Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
In-Company Work Placement
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Teaching staff
The department of internships consists of:
Prof. Beatriz Lucaya. Coordinadora. Email: bealucaya@uic.es
Prof. Cristina Prats. Email: cprats@uic.es
Administrative staff: Lorena Villarreal. Email: lvillarreal@uic.es
Introduction
The education programs of the University have a strong professional orientation, which makes internships very important . Work placements are a student training environment in terms of knowledge and skills are performed under an agreement with the company and under the supervision and monitoring of the University and a representative of the company.
Work placement in companies focus as a tool for student training and start to reflect on where the student wants to professionally develop. Monitoring is carried out through the university tutor and company tutor. This monitoring is done continuously and is formalized through various reports and meetings with the tutor university, where job tracking is performed with each of the students
Pre-course requirements
Any
Objectives
The objectives of these internships are the inclusion of the student in the workplace, allowing the integration and application of theoretical knowledge in different professional contexts, as well as enhancement of the development of different skills, competencies, attitudes and skills.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CB6 - Poseer y comprender conocimientos que aporten una base u oportunidad de ser originales en el desarrollo y/o aplicación de ideas, a menudo en un contexto de investigación.
- CB9 - Que los estudiantes sepan comunicar sus conclusiones y los conocimientos y razones últimas que las sustentan a públicos especializados y no especializados de un modo claro y sin ambigüedades.
- CE9 - Valorar los procesos de las organizaciones y proponer nuevas mejoras en base a los conocimientos adquiridos.
- CG3 - Capacidad para generar nuevas ideas y evaluar de forma crítica las alternativas en presencia de múltiples criterios y actores.
- CG4 - Capacidad para contrastar y tomar decisiones siguiendo un determinado rigor metodológico, asumiendo la responsabilidad de las decisiones.
- CT2 - Capacidad reflexiva y de pensamiento crítico en contextos interdisciplinares.
- CT4 - Aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos para la resolución de problemas en entornos nuevos o poco conocidos dentro de contextos multidisciplinares relacionados con el área de estudio.
- CT5 - Manifestar sensibilidad por los valores éticos, personales y sociales, en la relación con los otros y en las propias decisiones.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The practical result is that the student will have had the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and academic content in the workplace. Also, the internship will be incorporated into the student's business reality, developing a range of skills and abilities that will help students in their future integration into the workplace.
Syllabus
Since the main objective of the intership is to insert the students in the business world, we offer a number of tools to help them to search work placement in companies. This initial contact with the business world and its follow-up, will be reflected in a series of documents and meetings with the tutor at the university. In these documents the student must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and competences acquired.
The student must submit the following documents:
Monitoring reports and self-assessment skills report, where students:
- Describe their workday.
- Details of the functions performed.
- Elements that help them in learning or elements that they miss.
- Create a personalized plan to improve skills.
- Written report where the student must demonstrate knowledge of:
- The company sector and market in which it operates.
- Description of the department where he practiced.
- Details of the tasks performed.
- Analysis of internal processes taking place in the company and reflect on possible improvements to implement.
- Analysis with critical and constructive spirit of the internship, doing a self-assessment of the degree of personal development acquired in different competences.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
To competently develop the content, the University offers the following services:
PROFESIONALÍZATE!, program where students enjoy various sessions, including:
- CV Preparation Session: workshops and review.
- Vocational Counseling
- Session on "Making a personal interview"
- Session "Social Media: How to be present in the network"
- Mentoring sessions and professionalism in the business.
Follow-up and personalized support during the search and the internship:
- Search for companies and management of the agreements.
- Monitoring and support to students during practice.
- Tutoring Sessions: realization of a "personalized competency Improvement Plan"
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
This program is evaluated at the end of the traineeship, when the hours established are completed.
Internship assessment is as it follows:
• activities before internship:
- CV and "Manifestation of preferences." Delivery.
- Assistance to the activities of "Profesionalízate".
- Proactive finding of work placement in companies.
- Communication with the coordinator.
• Communication with the university tutor during internship:
- Monitoring reports.
- Self-assessment skills reports.
- Communication and meetings with the university tutor.
• Reports of the company tutor.
• Memory of the internship.
Bibliography and resources
Internship Guide