General Information
Name of the module: Work placements
Number of credits: 15 ECTS
Temporal Unity: Semester-long
Type: Optional (professional orientation)
Brief description of the contents
Carry out professional work placements in public or private enterprises and organism in the field of personalized and comunitary nutrition.
Module Competencies
GENERAL AND BASIC COMPETENCIES:
- Being able of obtaining and selecting relevant information and sources for the resolution of problems, elaboration of strategies and assessment.
- Planning, ordering and channelling activities in a way they avoid unexpected events; foreseeing and minimizing the occasional problems and prevent solutions.
- Looking at the big picture and taking into account the different aspects and implications in the different decisions and options, knowing how to choose or advise the most convenient ones within the frame of ethics, legality and social cohabitation values.
- Possessing and comprehending knowledge that offers a base and opportunity of being original in the development and/or application of ideas, usually in a research context.
- That the students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their capacity for problem resolution in new environments within wider contexts (or multidisciplinary contexts) related to their study area.
- That the students know how to communicate clearly and straightforward their conclusions, and the knowledge and the ultimate reasons that support them, to specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Possessing learning abilities which allow them to continue studying in a way that will be mostly self-directed and autonomous.
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COURSES.
- Knowing how to work in multi-disciplinary teams reproducing real contexts and providing and coordinating the acquired knowledge in other branches and parties.
- Participating in debates and discussions, directing and coordinating them and summarizing and extracting the most relevant and accepted conclusions from them.
- Using the different oral and written expression techniques, presentations, panels, etc. in order to communicate, knowledge, proposals and propositions.
- Projecting knowledge on concrete problems; summarizing and extracting the most relevant arguments and conclusions for its resolution.
SPECIFIC
- Developing and composing results and/or publishing scientific projects in Nutrition.
- Knowing and applying the acquired knowledge and competences in the professional field of nutrition and diet.
- Acquiring the knowledge that allows to act in accordance with the fundamental rights and equality principles.
Assessment System
Work placements will be supervised by one or several tutors, being some of them university professors.
Work Placement subjects will be assessed based on the students’ competences, related to the field of personalized and communitarian nutrition, using the presented report as an indicator.
ASSESSMENT
The student must fulfil the following requirements in order to pass the subject:
- Assistance to tutoring sessions and proposed activities.
- Accomplish the work curriculum proposed by the tutors.
- Having presented the report
- The tutors will grade the learning taking into account the report’s adaptation to the rules and criteria established by the tutor.
- The enterprise’s tutor will assess, through a questionnaire the student’s acquired abilities. The assessment emitted by the enterprise’s tutor will be based on assistance, task accomplishment, the degree in which the student has assumed responsibilities, the enterprise/organism’s degree of satisfaction with the student’s work and global assessment of the task carried out by the student.
Work placement organization within the University of Valencia
The University of Valencia has an integrated management of work placements in companies through the University-Business Foundation ADEIT, to meet the demands of students and the needs of their qualifications and business model.
