IMESS Internship - JTM205
Title: IMESS Internship
Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: both
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: 0/4, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (6)
summer:unknown / unknown (6)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc.
Class: Courses not for incoming students
Incompatibility : JMMZ257
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Annotation
The course formally covers internships organized as a practical part of the curriculum of the programme IMESS.
Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to provide IMESS students with an opportunity to work for public as well as private institutions and organizations and to get some practical experience useful for later employment.

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Course completion requirements

Study obligations:

1. Internship should be approved by tutor of IMESS, without this approval internship will not be recognized as a valid course!!!
a) request should include name and website of organization
b) short description of the content of work students will do
c) formal approval of the internship by the representative of the organization
d) internship must be carried out only during the 2nd year in Prague and only in the Czech Republic, internship may not be in collision with other student´s duties and obligations; students are not allowed to leave during the term period.

2. Internship should take not less than 100 hours

3. After finishing the internship student should submit to the tutor:
a) certificate (or other formal document) issued by the internship offering organization; certificate:
- confirms period and number of hours spent at the internship offering organization
- brings basic description of student´s position
- includes brief assessment of student´s performance
- certificate must be signed and dated!

b) student´s report (1 500 words) containing:
- description of the internship offering orgnization
- description of student´s position and workload
- to what extent students´s work responded to the profile of internship offering organization
- to what extent student´s work responded to the internship arrangement
- to what extent student´s position and activities corresponded to the IMESS programme content
- to what extent student´s position and work contributed to her/his academic/professional development
- to what extent student´s internship helped/contributed to internship offering organization (personal view)
- what the internship institution should do better when organizing internships
- if (why) the intership offering organization could be recommended to other (IMESS/all) students

4. All documents and information must be provided in English!
 

Available institutions:

ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency): volunteers: http://www.adra.cz/eng/about-us; AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association)www.afcea.org, Czech chapter: www. afcea.cz; Agora Central Europe (http://www.agora-ce.cz/), for students: http://www.agora-ce.cz/student-agora/; American Field Service (AFC: www.afc.org), Czech chapter: www.afc.cz; Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.cz/); Association for International Affairs (http://www.amo.cz/)
Centre for Central European Architecture (http://www.ccea.cz/en/); Civic Belarus: http://civicbelarus.eu/index.php/en/kontak; Clovek v tisni (Man in need): http://www.clovekvtisni.cz/cs; Consortium of Migrants Assisting Organizations in the Czech Republic: http://www.konsorcium-nno.cz/; Czech Helsinki Committee: http://helcom.cz/?lang=en; DEMAS (Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights) http://www.demas.cz/en/; EUROPEUM - Institute for European Policy (http://www.europeum.org/en/); ExxonMobil (http://www.toplanguagejobs.cz/job/760451/Student-Placement-in-Accounts-Payable-Department); several IMESS students have already found their jobs there; Forum 2000: http://www.forum2000.cz/; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: http://www.fesprag.cz/; Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/czech/cz/; Institute of International Relations (www. iir.cz); International Woman´s Association of Prague (http://www.iwa-prague.com/volunteer-for-the-bridge/); Medecins Sans Frontieres: http://www.lekari-bez-hranic.cz/en/ (volunteers); Open Society Fund: http://www.osf.cz/home-eng; PASOS: http://pasos.org/; POST (http://postnito.cz/); PSSI (The Prague Security Studies Institute): http://www.pssi.cz/; UNICEF (Czech Committee): http://www.unicef.cz/

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Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Literature

Literature depends on the character of the internship.

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the character of the internship.

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Syllabus

In this the sylabus of the course is equal to content of the internship.

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)
Entry requirements
Internship should be approved by tutor of IMESS, without this approval internship will not be recognized as a valid course!!! See course completion requirements. Search of internship depends on students!
Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (24.01.2025)