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 Trent Business students gain invaluable hands-on experience working with local businesses A new field-based study program, launched through the Business Administration Department at Trent last term, is quickly gaining momentum thanks to high participation rates of students and faculty, and overwhelming support from local businesses in the Greater Peterborough Area. Please see below for links to Study Abroad and International Internships.
The new hands-on fourth-year course allows senior students to apply their academic knowledge and gain real world experience working with businesses in the local community. Twenty students participated and completed placements in a wide-variety of organizations and businesses when the course was offered for the first time during the 2009/10 academic year. Participating businesses included: Peterborough Green-Up, the Greater Peterborough Economic Development Corporation (GPAEDC), Operitel, RBC and the James Fund, to name a few. Speaking about the new course, Dr. Asaf Zohar, chair of Business Administration at Trent, said, “We like to give students an opportunity to explore ideas in the classroom and then give them the opportunity to go out into the real world and challenge those ideas. We believe very much in having that interface between challenging ideas and practical application. We believe that to produce somebody who is going to be successful out there in the world, first and foremost, they must have the ability to apply ideas to the real world but beyond that they have to have the capacity to innovate at a fundamental level, not just a superficial level.” ADMN 4820Y, 4830H – Community-based research project
Study Abroad and International Internships For information on the Justin Chiu Scholarship to study abroad in Hong Kong, Singapore, or Shanghai, please click here. For Mexico, click here and scroll down to INDG 3953Y. For studying in Thailand, please click here.
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