Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500894 Tourism | OB | 2 | A |
There are no prerequisites
The practical training consists of 250 hours training in a company within the tourist sector. The content of this subject includes the internship period, the completion of the workshops and activities related to this subject, and the attendance to various events and sessions organized during the year.
At the end of the internship period, the student will need to deliver to the academic tutor the Internship Memorandum, as well as the tutor performance assessment. The survey will be required too.
The practical training pursues the student to know the organization, operation and management of companies within the tourist sector, covering the guest attendance, the organization and promotion of tourist products or services, etc. If needed, the EUTDH will offer a range of partner companies to achieve these learning goals. To this extend, we highlight the Workshop-Trobada Empreses-Escolathat takes place in February each year amongst the activities and events the student must complete and attend in order to pass the subject.
The course will be taught using three different teaching methodologies:
a)Learning by doing – practical training at a professional environment, duly monitored and tutored by an expert on the professional field.
b)Self‐assessment and self‐analysis tasks.
c)Autonomous work after being in contact with industry professionals to better understand the business operations and the professional profiles that better match each role and type of company.
Additionally, the student will have to be adapted to the culture of the organization, its internal regulation and values while considering the tutor instructions and the EUTDH main rules
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical training in companies | 250 | 10 | 3, 2, 4, 1, 12, 9, 11, 10, 5, 6, 13 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Attendance events/activities classroom | 10 | 0.4 | 3, 2, 4, 1, 12, 8, 9, 10, 5 |
Tutoring | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 4, 9, 11, 5, 13 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Internship Memorandum report | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 4, 1, 12, 8, 10, 5, 13 |
The assessment will include:
a) The company tutor assessment of the student’s performance.
b) The Internship Memorandum elaborated by the student.
c) The ongoing assessment and evaluation of the student performance considers the attendance to classroom sessions and workshops, such as the opening session of the subject, individual interview with the academic tutor, and any other events organized by the EUTDH (i.e. Workshop-Trobada Empreses-Escola
In order to pass the subject “Practicum”, the student must get the minimum score of 5 either in the Internship Memorandum, the company tutor assessment and the in-class sessions.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance events/activities classroom | 10% | 10 | 0.4 | 3, 2, 4, 7, 1, 12, 8, 9, 11, 5, 6, 13 |
Company tutor evaluation | 40% | 5 | 0.2 | 7, 1, 12, 9, 10, 5, 6 |
Internship Memorandum | 50% | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 1, 12, 10 |
Additional learning materials in digital formal, as well as links to websites, will be provided via the Virtual Campus.