This internship is a professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related to your field of study. You will undertake a 90-hour internship with an approved industry supervisor to demonstrate the application of your disciplinary and academic learning in real-world contexts and how it strengthens your knowledge, skills and attributes needed to contribute to and excel in your profession.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is not available for this unit as you are required to demonstrate application of theory, knowledge, skills, and attributes from within your current degree and not from previous qualifications and/or work experience.

You are permitted to undertake an internship with your existing employer provided it is a specified project or a new role that demonstrates the application of your current degree and not part of a previous award and/or your pre-existing day-to-day work activities. Approval of the project or role will be required by the Internship Unit Convenor.

Students enrolled in a law degree must undertake an internship in an approved legal workplace.

If you have completed another internship as part of your current award, you will be required to demonstrate the difference between this internship and the previous internship.

For information on internships please read MyUC
/content/myuc/home/course/internships-and-placements/course-internships.html

For additional information on the internship process, please refer to the BGL Internship FAQ page
/about-uc/faculties/busgovlaw/internships/faq-business-and-government

Enrolment in this unit is subject to entry requirements (refer to prerequisites). For any queries, please contact BGLStudent@canberra.edu.au

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Research, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and information to identify, describe and solve work-based problems;
2. Apply theory, knowledge and skills to work-based practices; and
3. Critically evaluate and reflect upon your workplace practice.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

Must complete 24 credit points with a credit average from any postgraduate coursework degree or permission required from the unit convenor.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

8506 Business & Government Internship PG

Assumed knowledge

None.