Introduction

• The Geography Co-Op Program is being run in conjunction with the College of Agriculture Co-Operative Education program
• Students majoring in Geography, Land Use and Environmental Studies (LUESt), and Regional and Urban Development/Planning (RUD) are eligible (assuming they have satisfied the course requirements).
• Students will compete for jobs and be placed with public and private companies.
• The program will endeavour as much as possible to place students in work related to environmental studies, regional and urban development, planning, geography, etc.

• Students will register for a zero-credit course (Pass/Fail) for each of the work terms and are required to pay a fee for each work term.
• The fee is set to be approximately equivalent to the cost of 6 credit units of tuition.
• Students will be paid for work terms.
• Students will be required to write a Work Term Report.
• Although the majority of the jobs will be generated from the Co-Op Education Office, students can bring in a job themselves and have it approved to count towards the Co-Op Program.

• Students must complete no fewer than 54 credit units and no more that 84 credit units when they start their first work term.
• Work consists of a minimum of four (maximum of five), 4-month paid work terms, beginning after two years (54 credit units) of University course work.
• The program stretches a University education to five years (students come back for a full fifth year of academic studies after their last work term).
• There are no changes in academic program requirements; students still get a four-year B.A. or B.Sc. in the College of Arts & Science.

Eligibility Criteria for Geography Applicants to Co-Op Education Program
 
 

B.A./B.Sc in Geography

Students must hold a cumulative G.P.A. of 70% or higher (or have permission of the department) and must have completed no fewer than 54 and no more than 84 credit units cf course work. To qualify for participation in the Co-Op Education Program students must have successfully completed all of the following courses:

• 6 credit units of 100-level Geography
• GEOG 210.3, 215.3 and 222.3
• MATH 110.3
• 3 credit units of Introductory Statistics (see the current Calendar for appropriate courses)
• 6 credit units of Natural Science or Social Science electives.