This is an elective course. The course is also open for students from other study programs at HVO and for international students. The seminar is held in English. The intership report can be written in Norwegian or in English.

The course consists of two parts:

Part 1: Internship seminar

The seminar prepares students for the internship / student company and for writing the internship report. It is held in January and February, and provides a theoretical and practical introduction to writing university college papers / reports. The seminar also helps students prepare for job / internship applications and job interviews, for starting (student) companies, work in different cultures, and ethics in work life. Additional topics like presentation techniques may also be covered. As part of the course students are to present the organization they will do their internship in or the student company that they want to found and the planned topic they are going to write about in their internship report, in class. 

Part 2: Internship

Students are to find internship positions themselves, but the department can help with contacts to possible internship places. The department provides more extensive support in finding internship positions to international students. The internship position has to be approved by the department. Students who choose to start a student company, the students will get special support from IPAS. Each student gets assigned a supervisor by the department. The internship or student company lasts 6-8 weeks, from the beginning of March to the end of May. During the internship / student company, students are to write an internship report / paper. The topic of the report should be connected to the workplace and to the student's tasks during the internship / student company. The report - with a length of about 4000 words - should follow the usual requirements for university college papers.