PRAK202 Internship for Landscape Planners

The course offers the students an opportunity for an internship in a firm. The purpose of this is

1) for the students to gain practical experience and insight within his /her future profession outside of the university environment.

2) to use already acquire theoretical knowledge and skills and reflect on these in the context of this internship and the professional role they are assigned.

Knowledge:

The student shall acquire basic knowledge in/of:

• the planning, preparation, execution and reflection on relevant professional working tasks.
• The terminology of their profession and the body of information that is required to perform each task.
• The procedures that are in use at his/her workplace and its quality control system.
• The ethical issues and the current regulations for health, environment and security control (HMS) at the workplace.

Skills:

The student shall acquire the following basic skills:

• Self reliance and independence in providing and agreeing on an internship contract.
• Setting up time sheets to record work that is done.
• Ordinary skills connected with the execution of the profession and the ability to tackle new tasks.
• Writing a log which documents all executed tasks and work experience. Use this log together with relevant theory and discuss professional issues and challenges that are connected to these.

General competence:

The student shall acquire basic competence in:

• Recognizing the implications of being a professional in his/her field.
• Learning by doing
• Independent work and cooperating as a team member, thereby contributing to solving tasks and problems within the internship firm.
• Delivering a systematic and well-argued reflection on tasks and assignments he/she has been given.
• Conveying to others the insights gained through the work he/she has participated in.