Internship and Academic Project
- Faculty
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
- Version
Version 2 of 26.02.2025.
- 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
In Accordance with the Program-Specific Examination Regulations the following applies: Only students who have earned at least 100 credit points will be admitted to the “Internship and Academic Project”. As a rule, students must submit their registration form to the Office of the University Registrar and the Program Coordinator two weeks before the Academic Project begins. It is not usually possible to register at a later date. Any exceptions will be decided by the Academic Dean.
- 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