Annexure ‘CD – 01’

Course Title: Summer Internship L T P/ SW/F TOTAL

Course Code: MSSI100 S W CREDIT
Credit Units: 6 UNITS
Level: UG 0 0 0 12 06
1 Credit = 30 hrs

Definition
Summer internship programme is an integral part of the academic curriculum of most of the programmes. It aims at widening the student's perspective by
providing an exposure to real life organisational and environmental situations. This enables the students to explore an industry/organization, build a relationship
with a prospective employer, or simply enhance their skills in a familiar field. The internship also provides invaluable knowledge and networking experience to
the students.
Ideally the duration of the Industry internship is six to eight weeks. However, in some cases this period could be extended, .

Course Objectives:
The objectives of the Summer Internship Program are -

• Understand the corporate culture by assigning time-bound projects in a company.

• Understand organizational interrelationships.
• Demonstrate the class room learning in real-life situations.
• Organize and report the learning gained in the internship.
• Create a network that will be useful in enhancing the career prospects.
• Develop attitudes conducive to effective interpersonal relationships.

Prerequisites:
The prerequisite for this course is basic understanding of the research methodology and quantitative techniques.

Student Learning Outcomes:

The specific student learning outcomes expected of the internship are:

• "Test drive” the path chosen and confirm one’s interest in a possible career field.
• Personal growth by developing one’s intellectual, interpersonal, and leadership qualities.
• Learn skills and enhance one’s resume with career-related experience
• Develop future employment opportunities.
• Gain valuable contacts and references.

Course Contents/Syllabus
The Internship Process begins with:

1.0 Briefing Sessions for students

Briefing Sessions are very important for undertaking the NTCC. This briefing is done by the NTCC Institutional committee to introduce Summer
Internship and explain the process and methodology to successfully complete the same. It is mandatory for the students to attend the same as per the
institution’s schedule.

2.0 Finalization and approval of area/topic of NTCC and schedule of activities

Summer Internship topic can be selected from any domain/ sector or any business issue relevant in the current scenario. It is usual to give some discretion
to the student in the choice of topic for the summer internship project and the approach to be adopted. Student shall ensure that his summer internship
project is related to his field of specialization.

3.0 Allocation of Faculty Guides

a) Each student shall be assigned a faculty guide for the NTCC well in advance in a formal manner depending on the number of students per faculty
member, the available specialization among the faculty guides by Institution NTCC Committee.
b) In case a student is undertaking NTCC outside in an industry or research lab or other university, the students shall have two guides – a faculty guide
from the institution and an external guide from the concerned organization. In such cases of joint guidance, the main guide will be the faculty guide.
c) The faculty guide from Amity must closely interact with the external guide and monitor the progress of the student in NTCC.

4.0 Role and expectations of Faculty Guides and External Guides

1. To advise on:
§ The topic, synopsis and work schedule of NTCC and its resources
§ To assist the student in identifying problems/issues and suggest/agree on specific action to address
§ The risk assessment, where appropriate
§ Methodologies
§ Referencing / plagiarism
§ Ethical practice, as appropriate
§ Information sources, including AUUP material, to support planning.
§ Structure and presentation of NTCC
 § To monitor and discuss progress of NTCC
§ To offer feedback on partial versions of NTCC
§ To maintain regular supervisory contact.
§ To contact any student who fails to attend supervisory sessions
§ To advise the student of NTCC who are considered exemplary
Faculty guide must also strengthen the relationship with the host organization of the student for future collaborative research and placement of the student in
that organization.

2. Frequency of meetings and contact time (face to face and virtual)

It will be ensured to follow the university stipulated guidelines/ Regulation cited as under point number 4 (d)

3. Nature of tutorials/briefing sessions/gap lectures

It will be undertaken in two modes one Personal, face to face contact lecture hours on weekly basis and secondly it would be based tutorials need based. It is
expected the student must give in the specified number of self-study.

4.1 Role and expectations of students

a) Commit to a schedule of meetings, in order to ensure that the agreed schedule is adhered to and deadlines met.
b) Use supervisory time allocated effectively,
c) Manage tutorial / gap lectures/ briefing sessions effectively by preparing for same in advance,
d) Keep appointments which have been arranged,
e) To send regularly Weekly Progress Report (WPR) to Faculty guide
f) Maintain a record of supervisory meetings, in the format prescribed by the university.
g) Act responsibly and professionally during any kind of interaction with the host organization.
h) Make use of AUUP guidance and documentation to plan and monitor progress of the NTCC, to maximize the benefit of tutorial support, and to
implement the feedback and approved action plan for development of the project.
i) Recognize ethical responsibilities and understand the regulations with regard to plagiarism

5.0 Registration, progress monitoring, Structure, Conduct of course

5.1 Registration
The students are required to register on-line on AMIZONE for the NTCC courses as per the University guidelines. Dates would be notified separately.
The students who have not registered for the NTCC course as per regulations will not be permitted to submit any report and will be treated as having failed
in the course. Further, student will not be promoted to next year specially if he/she has failed in fieldwork / or industry internship etc.

5.2 Progress monitoring

The progress of summer internship project would be done weekly by faculty guide through the submitted WPR’s and Monthly by Institutional NTCC
Committee /Project Review Committee via submission of continuous evaluation.
The various steps to be followed are as follows:
1) Identification of research areas by the students.
 2) Identification of a faculty guide, based on common research areas/interests.
3) Online Registration
4) Submission of research proposal by students approved by faculty guide.
5) Post approval preparation and final submission of synopsis.
6) First review on completion and submission of Introduction and literature review.
7) Second review on completion and submission of Data collection and Data analysis
8) Third review on completion and submission of final report is done.
9) Pre submission.
10) Final Viva.

5.3 Structure

All students must follow the following rules in submitting their summer internship project.
• Front page should provide title, author, Name of degree/diploma and the date of submission.
• Second page should be the table of contents giving page references for each chapter and section.
• The next page should be the table of appendices, graphs and tables giving titles and page references.
• Next to follow should be a synopsis of the summer internship project (approximately 500 words) titled: Executive Summary
• Next is the ‘acknowledgements’.
• Chapter I should be a general introduction, giving the background to the summer internship project, the objectives, the rationale, the plan, methodological
issues and problems. The limitations of the summer internship project should also be hinted in this chapter.
• Other chapters will constitute the body of the summer internship project. The number of chapters and their sequence will usually vary depending on, among
others, on a critical review of the previous relevant work relating to major findings, a discussion of their implications, and conclusions, possibly with a
suggestion of the direction of future research on the area.
• After this concluding chapter, a list of all the references used should be given. These should be cross - references with the text. For articles from journals, the
following details are required e.g.
Draper P and Pandyal K. 1991, The Investment Trust Discount Revisited, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Vol18, No6, Nov, pp 791-832.

For books, the following details are required:

Levi, M. 1996, International Financial Management, Prentice Hall, New York, 3rd Ed, 1996
• Finally, the student should list appendices.

• Body will be of approximately 10000- 12000 words. It should be divided into sub section and each section should be coherent: i.e., have a clear beginning
and end and a logical connection between the content elements is must.
• Conclude by summarizing the results of the argument and their significance for the relevant issues.
• References section should list down all the citations in APA Style.

6.0 Arrangement of Contents

Every Summer internship project has three parts: the preliminary pages, the text, and the reference material. Each part has several sections, which are normally
arranged in the order they are discussed below.
Elements of the Summer internship project will be arranged in the following manner:
1. Preliminary Pages
a. Title page
b. Declaration
c. Faculty Guide Approval page
d. Acknowledgement(s)
e. Table of Contents
f. List of Tables
g. List of Figures
h. Abstract
2. Text (usually divided into chapters and sections)
3. Reference Material
a. References
b. Appendix

6.1 Formatting
• All reports should be printed double-spaced, Times New Roman and 12 Font size.
• Although papers are evaluated chiefly on their philosophical merits, grammar, spelling, and language will also be evaluated. Students are expected to
express their thoughts in clear, grammatical, English sentences.
• Content is the purpose of a paper; style and packaging can facilitate comprehension of that content, but should never distract the reader from the
content.

7.0 Disciplines, Ethical issues and Plagiarism

The NTTC report must be written in student’s own words. However, if required to cite the words of others, all the debts (for words, data, arguments and ideas)
have to be appropriately acknowledged. It is mandatory that each project report shall be checked for plagiarism through Turnitin before submission. The
content that is based on existing published work must come from properly quoted material and from the references cited section. After checking the accuracy of
the citations and references of such content the plagiarism report should not return similarity index of more than 15% in any circumstance. However, if the
matching text is one continuous block, the index of 15% could still be considered plagiarism. Any report with higher than this plagiarism percentage must be
explained by the student. The details of copyrights, professional ethics are given in Plagiarism Prevention Policy of the University.

8.0 Submission of final report

The most important aspect of the courses is the final report. Therefore, following must be ensured for producing quality report:
a) The student will start the project report / summer internship project while doing his/her NTCC course as per the prescribed guidelines
b) The students will submit 1st draft of the report to the guide for guidance timeline
c) Followed by the submission second of draft of report after making necessary changes as suggested by the guide.
d) The final report will be submitted after checking plagiarism through Turnitin or any other format subscribed by University. Copying material should not
be more than 15% provided source is mentioned in the report along with proper acknowledgement and referencing as per plagiarism policy of the
university timeline
e) Following will be submitted along with final report,:
• WPR
• Plagiarism Report

9.0 FINAL ASSESSMENT

a) The final assessment of NTCC shall be done for those students who have qualified on the basis of Conduct and progress monitoring guidelines & Submission
of report/thesis guidelines as stated in the assessment criteria 6.1
b) The Final assessment will be treated as end semester examination. It is mandatory for the students to appear for final assessment as per scheduled date and
time. If fail to appear in the students final assessment as per schedule, he/she will treated as absent. For such cases same rules will be applicable as those for
theory examination. The assessment of I category students will be done within one month of final assessment of the batch.

9.1 Assessment criteria

A student will be eligible to submit his report and final assessment provided he/she meets following conditions:
a. Online Registration for the NTCC course
b. Approval of Topic, Synopsis and Project Plan by the guide
c. 90 % of WPR were submitted
d. 80% of the WPR were satisfactory
e. Similarity index not more than 15 % as per Plagiarism Prevention Policy.

Students not meeting the eligibility criteria shall be governed by the regulation given as per university guidelines.

10.0 Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

The assessment scheme for the summer internship project is mentioned below as per the University guidelines (06 Credit units):

Internal Assessment 40

External Assessment 60
The breaks up (components and their weightage) of continuous internal assessment are given as under:

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT COMPONENTS EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT COMPONENTS

MAXIMUM MAXIMUM
S.NO. NAME OF COMPONENT MARKS S.NO. NAME OF COMPONENT MARKS
QUALITY OF WORK &
1 TIMELY REGISTRATION 5 1 WRITTEN EXPRESSION 10
STUDENT LEARNING
2 PLAGIARISM REPORT 10 2 OUTCOMES 10
INTEGRATION OF THEORY
4 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 5 3 INTO PRACTICE 10
OBJECTIVES &
5 METHODOLOGY 10 4 METHODOLOGY 10
PRESENTATION AND
TOTAL 40 5 COMMUNICATION 10
6 VIVA VOCE 10
TOTAL 60