Postgraduate internship

The Internship Experience subject is the culminating professional experience of a student’s postgraduate degree. It brings together the key features of a capstone subject and the ability to learn in a professional setting, including through the integration of theory and practice and the extension of prior learning; the use of authentic and contextualised experiences; challenging and complex problems; socialisation into professional roles; autonomous yet collaborative learning and development of professional agency; and through the application of critical inquiry and creativity.

If you are a postgraduate student who is in the last semester of your degree, you can choose to enrol in the subject, provided you have secured an internship that meets the criteria. Please check your eligibility with your program director and to make sure that the subject is available. Please note that confirming an internship is the student’s responsibility, Please reach out to businessinternships@uts.edu.au for tips on how to find an internship.

You must meet the subject’s prerequisites and complete prerequisite tasks to be considered for enrolment. For support with how to complete the enrolment steps, please see enrolment steps below and then email businessinternships@uts.edu.au, if you have any questions. 

If you are interested in completing an industry internship, we recommend you make plans early in your degree, even if you will enrol in your last session. You can enrol in the subject when you secure an internship and complete the required preparatory tasks (see enrolment steps below). Once you submit the required paperwork and this is assessed, you will receive an email from the Business Internships team confirming your internship is valid and that you can enrol in the subject. Internships can be undertaken throughout the year. Start dates can be flexible, however students should complete all requirements within an enrolled session being the Autumn or Spring semester.

All international students on student visas should ensure that they are compliant with the working hours limitations attached to your visa, for further information on work component hours and visas.

Please ensure you submit your application no later than 7 days prior to the session commencement date. 

IMPORTANT:

1. Please ensure your internship commences after your enrolled session. Any hours completed prior will not be able to count towards the subject. Only approved internships can be used for the subject.
2. You have 12 weeks from the start of your enrolled session to complete the internship and all subject requirements. You do not need to take this entire time to complete the subject and can opt to finish earlier if you are in the position to do so. Please note that as this is a capstone unit you must finalise before you will be eligible to graduate from the course in which you are enrolled.
3. To obtain an extension, you must contact Business.Internship@uts.edu.au before the end of your internship and provide a justification for your request.

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Once you secure an internship, there are three steps students need to complete to enrol in 26799 Internship Experience. Please read these steps carefully.

ENROLMENT STEPS

1. Confirm your internship is 100-180 hours and provides you with an opportunity to put theory learnt during your degree into practice.
2. Complete the required sections (Charter of Responsibilities, UTS supervisor, Organisation and Placement Summary form) on the CareerHub workflow
3. Enrol in 26799 Internship Experience once your placement summary form is approved.

The subject handbook will be published in January 2023. In the interim, if you have any questions about how to enrol in 266799, please email businessinternships@uts.edu.au.

The subject expands on students’ existing professional, business, technical and ethical decision-making skills. It allows them to foster and diversify their current career experience through a deeply integrated practice approach and through the development of professional networks and prospects. For those students who have limited work experience, this subject provides the opportunity, through a placement, to gain work integrated learning experience and to relate it to theoretical and applied learning.

If you are a postgraduate student, you may be able to enrol in the subject. Please check your eligibility with your program director to make sure that the elective is available as part of your course.

You must meet the subject’s prerequisites and complete prerequisite tasks to be considered for enrolment. Please note that placement is not guaranteed. For assistance with finding an internship, email businessinternships@uts.edu.au.

For more information, see 27769 Professional Internship for Graduates in the UTS Handbook.

You can enrol in the subject when you secure an internship and complete the required preparatory tasks (see enrolment steps below).

Once you submit the required paperwork and this is assessed, you will receive an email from the Business Internships team confirming your internship is valid and that you can enrol in the subject.

For 2024, there are six enrolment sessions you can choose from. Please see start dates below: 

• Monday 5 February 2024
• Tuesday 2 April 2024
• Monday 3 June 2024
• Monday 5 August 2024
• Tuesday 8 October 2024
• Monday 2 December 2024

IMPORTANT:

1. Please ensure your internship commences after your enrolled session. Any hours completed prior will not be able to count towards the subject. Only approved internships can be used for the subject.
2. You have six months from the start of your enrolled session to complete the internship and all subject requirements. You do not need to take this entire time to complete the subject and can opt to finish earlier if you are in the position to do so.

Once you secure an internship, there are four steps students need to complete to enrol in 27769 Postgraduate Business Internship. Please read these steps carefully.

Enrolment steps

1. Confirm credit points completed
2. Confirm your internship meets the required criteria - 100 -180 hours, allows you to put theory to practice and you can commence internship after enrolled session commences. 
3. Complete the required sections on the CareerHub workflow
4. Enrol in 27769 Business Internship, once your internship is approved.

1. See 27769 Professional Internship for Graduates in the UTS Handbook
2. Email our Business Internship team: businessinternships@uts.edu.au.