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Work Placement

Code: 104484
Credits: 12
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
International Relations OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Dafne Muntanyola Saura
Email :
dafne.muntanyola@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Gabriel Colomé García
José Oscar Rebollo Izquierdo
Nora Sainz Gsell
John Robert Etherington
Mireia Grau Creus
Lluís Sáez Giol
Carola Castella Josa
Daniel Tarrago Sanfeliu
Dafne Muntanyola Saura

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 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

  1. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  2. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  3. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  4. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  5. Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  6. Identify data sources and carry out rigorous bibliographical and documentary searches.
  7. Use metatheoretical data to argue and establish plausible relation of causality and establish ways of validating or rejecting them.
  8. Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in research processes.
  9. Produce and prepare the presentation of intervention reports and/or proposals.
  10. Produce reports and proposals for different aspects of contemporary international society that are important for professional practice and companies and organisations.
  11. Prepare states of the question, organise seminars and propose points of action on different aspects of international society.
  12. Write reports and proposals on the different impacts of the globalisation process that are relevant for professional practice, companies and organisations.
  13. Prepare states of the question, organise seminars and propose points of action on different aspects of international society.
  14. Analyse practical cases of the structure and functioning of international institutions.
  15. Evaluate and understand the challenges and changes in the agendas of international institutions and the centres where placements are carried out.
  16. Write reports and proposals related to major public policies for the international ambit.
  17. Propose, design and carry out studies and/or proposals for intervention in different areas of international relations that are relevant to professional practice in companies and/or centres in which the work placements take place.

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
Internship development 180 7.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Team office hours and labor training 35 1.4 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Written memorandum 15 0.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

This is an annual subject and has a teaching load of 12 credits. The following distribution is stipulated:

- 180 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.

- 35 hours of group work, monitoring group tutorials, career counseling sessions and oral presentation

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Employer Report 30 15 0.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Office hours 30 20 0.8 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Group sessions and workshops 20 20 0.8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Individual report 20 15 0.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17


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

More information can be find on the website of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. 

Software

No specific software required. 

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