Digital Media internship semester

The student begins the search for a training company in good time in the 4th semester. He/she is responsible for finding a company and concluding a training contract. The faculty supports the search with a list of companies, which is available from the faculty secretariat or on the intranet.

A copy of the internship contract must be submitted to Prof. Hofmann in good time before the start of the semester (in the SS on 01.03. or in the WS on 01.09.) (email or post box in Prittwitzstraße)!

Within the period specified by the practical semester, 100 attendance days must be completed in the training company. Jobs in the following areas of digital media design and development are possible:

• Graphic and design offices
• Advertising and internet agencies
• IT departments in large companies in a wide range of sectors
• Digital photo studios
• 3D animation studios
• Audio/video, film and games production studios

During the course, the student should test his/her skills on tasks to be worked on independently under the qualified supervision of a specialist. In addition, he/she should also be given the opportunity to gain an insight into related areas of work as well as areas upstream and downstream of the internship activity within the respective production process.

The student is supervised by a professor during the practical semester. Students must send a short report (2-3 DIN A4 pages) by email to Prof. Thomas Hofmann or directly to the supervisor, if the supervisor has already been assigned, after one month of the practical semester. The report must include a contact address (e.g. email, telephone, etc.) at the employer and the name of the local supervisor.

At the end of the training, the company issues a work placement certificate. This certificate confirms the training period and absences as well as the departments or training content completed. It therefore does not constitute an employer's reference! It is advisable to use the prepared form for this purpose. The certificate must be submitted together with the work report to the responsible university supervisor.

The contents of the practical semester must be documented in a work report. This report can - depending on the activity - be limited to the description of the solution of a single problem or also deal with several problems. It should comprise at least 20 pages with 2500 characters per page and use diagrams, graphics and images in addition to the text section to illustrate the facts described. The structure, layout, spelling and external form of the report must meet the requirements for students in the 6th semester of Digital Media.
At the end of the course, the student must submit the report to the practice location for acknowledgement and countersignature.

The signed work report and the internship certificate must be submitted to the supervising professor in the mailbox at the Albert-Einstein-Allee or Prittwitzstraße location no later than one week before the start of lectures in the sixth semester.

On the Monday of the first week of the new semester, each student reports to the supervising lecturer in a presentation (lasting 20 minutes) on his/her work during the practical semester and presents selected work results. The time and place will be announced on the notice board and on the department's homepage.

The supervising professor decides on the recognition of the practical semester. Recognition is a prerequisite for admission to some subjects of the 6th semester.

A C H T U N G
In its meeting on March 19, 2004, the Examination Board decided on the following regulation: Anyone who has submitted the following documents and achievements, i.e.

• the work record(s) for 100 days of attendance at the practice location,
• the report or reports of sufficient length countersigned by the employer,
• the presentation on the activities during the practical semester

or has not submitted it to Prof. Hofmann by the deadline, must repeat the practical semester.

• in the summer semester until 31.3.
• in the winter semester until 15.10.