Practicum
Code: 103068 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501928 Audiovisual Communication | OB | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Montse Llinés Soler
- Email:
- Montse.Llines@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Prerequisites
To qualify for the Practicum, it is necessary:
1. Have exceeded 50% of the credits necessary to obtain the degree.
2. Have passed the specific subjects related to the chosen modality.
As stated in the Regulations https://www.uab.cat/doc/NormativaPracticumGRAUJUNTA_07_04_2020:
"To apply for the Practicum of a certain specialty (press, radio, television, cinema, advertising, multimedia) it will be essential to have passed the specific subjects of each itinerary, corresponding to the five semesters of the degree".
Specific subjects
It is necessary to register for the subject 103068 Practicum (OB-12-ECTS).
The general specific subjects that must be passed by all students who want to take external internships are:
103023 Information and Communication Technologies
103024 Written and Audiovisual Communicative Languages
103030 Technologies in Audiovisual Communication
103052 History of Radio and Television
103063 Audiovisual Narrative
103065 Audiovisual Fiction Script
103069 Theory of Audiovisual Genres
Radio
103058 Radio Language
TV
103069 Television and Cinematographic Language
Cinematography
103051 History of Cinema
103069 Television and Cinematographic Language
Multimedia
Students must have passed the general specific subjects.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The fundamental objective of the Practicum is to encourage the students to complement their theoretical and practical studies with a direct contact with the professional world. That is why the Faculty of Communication Sciences has established different practices agreements regulated by Royal Decree 1707/2011 of November 18, BOE No. 297, of December 10, 2011.
The 2010 curriculum of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication requires maintaining 12 credits for equivalences in internships carried out in companies and public and private institutions.
Competences
- Demonstrate a capacity to work in the audiovisual sector in all its forms and to adapt to different working environments.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Manage time effectively.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one’s imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Learning Outcomes
- Adapt to the processes of audiovisual production or professional routines.
- Apply the necessary technology for professional audiovisual production.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Develop skills that facilitate adaptation to the professional environment.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Implement expressive skills.
- Implement narrative strategies.
- Manage time effectively.
- Promote innovations in audiovisual management, creation and production.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one’s imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Content
It is a training period in which students are integrated into the production routines of a company belonging to the Audiovisual Communication sector.
Methodology
Accomplishment of a stay of practices supervised by a person that does the times of tutor in the company and another that does of academic tutor in the faculty.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Stay in the institution | 270 | 10.8 | 1, 16, 2, 14, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 9, 12, 13, 15 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervised tutoring | 21 | 0.84 | 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 12 |
Assessment
The competences of this subject will be evaluated through the following systems, each of which has a different specific weight:
a) Reports of the tutor / tutor in the company that has hosted the / the student: 60%.
b) Practicum report prepared by the student: 30% (following the model that can be found at https://www.uab.cat/doc/informefinaldepracticum.pdf
c) Tutoring of the teacher / tutor: 10%
The specific details will be announced at the beginning of the internship period, depending on the productive routines of the company and what the academic tutor determines.
The proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practicum memory | 30% | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 16, 2, 3, 14, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 11, 10, 9, 12, 13, 15 |
| Teacher's tutorials | 10% | 3 | 0.12 | 3, 14, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 13 |
Bibliography
Obviously, there is no recommended bibliography that responds to all the cases. In any case, if deemed necessary, the tutor can recommend a reading.