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2020/2021

Work Placement

Code: 42514 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313300 Regional and Population Studies OT 0 2
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Joan Carles Llurdés Coit
Email:
JoanCarles.Llurdes@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)

Teachers

Joan Carles Llurdés Coit

Prerequisites

None specific one. Depending on the work to be developed and/or the assigned place, it may be necessary to have a certain competence of a foreign language and/or Catalan/Spanish (the last one is of special interest for foreign students). The external internship previously selected can be denied in case the language requirement can not be guaranteed. It is also advisable to have your own car and/or to be able to access easily to public transport because the practices will usually involve traveling.

The Department of Geography will offer a range of places to develop external internship but it is also recommended that the student search for their own contacts; it is the best way to ensure that the student will end up doing the external internship where he/she really is interested in.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The objective of the subject is for the student to make a external internshio under the supervision of a tutor in a private sector company or in a public entity, in which he/she must take charge of the tasks entrusted to him/her. That tasks, prior agreement with the coordinator of the subject, will be related to one of the topics related to the contents of the master. Choosing the company/entity for practices will be done taking into account the interests expressed by the student as well as the needs of the place and the real possibilities according to the agreements signed with the Department of Geography.

The student must demonstrate their ability to learn the necessary methodologies and techniques for a proper exercise of professional activity in the field of Geography, as well as the application of the acquired knowledge in the workplace.

Competences

  • Apply the different methodologies of geographic and demographic analysis at different territorial levels and population sizes
  • Assess the impact of the framework laws, economic, political and social in the demographic and territorial dynamics.
  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  • Detect the complexity of territorial and demographic dynamics and recognize the most efficient management mechanisms, particularly in conflict situations
  • Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  • Promote the implementation and advancement of the principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adapt methodologies and techniques Planning the territorial scale required in professional practice.
  2. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  3. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  4. Develop forecasts of future population dynamics.
  5. Incorporate demographic analysis to the broader social research
  6. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  7. Know the main laws and of urban planning and land development
  8. Know the main laws concerning the registration of demographic events.
  9. Knowing the different methodologies of analysis scale, applying knowledge in case studies.
  10. Manage tasks in the course of professional stay in accordance with the principles of sustainability and social participation.
  11. Promote management models based on environmental education, participation and environmental certification.
  12. Promote the implementation and advancement of the principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability.
  13. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  14. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  15. Use methodologies and techniques of projection, forecast or extrapolation of trends and demographic dynamics

Content

Carry out an internship in a private or public company under the supervision of a tutor and the coordinator of the subject. The stay is usually in the second semester although there is the possibility of doing it before, and its duration is determined by the total number of credits of the subject (6). They can even be done or extended during the summer of the academic year but in any case it must be completed before the start of the new academic year (at the latest the 1st week of September). It must be borne in mind that not all the theoretical hours involved in these credits will be allocated to the stay, strictu sensu, in the workplace, but a small part also includes a presentation meeting, the writting of the monitoring reports (2) and the final report. In all, it will take around 140 hours.

For information purposes, the companies and entities with which we have collaborated in the last courses are the following:

  1. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques).
  2. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat).
  3. Generalitat de Catalunya (Direcció General de Protecció Civil).
  4. Espai Tres.
  5. La Fàbrica del Sol.
  6. Observatori del Paisatge.
  7. Solucions Geogràfiques.
  8. Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona.
  9. Activa Prospect.
  10. Ajuntament de Granollers (Àrea d'Urbanisme i Medi Ambient).
  11. Intra SL.
  12. Mcrit.
  13. Several City Councils.
  14. Doymo.
  15. Agència d'Ecologia Urbana de Barcelona.
  16. Diputació de Barcelona (Àrea de Promoció Econòmica).
  17. Sistemas Medioambientales.
  18. Lavola Cosostenibilidad.
  19. Simbiosy.
  20. Research Group TUDISTAR (Department of Geography UAB).
  21. Research Group of Mobilitat, Transport i territori (GEMOTT) (Department of Geography UAB).
  22. Research Group of Energia Territori i Societat (GURB) (Department of Geography UAB).
  23. Research Group of Recursos Costaners i Paisatge (Interfase) (Department of Geography UAB).
  24. Observatori de la Urbanització.
  25. Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) (UAB).
  26. Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona (PEMB).
  27. Territorisxlm.
  28. El Globus Vermell.
  29. Iridia.
  30. Comparte.
  31. 300000 km/s.
  32. Equal Saree.
  33. Associació per laDefensa i l'Estudi de la Natura de Catalunya (ADENC).

In any case, every year work is done to expand the list of entities in order to offer the student a wide range of possibilities.

Methodology

Being a subject without teaching there is no strictu sensu methodology. However, attending this subject implies the realization of:

  1. Practical activities (problems, exercises, analysis, resolution of cases presented by the tutor).
  2. Individualized tutoring with the assigned tutor in the company and also with the coordinator of the subject (monitoring reports).
  3. Depending on the tasks entrusted, these may sometimes involve field trips and/or cabinet work.
  4. Study and personal work (elaboration of a 2 monitoring reports and 1 final report).
There will be a Moodle in which the main reference documents of the subject will be published (models of agreement, model of reports, list of places of confirmed external internship, a table of control or monitoring of the external intership for each of the students, etc. ). The student will have to consult and / or download assiduously.
ATTENTION: Depending on the evolution of the current health crisis (summer 2020) of COVID-19, the possibility of having to do the practices electronically, either in whole or in part, should not be ruled out.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Study and personal work 10 0.4
Type: Supervised      
Tutorial sessions; field trips; practical activities 140 5.6

Assessment

  1. Preparation of the 2 monitoring reports and 1 final report of practices: 65% of the final mark (not subject to re-evaluation).
  2. Final report of the tutor: 35% of the final mark (not subject to re-evaluation).
During the external internship period the student will have to submit two monitoring reports, the first one shortly after having started and the second before the internship ends. Its purpose is to detect possible anomalies or aspects that do not conform to the agreements of the agreement of practices, and try to correct them in time.

VERY IMPORTANT: Total or partial plagiary of any of the exercises will automatically be considered “fail” (0) for the plagiarized item. Plagiary is copying one or more sentences from   unidentified sources, presenting it as original work (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL).    Plagiarism is a serious offense. Students must learn to respect the intellectual property of others, identifying any source they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Final report of the tutor 35% 0 0 10, 11
Monitoring reports and final report on external internship 65% 0 0 1, 9, 7, 8, 4, 10, 5, 12, 11, 6, 13, 2, 3, 14, 15

Bibliography

None specific one.