Program Description
Students will learn how global events, like war and climate change, affect people at the local level. Throughout this program, students will develop a strong understanding of the challenges communities face. And they will explore new ways to address those issues.
In the Community Safety program, students will learn about:
- Government, law enforcement and emergency planning
- Building partnerships between police and community groups
- Speaking up for traditionally marginalized groups and vulnerable people
- Empowering citizens to build safer and more resilient communities
This program offers a new model for community wellness. It combines the social sciences, leadership, policing and crisis management. Projects span classes and subjects, so students are able to develop a broad perspective.
Learning Outcomes:
- Create logical, thoughtful and coherent policy recommendations and proposals based on the safety needs of communities.
- Discriminate between the roles and responsibilities of various public, private and not-for-profit actors and their interconnectedness working toward community safety.
- Assess the features of agencies involved in the Canadian justice system, their programs and practices and how these operate in developing community safety.
- Exemplify integrity and ethical conduct through respect for the principles and legislative framework of human rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Defend appropriate research methodologies and data collection techniques used to support evidence-based community safety policies and practices.
- Apply research techniques to critically analyze community safety programs.
- Assess major theoretical contributions within the social sciences as part of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the factors that improve the quality of life in diverse communities.
- Critically assess the interconnection of theory, policy and practice within the justice sector and other social systems.
- Evaluate the social, political, economic and ethical challenges that members of the local community, private organizations and governmental agencies must address within rapidly changing and diverse communities.
- Construct evidence-based intervention strategies that promote community wellness, equity, inclusion, and diversity.
- Prescribe specific investigative techniques to promote community safety.
- Exhibit collaboration, facilitation and negotiation skills required for delivering services in the public and private sectors.