Professional internship
Internship and job vacancies
- There are constant offers for internships at all cultural institutions and ministries of the Free State of Saxony.
- There are constant offers for internships in all departments of the City of Dresden.
- Please check the current offers posted on the notice board for the professional internship or on the respective page on OPAL!
Internship certificate and recognition of the internship
Please do not send any documents by mail! Instead, please submit your certificate, contract and your report via OPAL. The pre-filled internship certificate (German) must be printed out and received in the institute secretary's office (room FAL 217, use the mailbox in front of it).
Please note that only complete documents can be processed.
Approximately 2 to 3 weeks after uploading your documents, they will be processed by us. If all requirements are fulfilled, the signed internship certificate will be forwarded directly from us to the examination office. In this case, you will not receive any message from us. If documents are missing or the requirements are otherwise not fulfilled, you will receive an e-mail from us and the opportunity to submit missing documents or to revise an insufficient internship report.
Important note regarding the internship report
A central goal of the professional internship is for you to apply and reflect on what you have learned in your studies in the working world. That is why an important point in the internship report, is a "critical appraisal of the internship with regard to the study objective".
This means that you critically reflect on your internship against the background of your sociology studies, which also means that you relate the contents of your internship to the contents of your studies (e.g. different sociological theories, authors, etc.). Do not forget appropriate literature references (references and bibliography).