BUSI 243

Business Administration Internship

This course comprises two complementary components: a professional experience and a series of classroom discussions. In-class examinations of aspects of business performance and professionalism will inform reflections of students’ experience at their workplace. They will help students develop a trajectory for professional development and career planning and serve as the focus of evaluating how external factors and broader economic events, trends and policies affect the workplace and connect to their lives. The professional experience part of the course requires 120 hours of work spread over the course of the semester, averaging about 10 hours per week. During this time, students observe their workplace, and their own place and performance in it. In tandem with discussion of characteristics that contribute to professionalism and career readiness, students examine and reflect on their own strengths and areas of growth vis-à-vis broadly defined professional competencies. The work experience further connects to the content of the course by making the organization where the student is working the focus of analysis related to performance metrics in functional areas of business.

Regular Non-Liberal Arts

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