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2012/2013  KAN-INT3E  Project-oriented internship/anthropological field study

English Title
Project-oriented internship/anthropological field study

Course information

Language English
Exam ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Course period 30 working hours per week is required in a period corresponding to full time studies, which means that 30 hours weekly for 6 weeks correspond to 7,5 ECTS (estimated for 225 hours of study)
Time Table Please see course schedule at e-Campus
Min. participants 1
Max. participants 1
Study board
Study Board for MSc of Social Science
Course coordinator
  • PKL
    Anders La Cour - Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
  • SEM
    Lise Lyck - Department of Marketing
  • CBP
    Mark Lorenzen - Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
  • OIE
    Stine Haakonsson - Department for Business and Politics
Main Category of the Course
  • Management
  • Organization
  • Methodology
Last updated on 17-07-2012
Prerequisite
All exams at the first year must be passed
Examination
Afløsningsopgave
Term paper:
Type of test Term Paper
Marking scale 7-step scale
Second examiner Second internal examiner
Exam period Summer Term and Winter Term
Aids Please, see the detailed regulations below
Duration Please, see the detailed regulations below
Examination
The student is entitled to 2 hours of supervision

The term paper must be of a maximum of 15 pages.
Course content

Purpose of internship:
The purpose of internship is to offer students the possibility to obtain knowledge and experience in performing tangible tasks and projects. By being and contributing actively at a relevant workplace, students get the opportunity to make use of their professional and theoretical knowledge and to reflect theoretically on the execution of the work during the period of the internship.

Internship learning objectives: The term paper must demonstrate

  • that the student is able to apply conceptual abstractions (i.e. theory) in an analysis and problematization of aspects of the organizational practice with relevance for the students’ internship. The assessment will focus on the students ability to problematize the internship organizations’ own conceptualizations and problematizations, e.g. in relation to its construction of strategies, rationality, identity, or images of the environment.
  • that the student is capable of analysing his/her tasks in the host organization in relation to central, professional issues in his/her education.
  • that the student is able to employ business economics, organizational and/or managerial knowledge in order to analyse the correlation between internship tasks and the host organization’s social responsibility/business.
  • the student’s ability to reflect upon what it means to produce knowledge within ”own” organization, including how to combine analytical distance with concrete involvement, and also to reflect upon the ethical and practical consideration that ought to be a part of being involved in an internship.
     

Purpose of fieldwork:
The purpose of field work is to offer students the possibility to obtain knowledge and experience in conducting anthropologically or ethnographically oriented data generation in relation to professional practices in one or more organizations. By observing relevant workplaces, students get the opportunity to make use of their theoretical and methodological knowledge and to reflect theoretically on the organizational practices in question. A major distinction between an internship and fieldwork is that in the latter the student is not part of an organizational hierarchy and therefore the activities relating to the host/focus organization(s) are of an observatory character (even if the fieldwork might involve participatory observation and/or interviews). Fieldwork might be relevant for students aiming at generating a substantial element of primary data for their master theses, and thus engaging and experimenting with the methodological challenges of observing professional, organizational practices in the context of the requirements of their particular study program.

Field work learning objectives: The term paper must demonstrate

  • that the student is capable of theoretical as well as methodological reflection on his/her field work activities in the observed organization(s) in relation to the professional field of the program. This involves an ability to apply conceptual abstractions in a problematization of the observed organizational practices.
  • that the student is capable of analyzing his/her observation activities in the host organization(s) in relation to central, professional issues in his/her education.
  • that the student is able to employ business economics, organizational and/or managerial knowledge in order to analyze the correlation between field work data and the host organization(s)’ professional activities.
  • the student’s capacity to reflect upon what it means to produce knowledge within ”own” organization, including how to combine analytical distance with concrete involvement, plus furthermore to reflect upon the ethical and practical consideration that ought to be a part of being involved in an internship.
Teaching methods
Individual participation in/observation of work practice combined with individual project writing.
Last updated on 17-07-2012