BACHELOR of PUBLIC SAFETY and JUSTICE
Field Placements
Apply what you learn in the classroom to real-world settings through field placements and community-engaged projects. In the Bachelor of Public Safety and Justice program, you build hands-on professional skills by working alongside experienced practitioners.
Placements and capstone projects connect you with community partner agencies in policing, investigations, community justice, corrections and emergency communication. Faculty supervisors guide your progress, ensuring you gain hands-on experience, develop resilience and adaptability, and graduate with the practical knowledge employers need.
Second- or third-year field placements
If you choose to embed a diploma or certificate into your degree, you gain hands-on experience through field placements in the second or third year of the program. Your placement experience depends on the credential you choose to embed:
- Community Justice and Corrections diploma: Students complete two placements in criminal justice agencies.
- Police and Investigations diploma: Students complete one placement in a policing, security or investigation setting.
- Emergency Communications and Response certificate: Students complete one placement in emergency communication centres.
Each placement is supervised and guided by community partners and MacEwan faculty, ensuring you develop the professional and ethical skills needed for success in the field.
Senior-year capstone project
All students complete a senior capstone project in their final year, integrating everything they have learned throughout the degree. Each project is overseen by a faculty member in collaboration with an agency representative.
You can choose from two approaches:
- In a practice-based capstone project, you work on-site with an agency for two days/week over two terms (180 hours/term).
- In a research-based capstone project, you independently explore a specific topic, determined by you, a supervising faculty member and an agency representative. You conduct research with defined deliverables and agency input. This approach includes on-site visits to your host agency, but there is no set attendance requirement.
Whichever approach you choose, the capstone project gives you the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills you’ve learned in the classroom, build professional connections and graduate with hands-on experience that sets you apart.
International students must have a valid study permit with authorization to work on campus written on their permit before starting their field placement, clinical practice or practicum. If you plan to work with vulnerable populations in a health, community or medical field, you need an up-to-date medical exam by an IRCC-approved panel physician before starting the work placement.
You must contact MacEwan International to check your student work placement eligibility.