MANAGEMENT
401, BUSINESS INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW
PREREQUISITES
-
MGT
350,
-
Approved
Major Code (See class schedule footnotes. Class
is limited to Business majors.),
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Currently
employed or Engaging in a Business Internship
(Arranged by the student. Contact the Internship Bureau
in BAM 451 [594-4774] or Career Services for help.)
COURSE
OVERVIEW
This
course provides opportunities for students to integrate
their academic work with experience in the community,
which is a key objective for the College of Business Administration.
To achieve this objective, students will undertake a significant
“learning experience” with an organization and
then prepare reports on their experiences. The course
requires 135 hours of effort at the organization and in
fulfilling course requirements. This course is required
for Management Majors and counts as elective credit
in any other Business Administration major.
GRADING
Grading
is on a Credit/No Credit basis with “C” level
work required to receive credit.
COURSE
ASSIGNMENTS
Information
is available on the College of Business Administration
website www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rwilliam to answer many of
the questions you or your supervisor may have.
1.
CHOOSING AN ORGANIZATION
MGT
401 integrates work and learning, and requires students
to have a “supervised” position with
an employer as an employee or as an intern. Most organizations
are acceptable as long as they provide a “legal”
product or service for profit or not-for-profit. Crucial
to your choice of organization is your ability to pursue
an appropriate learning experience.
2.
CHOOSING A LEARNING EXPERIENCE
There
are two types of learning experiences: a project
or a series of learning activities. This learning
experience must require you to apply high levels of cognitive
processes in a business setting, such as applying what
you have learned in school and analyzing and evaluating
the effectiveness of these applications. Routine tasks,
such as data entry, cold calling, or clerical work, do
not meet this high level of cognitive processes and are
not acceptable. Your supervisor’s active involvement
is crucial to you defining your learning experience. Your
supervisor must agree to support your learning experience
and later provide an evaluation of your accomplishments.
Managers are always concerned with how to reduce costs,
increase revenues, improve processes, or improve the quality
of their product or service. Learning experiences that
focus on these areas would most likely be acceptable.
When seeking guidance from the instructor regarding
the acceptability of your proposed learning experience,
you must be able to address in detail one of the two options
described below.
- Project:
you must accomplish something that “adds value”
to the organization and requires significant effort
beyond your “routine” tasks. Projects involve
providing a deliverable to the organization and
providing proof that you: 1) completed each task
undertaken in completing the deliverable, and
2) added value to the organization. May be best for
employed students.
- Learning
Activities: you must undertake a least five specific
learning objectives that are appropriate in content,
rigor, and level of difficulty suitable for upper division
credit. This should involve learning “significant”
business processes. It does not include learning routine
tasks. You must provide proof of your learning.
May be best for interns.
CLASS
SCHEDULE
Most
class objectives are achieved in the student’s workplace
and only a few class sessions are held during the semester.
These occur during the first five weeks of the semester,
with additional sessions held as needed. Students must
attend these early class sessions. If you are thinking
of crashing this class, come to the first class
session so that you can understand what you need to
do and the timeline involved.
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