Get involved in community engagement

For credit

For credit community engagement experiences integrate partnership projects into coursework. Every faculty at Queen’s offers courses with community engagement, with the opportunity to work in teams of your peers across programs. Courses with community engagement allow you to apply what you learn in your studies to contribute to impactful projects while earning academic credit toward your degree program.

Course spotlights

This course improves students' ability to address community health needs through a practical service-learning placement with an approved local or international health organization. Students reflect on global health engagement and explore its connections to key concepts such as international development, postcolonial theory, service learning, and public health, and apply their insights to real-world health challenges.

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Collaborate with other students across disciplines to complete consulting projects with industrial, government and not for-profit clients. Learn more about a variety of topics and client-based work involving social innovation, process improvement, business strategy, and more. This 4th year course is available for students with varying backgrounds including Engineering, Commerce, Law, Science, Social Science, and Humanities. Instructor permission is required prior to enrolment.

Experience all of Lake Ontario in its entirety through DEVS 368! Students will visit the shoreline, water treatment plants, and the Beaty Water Research Centre. Engage with local water issues and global freshwater challenges while hearing from local Indigenous leaders and organizations, the Marine Museum, Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Network, and more.

Learn about disability concepts as they relate to health and quality of life. Students will be able to recognize, appraise, and propose solutions towards removing barriers to accessibility and how to advocate for a more accessible and inclusive society.

Examine your relationship with the planet through this course on natural geologic hazards and environmental impacts. From earthquakes, landslides, tsunamics, to extraterrestrial impacts; explore the impacts of geological risk and our impacts though pollution and global climate change.

Co-curricular projects

PHIL 407: Wall to bridges

Walls to Bridges is a community-engaged learning program connecting Queen’s students with incarcerated students in Kingston. The program promotes active, experiential learning that goes beyond traditional courses by incorporating students’ lived experiences. The program enhances understanding of philosophical and sociological concepts in unique contexts, such as prisons. Its dual goal is to provide incarcerated students with access to higher education while deepening non-incarcerated students' understanding of societal structures within their city and country.

Research

Research offers many opportunities to collaborate with community and industry partners. Conducting research that relevant to partners and can be utilized to make an impact on their organization. There are opportunities to volunteer in labs, work on research projects and grants, and through Queen’s .

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Early Childhood Education Lab

The focuses on understanding how children learn, stay engaged, and develop self-regulation in their early years. Their goal is to connect research with real-world practice by collaborating closely with early childhood educators, teachers, children, and families. They work with community partners, non-profits, and both public and private education settings, using a team approach to ensure our research has practical, meaningful impact.

Graduate and professional students

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The PhD Community Initiative

The PhD-Community Initiative brings PhD students from various disciplines into interdisciplinary teams to help community organizations address a key issue or challenge. PhD students contribute advanced research skills, critical inquiry, and creative thinking to support the organization’s mission. In collaboration with the organization and a mentor, teams define the project scope, plan an approach, and outline deliverables to be completed by the project’s end, ensuring meaningful impact.

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