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 workloadType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
10Individual coachingPresence-
Lecturer independent learning
Hours of workloadType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
530Other-
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