Course details
What distinguishes the WMS management internship?
- Based on either an authentic project that an organisation needs carried out, or can be completed using working in different areas of an organization or corporate internship programs.
- The WMS management internship is a 20-week course, with start dates agreed between the sponsoring organisation, the intern and the CPE.
- Requires a minimum of 150 or 200 hours spent in the organisation. (MNGT496 or MNGT596)
- Can start the internship at any time during the year; not semester-based.
- Only accept students with a good academic record in their first three years of study, plus extra-curricular experience or activities
- Involves interns from all the management disciplines and also open to BM/LLB Students doing their law clerkship
- Students are guided by an organisational mentor and supported by the Centre for Professional Experience.
- Provides students with an opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a real organisational setting
- No cost to the organisation.
Further details
- The organisation/mentor agrees to provide a desk/computer and facilities for the intern within the organisation. The intern signs a confidentiality agreement..
- The amount of time spent in the organisation per week fits around the client needs and what has to be delivered, as well as the intern’s other course work. As a minimum, the equivalent of 1 full day per week for 15 or 20 weeks is expected.
- The intern meets fortnightly with their mentor. This meeting covers the intern’s progress and project work. The mentor gives feedback to the intern on how they are fitting in with the organisation and the progress of the project.
- At 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through the internship the mentor completes the Organisation Assessment Form and discusses this assessment with the intern.
- There is a third and final assessment by the mentor at the completion of the internship. When combined these three comprise the 30% Organisation Assessment.
- The intern stays in regular contact with the Centre for Professional Experience.
- The intern keeps a journal every week of their reflections on the internship process.
- Two journal entries per week are the basis for writing the reflective assignment.
- The CPE comments on these reflections
- All internships are 100% internally assessed comprising: a Major Report or Portfolio, an Online Journal, a Reflective Assignment, a Final Presentation, an Organisation Assessment. The MNGT 596 internship also includes a Literature Scoping Exercise.