Work Placement
Code: 101139 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500262 Sociology | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Dafne Muntanyola Saura
- Email:
- dafne.muntanyola@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
Teachers
- Gabriel Colomé García
- José Oscar Rebollo Izquierdo
- Nora Sainz Gsell
- John Robert Etherington
- Mireia Grau Creus
- Lluís Sáez Giol Saez Giol
- Carola Castella Josa
- Daniel Tarrago Sanfeliu
Prerequisites
To access the professional practices students must be enrolled in the academic year and must have passed a minimum of 132 units at the time of application.
The application process for the practices begins the previous course (April-May) to the practices. In order to be able to enroll the student must complete the assignment process previously in any of the modalities (via previous booking of the position or via the catalog of offers).
Objectives and Contextualisation
The Faculty of Political Science and Sociology offer their students the possibility of carrying out a professional internships in an external entity. These internships consist of a 200 hours work in an organization, institution or company with which the Faculty maintain a collaboration agreement. The intership has a twofold aim: formative and professional. The internship combines the work done in the external entity (and supervised by an external tutor), and the participation in academic activities in the Faculty (guided by an academic tutor). This allows the students to develop professionals skills within the work environtment and be able to participate in career-counselling activities organised by the Faculty.
The entities, institutions or companies that are offered to accommodate students in interships are heterogeneous: associations, third parties entities, foundations, NGOs, centers of social research, consultants, human resources departments and planning, institutions of the local autonomic or central administration, political, business or union organizations, International collaborative or solidarity programs and internships under protection from other universities. Entities can be at the Catalan, state and international level.
Competences
- Analysing the problems arising from the implementation of public policies and conflict situations by recognising the complexity of the social phenomena and political decisions affecting democracy, human rights, social justice and sustainable development.
- Assessing the contributions of sociological approaches to the study of culture, education, interaction between society and environment, social policy, and work.
- Demonstrating a comprehension of the analysis of social phenomena presented in English, as well as observing their strengths and weaknesses.
- Describing social phenomena in a theoretically relevant way, bearing in mind the complexity of the involved factors, its causes and its effects.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Generating innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing the degree of consistency and contradiction between them.
- Demonstrating a comprehension of the analysis of social phenomena presented in English, as well as observing their strengths and weaknesses.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Generating innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
- Inferring the collaborating entity's influence on general aspects of social structure.
- Inferring the principles' interpretation adopted by the collaborating entity.
- Relating the objectives of their responsibilities to the sociology's contributions to culture, education, interaction between society and environment, or work.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
- Students must be capable of distinguishing between their own interpretation of these principles and another institutional interpretation.
- Summarizing the main sociological concepts that shed light on the diagnosis of the situation of the collaborating entity.
- Translating these concepts into some significant terms in order to carry out the entrusted responsibilities.
Content
The content of the practices is based on the type of entity where they are carried out. Independently of the nature of the entity (public administration, private company, third sector, university). In the specific thematic area, the possible professional profiles to be developed are:
Researcher
Social and Community Service Manager.
Public Policies consultant
Expert in international relations
Cooperation and development
Market research analyst
Training
Management of organisations
Cultural and /or social mediator
These profiles can be combined with management, training and evaluation tasks in fields such as the following: communication, education, cultural management, sustainability politics, international organizations, the business sector.
Methodology
This is an annual subject and has a teaching load of 12 credits. The following distribution is stipulated:
- 200 hours of work to the entity where the professional practices are carried out
- 50 hours of individual work for the writting of the individual report and attendance to individual tutorials.
- 40 hours of group work, monitoring group tutorials, career counseling sessions and oral presentation
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Doing the internship in the workplace | 200 | 8 | 1, 10, 2, 4, 3, 11, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 |
| Individual Report | 50 | 2 | 1, 10, 2, 4, 3, 11, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Office hours and professional counceling. | 40 | 1.6 | 10, 4, 3 |
Assessment
Each student will have an academic tutor, assigned by the Faculty, who will monitor the student's external practices and coordinate group tutoring.
The tutor will make the final evaluation based on:
- The entity's report.
- The student's individual report
- The oral presentation of the individual report
- Attendance and participation in group tutorials.
- Attendance at the planned training sessions (organized in collaboration with the UAB's employability service).
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counseling sessions | 15 | 5 | 0.2 | 6, 8, 12, 13 |
| Individual Report | 45 | 0 | 0 | 1, 11, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 |
| Office hours | 15 | 5 | 0.2 | 10, 2, 4, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13 |
| Work place report | 25 | 0 | 0 | 6, 8, 12, 13 |
Bibliography
More information can be find on the website of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.
Software
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