Work Placement (MENPRA)

The students undertake work placements in organizations sourced and approved by the university. They will experience how the study-program comes into use in ordinary work situations. The work placement takes place from August to December, and the students take part in dedicated tasks within the organization they are placed in.  

Before the semester starts, the students receive information about which business offers them work placement. A start-up seminar is arranged at the beginning of the semester in order to prepare the students for the work placement. In the seminar, the students are given practical advice necessary to complete the work placement period. 

Throughout the work placement period, the students shall write a report consisting of two parts. In part one, the students are to describe the business they are placed in and the tasks they are given. In part two, they shall present an examination report of greater scale, based on a certain problem. The student finds the problem in collaboration with the relevant business. It is expected that the students submit two drafts of the work placement report throughout the semester, as well as commenting on fellow students' drafts.

Throughout the work placement, the students will be followed up by the organization and academic staff from the Department of Media and Social Sciences. Every student has three counseling meetings including two obligatory joint-gatherings where the report drafts will be discussed.

It is expected that the students after completing the course will have the following knowledge, skills, and general competencies:

Knowledge

Students who successfully complete the course will:

• Have knowledge about how their academic competence can be used in the work-life 
• Have knowledge about how development, change and leader tasks are initiated and carried out in a work context

Skills

Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:

• Use academic knowledge acquired in the study-programme in a real work situation
• Combine theory and experience-based learning and reflect upon theory and practice in relation to each other
• Understand how businesses organize their work and relate academic questions to real and actual work-related situations and contexts
• Reflect upon their own role and ability to act in relation to others as well as discuss the use of academic competence in practice
• Critically assess his/her own work placement

General competence

Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:

• Adjust to tasks, work-context and place in a given business
• Contribute academically to development based on the employer's needs.
• Comment and give feedback on written work
• Plan and hold an oral presentation of a greater report.

Course teacher(s)

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Work placement in an organization (approx 75% position/60 days in the course of week 34-49), seminars with fellow students, guidance from the business and three  counselling-meetings with the course-coordinator. Before the counselling meetings, the students submit their work placement report-drafts.

Scheduled meetings are mandatory.