The objective of the internship is to familiarize students with future fields of activity, to gain practical experience supplementing theoretical knowledge obtained during the courses, to acquire practical skills for applying theoretical knowledge in practice and to enhance their motivation and orientation towards the subsequent semesters.
According to the Program and Examination Regulations of the master's degree program in Landscape Architecture, the internship is to be carried out in the third semester.
The internship shall be documented with evidence for a period of 20 weeks. It shall be carried out in private landscape architectural offices, multi-disciplinary design and planning offices or regarding public or private institutions, hereinafter referred to as “companies”. 25 credits are awarded for an acknowledged internship period of 20 weeks.
Compulsory weeks are net time. Leave of absence due illness, private or company holidays, social obligations, etc. must be compensated. As a rule, an internship week has five working days with eight working hours each. This is regulated by the work regulations of the company chosen for the internship.
The internship may be split once. However, it must be considered that one of these two parts must cover a period of at least eight successive weeks.
Internships carried out in companies owned by the student’s parents or by himself/herself are accepted for a period of ten weeks only. In this case, at least ten weeks shall be completed in another company. If internships are carried out in companies owned by the student’s parents or by himself/herself, paragraphs 1-9 apply accordingly.
The internship is a supervised internship. Each student will be assigned a lecturer (mentor) of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. The student is given the opportunity to select a mentor. Prior to the start of the internship, the academic mentor will acknowledge by signature that
- He/she will act as the mentor.
- The designated company is deemed suitable for the internship.
- The student will be given an internship task in written form.
- The student will principally be obliged to submit an intermediate draft of the internship report.