Vietnam National University – HCMC

International University
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

COURSE SYLLABUS1
BA153IU
Internship

Note: The outline with specific venue and time, and updated learning
materials for the current semester will be provided to the enrolled students
by the lecturer
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The syllabus is prepared following the format provided by the School of Organization and Management,
University of New South Wales, with kind permission.
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1. COURSE STAFF

Lecturer:
Room:
Telephone: 08 22114034
E-mail:
Consultation Hours:

Teaching Assistant: TBA

Room: TBA
Telephone: TBA
E-mail: TBA
Consultation Hours: TBA

Should the students wish to meet the staff outside the consultation hours, they are advised
to make appointment in advance.

2. INTERNSHIP INFORMATION

2.1 Internship times and Locations

Time: TBA
Venue: TBA

2.2 Units of Credit

This internship is worth 3 credits.

2.3 Relationship of this course to others

This internship is obligatory in the BBA program. The internship is a prerequisite before
fulfilling a thesis. Students must pass the internship in order to register for the thesis. It is
recommended that students apply the internship after completing the first two years at the
university.

This internship utilizes the concepts, definitions and knowledge of the courses that the
students have learned for their program major business administration, finance and
banking.

2.4 Approach to the internship

Employing the interactive learning and problem-based approach, the internship

emphasizes the interaction between internship mentor and student. The student will seek
to obtain required materials and information, including job description, organization
profiles, progress/performance reports, etc. from the organization where the internship is
taking place to fully understand the context, nature of the work being conducted,

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organizational structure and other relationships in order to facilitate the internship.

Students will update and discuss with both the internship mentor and lecturer responsible
for the internship on a regular basis with regard to the progress and effectiveness of the
work being undertaken.

2.5 Role of lecturer

To assist in the success of the internship, the lecturer has the responsibility to maintain
close communication with the internship mentor at least four times during the internship.
Communication can be in the form of a face-to-face meeting, phone call, email exchange,
meeting via Zoom, Google Meet, MS Team and/or other relevant media. The objective is
to ensure the internship is successful and our students can maximize their benefits and
performance.

3. COURSE AIMS AND OUTCOMES

3.1 Internship Aims

In order to gain practical working experiences, School of Business requires students to

attend an internship program. This internship allows students to apply knowledge and
skills acquired from learning at the university to practise and solve real industry
problems. This is an opportunity for students to apply what they have learned into the
real-world context. This will help students to consolidate their learning and experience
professionalism in actual context as a good preparation for future career. Specifically, the
internship will aim at the following objectives:

● Assist students' development of employer-valued skills such as teamwork,

communications and attention to details.
● Expose students to real life environment and expectations of performance in
professional career.
● Enhance and/or expand students' knowledge and skills by practising them in real
life context.
● Expose the students to professional role models or mentors who will provide the
student with support in the early stages of career path and provide an example of
the behaviors expected in the intern's workplace.

3.2 Course Learning Outcomes

After completing the internship, students should have developed following learning
outcomes

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Competency Course learning outcomes

level

R CLO1. Consolidating theoretical knowledge that have been

taught into practice

R CLO2. Employ new professional skills

R CLO3: Observe and participate in business operations and

decision-making.

R CLO4 Meet professional role models and potential mentors who

can provide guidance, feedback, and support.

R CLO5. Expand network of professional relationships and

contacts

R CLO 6 Develop a solid work ethic as well as a commitment to ethical

conduct and social responsibility

1. Learning Outcomes Matrix (optional)

The relationship between Course Learning Outcomes (CLO) (1-5) and Program Learning
Outcomes (PLO) (1-6) is shown in the following table:

PLO
CLO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x x x x x
2 x
3 x x x x x x x
4 x x x x x
5 x x
6 x x

4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT

4.1 Workload

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It is expected that the students will spend at least 32 full working days during the entire
internship period. This time should be made up of reading, research, working on tasks in
agreement and allocated by the student’s mentor.

4.2 Attendance

Regular and punctual attendance at the place where the internship is taken place is
expected. University regulations indicate that if students receive complaints in writing
from the student’s mentor, their internship may be considered a failure.

4.3 General Conduct and Behaviour

The students are expected to behave well and respect the culture as well as the internship
mentor and staff members at the workplace.

4.4 Keeping informed

The students should maintain regular communications with both the students’ internship
mentor and lecturer. The university lecturer responsible for the internship will maintain
close communication with the student’s internship mentor to exchange information and
discuss how to improve students’ performance for the internship. Within the first week of
the internship period, students will have the responsibilities to provide contact details of
the internship mentor to the secretary of School of Business responsible for the internship
for communication.

4.5 Reporting

Every student is required to write an Internship Report upon completion of their

internship. This report is shared with the internship mentor and lecturer for approval.
Reports usually go through multiple rounds of revision in collaboration with the
internship mentor and the lecturer. This is to be a formal report that could be shared with
others at the internship site.

The Internship Report serves multiple purposes:

● Help the student develop written communication skills.

● Serve as an archival record of the internship experience.

● Give the student an opportunity to reflect on the professional aspects of the

internship experience and the skills that were learned.
● Allow the student to describe the science content of the internship.

● Have the student to reflect on the initial goals of the internship and how they were
(or were not) achieved during the internship.

Each Internship Report will follow the format described in the appendix.
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5. INTERNSHIP ASSESSMENT

5.1 Formal Requirements

In order to pass this internship, the students must:
● Prepare the internship assessment (using eval_intern form below). Have it
approved by the student’s internship mentor. This assessment is a must to be
attached in the internship report. Failure to do this properly means a failure of the
entire internship.
● Maintain at least four meetings (in person or email/phone communication) with
appointed lecturer using meeting minutes form below; and
● Prepare an internship report as outlined in the appendix for marking.

5.2 Marking assessment plan

Assessment
Type CLO1 CLO2 CLO3 CLO4 CLO5 CLO6
Individual
written report 70% Pass 70% Pass 70% Pass 70% Pass 70% Pass 70% Pass
Note: Target that 70% of students having scores greater than 80 out of 100.

See appendix for report structure and marking scales. To pass the internship, students
must achieve at least 50 points out of a total 100 points.

5.3 Special Consideration

Request for special consideration (in the case of force majeure) must be made to the
Office of Academic Affairs. The Office will consider on the case-by-case basis.

6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another as one’s own (definition
proposed by the University of Newcastle). Students are also reminded that careful time
management is an important part of your internship and one of the identified causes of
plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow sufficient time for report
writing. The university regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct, and has
very strict rules regarding plagiarism.2
Criteria for acceptance of final report in this regard is that the similarity index must be
lower or equal 20% of total sources and lower or equal 2% for single source.

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This is adapted with kind permission from the University of New South Wales.

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Appendix: Outline for Internship Report

Word length: Minimum 10 pages, maximum 20 pages (excludes Cover page, Reference
list & Appendices)
1. First Page (Cover page)
First page should display: Student name and surname, internship start and finish dates,
number of internship days, type of internship (marketing, finance, production, or design
and development, etc.), company/institution name.

2. A Brief Executive Summary of the Internship (5%)

A one page summary of the company/institution and a short account of the major
activities carried out during the internship period.

3. Description of the company/institution (10%)

This section should provide following information:
- The full title of the company/institution; Give a brief history of the company,
full mailing address and relevant web links.
- The type of ownership of the company/institution; State the main shareholders.
- The sector that the company/institution operates in; Specify the products and
services produced and offered to its customers.
- Who are regarded as the customers of your internship company/institution
(consider the end users, retailers, other manufacturers, employees, etc.)?
- Provide an organization chart of the company, along with information on the
number of employees.
- Describe the main responsible of different functions in the company
- Provide the information of performance of the company (financial status, sales,
market share, growth rate, etc.) and discuss about the development trend of the
company.

4. Internship activities/ Description of a specific functional department (35%)

This section should provide following information:
- Present the activities that student performed during the internship period in a
specific functional department
- Describe the activities of the department and the role of the department to the
company
- Evaluate the performance of the department
- Analyze and discuss about some problems of the department

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- Suggest measures to overcome the problems (if any) or to improve the situation
- Describe the working environment and the company’s corporate culture
5. An assessment of the internship (as specific as possible) (35%)
In this section you should answer the following questions
- What skills and qualifications you think that you have gained from the
internship? (5%)
- What have you actually learned (before vs. after the internship) and in
comparison to your expectations? (5%)
- How do you think the internship will influence your future career plans? (5%)
- How do you think the internship activities that you carried out are correlated
with your classroom knowledge? (5%)
- What subjects/topics could have been taught/offered for a successful internship?
Why? (5%)
- What lessons have you learned from the internship? What would you suggest
for improvements in terms of (1) School of Business, (2) the organization where
you experienced your internship, and (3) yourself (10%)

6. Conclusion of the report (5%)

This section should include:

• A summary of key conclusions derived from the internship experience.

• General observations about the sector in which your internship company/institution

operates

8. Appendices and supplementary material (charts, graphs, pictures, computer codes,

etc.)

9. Student Internship Evaluation (10%) (as the form provided in the next page, should
be include the comments of your mentor at the company (in either Vietnamese or English
is fine), mentor’s signature, company’s stamp. Please note that you are recommended to
give this paper to the company at least a week before the deadline of internship report so
that you can have it back on time.)

10. References

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HCMC

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Form: Eval_intern
Student Internship Evaluation Date …………...
Bảng Đánh giá Sinh viên Thực tập
Company (Công ty):
Division/Department (Phòng ban):
Company Address (Địa chỉ Công ty):
Mentor Name (Người Giám sát): Title (Chức vụ):
Citizen Identity Card Number (Số CCCD/CMND):
Mentor Email (Địa chỉ email): Tel (Điện thoại):
Intern Name (Sinh viên Thực tập): Intern Period (Thời
gian thực tập):

Ranking: Excellent = 5, Good = 4, Fair = 3, Poor = 2,

NO = Not Observe = 1.
Xếp loại: Xuất sắc = 5, Tốt = 4, Trung bình = 3, Kém = 2,
Không thực tập = 1.

No. 1 2 3 4 5
I Attitude and Manner of working
(Thái độ và tác phong làm việc)
1 Willingness to learn
(Sẵn sàng học hỏi)
2 Responsibility.
(Có tinh thần trách nhiệm)
3 Showed ethical behavior
(Cư xử đúng mực)
4 Punctual
(Đảm bảo giờ giấc làm việc theo quy định)
5 Dressed appropriately
(Trang phục phù hợp)
II Knowledge & Skills (Kiến thức và Kỹ năng)
6 Knowledge adapt to job’s requirement
(Kiến thức đáp ứng yêu cầu công việc)
7 Team working skills
(Kỹ năng làm việc nhóm)
8 Planning and organizational skills
(Kỹ năng tổ chức và hoạch định)
9 Critical thinking skills
(Tư duy phân tích)
10 Problem solving skills
(Kỹ năng giải quyết vấn đề)

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No. 1 2 3 4 5
11 Computer skills
(Kỹ năng tin học)
12 Oral communication skills
(Kỹ năng giao tiếp)
13 Written communication skills
(Kỹ năng giao tiếp bằng văn bản)
14 Conflict management skills
(kỹ năng giải quyết xung đột/mâu thuẫn)
15 Time management skills
(Kỹ năng quản lý thời gian)
16 Listening skills
(Kỹ năng nghe hiểu)
17 Presentation and public speaking
(Kỹ năng thuyết trình và nói trước đám đông)
18 Leadership skills
(Kỹ năng lãnh đạo)
III Professional Abilities (Năng lực Làm việc)
19 Effectively performed assignments
(Hoàn thành tốt nhiệm vụ được giao)
20 Ability to gather and analyze information for
creative problem-solving
(Có thể thu thập và phân tích thông tin để đề
xuất giải pháp sáng tạo)
21 Applied learned knowledge/skills to work
(áp dụng kiến thức đã học vào công việc)
22 Ability to evaluate oneself, modify behavior
and meet performance obligations
(Có thể tự đánh giá, điểu chỉnh hành vi làm
việc để hoàn thành nhiệm vụ)
23 Ability to influence and support others to
perform complex tasks
(Có thể tác động và hỗ trợ người khác hoàn
thành công việc phức tạp)
24 Ability to sustain a positive impression and
confidence
(Có thể tạo ấn tượng tích cực và duy trì sự tự
tin)

IV. Overall satisfaction of intern’s performance

(Mức độ hài lòng chung về sự thể hiện công việc của sinh viên thực tập)

Rất không hài lòng Không hài lòng Trung lập 4. Hài lòng 5.
Rất hài lòng

V. Overall perception of BA school of IU

(Cảm nhận chung của doanh nghiệp về khoa quản trị kinh doanh Trường ĐH Quốc
Tế - TP.HCM)

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Rất yếu kém Yếu kém Trung lập Tốt

Rất tốt

25. List of Intern’s major duties:

(Trách nhiệm và công việc cụ thể của SV thực tập)

26. Intern’s strengths and areas of performance to develop:

(Điểm mạnh và lĩnh vực SV cần bồi dưỡng thêm)

27. Comments or suggestions for the School of Business’ internship program:

(Nhận xét hoặc đề nghị về chương trình thực tập của khoa QTKD)

28. Would you recommend this student for further internship work or consider hiring
him/her for a vacant position in your company?
(Anh/Chị/Quý công ty có đề nghị SV này cho lần thực tập sau hoặc xem xét để tuyển dụng SV
này vào làm việc tại công ty không?)

Mentor Signature (Chữ ký Người Giám sát): Evaluation Date (Ngày

đánh giá):

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The intern Signature (Chữ ký Sinh viên Thực tập):

Students return this form to: Văn phòng khoa QTKD

(Vui lòng chuyển bảng đánh giá này về)

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Form: lecturer_meeting
Lecturer Meeting Form

Name Student number

This form is to assist students and lecturer to manage agreed outline of actions and
to signpost students to the support offered during the internship
Meetings: You have the opportunity to have up to 4 meetings with your lecturer.
Please note: It is your responsibility to arrange meetings.
Please mark with an  for which meeting this form addresses and the date

Meeting 1  Date Meeting 2  Date

Meeting 3  Date Meeting 4  Date

Preparation for meeting
Outline your preparation for this meeting:

Agreed action points from the meeting between yourself and your lecturer
Identify a clear set of next steps and set yourself deadlines for accomplishment.
Please list comments offered by mentor and what actions you took in response [formative
feedback]:

Date of next meeting: Lecturer’s signature with full name

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GRADING RUBRIC FOR INTERNSHIP REPORT – Academic year: 2022 – 2023 (term …)

ADEQUATE GOOD EXEMPLARY

Criteria
50% - 69% 70% - 79% 8 0%

Excellently
Moderately Satisfactory
Company presented. Key
presented. Few presented. Fairly
Profile, summary elements are
of the key highlighted the
and conclusion excellently
elements are key elements
(20%) highlighted
not highlighted

Shows ability to identify Shows good ability to Shows strong ability to identify
issues, gather the facts and identify issues, gather the issues, gather the facts and develop
Department develop claims. facts and develop claims as claims as well as link claims with
activities and well as link claims with evidence.
issues Argument are addressed
evidence.
identification well but no links with Excellent solutions are offered and
(35%) evidence Overall, an acceptable supported
solution is offered and
explained
Self reflection
(Assessment of
the internship) Demonstrates a Demonstrates a Demonstrates an in
(35%) general reflection satisfactory depth reflection and
and reflection and personalization of
personalization of personalization of the the assessment
the assessment assessment

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Evaluation of Average evaluation Good evaluation Excellent evaluation

firm’s mentor
(10%)

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