Co-op & careers - University of Victoria

Co-op and careers

Female co-op student blowing milkweed seeds — Working as a Weed Science Research Assistant on the Saanich Peninsula during a co-op placement.

Female co-op student changing a camera — Changing the cameras that monitor wildlife while on a co-op placement in Kootenay National Park.

Male co-op student in a monitoring room — Working as an Emergency Management Geo-Technician in Canada's Emergency Watch and Response Centre during a co-op placement.

Female co-op student standing near a volcano — Studying volcanic debris in the Nazko Cone during a co-op placement as a Soil Scientist Research Assistant.

Co-op program

The geography department has been a leader and participant in co-op education at UVic for almost 30 years.

Co-op allows you to alternate your academic studies with paid, relevant work experience in your field of study. Work-terms can take place public and private sectors, with many opportunities based in local, provincial, or federal government departments.

Careers in geography

Geography explores the relationship between human and biophysical systems and deals with some of the most critical issues of our time such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, sustainability of resource management systems, international development and community and urban planning.

Graduates of our programs are equipped with the set of skills necessary to become critical thinkers and doers, and to make an impact in their chosen career field.

UVic students and alumni can access UVic Career Services for one-on-one career support as well as résumé, interview, and work search tools to help you navigate your career before and after graduation.

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The process of colonialism is definitive to the formation of Canada and our city (named after Queen Victoria, who ruled what was then "British North America"). Settling on First Nations territories and displacing those Nations was inherent to building the Canadian nation-state. Leaders of the newly defined 'Canada' made the suppression of First Nations peoples, culture and dissent an active part of their mandates, such as the Indian Act, which is now recognized to be a policy of cultural genocide. The residential school system was a cornerstone of the Act. Here is an excerpt from the correspondence of Canada's first Prime Minister discussing the residential school system: “When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men." -1879.

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