SAS Business Internship

This program is designed for committed students and professionals who would benefit from an international experience in the areas of Business, English Language, Spanish Language, and other fields of study in Canada, the United States, Dominican Republic, Spain, or Australia. The student enters an intensive study program of written and oral communication for the business world, distributed in the following manner: In the mornings, you participate in an intensive program that aims to improve your ability to communicate, both orally and in written form, in an efficient way. In the afternoons, there is an intensive program to develop whatever other professional abilities the student needs to focus upon.

After finishing this part of the course, the student begins the second phase, which consists of working for a business enterprise in the country of his or her choice. This is where the student acquires the valuable hands-on knowledge that will help prepare him or her for a professional career.

Graduates acquire abilities, knowledge, and the contacts necessary to enter the international world of business. Note that students who are in training do not receive a salary from the enterprise that provides them with that hands-on training.

SAS Business Internship Agenda

The SAS Business Internship program combines classes with practical hands-on business experience. Students are prepared to work in their chosen business field in one of the countries mentioned above: Canada, the United States, Dominican Republic, Spain, or Australia.

The first 4 weeks of classes

All SAS Business Internship students are required to take the first 4 weeks of classes.

• Week 1-Students complete:
  Their profiles/resumes
  Questionnaire
  List of career options Internship contract/school contract
• Together with SAS Business Internship coordinators, they will review the procedures for choosing their internship location
• Week 2-They will attend all standard classes
• Week 3\--They will attend classes and programmed interviews
• Week 4-They will attend classes, complete the interview series, and be prepared to begin their professional practicum.
  
  Participants enrolled in the 16- and 24-week programs will not have interviews until the month before their internships are assigned.

Typical 4-week practicum program (example)

• Week 1-Student interns begin their first days of hands-on business training. The program coordinator contacts the enterprise to see how the intern is adapting.
• Week 2-The enterprise sends a progress report evaluating the intern's development. If any problems exist, this is the ideal time to arrange an appointment with the program coordinator.
• Week 3-Hands-on business training continues.
• Week 4-A final progress report is requested from the enterprise to evaluate the intern's work during the period of his or her practicum. The intern will most likely be asked to share his or her experiences with a class of future participants. At the end of the program, each successful intern is issued a corticated of completion and a letter of reference.

Internships in Canada, the USA, Dominican Republic, Spain, and Australia.

Completing professional internships in the foreign country that most interests you will help to considerably improve your language abilities. The hands-on experience that you will gain during your internship will help you to learn how professionals in that country conduct business.

The internships are organized in such a manner that they complement the education and career interests of the participants. Professional practicum have been successfully completed in various enterprises in Canada, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Spain, and Australia, including in banks, accounting firms, law firms, publicists, marketing firms, medical clinics, and hotels.

The SAS Business Internship program is offered all year long and is available to all international students who have an advanced level of English and Spanish. Although the participants do not receive any remuneration, they do receive the same treatment and respect as do the enterprises' hired employees.

Note that intensive, private classes in both English and Spanish are available to all program participants (there is, of course, an additional but reasonable charge for these extra language classes).

Enterprises for the hands-on practicum.

SAS Business Internship program's coordinators will do everything possible to locate each of our students in an appropriate position. In this way, each student obtains hands-on professional experience in the field of his or her expressed interest. Although internship location is normally a clear-cut process, sometimes it requires a bit of understanding and flexibility on the students' part. It must be understood, for example, that medical personnel and lawyers from one country are not certified to practice in other countries. Instead, we could locate the student in an administrative position within a hospital or private clinic, or within a notary or law firm, respectively. For this reason, it is important to note that the location of the interns in a particular field or with a specific company can never be guaranteed. It is hoped that each candidate will accept the best position and location that is available.

List of businesses for SAS Business Internship.

Canada:
United States:
Dominican Republic:
Spain:
Australia:

Terms of the SAS Business Internship

The program is divided into 2 parts:

1-English/Spanish class in your field of professional interest and conversational/written practice. Students learn English/Spanish and business concepts during the first part of the program in order to put their skills and knowledge into practical use during the second part of the program.

The period of time spent in the classroom should the same or longer than the period of the hands-on internship experience. You can choose among 3 programs in SAS Program:

SAS Business Internship program of 8-weeks, 12-weeks. Or 24-weeks- The 8-week program consists of 4 weeks of super intensive classroom study and 4 weeks of professional hands-on training.

A period of just 4 weeks as an intern is considered to be quite short. It is highly recommended that you consider the 12-week (6 classrooms plus 6 internship) or 24-week (12 classrooms plus 12 internship) programs, if you have the time to do so.

It is more difficult to locate a program participant in a good internship position for just 4 weeks than it is to locate them for an internship of 8-12 weeks-in fact, most enterprises principally accept interns only for the longer periods. This is why we ask students to be understanding and flexible with regard to the suggestions for both position and company placement proposed by the coordinators of the SAS Business Internship program.

During their internships, the students will have to present weekly reports and a final paper to their professor. The professor will follow up with the students from the beginning of the program through its final cycle.

Themes of interest specifically for the Dominican Republic

1: Dominican economy.

a) Economic evolution and development
b) Income and social distribution
c) Social costs d) Public services
e) Dominican economic sectors (Tourism, Free Trade Zones, Telecommunications, Construction, Shipping, Commerce, Marketing, Merchandising, Agriculture, Banking, Energy, Mining, etc.
f) Medium-sized and small businesses
g) Foreign investment
h) Free trade

2: Human rights.

a) Human rights in the Dominican Republic
b) The Dominican Constitution and its inherent rights
c) Democracy and its guarantee of rights
d) Social Development and Human Rights
e) Justice/Law in the Dominican Republic

3: The rights of Dominican women

a) Intra-familiar violation of rights
b) Matrimony c) Matrimony and family
d) Concubinage and society
e) Child abuse and sexual exploitation

4: Political Science

a) Evolution of Dominican politics
b) Political thought
c) Constitutional development
d) Party system
e) Freedom of religion

5: Social status and privilege

a) Social evolution
b) The social classes
c) Contemporary Dominican society
d) Urban development
e) Dominican evaluation
f) Dominicana education
g) Development-Historical evolution of Dominican society
h) Division of the island into two states-Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti
i) Community action in the Dominican Republic
j) Public health
k) Differences between the Dominican and Haitian societies

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