Assignment Overview: The acquired experience during the internship will play a key role in establishing your professional credentials and creating industry contacts in your new career. To achieve that aim, you will be completing the three

 Weighting: 100%  

 Faculty responsible: OIC Coordination              

Programme: MSc Programmes                          

 Course name: Internship, Portfolio and Self-Reflection   Course number: MLT8304 / MIH 7324

 Hand-out date: Spring and Autumn – Start of the OIC                  

 Hand-in date to Faculty: Final Submission Dates posted in moodle 

Assignment Overview: The acquired experience during the internship will play a key role in establishing your professional credentials and creating industry contacts in your new career. To achieve that aim, you will be completing the three following assessments: a career portfolio, a case study/self-reflection project, and the completion of 24 weeks of professional experience. 

 Overall aim:

The assessments should allow students to apply content covered in the academic semester as well as reflect on skills acquired and enhance their personal branding for their future career opportunities.

 Organisation and methodology:

1. A career portfolio: The student will need to create his/her own Career Portfolio using any online platform at their choice.

The portfolio will need to show the following sections:

§  Overview – Introduction - Professional Summary

§  Hard Skills

§  Soft Skills

§  Achievements with specific examples

§  Work Experience

§  Relevant Educational History including certificates.

§  Contact Information

The distribution of these sections is free. It will be evaluated that all sections are included, and relevant information is displayed. The student will need to submit the link to access the career portfolio in the corresponding section of the course in moodle.

2. A case study-self reflection: The student will need to select two subjects related to courses taken during the academic semesters to reflect on and further elaborate.

The Case Study will need to show the following sections:

§  Title page § Signed statement.

§  Abstract

§  Acknowledgements

§  Contents page

§  List of tables and figures

§  Case Study o Introduction 

o Main body (topic you want to review / study / appraise / evaluate) o Conclusion (incl. Lesson learned, Recommendation) 

§  Self- Reflection o Introduction  o Main body (discussion of the competences) o Conclusion 

§  References (using the APA Ed. Referencing Handout on Moodle)

§  Appendices (if required)

Special instructions:

This case study will need to be composed of 30 pages using the template provided in the corresponding section of the course in moodle.

Typing instructions:

•        Line spacing: 1.5 whole text.

•        Font type: Arial, size 11.

•        Margins: 2,5 cm on LHS, RHS, top margin, and bottom margin.

•        Pictures or graphs must be placed in the appendices section.

Assessment tasks & weighting: 

Career Portfolio

Rubrics are available in the corresponding section of the moodle course.

Special Instructions: Students must submit career portfolio and the case study-reflection assessments to be evaluated. This course provides a PASS or FAIL grade. Students must reach a 60% as grade for these two assessments as well as complete 24 weeks of experience and a positive evaluation to pass the course.

Common skills:  assessed (bold) or developed (italics): 

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the act of presenting another’s ideas or words as one’s own. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the intentional falsification or fabrication of any academic activity, unauthorized copying of another person’s work, or aiding and abetting any such acts.

Particular care must be taken when presenting information that has been obtained from an internet site. Should this information not be correctly referenced then you are guilty of plagiarism and will be penalised accordingly.

With respect to projects/assignments, faculty reserves the right to randomly call upon any student and ask them to defend their work orally. 

Any assignment/exam which is found to contain plagiarism will automatically be awarded a grade of 0, and an email will be sent to the student or the student’s parents/tutors/sponsors. Depending on the circumstances, additional penalties could be imposed (see LRM Academic Regulations, Section 11).

Statement of authorship

Following the title page of your assignment there should be a page on which you sign a statement that the work included in the assignment is your own work except where appropriately referenced. The following statement should be used:

Statement of authorship

I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been submitted as part of an assignment in any institute, college, or university. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the assignment.

Signed .......................................................................................  

Name ......................................................................................... 

Student number...................................................................