Professor Marge Reitsma-Street, PhD (Toronto) Office: HSD Bldg. Room B244 Phone: 250-721-6468 Fax: 250-721-7067 email: mreitsma@uvic.ca

Marge Reitsma-Street & 2008 SPP Grads

Graduate Teaching and Supervision:

Marge teaches graduate courses in research methodologies, social policy, community change, and inequality. She has supervised more than 40 students in research pojects and thesis studies in topics such as: the discourse of independence in women's organizations; experiences of northern proprofessionals; participation of 'poor' people in poverty reduction initiatives; citizen opposition to privatization in health care; resisitance of rural women to land reform in Melensia; and recreation and youth of low income.

Marge has written a guide to wrtiting a thesis or project proposal based on experiences of students.
A Guide to Completing a Thesis or Project Proposal

Courses
SPP 530 - Poverty and Inequality: Advanced Policy and Practice Seminar (Fall 2005)

SPP 521 - The Practice of Action-Oriented Human Service Research (Spring 200901)

SPP 560 - Communities, Politics and Social Change (Spring 2006)
SPP 550 - Advanced Thesis Seminar (2005-06)
HSD 400 - Policy in the Human Services (Spring 2005): Also available WebCT Summer 2008



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