Internship and Academic Project
- Faculty
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
- Version
Version 1 of 13.05.2024.
- Module identifier
22B1836
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
English
- ECTS credit points and grading
18.0
- Module frequency
winter- and summerterm
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
The ?Internship and Academic Project” is a compulsory internship with duration of 12 weeks. The internship can exceptionally be a practical project work to be agreed with the examiner.
In the academic project, the student has the opportunity to prepare a practical problem scientifically, to present it in writing and to present it on the basis of the subject-specific and interdisciplinary competences acquired in the previous studies.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
-Organisation and elaboration of a work process of the practical project to be completed, in consultation with the supervising lecturer, - independent scientific preparation of a practical topic.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 540 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 10 Individual coaching Presence - Lecturer independent learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 530 Other -
- Ungraded exam
- Placement Report, written or
- Project Report, written
- Remark on the assessment methods
Preparing and presenting a report on the Academic Project.
- Exam duration and scope
Written practice report: approx. 10-15 pages
Written project report: approx. 10-15 pages
The requirements are specified in the respective lectures.
- Recommended prior knowledge
none
- Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to expand on a broad knowledge and practice-related foundation gained during the study programme.
- have subject and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in order to bring together theory and practice related to the study programme.
- are able to adopt critical distance so that appropriate results can be pulled from their analyses.
- Knowledge deepening
Students who successfully complete this module
- develop topic-relevant knowledge enabling achievement and discussion of subject-specific detailed results.
- are also able to present and defend subject-specific results in an overall context.
- Knowledge Understanding
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- apply subject-related and interdisciplinary skills acquired during the study programme,
- assess the results of their project in terms of their practical relevance and
- convert assessments into recommendations and define possibilities for implementation.
- Application and Transfer
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to utilise instrumental knowledge acquired in the study programme for the achievement of their project results. i.e. they
- can collect and interpret necessary data,
- apply academic methods used within the discipline,
- make hypotheses and examine them in terms of their accuracy.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students who successfully complete this module are able to differentiate, structure and critically assess:
- the applied methods and procedure,
- the overall context,
- the achieved results
- in both written and verbal form, and in some circumstances also in a foreign language.
- Literature
Cameron, S.: The Business Student?s Handbook, Financial Times/Pitman Gower,.... Jankowicz, A.D.: Business Research Projects, International Thomson Business Press in current edition and literature relevant to the particular project
- Linkage to other modules
The academic project prepares students for the bachelor thesis.
- Applicability in study programs
- International Management
- International Management, B.A.
- Person responsible for the module
- Frie, Jan
- Teachers
- Frie, Jan