professional training placement

As established in Royal Decree 292/2014, of 11 July, which regulates external academic placements for university students, the main objectives of external placements are:

a) To contribute to the comprehensive training of students by complementing their theoretical and practical learning.
b) To facilitate knowledge of the work methodology adapted to the professional reality in which students will have to operate, contrasting and applying the knowledge acquired.
c) To favour the development of technical, methodological, personal and participative competences.
d) To acquire practical experience that facilitates insertion into the labour market and improves future employability.
e) To promote the values of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Thus, the general objective of the internships in the Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures is to train students in some of the linguistic, literary and/or cultural aspects developed in the syllabus.

The curricular external academic internships are internships integrated in the credit system of the degree, recognised as 6 ECTS that belong to the optional module of the degree studies and, therefore, count towards the degree.

All information regarding the training programmes that are developed in the entities will be published with the respective call for applications and can be consulted on the Faculty's website.

The call for external placements for the Degree will be published annually on the website of the Faculty of Philology and on the electronic bulletin board of the Electronic Headquarters at the beginning of the academic year. If there are vacancies, a second call for applications will be made in January. The participating institutions and the number of places offered by each one will be known in that call as it will be subject to the offers made by each institution. In the event of vacancies after the January call for applications, places may be allocated in order of application.

The basic and complementary bibliography will be provided during the internship, according to the different training tasks offered by each internship centre.

- Ability to apply this knowledge and methods to recognise, identify and solve problems both in the field of linguistic and literary studies and in their professional field: language teaching (as L1 or LE and literature), language consultancy and correction, language planning, communicative mediation, translation, clinical linguistics, publishing activities, literary criticism, etc.
- Ability to reflect and think critically in order to describe, interpret and evaluate linguistic and literary facts.
- Ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions on issues related to the language(s) and literature(s) studied to a specialised and non-specialised audience.
- Ability to use computer tools and networks to establish national and international contacts.
- Ability to work collaboratively and in multicultural and multilingual contexts.
- Students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
- Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements which include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
- Students are able to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Apply scientific methodology to cover different types of linguistic and literary studies.
- Acquire skills in the use of new technologies that facilitate linguistic and literary studies: online consultation of dictionaries in electronic format, databases, etc.
- Use tools to search for bibliographic resources for the study of the German, French, Italian or Portuguese language, or Romance linguistics, and handle the documentary and bibliographic sources of their corresponding literatures.
- Develop communicative competence in oral and written form, both productively and receptively, in the language(s) studied.

1. An Internship Manager. Its mission is to encourage the participation of companies, entities and students in the internship programme, coordinate the entire process, participate in the designation and assignment of tutors and coordinate the monitoring and evaluation of internships.

2. The External Placement and Mobility Committee is made up of the Dean or the Vice-Dean delegated by him/her, one representative from each of the Faculty's degree programmes, 7 student representatives and the head of the Centre and Department Management Unit. Its main function is to guarantee an awarding system in accordance with procedures and criteria that guarantee the principles of equality, merit, capacity and publicity.

3. An academic tutor assigned to each student, who will be a lecturer from the degree programme for each internship offered. Their mission is to monitor the internship more directly, respond to the training expectations established, ensure its correct development and assess it in accordance with the training project and the assessment criteria established in the course syllabus.

4. A professional tutor at the collaborating entity where the placement is carried out. This person will be responsible for implementing the planned training plan and for drawing up the assessment reports requested on the work done by the student.

Once the student has been notified of the placement allocation and the placement has been accepted, the student will contact his/her academic tutor who will provide him/her with all the necessary information to start the placement at the entity. He/she will also contact the professional tutor to agree the timetable and the date of joining the entity/company.

When the student has his/her timetable and an activity plan ratified between the academic tutor and the professional tutor, he/she will be able to organise his/her timetable and plan the tasks related to the entity's training plan in relation to his/her degree. The student will dedicate 150 hours to the external placement, of which 10 hours will be dedicated to the preparation of the final report.

The final report must be signed by the professional tutor before being sent to the academic tutor.

At the end of the placement period, the student shall send the academic tutor a final report in accordance with the placement report template provided on the Faculty's website. The academic tutor will be in charge of carrying out the assessment.

The assessment system for the first opportunity consists of the following sections:

a) Student's internship report: 50% of the mark.
b) Professional tutor's report: 50% of the mark.

In the second opportunity, a new internship report will be submitted, which will account for 50% of the mark. The remaining 50% of the mark will be that awarded by the professional tutor's report for the first opportunity.

At the end of the work placement period, the student shall send the academic tutor a final report in accordance with the work placement report model provided on the Faculty's website. The academic tutor will be in charge of the assessment.

The assessment system for the first opportunity consists of the following sections:

a) Student internship report: 50% of the mark.
b) Professional tutor's report: 50% of the mark.

At the second opportunity, a new internship report will be submitted, which will account for 50% of the mark. The remaining 50% of the mark will be awarded for the professional tutor's report from the first opportunity.

Students are recommended to consult the external placements section of the Faculty's website, especially the placement guide.