Work-Integrated Learning at Ambrose University

What is Work-Integrated Learning?

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is an important and rapidly growing category of experiential learning. WIL enables the university to collaborate with business, industry, non-profit organizations, and community partners to create opportunities for students to apply their growing knowledge and skills in real-world work situations.

Who does work-integrated learning (WIL) benefit?

Students

WIL helps students move from knowledge to practice. Students learn how their subject-specific skills translate into the world of work, gaining valuable experience and making connections with networks of professionals. Both help students transition from education into full-time careers.

Employers

WIL gives employers access to the new ideas and energy of students. In some professions, this also means access to new knowledge or up-to-date professional practices. WIL students help employers complete projects that require extra human resources and add capacity in the workplace.

Alberta

WIL helps prepare future workers for the Alberta economy. That’s why WIL is an important piece of the province’s “Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs Strategy.”

How can you partner with Ambrose University?

Ambrose University offers a variety of WIL opportunities for students and employers:

Field Placements & Internships

Individual students contributing 100-200 hours (usually unpaid) in a workplace, serving employer needs.

Community and Industry Research Projects (CIRPS)

Individual students or teams of students contributing 10-40 hours/student (usually unpaid) in collaboration with an employer (onsite or not), working on specific employer projects.

Community Service Learning

Groups of students working with community partner organizations to address community challenges, achieve community goals, and add value to the community. These typically run 30 hours in length.

Other

Ambrose offers other WIL opportunities in the School of Education and Faculty of Theology.

Why Ambrose?

Ambrose is a faith-based, liberal arts university with professional programs in business, education, and church ministry. Our small size makes us nimble. We are especially well placed to customize WIL opportunities to suit small and medium-sized businesses and organizations, but would also be pleased to place our students in WIL opportunities at larger corporations.

Our WIL opportunities are connected to subject areas in business, science (biology, chemistry), social sciences (psychology, sociology), humanities (English, history, Christian studies), and the arts (music, theatre).

Students work in marketing, HR, management, social services, writing and communications, laboratory and scientific fieldwork, research, analysis, and problem solving of all sorts, and performing arts. We would love to work with you.

Contact us to find out more

Kim McLachlan, Senior Coordinator for Experiential Learning – Arts and Science, experientiallearning@ambrose.edu

Kyle Agbing – Program Coordinator, School of Business – kyle.agbing@ambrose.edu