6 ECTS credits
174 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4022162ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
During the internship students get in contact with practitioners and have the opportunity of applying their academic knowledge and insights to the political praxis. While doing so, students develop a range of professional skills that will be relevant to their later careers, such as working in a team, project planning, presentation and reporting skills, etcetera.
Content-wise, the focus of the internship lies with ‘democracy and leadership’ but students can freely choose whether to do their internship in a local, national, European or international organization or institution. These institutions can be embedded within the formal realm of electoral democracy (such as parties, parliament, ministries, etcetera) or civil society more broadly defines (such as international organizations, INGOs, think thanks, grassroot movements, etcetera).
Students work minimally 148 hours during their internship, the equivalent of one month full-time. Students can work full-time for one month or part-time for a period of multiple months. It is students’ responsibility to obtain an internship position.
During their internship, students create a logbook in which they report on their internship activities. They write, in addition, an internship paper that takes the form of a policy paper. In this paper, students autonomously develop and address a policy-relevant problem in a scientific manner. They present this paper at the end of the academic term.
Students enrolled as working students cannot do an internship in the organization where they work.
The content and deadlines of assignments are specified in the course syllabus on Canvas.
On Canvas, students can consult a list of literature references on how to write a good internship/policy paper. On Canvas, student can also consult guidelines for writing a good internship/policy paper.
Students:
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Practical Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The evaluation is based on the following assignments:
The internship cannot take place during the second examination session. The assignment “presentation internship paper” cannot be retaken in the second examination session. The first session result of this assignment will be transferred to the second examination session. The results of the assignments “logbook” and “internship paper” will, when the first session result is minimally 10/20, be transferred to the second examination session.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Political Science: Democracy and Leadership (only offered in Dutch)