About Our Team

For more than twenty years, the Social Sciences Careers & Experiential Education team has supported undergraduate students, staff, and instructors with a range of career development and experiential learning programming.

Resources for Careers & Experiential Education programming are uniquely funded in part by a faculty-budgeted operating allocation, and in part by an annual compulsory fee paid by all full-time undergraduate students in social sciences programs. Full-time students registered in the Faculty of Social Sciences benefit from a number of benefits, such as career advising, opportunity access, and special registered events.

Students registered in other Faculties than Social Sciences who are pursuing combined honours degrees receive their career services and experiential support through their registered Faculty, but can also opt in to the Social Sciences fee to become eligible to receive the benefits of Social Sciences services and supports.

Due to this joint funding structure, the team’s activities are governed by an Experiential Education Governing Council (EEGC) through a partnership between the Social Sciences Dean’s Office and the McMaster Social Sciences Society (MSSS), the faculty’s partner organization for students.

The staff members, in their roles as McMaster employees, report to the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and work in the main office for that unit alongside academic advisors, teaching and learning, support, and recruitment staff.