The Professional Internship unit offers students the opportunity to apply their learning in this course, along with their previous learning and experience in a task-oriented work integrated learning environment. Students undertake one day a week for 12 weeks (or equivalent) in an organisation where they can actively pursue the application of their digital media learning in a supported environment. Students may use the opportunity to extend their existing areas of expertise and/or to work and learn in a new area of professional media and communication. Students keep a reflective journal of their internship activities and produce an evaluative report considering their experiences and contributions against a variety of measures, including the organisational strategic plan and evaluation methodologies.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Links to recommended texts for this unit will be provided to students via the Learning Management System (VU Collaborate)
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.