. 

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science

Courses for Fall 2024
POLS 244 (Introduction to Policy Studies)

Courses for Winter 2025

• POLS 244 (Introduction to Policy Studies)

• POLS 321 (Introduction to Public Administration)

• POLS 344 (Fundamentals of Policy Analysis)

Course Descriptions

• POLS 244: Introduces students to the process and practice of policy making in modern governments. 

• POLS 321: Explores the theoretical foundations and contemporary practice of public management and governance in Canada, primarily focusing on the federal government but includes other government levels as well. 

• POLS 344: Conduct different types of economic analyses that assist governments in deciding when and where to address a problem and how to choose between different solutions. This course provides students with an entry point to the profession of policy analysis.

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science

Courses for Fall 2024
Econ 366 examines the economics of producing and consuming energy: pricing, role in economic growth; energy sources and markets, the role of government regulation and other energy policy issues. Economic perspectives of contemporary Canadian energy issues and policies are also reviewed. 

Courses for Winter 2025

• Econ 335: explores how economic forces influence the development of cities in spatial, social, and economic dimensions; cause cities to grow or shrink; affect urban problems such as poverty, crime, and congestion; make urban housing markets work; and shape taxation and spending policies to promote urban sustainability.

• Econ 369: examines economic growth and the deterioration of the environment; types and causes of environmental deterioration; theory, policy, and measurement relating to environmental deterioration; and current Canadian environmental topics.

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Courses for Fall 2024

SOWK 403: Leadership in Human Service Organizations

SOWK 350 & 450: Field Practicum

Course Descriptions

SOWK 403: Leadership in Human Service Organizations

In SOWK 403, social work students apply their knowledge of trauma-informed care, reconciliation, equity, and social justice within an organizational context. Students use their emerging leadership skills to develop an evidence-based solution to an organizational need or project.  

SOWK 350 & 450: Field Practicum

Within Field Practicums, students have real-world opportunities to learn the competencies associated with the social work profession. Students engage in social work practice with a focus on learning about the profession, applying theory to practice, social justice and developing social work skills under the mentorship of a field instructor. To support field instructors, we offer a variety of workshops and category A credits that can be applied to social work registration.

Project

Seeking community partners interested in collaborating with students to comprehensively understand project requirements and jointly develop a proof-of-concept implementation that meets the identified requirements.

Supervisor  - Work Integrated Learning
Careers and Experience

Courses for Fall 2024

SOWK 403 - Field placements

Course Descriptions

SOWK: Field Placement

Course Description: Our sociology department is currently developing a field placement experience for students to gain experience while also contributing to and adding value to community organizations. Students learn about a variety of sociological topics including justice and restorative programming, support services, educational approaches, and more. This field placement course will engage students in reflective practice and career development while students complete approximately 50-75 hours with an organization. 

Project

MacEwan Sociology students are seeking field placement opportunities for this summer, ideally starting by the end of May. Specific roles can vary widely across diverse organizations. We are seeking roles that can engage students in:

·       Identifying and analyzing social problems

·       Critically evaluating social institutions and social policies.

·       Applying sociological knowledge, skills, and methods to assist community partners.

Examples of assignments/tasks that students may do within their placement role:

·       Designing and delivering interactive and engaging educational workshops in the community.

·       Collecting, organizing, and analyzing qualitative data to identify trends, patterns, and insights, entering data into databases, and communicating findings through oral presentations and written reports.

·       Communicating with various stakeholder groups to support good working relationships.

·       Conducting literature reviews/searches and writing technical/research reports.

·       Collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information from various sources, including academic and gray literature.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Courses for Fall 2024
CMPT 480 (Computer Network Security)

Course Descriptions

In this course, students delve into the principles and practices of computer networks. The project emphasizes the design, implementation, and security aspects of either a new system or network, or the fortification of an existing one.

Project

Seeking community partners interested in collaborating with students to comprehensively understand project requirements and jointly develop a proof-of-concept implementation that meets the identified requirements.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Courses for Winter 2025
Winter 2025 CMPT 361 and COMPT 200 

Course Descriptions

 For these courses, students will solve real-case events that industry partners share. For example, computer network security issues, network implementation problems, new services network architectures, protocols, client-server programming, security, and ideas for Data management are useful for our students in these courses. Students will focus on the basics of networking, including computer networks.

Project

Seeking community partners interested in collaborating with students to comprehensively understand project requirements and jointly develop a proof-of-concept implementation that meets the identified requirements.

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Courses for Fall 2024
CMPT 480 (Computer Network Security)

Course Descriptions

In this course, students delve into the principles and practices of computer networks. The project emphasizes the design, implementation, and security aspects of either a new system or network, or the fortification of an existing one.

Project

Seeking community partners interested in collaborating with students to comprehensively understand project requirements and jointly develop a proof-of-concept implementation that meets the identified requirements.

Associate Professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Management, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communication

Courses
Arts and Cultural Management students and classes seek out opportunities in a wide variety of spaces within the community. Sometimes, we are looking for arts and cultural sector opportunities, and sometimes, we are looking for ways to bring arts and cultural practices to organizations that would be typically seen as outside the sector. For example, the City of Edmonton has organised artists-in-residence in our waste management facilities – an area not typically seen as part of the arts and cultural sector. More typical arts and cultural sector industries and organizations include festivals, theatres, galleries and museums, musicians and music venues, dance studios, and cultural hubs. Our students and courses seek opportunities in marketing and communication, project management, fund development, accounting, grant writing, event planning, placemaking initiatives, arts programming, audience research, museum education and community engagement, and more.

Assistant Professor
Field Education Facilitator- Bachelor Child and Youth Care (CYC) Program

Courses for Fall 2024
CYC Placement

Course Description

Part of my role as the Field Education Facilitator is to recruit and secure practicum opportunities for first, second and fourth-year CYC students.

The CYC program of study prepares students to work with children, youth and families who have experienced or are dealing with trauma, abuse, neglect, and other behavioural, social and mental health issues. 

Desired Project

Project: Some of the settings that CYC students can engage with children, youth and families during their practicum, are; schools, drop in centres, recreational programs, before and after school programs, group care, in home family support, foster care etc.

• Working one-to-one and in small groups- mentoring.

• Facilitating and leading therapeutic activities, setting up life skills groups for youth.

• Supporting individuals in accessing resources and navigating various systems for services.

• Developing a resource directory for marginalized youth.

Assistant Professor
Department of Public Safety and Justice Studies

Courses for Fall 2024
CORR 204 (Addiction in the Criminal Justice System)

Course Description

In this course students learn about common drugs and other addictions, use-patterns, intervention strategies -  prevention, treatment, and recovery. They also learn about education, health promotion, and harm reduction. 

Desired Project

Students stand to gain valuable insights by engaging with community partners involved in addictions-related work and learning about their initiatives. Community partners seeking student involvement in projects, events, or initiatives related to addiction are encouraged to connect.

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Systems & Sustainability 

Courses for Fall 2024/Winter 2025

• NURS 424 (Fostering Resilience in Priority Populations)

Course Descriptions

• NURS 424: NURS 424 focuses on perspectives influencing the age of sustainable development, emerging public and global health challenges, populations, and resilience. 

Students collaborate with community partners on a project that focuses on priority populations, public health-related issues and co-create innovative, evidence-informed interventions and sustainable products that aim to enhance health equity, and equality in priority populations. Systems thinking and systems innovation approaches are used to guide the project development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are used as a framework.

Desired Projects

Desired projects would allow students to use systems thinking and systems innovation approaches to address priority health issues that affect populations and the planet while focusing on the co-creation of sustainable solutions. Examples include but are not limited to projects related to climate change and health, gender equality, food security, gender-based violence, sustainability, quality of life, and well-being. 

Faculty:

Catherine Shepherd-Finlin BScN, RN

Certificate in Travel Health

Nurse Educator

Department of Health Systems and Sustainability

Faculty of Nursing

Trish Clark BScN, RN 

Nurse Educator

Department of Health Systems and Sustainability

Faculty of Nursing

Heather Reiter BScN, RN

Nurse Educator

Department of Health Systems and Sustainability

Faculty of Nursing

Ashley Soldan BScN, RN

Nurse Educator

 Department of Health Systems and Sustainability

Faculty of Nursing

Nichole Jubinville BScN, RN, IBCLC

Nurse Educator

Department of Health Systems and Sustainability

Faculty of Nursing

Class Description:

NURS 377 is a clinical nursing course where students are immersed into community based practice. They will spend a portion of their time working with your agency and a portion of time in Public Health Centres and community based medical facilities.  The course focuses on the on-going development and application of knowledge and skills related to engaging with individuals, families, groups/aggregates, and communities to promote and enhance health. Learning opportunities focus on health promotion and health education for clients within a community setting. 

Project Description:

Students work in groups of two to four with a designated staff person from your agency to develop and/or carry out a contained project based on the mandate of your organization. The students will conduct a needs/capacity assessment to identify or confirm the project focus and collaborate with you to clarify the purpose, goals and strategies of the project.  To do this, students are required to understand the mandate of your group or agency, the population you serve, and the intended project outcome. They are asked to identify characteristics of working in partnership, their role within the partnerships, and to describe project outcomes. Students will also develop project evaluation criteria. They receive a grade for this project. In the past students have conducted need and capacity assessments by applying a specifically developed assessment tool or organizing focus groups. They have worked with others to develop policy, information brochures, set-up small programs, or to develop and deliver presentations. In general, we have received positive feedback from our partners about our students. 

Each clinical course is 5 weeks, with agency work composing at least 50% of the student workload. We have clinical groups starting in September and continuing throughout the Academic Year. We have also worked on larger projects that have been scaffolded throughout the year.

Associate Professor
Department of Decision Sciences

Courses for Fall 2024/Winter 2025

• MGTS 401 (Advanced Data Modeling in Business)

• MSGT 417 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)

• SCMT 425 (Supply Chain Process Management)

Course Descriptions and Desired Projects

• MGTS 401: In this course, the students will develop knowledge and skills in advanced data modeling. They will learn about different regression models for data sets and some models in which the assumptions of the multiple regression model are not met. Students will have hands on experience of coding relevant cases from key functional areas of business where decision-making has benefited from advanced data modeling. The students will learn to use statistical software programs such as R to conduct their analyses. The students will also learn how to present effective data visualization using Tableau. For this course, there is a final project. 

  • • We are looking for a community partner to help us by providing some data for a project(s). Students can use this data to explore, visualize, and build dashboards. The second step is to build associative models (multiple or logistic regression, etc.) using R. 

• MSGT 485: Students will develop knowledge and skills in conducting and managing internal and external business intelligence consulting projects. The course content is developed for integration into progressively complicated hands-on projects. This course has MGTS 401 (Advanced data modeling) as a pre-requisite. The students will apply skills learned in the BI minor program to consulting projects in this course.

  • • The involvement of a community partner is essential for this course. Ideally, the course needs two guest lecture sessions on consulting project management. Moreover, the final project should be a typical business intelligence consulting project where students will implement a complete life cycle project.

Assistant Professor
School of Business

Courses for Fall 2024

• WINL 300 (For Property Management students)

Course Descriptions and Desired Projects

• WINL 300: Students in the  Property Management courses can support community partners with leasing understanding, financial analysis, property tax, and sustainability. Students will have an understanding of the day-to-day work functions of a property manager.

In my classes, we cover:

• some history of property management. 

• The different types of real estate

• The different types of properties.

• The Role of Property Managers

• Accounting procedures 

• Laws affecting Property management

The Work Integrated program (WINL 300) is not just about theoretical learning. It's about gaining hands-on experience at a Property Management company, where you can apply your knowledge in a practical setting. This program is designed to bridge the gap between education and real-world experience, enhancing students' understanding of Property Management.

Associate Professor
Quantitative Methods, Department of Decision Sciences

Courses for Fall 2024

MGTS 312 (Advanced Business Statistics)

Course Description

MGTS 312 teaches students on how to use regression analysis and model-building techniques for data-driven decision making in a business context. Lectures are accompanied by lab sessions during which students learn applications of business statistics using Excel.

Desired Projects

I am looking for 2-3 industry partners that may have data sets for students to analyze and help the respective companies in making informed decisions.

Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting and Finance

Courses for Winter 2025

• ACCT 366 (Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting)

• ACCT 430 (Accounting Information and Systems Support)

Course Description

SUST 301 focuses on sustainability challenges based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The course equips students with knowledge of sustainability, which incorporates environmental, economic, social, and cultural components. It also highlights the interconnectedness of today’s wicked challenges through systems thinking.

Desired Projects

• ACCT 366: Students develop the ability to prepare Not-For-Profit and Government financial statements which includes the disclosure of issues such as fund accounting and accounting for endowments. Accounting students will help with your accounting tasks by spending 20 hours at your site (or virtually). 

• ACCT 430: Students can support organizations by analyzing their accounting software needs and budget and make recommendations. 

Assistant Professor
Department of Management and Operations

Course for Fall 2024

• ORGA 201 (Introduction to Management)

Course Description

This course focuses on the nature and structure of work organizations and how people function in these environments. Topics include decision making, planning, organizing, controlling, leadership, organizational design and structure, communication, teams, motivation, conflict, change and strategy. 

Desired Projects

• I’m looking for organizations that have problems or issues in organizational behaviour or human resource management, including motivation, leadership, communication, groups, and other related topics. Students will work in groups to analyze the problem and suggest solutions based on theories and the latest research.

Experiential Learning Facilitator
Careers and Experience

Course for Fall 2024

MARK 412 - Service Marketing

Students will apply their knowledge of service marketing to a real-life organization with a particular problem/challenge related to the marketing of their services. 

A Community Partner project can include (but is not limited to) one or more of the following service marketing topics:

•   Service Quality (measuring the perceptions and expectations of customers on the service quality to identify gaps between expectations and perceptions)

•    Service blueprint/service design (analyzing all touch points between service provider and its  customers, and providing recommendations for service design)

•  Physical evidence/servicescape (analyzing the physical surroundings and tangible elements in the service delivery, and how those influence customer perceptions)

•  The role of employees and the role of customers in the service delivery

•  Marketing communications for services

MARK 414 - Digital Marketing (for Business to Consumer For-Profit Companies)

In this class, students are required to choose a Business-to-Consumer company that has been in the digital marketing business for at least one year. Students will evaluate the company's digital marketing efforts until now, outline challenges and recommend solutions and future steps for development, provide e-marketing strategies and recommendations. Please note: the students do not create social media posts in this class.

MARK 416 - Business-to-Business Marketing

The scope and nature of the project will depend on your company's needs and priorities. Students are capable of working on any of the following:

- Determine and describe relevant concepts and constructs of business-to business marketing, as well as similarities and differences between marketing to consumers and marketing to businesses
- Apply organizational market concepts to the analysis of marketing cases
- Analyze the appropriateness and effectiveness of the industrial marketing functions of firms with respect to their products and services, markets, and industries
- Assess the role of relationships and networks in the B2B markets including global networks and ethical issues
- Analyze trends and challenges of B2B marketing in a dynamic global market place

-Design B2B marketing plans

ORGA 410 - Custom Business Consulting

Projects accepted in this class are the most flexible of all business classes at MacEwan. They must be based on a real-world business problem and be rooted in one of the following core business areas:
 
•  Strategy: Including but not limited to defining/entering new markets, delivering new products/services, defining/designing competitive advantage, evaluating/defining/designing viable business models.
•  Marketing: Including but not limited to defining market channels, designing go-to-market plans, customer acquisition/retention.
•  Operations: Including but not limited to business process optimization, performance management.
•  People: Including but not limited to organizational design, attraction/retention strategies. 
  

ORGA 333 - Organizational Change Management

In this class, students will complete a needs assessment (meeting/interview), action plan approval, final presentation and/or report. Projects can involve any of the following:

•An organization looking to make a change in their organization (cultural, strategic, technology implementation, etc) 

•A business/organization who needs help focused on the Human Resources aspects of a change (review of reporting lines, job descriptions, creating new roles etc)

•A business/organization that is going through a significant change: merger, acquisition or amalgamation or perhaps the addition or elimination of a division/program that requires a re-jig of the majority of the remaining parts of the organization and is looking for a plan to implement the change.  

Community Engagement Facilitator
Department of Research

Meagan Auer is the Community Engagement Facilitator in the Office of Research Services at MacEwan University. Acting as a liaison between faculty members and community organizations, she helps foster strong partnerships on a variety of projects. Through developing connections, resources, tools, and special projects, her work is dedicated to strengthening MacEwan’s ability to make a meaningful impact in communities.

At this event, Meagan will be presenting on community-based research at MacEwan, and supporting community partners who are interested in exploring research collaborations with faculty and students.