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Work Placement II

Code: 106658
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Catalan and Spanish Studies OP 3
Catalan and Spanish Studies OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
María Jesús Machuca Ayuso
Email :
mariajesus.machuca@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Carla Gonzalez Collantes
Sònia Boadas Cabarrocas

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

Working Placement (WP) is an elective subject. To enroll, students must have passed all the courses of the first year and a total of 120 credits from the first three years.


Registration will be carried out in accordance with the procedure described at:

Once the internship is completed, the faculty will evaluate the student's performance based on the submitted reports and tutor feedback. The schedule for the internships must be compatible with the student's academic, training, and participation activities at the University. Additionally, the schedules will be established according to the characteristics of the internships and the availability of the collaborating entity.

For all external internships, including those conducted at UAB, it is mandatory for students to have insurance coverage and civil liability coverage, as school insurance is not sufficient. Therefore, at the time of enrollment, the student will need to pay for the additional policy contracted by UAB (approximate price: €5).

Students will carry out the Working Placement within the options offered by one of the study areas of their Combined Degree (Catalan Philology: Studies in Literature and Linguistics or Spanish Philology).

Students enrolled in the Working Placement subject have demonstrated, through the completion of the corresponding credits from basic training courses and mandatory courses of the second and third years, the acquisition of basic competencies. They should be able to express themselves orally and in writing with correctness.


ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

For the “Pràctiques Professionals” course, students must preregister according to a calendar that is made public every year. The calendar can be consulted here: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/informacio-1345722449027.html

Failure to preregister results in the impossibility to register for the Pràctiques Professionals. Students will only be assigned an internship position if they have preregistered within the deadline.

The pre-enrolment of students takes into account the prioritisation of a maximum of five places offered. Places are assigned according to the grade point average shown on the student’s transcript.

Objectives

The internships are offered during the third and fourth year of the degree. Completion of the internship guarantees that the student will:

  1. Make contact with an interesting professional area during his/her training period.
  2. Acquire a knowledge of tasks related to this field.
  3. Develop professional competence in a field related to studies undertaken during the degree.

Learning outcomes

  1. Accurately drawing up normative texts.
  2. Work independently in the synchronic and diachronic study of Catalan language and literature.
  3. Maintain an attitude of respect for the opinions, values, behaviors and practices of others.
  4. Apply the tools and know consult the specific documentary sources.
  5. Produce work in accordance with academic ethics.
  6. Master oral and written expression in Catalan.
  7. Correctly draw up a previously analysed non-regulatory text.
  8. Transmit the literary and linguistic knowledge acquired, adapting it to a specific professional sector.
  9. Use the skills acquired with autonomy.
  10. Identify normative, stylistic and argumentative text errors.
  11. Construct texts of different types (argumentative, expository, descriptive) that are normatively correct and appropriate to the context.
  12. Identify normative, stylistic and typographical errors in a text.
  13. Autonomously search, select and process information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
  14. Independently manage information from different sources.
  15. Apply effectively the specific resources of philology to obtain relevant and informatively relevant data.
  16. Appropriately apply the principles governing standard language and present-day high registers, giving attention to their problem areas and conditions of use.
  17. Master oral and written expression in Spanish.
  18. Apply the normative prescriptions of the standard language, taking into account its contextual conditioning factors and variations.
  19. Match the known internal and external properties of the language to the different conditions of use.
  20. Apply the literary knowledge acquired to the production needs of publishers and the Media.
  21. Assess and correct one's own work.
  22. Apply the literary and linguistic knowledge acquired to the professional needs of today's society related to Spanish philology.
  23. Develop proposals in accordance with the precepts of scientific ethics.
  24. Explain the explicit or implicit code of practice of one's own area of knowledge.
  25. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
  26. Use the strategies derived from cooperative work, based on consensus and respect for the ideas of others.

Contents

Specific educational cooperation agreements will be signed by each student enrolled, the collaborating institution, and the UAB, in order to establish the regulatory framework under which the internship can be carried out.

The regulatory framework for internships includes two different modes:

MODE A. An internship signed by an external collaborating partner and UAB. The UAB will sign as many specific agreements as there are students enrolled in this mode.

MODE B. Internships within the ambit of the UAB, related to research projects within the departments offering the 2 Internships within the ambit of the UAB, related to research projects within the departments offering the relevant degree program.


For more specific information, please check the guides for External Internships in Catalan Philology Degree or in Spanish Philology Degree. For Bachelor's Degree in Catalan Philology (Internship Coordinators:Carla González, carla.gonzalez@uab.cat) or the Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Philology (Internship Coordinator: Sònia Boadas, Sonia.Boadas@uab.cat), depending on the department where the position has been assigned.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Internship tasks within the collaborating institution 130 5.2
Training for workplace insertion 5 0.2
Preparation of a synthesis report of the activities carried out 7.5 0.3
Tutorial meetings 7.5 0.3

The specific training offered depends on the professional activity of the collaborating institution. In the same way, the results of learning will vary depending on the specific skills acquired during the practicum.

The tutor from the collaborating entity or research project will be responsible for indicating and supervising the activities carried out by the student within the framework of the External Internship, in accordance with the corresponding training plan.

Students have to do at least two tutoring sessions (in person or virtual) during the period of the PE. During the second supervision meeting, the student must submit a brief report on the activities completed up to that point.The tutor is responsible to complete a brief report on these two sessions (model provided by the Dean’s Office).

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
Tutorial meetings 5% 0 0 3, 24, 26
Servei d'Ocupabilitat 10% 0 0 24
Student's Final Report 25% 0 0 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Tutor's Final Report 60% 0 0 25

The evaluated learning outcomes in the final report may vary depending on the professional competencies required by the company/institution/center offering the internship.

Upon completion of the internship, the following reports will be submitted to the academic tutoring of the chosen field of study:

  1. The tutor from the collaborating entity will prepare a final report, including the number of hours completed and assessments of the aspects related to the generic and specific competencies established in the Training Plan (within a maximum period of 15 days and following the established template).
  2. The student will prepare a final report assessing the tasks performed and the knowledge and competencies acquired in relation to their university studies. The submission of this report by the student is an essential requirement for the final evaluation.

Based on the tutor's report from the collaborating entity, the student's reports, and the conducted supervision, the academic coordination of internships in the chosen field of study will evaluate each student's internship and assign a grade for the course.

As part of the training activities specified in the assessment for the Pràctiques Externes, students must attend at least 2 of the professional orientation courses organised by the Servei d’Ocupabilitat and show proof of attendance b attaching a certificate to the Memòria de Pràctiques.

Possible grades for this class are:

No avaluable: When the student does not complete at least 10% of the required hours of attendance.

Suspès: When the student has completed at least 10% of attendance, buthas not completed the remaining hours, and/or his/her activity has been negatively evaluated.

Matrícula d’Honor: Due to the particular type of this course, this grade is not contemplated.

Recuperació. This class cannot be retaken in case the student obtains a “Suspès” grade.

This subject does not allow a single assessment.

Bibliography

Any relevant bibliography will be provided by the internship tutors according to the tasks the student is expected to perform.

 

Software

No software needed.

 

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