Work Placement
Code: 100795 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500250 Biology | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Ramon Pérez Obiol
- Email:
- Ramon.Perez@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
To apply for the program, you are required to have passed the degree first year and, at least, 120 credits out of 180 credits in the first three years. In addition, you must be enrolled at the time when you start the internship and have paid the fees for the accident and civil liability insurance, as informed in the tax regulations.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objectives of the course are:
. To promote the integration of the student in the corporate world or in a research group, either in a public or private institution.
. To know and to apply biological techniques that are typically used in a industrial setting or in specific research projects.
. To prepare a report on the practice internship in an autonomous manner.
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Apply statistical and computer resources to the interpretation of data.
- Be able to analyse and synthesise
- Be able to organise and plan.
- Develop a sensibility towards environmental issues.
- Integrate knowledge obtained on the degree course into a professional environment.
- Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
- 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.
- 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.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- 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.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse a situation and identify its points for improvement.
- Apply statistical and computer resources to the interpretation of data.
- Be able to analyse and synthesise.
- Be able to organise and plan.
- Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
- Develop a sensibility towards environmental issues.
- Integrate knowledge obtained on the degree course into a professional environment.
- Propose new methods or well-founded alternative solutions.
- Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
- 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.
- 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.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- 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.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in teams.
Content
The contents of this course is variable, depending on the specific institution in which the student internship takes place.
However, in all cases, the contents of the proposed activity should keep a close relationship with Biology, be it in a company or in a research group.
Two kinds of positions exist:
Modality A: Internal positions UAB
Modality B: External positions
Students in Modality A should have an academic tutor.
Those in modality B should be tutored by a member of the course teaching staff and by an external tutor.
The requirements enforced by the health authorities could demand a prioritization or reduction of these contents
Methodology
The subject can be taken in three periods (summer, first and second semester). The duration of each period will be published every academic year on the website of the Faculty of Biosciences. The student will find all the information related to this subject and how the aplication should be formalized in The Faculty web page entitled "Practices in Entities" http://www.uab.cat/web/informacio-academica/grau-biology-1323762043884.html. The person responsible for the subject will schedule a specific informational session every academic year
The proposed teaching methodology may experience some modifications depending on the restrictions to face-to-face activities enforced by health authorities
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Supervised | |||
| stay of practices | 280 | 11.2 | 2, 7, 6, 3, 4, 17 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| report elaboration | 20 | 0.8 |
Assessment
The final report will be delivered electronically to the person in charge of the subject, no later than 15 days after the end of the stay. On the website of the Faculty "Practices in organizations" will find the instructions for the elaboration of final report
Student’s assessment may experience some modifications depending on the restrictions to face-to-face activities enforced by health authorities
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final report | 40% | 0 | 0 | 2, 7, 3, 4 |
| Final report issued by the Academic Tutor | 60% | 0 | 0 | 16, 15, 5, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 13, 12, 10, 11, 6, 3, 4, 17 |
Bibliography
The Bibliography will be variable and will refer to the specific task that each student will develop during his practices