Student Accreditation

Individual university policy

As ACICIS does not have any authority to determine the academic credit (if any) individual universities grant for participation in the JPP, it is up to students to negotiate this with their course coordinators and make arrangements for accreditation before undertaking the program.

Due to the heavy workload involved in the program, however, ACICIS does recommend that participation in the JPP be considered worth 75% of a full semester's credit load, depending on course structure and current provisions for practicums at the university. This was the level at which the lead university of the 2002 pilot program credited students, and also the level ACICIS recommended to universities for the 2008 and 2009 JPP .

Contact hours for the activities organised in addition to the four-week industry placement have been calculated to be about 78 hours (equivalent to two full subjects / units).

Study details include:

• Pre-trip activities such a set text list and weekly news digest from Jakarta, equal to 6 hours of in-class contact.

• Two weeks of intensive in-country lectures on Indonesian language, equal to 48 hours of in-class contact (3-4 hours per day, Monday to Saturday. This part of the program is designed to give all students a working knowledge of the Indonesian language sufficient for a journalist to ask and understand simple questions.

• A series of afternoon lectures and field trips on Indonesian history, politics, and the media industry by prominent Indonesian scholars and media personalities, equal to 20-24 hours of in-class contact. See the JPP 2009 lecture timetable.
  
  
• A post course debriefing session.

Assessment

The academic emphasis of the JPP is on experiential and professional learning within the work environment. Codes of assessment will be framed in this context.

• Students will be assessed by the ACICIS project officer, who will provide a one-page evaluation report on the general performance of each participant, incorporating notes on the variety of different tasks undertaken.

• Students may select one of the following end-of-program outcome documents: a.) Professional reference for future employment, or b.) Academic report for university credit.
  

• In accordance with standard ACICIS practice, overall student performance will be assessed only on a "satisfactory / unsatisfactory" basis (equivalent to "ungraded pass / fail").
  

• Assessment of the language and class-based work will be conducted and graded independently by the Indonesian lecturers involved at the local university.
  

• The students' home universities retain the right to require and grade further assessment tasks from their participants, including a portfolio or reflective diary summarising the student's placement activities and reflection on what occurred.

Example of a Student Assessment Report

Participants can anticipate receiving their results approximately one month after the JPP. You can read here an example of a student assessment from JPP 2008.