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2020/2021

Work Placement

Code: 44426 ECTS Credits: 9
Degree Type Year Semester
4313223 History of Science: Science, History and Society 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:
Carlos Tabernero Holgado
Email:
Carlos.Tabernero@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)

Other comments on languages

In addition to Catalan, Spanish and English may be used throughout the module.

Prerequisites

To have completed the M3 module of the master's degree.

Objectives and Contextualisation

This module of the Communication specialty aims to satisfy the social and cultural need of experts in the History of Science, aware of the historical importance of the scientific and technological heritage, who are able to manage and disseminate it. The module is compulsory for those students who have done the module M3 Material culture, heritage and scientific communication; in this way, the module is the achievement of professional guidance.
										
											
										
											The module allows students to do internships related to the management, preservation, conservation, study and communication of science and its heritage.
Students will then have to prepare a Master's Thesis (module M9) that collects the work done and discusses its relationship with the professional and academic objectives of the master,
particularly with those of module M3, Material culture, heritage and scientific communication.
										
											
										
											The development of this practicum is based on the signing of agreements between one of the coordinating universities of the master's degree and different companies and institutions related to the heritage and communication of science.
										
											
										
											Aims:
										
											
										
											- Acquire experience and work culture in the fields of heritage and scientific communication.
										
											
										
											- Apply the knowledge acquired in the master's degree to professional activities in these areas.
										
											
										
											- Orientation with respect to integration in the labor market.

Competences

  • "Critically analyse the mechanisms of scientific communication in the mass media (this competence is acquired by students who take the specialisation Communication, Heritage and History of Science"")."
  • "Design exhibitions and draw up a communication plan (this competence is acquired by students who take the specialisation ""Communication, Heritage and History of Science"")."
  • "Recognise, evaluate and catalogue the scientific and technical heritage (this competence is acquired by students who take the specialisation ""Communication, Heritage and History of Science"")."
  • Gather and critically assess information for problem solving, in accordance with the discipline's own analysis methods and techniques.
  • Work in interdisciplinary teams, showing leadership and initiative.
  • Work independently: solving problems, taking decisions and making innovative proposals.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adapt knowledge of the heritage to the communicative context.
  2. Apply knowledge to the identification and cataloguing of the scientific and technological heritage.
  3. Develop techniques and styles corresponding to the professional demand for cultural products related to science and their scientific and technological heritage.
  4. Discern which media are useful for developing projects to valorise the heritage aimed at the general public.
  5. Gather and critically assess information for problem solving, in accordance with the discipline's own analysis methods and techniques.
  6. Interpret the scientific and technical heritage in a precise historical context and present conclusions.
  7. Recognise strategies for recovering information and using catalogues of material culture of science.
  8. Recognise the spaces for preserving and conserving the material culture of science.
  9. Use instruments for valorising the scientific and technological heritage.
  10. Work in interdisciplinary teams, showing leadership and initiative.
  11. Work independently: solving problems, taking decisions and making innovative proposals.

Content

This module includes specific programming, orientation, monitoring and closing sessions that will take place in both the first and second semesters.
										
											
										
											All sessions will take place at the CEHIC, from 15.00. Those of the first semester will coincide with sessions of the module M3 Material culture, heritage and scientific communication.
										
											
										
											Orientation sessions and organization of the internships, 1st semester, 15-18h, CEHIC:
										
											
										
											1. Presentation of the module. Proposals for internships
2. Distribution of internships
										
											
										
											Tutoring of control and follow-up of the internships, 2nd semester, 15-18h, CEHIC:
										
											
										
											3. General organization of the internships
										
											
										
											4. Monitoring of practices. Considerations on the preparation of the internship report (Master's Thesis project)
										
											
										
											5. Synthesis session, delivery of the final version of the Master's Thesis Project and discussion of the works

Methodology

The internships will take place over a period of approximately nine weeks in the second semester (with a maximum of 225 total hours, at a rate of approximately 4 hours per day or 20 hours per week), between the months of February and May.
Students will have the category of interns, without any employment relationship with the company and without remuneration.
										
											
										
											The internships imply the incorporation of the students in processes of generation, documentation, writing, production, edition and / or distribution of scientific-technological content, and / or of management of scientific-technological patrimony.
Many times, and depending on the collaborating entities and companies, the internships are articulated through the preparation and implementation of specific executable projects in the time period described, so that this collaboration constitutes
a real contribution to these processes.
										
											
										
											The person or persons of the receiving entity in charge of the students will be the external tutors and will supervise the work and the contribution of the students in the internships, in collaboration with the coordinator of the module
and professors of M3 (internal tutors).

In the event that activities and tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained).
Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on TEAMS, etc.
Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Orientation and organization of practicum 6 0.24 5, 11, 10
Practicum control and monitoring sessions and preparation of the master's thesis project 6 0.24 5, 11, 10
Type: Supervised      
Learning and critical assessment of heritage and communicative processes related to the practicum 14.75 0.59 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 8, 7, 9
Tutoring and monitoring of the preparation of the master's thesis project 6 0.24 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Type: Autonomous      
Elaboration of the master's thesis project 20.5 0.82 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Practicum 160.5 6.42 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9

Assessment

The student will write a report on the development of the practices with a maximum length of 3,000 words (8 pages) including bibliography.
The report will be equivalent to a Master's Thesis project (specific instructions will be given in the follow-up sessions).
It will include a brief description of the aims of the practicum, the methodology that has been used and the activities performed; it may include a preliminary discussion of the results.
The student will also make an oral presentation of their Master's Thesis project. The report will be evaluated by the internal tutor (50%); the oral presentation, because it is oriented to the elaboration of the TFM,
will be evaluated by the coordinators of the modules M4 and M5 (25%); and the final grade of the module will be completed with reports of the practicum made by the external tutors in each case (25%).
										
											Students will obtain the grade of "Not Evaluable" when the assessment activities performed have a weighting of less than 67% in the final grade.

In the event that activities and tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on TEAMS, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Elaboration and presentation of the master's thesis project 50 9.25 0.37 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Oral presentation of the master's thesis project 25 1 0.04 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Practicum report - external tutors 25 1 0.04 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9

Bibliography

Bibliography includes the compulsory readings of module M3:
										
											
										
											Burke, Peter. Historia social del conocimiento, Paidos, 2002 (orig.2000)

Nieto-Galan, Agustí. Los públicos de la ciencia. Expertos y profanos a través de la historia. Marcial Pons. Madrid 2011.

Thompson, John B. Los media y la modernidad: una teoría de los medios de comunicación, Barcelona, Paidós, 1998, 2003, 2007 (orig. 1995).
										
											
										
											In addition to these references, students will have complementary, non-compulsory readings related to the development of the practicum.