GRA 4147 Internship for Business Analytics
GRA 4147 Internship for Business Analytics
The internship is an opportunity to work full-time at a company during your studies and gain professional experience. This is particularly important for a programme like business analytics, an area in which companies have developed state-of-the-art technology and analytical tools for many relevant business problems. The internship will give you valuable insights in real-world challenges, and should help you in applying your academic background toward increasing organizational effectiveness and growth.
At the end of the internship, the student should know the specific challenges faced by companies in using analytics to create value, both for the company and for its relevant stakeholders.
The overall goal of the internship is to increase the employability of the students. More specifically, at the end of the internship, the student should have acquired an understanding of:
- the practical issues and dilemmas faced by data-driven companies
- the data value chain and how it can be used to develop a competitive advantage
- the implications of using data in decision-making for the company’s data infrastructure and organizational culture and structure, and
- the time and efficiency constraints imposed by competition
The student at the end of the internship is expected to acquire skills in relation to:
- career management and job seeking
- defining and executing tasks under conditions of uncertainty, change and time pressure
- supporting suggestions for practical solutions with sound argumentation and grounded in analytics
- applying theoretical and technical knowledge to specific tasks and problems
The student should reflect on the complexity of the work environment, the market forces that drive businesses and how companies create value based on analytics in view of new opportunities, innovation and growth.
Students will work in groups from 1-3 for a minimum of 10 weeks (400 hours) in a selected company and the analytics-related tasks are assigned by the company. The company should be in business for at least 3 years, have 5 or more employees, and a turnover of NOK 5 million or more. Students must attend work as agreed upon with the company they are assigned to. Each student is entitled to a maximum of 3 hours of supervision. Part of the supervision is a mandatory follow-up meeting with the academic supervisor (and other internship students) half-way the semester.
As part of this course, it is compulsory to participate in an employability course.
The internship may be paid or unpaid.
The duration of the internship is a minimum of 10 weeks (400 hours), full-time. The internship will have to be completed by the end of week 43. A completed and an approved internship will give 18 ECTS credits.
Students must attend work as agreed upon with the company they are assigned to. Towards the end of/after the internship, they will write a reflection note and prepare a presentation.
Software tools: The required computer-based tools depend on the type of position the student will be working in. These requirements will be communicated by the employer in the position announcements.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have spesific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
Teaching
Information about what is taught on campus and other digital forms will be presented with the lecture plan before the start of the course each semester.
Participation requires that you have no pending courses and that you secure your own internship. See the student portal for detailed practical information.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 50 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Exam code: GRA 41471 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination next semester, thereafter when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation Weight: 50 Grouping: Individual Comment: In the oral presentation, the student is expected to: 1) present general information about the company and the department that (s)he was assigned to, as well as the overall professional experience gained, 2) present specific outcomes related to the data-related internship project, and answer questions that demonstrate the ability to relate the internship experience with the academic knowledge acquired during the programme. Exam code: GRA41472 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination next semester, thereafter when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore acourse of 18 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 480 hours.
The reflection note (max 10 pages) should cover the following:
1) A description of what you did during the internship.
2) A reflection on your experiences.
The latter includes answers to questions like how did the internship affect your personal growth, what was useful (and what was not), how did the internship connect to your studies, and how did you grow professionally?
Students submit a company evaluation together with their paper.