The HASS Faculty’s professional practical experience course is an external course designed to assist you to gain credit for a domestic, virtual or international work-related experience that suits you and your goals. This course runs in Summer Semester. During this course, you engage with the work-related experience that you have sourced, and participate in online workshops designed to help you leverage from your learning during your work experience.
PHSS2000 provides you with an opportunity to:
Incorporate internships, work experience, field work, study tours and more into your program
Develop your professional skills
Learn to communicate the value of your HASS studies to future employers
Personalise your learning and choose an experience that best suits you
Complete 16 units of undergraduate study before the course start date, and have 2 units of elective space within your program (Postgraduate students are not eligible to participate in PHSS2000).
Find your own practical experience that enables you to meet the course learning objectives as set out in the Electronic Course Profile.
Finding an experience
Possible experiences include:
Internship with Tallinn University, one out of three leading universities in Estonia, which seeks a group of students to prepare practical study materials for master’s programme in Communication Management. Apply here
Existing employment - if you are working full or part-time in a role that allows you to meet the course learning objectives, this may be an eligible experience.
The Practical Employability Experience is exactly what it sounds like. It is a program that matches eager UQ students with real-life companies to work together during the summer break. This course provides students with 80-120 hours of work experience in addition to work-related project activities. Unlike other university courses, PHSS2000 quite literally requires you to apply the knowledge you learn during your internship to the university curriculum through a series of assignments that are strategically placed throughout your internship period.
Easily one of the best things to come out of my time at UQ as it has been able to provide me with a solid foundation and first step into the professional world of digital marketing post-university.
I have gained a better understanding of how to approach the workplace, navigate those dreaded job applications and interviews, and know how to better leverage my Arts degree so that employers know how valuable an asset I can be.
The experience made me realise that my knowledge and skills can be transferred and applied to industries I had never considered before.
I took PHSS2000 in Summer Semester 2019 to gain some real-world experience as I was about to enter my final year of the Bachelor of Communications. I found the course very rewarding and was placed with Opera Queensland as my workplace. Not only did this amount to real-world experience tailored to what I wanted to get out of the experience, but it also resulted in my employment with the company after the internship period was over. I stayed on in the role as a casual doing a few days a week and am now working full-time hours within the company.
Through this placement , I have gained knowledge of the arts industry, marketing, partnerships and philanthropy, strategic engagement and stakeholder management. The best part of the course is that the wonderful team tailor the experience for you and your career aspirations, this really takes the stress out of looking for an internship. I recommend taking this course to any student looking for work experience, because this is something you can never have enough of in any industry!
