Short Description of the Course The Internship I curricular unit aims to complement the training carried out during the course by integrating the student in the exercise of a professional activity or in the development of activities in companies or organizations that provide real contacts with a professional environment.
Learning Objectives and Results 1. Understanding and acknowledging of technical information related to the area in which the internship takes place; 2. Understand and experience the vision, mission and objectives of the organization where of the internship takes place; 3. Identify the interns position in a hierarchical structure, acting in accordance with his/her responsibilities, within the autonomy that the organization delegates; 4. Encourage the adoption of an appropriate behavioral attitude with the organizations and clients expectations, promoting an active and positive relationship with colleagues, hierarchies and clients; 5. Act, complying with rules of punctuality, attendance, hygiene, personal and ethical presentation, with a spirit of initiative, in order to promote quality in service provision.
Skills to Develop 1. Decision making and problem solving skills; 2. Skills in oral and written communication, from the business point of view, in Portuguese and in foreign languages; 3. Teamwork, in interdisciplinary and international contexts; 4. Adaptation to new situations, developing an autonomous work; 5. Capacity for improvement aiming at the excellence of the organization's services and personal growth.
Programme
Of an eminently practical character in a business or institutional environment, the student / intern will develop a professional activity bounded by the functional content inherent to the professional qualifications of the course, in agreement with the entity where the internship takes place, under the supervision of a Company / Institution Advisor - a hierarchical superior professionally qualified in that professional level, and an ISAG Advisor - designated teacher, who will promote the respective evaluation with the Company / Institution Advisor.
An internship plan will be drawn up between the parties, with internal objectives of the Company / Institution in accordance with the objectives of the Course, which will serve as a basis for the duties and rights of the trainee, even though the circumstances may require multidisciplinary and comprehensive action by the student / intern.
At the end of the Internship, the student / intern will prepare a summary document of the work developed, which will be presented publicly and defended.
Internship Period: April 24th to July 7th, 2021
Students who did not attend the curricular unit of Internship I, due to constraints related to the period of mandatory restraint determined by the state of emergency and subsequent closure of the institutions where the internship should take place, may, exceptionally, attend the curricular units of Internship I and Internship II in contiguous periods. For this purpose, the definitive calendar for the internship period and delivery and defense of reports will be published in the near future.
Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives
The course unit has a fundamentally practical learning component, embodied in the insertion of the student in a professional context, aiming that students are able to apply the knowledge obtained in the curricular units taught to their professional practice. Likewise, it is intended that the student, according to the objectives of the Curricular Unit, reflects in the synthesis and presentation document the learned knowledge that goes beyond the theoretical knowledge, stimulated by the experience in a professional context, and the way he will have materialized it. In the synthesis document, the student will record the difficulties felt and how they were overcome.
Learning Methods
Insertion of students in the work context, Guided by a professional from the Company / Institution and by a designated ISAG Advisor.
Assessment Components
Avaliação distribuída com exame final
Assessment Components
Description
Type
Time (hours)
Conclusion Date
Attendance (estimated)
Lessons
0
Estágio
480
Relatório/Dissertação
54
Total:
534
Continuous Assessment
In situations of insertion in an organization, the student will develop the internship work under the guidance of an Internal Advisor of the organization who, in agreement with the ISAG Accompanying Teacher, will evaluate and certify the quality of the work produced through a Company Evaluation Form. which will constitute 50% of the final grade. The Internship Report, which should describe in detail the work done and the situations experienced throughout the Internship, will constitute 50% of the final grade.This report, in addition to being descriptive, should have elements of reflection and criticism, aiming to a process of quality and procedure improvement.
The intern is approved when the classification obtained in each of the evaluation elements (of the professional advisor, internship report and presentation and defense of the report) is equal to or higher than ten values. In case of non-compliance with the normal internship period, the classification given by the professional counselor is less than ten values and / or the classification assigned to the internship report is less than ten values, the trainee will be given the final failing grade.
If the student fails the Internship I course unit, he / she is required to complete the internship in the following school year. The size of the Internship report should not exceed 30 pages, excluding cover, indexes, appendices and attachments.
Internship Report deadline: July 23rd, 2021
The Internship Report must be submitted in the Turnitin database, available on ISAG's E-Learning platform, with a similarity rate up to 30% acceptable.
Final Exam
The intern who fails to submit the internship report and the internship file duly completed, as well as failing or failing to defend the internship report (when required) on the dates set by the Commission (except for valid reasons), will be given the final grade of failed and may require a new assessment at the time of appeal which, in this case, will be at the time of student-worker. If the student fails the Internship I course unit, he / she is required to complete the internship in the following school year.
Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes
The teaching methodology aims to enhance learning on the practical side. The aim is essentially to expose the student to a professional environment of his / her area of reference, and that this experience can reposition his vocation and manage his career.