MSSc in Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship
Project-oriented internship/anthropological field study
About the course
What you will learn
INTERNSHIP learning objectives: In the report, the student must: • apply analytical skills and reflective thinking (i.e. use of theory) in problematisations of the organisational practice with relevance for the student’s internship/fieldwork • discuss and apply the chosen academic literature in the analysis of specific research areas • link practical experience/fieldwork observation and academic reflection with central, professional issues in the relevant MSc in Social Sciences programme • critically reflect on how to combine analytical distance to with concrete involvement in organisational practices FIELDWORK learning objectives: The report 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 combine analytical distance with concrete involvement, and, furthermore, to reflect upon the ethical and practical considerations that ought to be a part of undertaking fieldwork