Work Placement
Code: 101122Credits: 12
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Political Science and Public Management | OP | 3 |
| Political Science and Public Management | OP | 4 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Dafne Muntanyola Saura
- Email :
- dafne.muntanyola@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- José Oscar Rebollo Izquierdo
- Nora Sainz Gsell
- Jordi Argelaguet Argemí
- John Robert Etherington
- Lluís Sáez Giol
- Carola Castella Josa
- Daniel Tarrago Sanfeliu
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
In order to access professional internships, students must be enrolled in the academic year in which they apply and must have passed a minimum of 132 credits at the time of applying for the position (2/3 in the case of double degree).
The internship application process begins the year before the internship. In order to be able to enroll in this subject, you must have previously completed the internship application process in one of the two ways (by reserving a place or by offering a catalog). They are incompatible modalities: you cannot make a reservation at the same time as choosing a catalog. It is recommended that double degree students make the request to reserve a place.
Objectives
The Faculty of Political Science, IIRR and Sociology offer their students the possibility of carrying out a professional internships in an external entity. These internships consist of a 200 hours work in an organization, institution or company with which the Faculty maintain a collaboration agreement. The intership has a twofold aim: formative and professional. The internship combines the work done in the external entity (and supervised by an external tutor), and the participation in academic activities in the Faculty (guided by an academic tutor). This allows the students to develop professionals skills within the work environtment and be able to participate in career-counselling activities organised by the Faculty.
The entities, institutions or companies that are offered to accommodate students in interships are heterogeneous: associations, third parties entities, foundations, NGOs, centers of social research, consultants, human resources departments and planning, institutions of the local autonomic or central administration, political, business or union organizations, International collaborative or solidarity programs and internships under protection from other universities. Entities can be at the Catalan, state and international level.
Learning outcomes
- Working in teams and networking, particularly in interdisciplinary conditions.
- Identifying sources of data and conducting bibliographic and documentary searches.
- Synthesizing and critically analysing information.
- Interpreting and applying English texts in an academic way.
- Demonstrating good writing skills in different contexts.
- Realising effective oral presentations that are suited to the audience.
- Managing the available time in order to accomplish the established objectives and fulfil the intended task.
- Working autonomously.
- Producing and preparing presentations of reports and intervention proposals.
- Clearly explaining the methodological approach adopted in order to produce knowledge within the area of the external practice.
- Describing the factors that have an impact on the development of the continued professional practice.
- Critically assessing which theoretical hypothesis are better suited to the context of the external practice.
- Applying various theoretical contributions about actors, actor's networks, and collective action to practical, real or simulated problems from real life and the professional practice.
- Making decisions in different contexts.
- Develop critical thought and reasoning and be able to communicate them effectively, both in your own language and second or third languages.
- Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Make changes to the methods and processes of the area of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and wishes of society.
- Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
Contents
The content of the practices is based on the type of entity where they are carried out. Independently of the nature of the entity (public administration, private company, third sector, university). In the specific thematic area, the possible professional profiles to be developed are:
Researcher
Social and Community Service Manager.
Public Policies consultant
Expert in international relations
Cooperation and development
Market research analyst
Training
Management of organisations
Cultural and /or social mediator
These profiles can be combined with management, training and evaluation tasks in fields such as the following: communication, education, cultural management, sustainability politics, international organizations, the business sector.
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doing the internship in the workplace | 180 | 7.2 | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Individual Report | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Office hours and career-counselling activities | 40 | 1.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
This is an annual subject and has a teaching load of 12 credits. The following distribution is stipulated:
- 180-200 hours of work to the entity where the professional practices are carried out
- 15 hours of individual work for the writting of the individual report and attendance to individual tutorials.
- 40 hours of group work, monitoring group tutorials, career counseling sessions and oral presentation.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office hours | 30 | 20 | 0.8 | 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Individual Report | 20 | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Training sessions | 20 | 15 | 0.6 | 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20 |
| Work place report | 30 | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
Each internship placement includes a supervisor at the host organization. The supervisor will be responsible for overseeing the student’s work and for submitting a final evaluation to the Faculty.
The Faculty will appoint, from among its teaching staff, an academic tutor who will monitor the internship on an individual basis and coordinate group tutorials.
The tutor will carry out the final evaluation based on:
- The report from the organization or company (30%)
- The individual report (20%)
- Participation in group tutorials, completion of the work plan, and the oral presentation of the report (20%)
- Attendance at a minimum of 10 training and career guidance sessions (20%). Attendance at the Engega’t Job Fair and the closing event The Alumni Perspective is compulsory, as well as 8 talks selected from the professionalization sessions in the 2026–2027 course schedule. Sessions take place at midday at the Faculty, except for two optional sessions that will be held in the evening at the CCCB and at COLPIS.
Students must submit all required evidence (work plan, oral presentation, report, attendance at the 10 training sessions, attendance at tutorials) in order to be assessed through continuous evaluation.
Internships cannot begin until all parties (student, organization, and dean’s office) have signed the agreement. The start and end dates, as well as the days and hours of dedication at the organization, must be agreed upon with the organization and communicated to the Faculty before the summer. This information must be included in the work plan, which is the first assignment of the course.
This course does not include a single-assessment option.
Bibliography
In t Political Science and Sociology websire you will find the relevant complementary resources.
Software
There are no specific requires, but students are suupposed to show the user skills for the softwares included in their degrees.
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PEXT) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum | 1 | Unknown | Undefined | morning-mixed |