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International 2021-2022

Studying the world in the field

Placements, exchanges, and field research courses — we offer everything our students need to discover the world through their programs.

The Faculty has allocated approximately $146,000 to managing and funding activities abroad to benefit our students.

Field research courses

Field research courses take place every summer. Under the guidance of Faculty professors, participants venture abroad to delve into a problem in the host country and conduct supervised field research. Since the summer of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these courses are offered online. Despite this, these courses provide a unique opportunity to meet with stakeholders on the ground, get to know the key organizations, and consolidate knowledge of research tools in the field.

In summer 2021, 72 bachelor’s and master’s students will take part in one of the following  field research courses:

  • Germany – Germany 30 years after reunification: Revisit the Past, Experience the Present, Imagine the Future (Virtual graduate level course in English)
  • Brazil — Activism and Social Change in Brazil (online course in English)
  • Cameroon — Anthropologie des médecines (virtual course in French)
  • Canada – Transgresser les frontières féministes : les savoirs entre théories et pratiques (virtual course in French)
  • France  – Vivre ensemble et inclusion des personnes en situation de vulnérabilité (virtual course in French)
  • Mexico — Les défis des minorités au Mexique  (virtual course in French)
  • Senegal — Éducation et accès à l’emploi des jeunes à l’ère numérique. Le cas du Sénégal (virtual course in French)
  • Taiwan — Taiwan in the Global Political Economy of Care (virtual course in English)
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Group of international students abroad

International internships

Not only do international internships provide work experience abroad, but also they are credited courses designed to reinforce class learning.
Like field research courses, the Faculty sponsored undergraduate and master’s level international internships as distance courses. In 2019–2020, 45 bachelor’s and master’s students completed an international internship:
Africa: 23
Asia: 13
Latin America: 9

Model United Nations Course

The Model United Nations assembly, which normally takes place in New York, was held in New York this year! In winter 2022, 23 uOttawa students represented Australia as part of the Model United Nations Course, and together, their participation earned them an honorable mention. The uOttawa team received top mentions:  Distinguished Delegation,  Outstanding Position Paper ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council Plenary  and Outstanding Position Paper GA 2 – General Assembly Second Committee