HSTG0018-1 : Internship (including an aid seminar for the internship and the final thesis)

Study Programmes 2016-2017

HSTG0018-1

Internship (including an aid seminar for the internship and the final thesis)

Duration :

Number of credits :

Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)		12

Lecturer :

Christophe Dubois, Julie Gérard

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

In the second year of the Master in Human Resource Management, the students have to complete an internship (12 ECTS). They also write a Master thesis (15 ECTS) consisting in an individual exercise of research following a rigorous approach.
This seminar aims to assist students in a collective work of comparative research, grounded in their respective internship workplace. From the concrete work situations they will face, they will write a case study based on the description and comparative analysis of managerial discourses, management tools and professional practices.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

At the end of the seminar, the student will be able

to define a research question,
to develop a semi-structured interview guide,
to conduct some semi-structured interviews,
to make some empirical statements based on a comparative analysis (of interviews and fields studied by students of the same group)
and to problematize.

These tasks underpin the sociological research methodology that the student can apply to his Master thesis.
By the way, he/she will have developed critical thinking and teamwork skills.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Prerequisite knowledge and skills: SEMI0723-1 et SEMI0724-1.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

The seminar consists of five sessions for which attendance is compulsory (in case of internship abroad, a solution will be negociated).
Each session is built around conceptual and methodological reminders and exercises to perform as a group. The seminar will be participative and it will be based on data collected by the students at their place of internship.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face