Mandatory Internship

BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

MANDATORY INTERNSHIP CONDITIONS

I. PURPOSE

In order to graduate from the International Trade Department, a total of 60 working days of internship is mandatory. Internships can be undertaken during summer or winter breaks and to start the mandatory internship, regular students should complete 4 semesters and irregular students 3 semesters of coursework in the department. The mandatory internship must be completed in two installments, with each installment being at least 20 working days and not more than 40 working days.

The main purpose of these internships is to provide students with the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge they have gained in their courses, and by enabling them to gain experience, to help them facilitate their transition to professional life. The first internship aims for students to work in a department related to the main functions of a business (finance, marketing, and production) to develop themselves in these areas. The second internship, on the other hand, aims for students to gain experience about the international dimension of businesses by taking part in departments where international activities are particularly intensive. During their internship, the intern student is obliged to directly contribute to the tasks assigned to them.

II. RULES, METHOD AND EVALUATION

1. In order to graduate from the Department of International Trade, every student should complete the 60-day internship requirements after their sophomore year and each internship should be a minimum of 20 working days.

2. The students who have not fulfilled their internship requirements are not allowed to register to the department again, even if they have successfully completed the number of course credits needed for graduation. These students are obliged to complete their internship requirements during the first semester following the completion of their course credits.

3. To start the internship, regular students need to complete at least four semesters and irregular students need to complete at least three semesters in the program. According to this rule, even in the case a student fails from all the courses s/he has taken, s/he can start the internship at end of the fourth semester (third for irregular students) that s/he has registered.

4. Students complete their internship requirement through a 4-stage process:

(1) The application for internship and to start the internship according to the Internship Information Form, which needs to be approved by the Internship Committee.

· The company where the internship to be made needs the approval of the Department of International Trade. If the company doesn’t satisfy the internship criteria the internship will not be valid.

· For insurance procedures, students must send the Internship Information Forms to the Department of International Trade at least 1 week before the internship starts via e-mail. The Department of International Trade gives this information (about the company) to the University's Accounting Office. Foreign students should learn their ID numbers from the Accounting Office.

· The insurance covers only the work accidents during the internship period.

· The internship can be performed either in Türkiye or in a foreign country.

· The intern should not be a first order relative of the owner of the company of internship. In that case, the internship will be considered as void.

(2) Preparation of the Internship Booklet and Its Submission to the Department of the International Trade

· By the end of the internship period, every student is obliged to prepare the Internship Booklet to give information about the internship company and activities.

· The Internship Booklet should include: (1) general report,  (2) weekly summaries and (3) evaluation.

General Report: It covers theoretical and practical information about the activities of the job. This report should also describe the internship company, the structure of the department worked, the management style, the responsibilities of the people in the department and their job descriptions. If present, the bibliography of the sources of this information is included.

Weekly Summaries: They should include the details about dates of activities and jobs performed, and department worked. If necessary, the printed materials, such as forms and brochures, used during the activities of the job, can be added by explaining their purpose of usage. Useless repetitions should be avoided and all the jobs performed should be written in detail.

Evaluation: Here, the students judge the contribution of this internship to their education and the applicability of course material to the real world.

· Every page of the Internship Booklet should be sealed by the internship company and the weekly summaries and the daily records should be approved and signed by the authorized person of the related department.

· The general report, weekly summaries, and evaluation should consist of approximately 2500-3000 words. The number of internship days must be indicated on the first page of the booklet.

(3) The Evaluation of the Internship Booklet by the Internship Committee and Approval

· The evaluation of the internship is based on the Internship Booklet and the Intern Evaluation Form completed by the authorized person in the internship company. 

· The Internship Booklet is evaluated considering its content and style. The internship commission can demand additional material from the intern student if necessary.

· Grading of the internship requirement is for "no-credit" and is in the form of pass/fail (P\F), which is considered in the semester following the internship period.

(4) Post-Internship Questionnaire:

After completing your internship, you are required to fill out a short questionnaire in which you will provide feedback about your internship experience.

This survey will take only about 3 to 4 minutes and here is the link to the survey: 

https://boun.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PCcvXSK3IYzJiK 

Filling out this survey is required for all INTT students who completed at least one block (between 20 - 40 days) of their mandatory internship.

This survey aims to collect feedback on your internship experience and also information about your satisfaction about our department's mandatory internship program.

 

*** Important Rules / Warnings ***

For all document submissions and inquiries related to the internship, please send an email to: intt.internship@bogazici.edu.tr (office phone: 6536).

Digital copies of Internship Booklet, which shows how many days the student worked (start & end dates) + Internship Company Evaluation Form (to be filled by the student in order to evaluate the company) + Intern Evaluation Form (which evaluates the student's performance during internship and to be completed by an authorized person from the department in which the internship is conducted) should be emailed to intt.internship@bogazici.edu.tr as soon as possible after completing the internship.

Expiration date for the Internship Booklets is 6 months after the last day of the internship period.

Intern Evaluation Form, which evaluates the student's performance during internship, should be completed by an authorized person from the department in which the internship is conducted. Student should email this form to intt.internship@bogazici.edu.tr. We do not receive documents by hand.

Furthermore, you are required to keep all these files until you graduate; because when you register for the INTT400 course, you will be asked to upload them to the system via Moodle. It is not possible to graduate without receiving a P (Pass) grade from the INTT400 course.

 

Foreign Students:

They should learn their foreign ID numbers, which is recorded in the first page of their residence certificates and which can be accessed through the following web site: 

http://tckimlik.nvi.gov.tr/Web/ForeignQueryIdentityNumber.aspx   

Afterwards, they should go to the university's Personnel Department with their foreign ID numbers and get their Social Security Numbers.

 

Forms & Documents:

 

Internship Database:

The names of the businesses & departments where our students have completed their mandatory internships so far are listed in the file below.

In addition, this file includes evaluations regarding the level of satisfaction with these internships, based on the information collected from the surveys our students are required to fill out after their internships.

For some businesses, contact information is available for other students who may want to apply for an internship in the same unit. If you contact the department secretariat, the email addresses of the relevant individuals will be provided.