Project-oriented Internship (15 ECTS)

E2025

Global and Development Studies

Project oriented internship

Elective

English

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Markus-Michael Müller (muellerm@ruc.dk)

Markus-Michael Müller (muellerm@ruc.dk)

ISE Registration & Exams (ise-exams@ruc.dk)

U60125

The project-oriented internship allows students to acquire first-hand knowledge about academic practices at the relevant labor market and tests their academic qualifications in relation to the work functions they are expected to undertake upon graduation.

The project-oriented internship consists of a stay with a relevant employer as well as internship supporting activities that in total sum to 400 hours work. The student is responsible for securing the project-oriented internship position and the practical matters associated with the internship.

The project-oriented internship must be pre-approved by the board of studies before it is started. The intern’s main tasks must be described, and they must lie within the subject area of the programme.

The learning outcomes during the internship are achieved through a mix of practical tasks, reflections on the intersection between theory, methods, and practice, as well as through the independent preparation of the academic internship project. The internship project's preparation takes place under the supervision of an internship supervisor based at RUC. The internship project includes a problem formulation, a review of the relevant literature, a discussion of the applied theories and methods, an analysis based on the empirical observations made during the internship, as well as a concluding section reflecting on the report’s theoretical and practical findings as well as implications.

Determined individually in collaboration between student and supervisor.

The student is responsible for securing an internship position and the practical matters associated with the internship. This includes ensuring that both the internship tasks at the workplace and the commitments to the university are fulfilled.

The internship must be pre-approved by the Board of Studies before the start of the internship period. The internship’s overall workload is equivalent to half a semester, approximately 400 hours (an estimated 300 hours interning for a company/organisation and approximately 100 hours of university work). The intern’s main tasks must be described before the start of the internship, and they must lie within the subject area of the study programme

The internship project’s research question must relate to theoretical or empirical issues from the programme’s subject area, which will be investigated during the internship. The internship project must be individually prepared, and the complete written product must include:

• An executive summary not exceeding 4,800 characters in length, including spaces. The summary must consider the project's contents and the significant points that a reader should know of. • A main part: including a mandatory literature review, which provides an overview of the most recent research in the academic field that the internship project deals with (i.e., a state-of-the-art literature review), a discussion of the applied theories and methods, an analysis based on the empirical observations made during the internship, as well as a concluding section reflecting on the report’s theoretical and practical findings as well as implications

See also the description of the internship report under type of examination.

The activity is evaluated regularly based on the study board's evaluation procedure. The responsible for the activity will be informed of any evaluation of the activity at the start of the semester. See link to the study board's evaluation practice here: https://intra.ruc.dk/fileadmin/assets/ise/Undervisning/Evaluation_procedures_at_ISE.pdf

Will be made available on Moodle before semester start.

• Having completed an internship, the student will have acquired the following skills:

• empirical knowledge of issues and topics relevant for the host, particularly regarding the subject matter the student chooses to analyse in the project

• ability to assess and navigate internal organisational functions tasks, procedures, and decisionmaking processes (that the student has been involved in)

• ability to combine academic skills (theoretical, analytical, methodological) acquired during the programme and use these to solve practical and/or policy issues and tasks

• ability to assess the implications of specific academic findings for a chosen field of practice

• ability to develop practice-oriented recommendations

• ability to select academic literature to shed light on a practical problem area.

• ability to plan, complete, and deliver tasks in a professional workplace environment

• ability to work analytically with empirical data

• ability to take responsibility and engage professionally in a professional work environment.

Project-oriented internship with a written product

The product can be written individually or in a group.

The character limits of the written product:
For 1 student : 26,400-45,600 characters, including spaces.
For 2 students: 38,400-57,600 characters, including spaces.

The character limits include the cover, table of contents, bibliography, figures and other illustrations, but exclude appendices.

Assessment: 7-point grading scale

Samme som ordinær eksamen / same form as ordinary exam

Assessment criteria:

High emphasis is put on the ability to:

• identify relevant actors and their roles involved in the specific sector that the internship takes place

• analyze systematically the collected data and substantiate answers to the project’s questions with clear reference to the analysis

• appraise/discuss the selected scientific literature

• examine and discuss the contributions and implications of project’s findings for the chosen field of study

• develop practice-oriented recommendations based on the project’s results.