Practical Training 2 (15 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

The internship is generally completed after the second academic year. The internship can be combined with doing the thesis and collecting its material.

Objective

The purpose of the course
The purpose of the course is for you to develop your own agrological skills by accumulating your knowledge, skills, work experience, industry knowledge and networks in your own profession. You can apply for an internship either at home or abroad according to your own interests or business idea.
You set yourself learning goals and strive to achieve them by actively applying for teaching / development jobs / communities. Your self-reflection skills will improve and your goal is to develop from a learner to a job developer at work. Your reporting skills will evolve toward analytical writing.

Course competencies
Agricultural Knowledge
forestry Skills
environmental expertise
Obtaining a Business Environment
business Skills

Course competence
You develop in defining your own skills and learning goals. You are actively applying for teaching / developing jobs / communities. You will be able to evaluate your own progress and analyze the lessons you have learned from the activities of your internship.

Content

Through self-assessment and your future goals, you define your own learning goals and actively apply for a self-developing, internship-approved, internship place. You make the right agreements and adapt to the rules of the game in working life. During the course, you will work for 380 hours of internship in the internship place you are applying for. You will make an analytical report on the company’s operations and your own learning during your internship, mirroring it to your goals.

Teaching methods

The internship is based on the personal goals you set for your own learning, which are described in the internship plan before the internship. In principle, you cannot do the internship in your own work, but you do it for yourself in a new operating environment. Completing an internship in your own job requires a good rationale to support your own development of agrological skills.
You can start your internship according to an individual schedule after your instructor has approved your internship plan.
You carry out the training according to the training plan. After the internship, you will have a feedback discussion with your responsible trainer. The internship should be considered as hourly accounting of the work done. To evaluate your own learning, it is a good idea to keep a learning diary.
You create a training report based on your hourly accounting and diary. The report describes the development of your skills and the achievement of your goals, as well as the work tasks you have done.

Employer connections

The internship takes place in a workplace that is unfamiliar to you at home or abroad.

International connections

It is possible to do an internship abroad if it is appropriate given your learning goals.

Completion alternatives

You will acquire the skills of this course by planning, implementing and evaluating a ten-week internship based on your personal goals in a workplace that is unfamiliar to you. The internship should support and develop your agrological skills.

Student workload

The course corresponds to 405 hours of work, which is divided as follows:
Participation in information and application for an internship (5 h)
Internship work (380 h)
Internship discussion during the internship (1 h)
Internship report (19 h)

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

You have satisfactorily completed this course after returning to the self-assessment in accordance with the instructions and defining your competence objectives before the start of the internship. You have applied for an internship approved by the instructor and made the appropriate agreements there. You have completed a 380-hour internship following the rules of the game in working life. You have returned a written report of your internship in accordance with the reporting guidelines defined in the course and an analysis of the development of your own professional skills.

Further information

The assessment material consists of your training plan and training report, as well as guidance discussions. Self-assessment and evaluation of the workplace supervisor.