Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
External Practices II
Teaching staff
practiquesperiodisme@uic.es
Introduction
The Internship course allows students to make their first contact with the world of work and gain professional experience in the Journalism sector. It allows students to apply in the market the concepts learned in classes, workshops and workshops, always supervised by the academic tutor of the University and the tutor assigned by the company.
A minimum of 150 hours of work experience must be completed in a company located in Spain that is related to the audiovisual and communication sector, such as the media, advertising agencies, communication departments in private and public companies, institutions, etc.
Pre-course requirements
Mandatory subject available for registration only for students in the 4th year of Audiovisual Communication.
Objectives
This course aims to enhance the student’s employability, assist in career orientation, and provide an initial introduction to the industry. The student will test their skills and apply what they have learned in the classroom.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 CG - Capacity for self-evaluation and professional order
- 02 CG - The ability to learn and act an autonomously and responsibly
- 03 CG - The ability to work in a group
- 04 CG - The ability to organise time and workspace
- 05 CG - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
- 06 CG - The ability to read, analyze and synthesize
- 07 CG - The ability to confront difficulties and resolve problems
- 08 CG - The ability to reflect and memorize.
- 09 CG - The ability to innovate
- 12 CG - The ability to listen
- 13 CG - Positive and entrepreneurial spirit
- 14 CE - The ability to plan technical and human resources
- 15 CE - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
- 16 CE - The ability to make judgments and well-argued critical assessments
- 17 CE - The ability to produce spoken and written texts for journalistic projects
- 18 CE - Ability to detect newsworthy events
- 19 CE - The ability to elaborate a budget for a journalistic project.
- 20 CE - The ability to plan and carry out journalistic projects
- 21 CE - The ability to contextualize historical facts and critically analyze the current situation
- 22 CE - The ability to critically analyze Spanish, European and World journalism.
- 23 CE - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze mass media products
- 24 CE - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze contemporary legal and political institutions
- 25 CE - Ability to contextualize and critically analyze macroeconomic aspects
- 26 CE - The ability to understand and apply the legal dimension of a journalistic product
- 27 CE - The ability to understand and work with different agents of the journalistic profession
- 28 CE - The ability to understand and apply production and editing techniques for newspaper, radio, television and Internet
- 29 CE - The ability to understand and apply different journalistic genres and formats
- 30 CE - The ability to understand and apply the various stages of creation and implementation of a radio or television program
- 31 CE - The ability to understand and apply various types of radio and television scripts
- 32 CE - Knowledge and mastery of the image and its communicative abilities
- 33 CE - Knowledge and mastery of financing systems of different communication media
- 34 CE - Knowledge and mastery of issues related to the physical, human and social geography of the human being
- 34 CE - Knowledge and mastery of issues related to the physical, human and social geography of the human being
- 35 CE - Knowledge and mastery of the digital culture
- 36 CE - Knowledge and mastery of the distinction between opinion and information / colloquial and cultured registers
- 37 CE - Knowledge and mastery of different techniques to contrast information
- 38 CE - Knowledge and mastery of concepts, data, statistics and economic graphs
- 39 CE - Knowledge and mastery of multimedia messages
- 40 CE - Knowledge and mastery of the use of language
- 41 CE - The ability and capacity to interact in the environment
- 42 CE - The ability to integrate the contributions of the environment
- 43 CE - The ability and capacity to take responsibility for the communication area of an organization
- 44 CE - The ability and capacity to establish a plan of communication
- 45 CE - The ability and capacity to give a creative form to a journalistic message
- 46 CE - The ability and capacity to create and develop graphic components
- 47 CE - The ability and capacity to expertly and strategically manage of corporate communications
- 48 CE - The ability of insight, ingenuity and creativity
- 49 CE - The ability to assume risks
- 50 CE - The ability to lead
- 51 CE - The ability to have foresight and move forward
- 52 CE - The ability to adapt to changing circumstances
- 53 CE - The ability to know specialized areas of the journalistic profession
- 54 CE - The ability to analyze and understand audiences
- 55 CE - The ability to skillfully handle English terminology related to the journalistic profession
Learning outcomes of the subject
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Understand the professional routines in different fields of journalism and corporate communication.
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Develop new skills in a professional environment.
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Enhance self-awareness and self-development in the professional sphere.
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Build a personal brand image.
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Manage communication for institutions, organizations, and companies.
Syllabus
150 hours of internship at a company related to communication.
An informational session will be held at the beginning of the course to explain the content and evaluation of the course, along with a training session to prepare their resume.
A training session will be conducted on building their professional identity and overcoming various situations they will face when entering the job market. This session will focus on personal branding and the skills needed to market that brand.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Evaluation of the company tutor: 50%
- Student's report: 50%
If the Work Placement course is failed, the student must return to another company to do the work placement. If the report is failed, the student will only have to repeat the report.
The student must hand in all the required documents in order to be assessed. If any document is missing, the internship will not be assessed and the student will have to re-enrol. The documents to be submitted are as follows:
- Student's internship report
- Agreement signed between the student and the company
- Make sure that the tutor's evaluation reaches the people in charge of the subject.
- If the student abandons the placement, he/she must inform both the university and the company 15 days in advance, as well as submitting a report explaining the reasons for his/her resignation. The internship supervisors will weigh up the reasons for the student's withdrawal. If the reasons are not compelling, the student will not be allowed to do any more placements in the current academic year. In any case, the student's withdrawal from the placement will be filed in his/her file.
- In the case of curricular internships, the procedure is the same. The student must submit the report and must send us both the agreement and the company tutor's assessment. If they fail to do so or drop out of the internship, their internship will not appear on the academic certificate.