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Work Placement

Code: 44535 ECTS Credits: 9
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
History of Science: Science, History and Society OT 0

Contact

Name:
Jaume Valentines Álvarez
Email:
jaume.valentines.alvarez@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

To have completed the module M3 of the master.

Objectives and Contextualisation

- Acquire work and cultural experience in the fields of scientific heritage and communication.

- Understand the historical and current relations between science, culture and society, in situ.
										
											
- Apply the knowledge and frameworks acquired in the master's degree to professional activities in these areas.

										
											- Orientation with respect to integration in the labor market and/or cooperative projects.



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"")."
  • Gather and critically assess information for problem solving, in accordance with the discipline's own analysis methods and techniques.
  • "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"")."
  • 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 seeks to train future experts in applying conceptuals tools of the history of science and offering skills to manage material culture, deal with scientific heritage and intervene in scientific communication programs.

The module is compulsory for those students who have completed module M3, Material culture, heritage and scientific communication; in this way, this module consitutes the achievement of the professional orientation. 
The module allows students to do internships related to management, preservation, conservation, study and communication of science and its heritage.

The students will have to elaborate later a Master's thesis (module M9) that collects the work done and discusses its relationship with the professional objectives and of the master's degree, 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 universities coordinators of the master and different companies and institutions related to the heritage and communication of the science.
Basic program

Orientation and organization sessions of the practices
1. Presentation of the module. 
2. Internship proposals.
3. Distribution of internship positions.

Internship supervision and monitoring

1. General organization of internships. 
2. Monitoring of internships and considerations on the elaboration of thereportof practices and/or project of Master's thesis.
3. Synthesis session, delivery of the final version of the Master's Thesis Project and discussion of the internships.

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Internships 160.5 6.42 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Orientation and organization of internships 6 0.24 1, 4, 6, 3, 8, 7
Sessions of follow-up of the internships and preparation of the Master's thesis project 6 0.24 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Type: Supervised      
Learning and critical assessment of heritage and communicative processes related to internships 14.75 0.59 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Tutoring and monitoring of the elaboration 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 

The internship will take place over a period of approximately nine weeks in the second semester (with a maximum
										
											of a total of 225 hours, at a rate of approximately 4 hours per day or 20 hours per week), between the months of February and
										
											May, as detailed below. Students will have the category of students in internships, without any contractual relationship with the company and without remuneration, except for those cases in which better conditions have been fortunately agreed.
										
											
										
											The internships involve the incorporation of the students in the processes of generation, documentation, writing,
										
											production, edition and / or distribution of scientific-technological content, and / or scientific-technological heritage management.
										
											Often, and depending on the collaborating entities and companies, the practices are articulated through the
										
											preparation and realization of concrete projects executable in the described time period, so that this
										
											collaboration is 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 practices, in collaboration with the coordinator of the module and
										
											M3 teachers (internal tutors).

There would be a possibility to integrate the practices in the methodologies of Service-Learning. 

English could be used in some of the sessions, as it is a teaching language of the Master.
 
 

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Evaluation of practicum - External supervision 25% 1 0.04 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Evaluation of the Master's thesis project 50% 9.25 0.37 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9
Evaluation of the Master's thesis project– Internal supervision (25%) 25% 1 0.04 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 8, 7, 11, 10, 9 

Students will develop a Final Dissertation Project, in which they must include the results of the practicum and articulate them with the goals, concepts and frameworks of the Master (extension of 3.000 words, including bibliography). Specific instruction will be given in the follow-up sessions and the syllabus.


Bibliography

Mandatory and optional materials of the M3 module, and specific bibliography associated to the particular internship.


Software

In addition to web and office software tools such as the online campus, email, office suite, (preferably open and free) tools like pdf readers, image readers and audiovisual file reader will be used.

AI: This subject entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities, except in those cases in which internal or external tutors explicitly recommend it. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.

Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PEXTm) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum (màster) 1 Catalan second semester afternoon