AANK16112U Internship

Volume 2024/2025
Content

Students can choose to do an academic internship (15 ECTS credits) as part of their Master’s programme. The internship can only replace the 15 ECTS elective courses that do not need to be anthropological.

The academic internship must be academically relevant to the Master’s programme in Anthropology (for example, by allowing further study or providing practical experience with themes/issues that are key to the study programme; by providing academic and practical experience within a relevant field of work, e.g. in health, the green transition, social initiatives, communication, education, the consultancy industry, organisational development, NGOs, etc; by contributing experience and knowledge within an area that the students want to examine in depth in their Master’s thesis).

The academic internship may be with a public or private company, organisation or institution where academic work is performed and academic staff are employed who can provide academically and professionally relevant supervision.

The purpose of an academic internship is for students to acquire professional experience with:

  • working in practice within a relevant anthropological or general academic field of work
  • unfolding and developing their anthropological and general academic skills.
     

In the exam report, the students must demonstrate their ability to:

  • reflect analytically on the work of the host organisation and the field in which it works
  • consider any further perspectives/opportunities for anthropological work in this field
  • include relevant anthropological literature in the presentation.
Learning Outcome

On completion of the academic internship, the students are expected to be able to:

Knowledge

  • account for and academically assess the relevance of the study of anthropology to, for example, conditions, institutions, processes and working methods in the labour market, including discussing and demonstrating how anthropological and general academic competences have been applied and developed during the academic internship
  • discuss the academic relevance and the academic learning outcome of the academic internship, including reflecting on the strengths and limitations of anthropological competences in relation to the field of work
  • understand and describe how anthropologists work specifically with tasks related to the social science/academic labour market, including, if relevant, demonstrating knowledge of their own practice and the practices of other anthropologists.

 

Skills

  • give an account and an academic assessment of the purpose and practical course of the academic internship
  • include and master relevant anthropological methods in the presentation
  • analyse and communicate conditions, processes and/or working methods at the workplace in an academic context.

 

Competences

  • perform independent and professional work as well as plan and coordinate tasks in a workplace
  • discuss solutions to tasks and contextualise in relation to the work of anthropologists in the field based on academic reflection and practical experience
  • be able independently to find and acquire new research-based knowledge that contributes to solutions in the workplace.
A 7,5 ECTS academic internship corresponds to 118 hours of work in the workplace. The student must have an academic contact/supervisor at the workplace to ensure relevant academic sparring. A 15 ECTS academic internship corresponds to 237.5 hours of work in the workplace. The student must have an academic contact/supervisor at the workplace to ensure relevant academic sparring.
TBA
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 52
  • Preparation
  • 118
  • Project work
  • 102
  • Exam
  • 150
  • Total
  • 422
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Written assignment
Type of assessment details
The academic internship must be concluded with an individual report in which the internship is evaluated and linked to the study programme in Anthropology.
The report must contain a description of the host organisation, an account of the purpose and the practical work (with a description of tasks) as well as an evaluation of the academic learning outcome of the academic internship.
Length of the report for 7,5 ECTS credits: minimum 22,500 and maximum 27,500 characters.
Exam registration requirements

Workload: 118 hours

Aid
All aids allowed

Policy on the Use of Generative AI Software and Large Language Models in Exams

The Department of Anthropology allows the use of generative AI software and large language models (AI/LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in written exams, provided that the use of AI/LLMs is disclosed and specified (i.e., how it was used and for what purpose) in an appendix that does not count towards the page limit of the exam.

 

If AI/LLMs are used as source, the same requirements apply for using quotation marks and source referencing as with all other sources. Otherwise, it will be a case of plagiarism.

Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Re-exam

1st re-exam: A new report must be submitted in the reexams period.

2nd re-exam: A new report must be submitted no later than in the next exam period.

For more information about the course see www.kurser.ku.dk.

Criteria for exam assesment

Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings

Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings

Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner

Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Written assignment
Type of assessment details
The academic internship must be concluded with an individual report in which the internship is evaluated and linked to the study programme in Anthropology.
The report must contain a description of the host organisation, an account of the purpose and the practical work (with a description of tasks) as well as an evaluation of the academic learning outcome of the academic internship.
Length of the report for 7,5 ECTS credits: minimum 22,500 and maximum 27,500 characters.
Exam registration requirements

Workload: 118 hours

Aid
All aids allowed

Policy on the Use of Generative AI Software and Large Language Models in Exams

The Department of Anthropology allows the use of generative AI software and large language models (AI/LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in written exams, provided that the use of AI/LLMs is disclosed and specified (i.e., how it was used and for what purpose) in an appendix that does not count towards the page limit of the exam.

 

If AI/LLMs are used as source, the same requirements apply for using quotation marks and source referencing as with all other sources. Otherwise, it will be a case of plagiarism.

Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Re-exam

1st re-exam: A new report must be submitted in the reexams period.

2nd re-exam: A new report must be submitted no later than in the next exam period.

For more information about the course see www.kurser.ku.dk.

Criteria for exam assesment

Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings

Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings

Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner