Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Internship and Graduation
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
FIN505181
4. Credits:
10
5. Course Objectives:
The objective of the internship and graduation course is to help students gain exposure to the real-world labor market starting from their second year. This enables them to integrate the knowledge they have learned, connect and apply their specialized knowledge to real-life situations. Furthermore, students can develop the skills and attitudes that meet employers’ requirements. As a result, they can build their professional competence upon completing the training program. In addition, the course aims to support students in conducting independent research related to their field of study, thereby preparing them for higher levels of education.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
In the internship and graduation course, students have the opportunity to participate in a real working environment at enterprises, financial institutions, or government agencies. During the internship, students will be guided, supported, supervised, and evaluated by their academic supervisors and/or internship mentors at the host organization.
Alongside the internship process, students can choose one of the following two options:
(1) Write a corporate internship report, or
(2) Conduct a graduation thesis.
For the corporate internship report, students are required to synthesize specialized knowledge related to practical issues that the enterprise is facing, collect relevant data, and perform situational analyses. Finally, students must propose recommendations and solutions for the enterprise as well as practical lessons learned for themselves.
For the graduation thesis, students must independently conduct a complete research project that meets the standards of an academic paper. Accordingly, students need to identify and develop a research question relevant to their field of study, review and construct a theoretical framework, and summarize previous empirical studies related to their topic to identify the research gap. Subsequently, they develop research hypotheses, collect data, and conduct quantitative analyses to test these hypotheses. Based on the analytical results, students will discuss and evaluate their findings and propose recommendations derived from their research outcomes.