Experiential Learning & Internship
Overview
- Pre-Internship meeting and identification of goals and deliverables for the internship.
- Workplace experience and involvement with business professionals.
- Employment Journal - student will keep a journal of the details of the internship, including a chronological listing of work. experiences, training made available to them, and a description of assignments and tasks performed, and of feedback received.
- Final report – student will write a paper analyzing the knowledge gained from the internship experience and demonstrating the ability to integrate that knowledge with their formal education.
- Final Presentation - student will deliver a final presentation illustrating their experiential learning accomplishments.
The faculty member will assign or approve, for the student, a sponsoring firm in which to undertake his/her internship, and will serve as the student’s mentor throughout the internship. The student will prepare an initial proposal outlining the objectives and intended outcomes of the internship. The faculty member will review the initial proposal and guide and mentor the student throughout the term. The student will produce a report at the end of the internship term, with an analysis of the work undertaken. The sponsoring firm will identify a supervisor to work with the student, and the faculty member will also liaise with the supervisor. This is not a co-op type of situation, and the student will not be paid for the work they do for the sponsoring firm.
Mastery
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
The fundamental objectives of this course are to develop the capability:
- To interpret concepts learned in commerce and business courses as they relate to the business environment.
- To examine the workings of business situations, and to analyze the culture of the business world.
- To evaluate jobs in industry and, through this, to align personal career goals.
- To develop and refine skills and knowledge specific to the student’s chosen career path.
- To work independently in a professional environment.
An information package with relevant materials will be prepared for students to purchase.
Requisites
Prerequisites
45 credits towards Diploma or 90 Credits towards BBA or approval of the program coordinator/chair
Note: International students will require an additional Co-op Visa in order to take this course. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that this visa is obtained prior to the start of this course.
Corequisites
Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:
- No corequisite courses
Equivalencies
Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:
- No equivalency courses
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for COBA 4885 |
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Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU BADM 1XX (3) |
Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | CMTN BADM 1XX (3) |
College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR MGMT 208 (3) |
Coquitlam College (COQU) | No credit |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | No credit |
LaSalle College Vancouver (LCV) | LCV RS 299 (3) |
Northern Lights College (NLC) | No credit |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | No credit |
University Canada West (UCW) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | No credit |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | No credit |
Vancouver Community College (VCC) | No credit |