Checking date: 30/05/2025 10:27:03


Course: 2025/2026

External Academic Internships
(13655)
Bachelor in Economics (Study Plan 2018) (Plan: 398 - Estudio: 202)


Coordinating teacher: ZARRAGA OBERTY, CELIA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 18.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
It is recommended to take this course as close as possible to the time of completion of the Degree, so that the maximum of the knowledge provided by the degree is acquired. The completion of the internship in companies does not exempt from the requirement of class attendance, typical of a face-to-face University like ours. It is the student's responsibility to find the best time to take the course, so that the interference with their academic development is as minimal as possible. The internships in companies that are carried out, whether following the ordinary or the extraordinary procedure, must be validated academically to be counted for this course. Due to the nature of this course, which depends on the position offered by the different companies, the internship calendar may not be exactly adjusted to the academic period of the corresponding term.
Objectives
Knowledge: - Apply in a real context the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the classroom. - To acquire new skills related to the profession in a real applied context, and familiarity with updated professional trends. - Learn about the labor market situation in the corresponding professional segment. - Understand patterns of behavior in the workplace. skills: - Provide efficient and effective responses to situations and problems that require an interdisciplinary and global, linked to integrated technical and economic factors. - Ability to overcome the essences for any business organization, such as competitiveness, need to innovate, the need for continuous updating of knowledge, quality policies, relationship with internal and external customers and suppliers, decision-making in contexts of uncertainty, management efficient time and all sorts of limited resources. - Ability to take stock of the first immersion experience in the workplace: self-analysis of strengths and weaknesses. - Gain real work experience to facilitate subsequent access to employment. - Acquire skills planning and organization. - Ability to make decisions. - Ability to work under pressure. attitudes: - Be responsible behavior in carrying out the work, attendance and punctuality, motivation and interest, and so on. - Have a willingness to work together and to cooperate with others. - Initiative and proactivity. - Creativity and originality.
Learning Outcomes
K1: Understand democratic principles and values, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals, with special emphasis on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, gender equality, non-discrimination, universal accessibility principles, and the fight against climate change. K2: To know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K3: Acquire knowledge of the theories and techniques specific to Economics, employing appropriate terminology and the scientific method. K6: Comprehend the economic and social impact of various public policies on different agents and in diverse socioeconomic contexts. K7: Understand the economic variables that regulate the economy and govern the behaviour of agents. K8: Understanding economic institutions K9: Identify the economic, political, and social framework for the activities of various economic, political, or social agents. K10: Understand the fundamental elements of the economic environment from the perspective of different theories and various economic agents. S1: To plan and organize team work making the right decisions based on available information and gathering data in digital environments. S2: Exploit information by interpreting relevant data, avoiding plagiarism, and adhering to academic and professional conventions within the field of study, with the ability to evaluate the reliability and quality of the information. S3: Apply the knowledge acquired in the degree program to rigorously, accurately, and scientifically identify socioeconomic processes and propose potential solutions. S4: Manage and develop autonomous learning within the field of Economics. S5: Formulate, debate, and defend critical and ethical arguments related to Economics. S6: Identify, collect, interpret and manage relevant information on economic issues, using the appropriate concepts and methodologies of analysis. S7: Design economic and social programs to address the needs of economic agents. S8: Formally representing economic decision-making processes S9: Derive relevant economic information from the data, and be able to process it to answer the questions of interest S10: Prepare advisory reports for economic agents relevant to decision-making. S11: Describe and analyze economic problems within a specific social context. S12: Model and quantitatively interpret specific economic issues C1: Develop interpersonal skills such as initiative, responsibility, conflict resolution, negotiation, etc., which are required in the professional domain. C2: Communicate effectively to different audiences knowledge, methodologies, ideas and solutions in the field of study. C3: Independently develop and defend a problem within the disciplinary scope of the degree, proposing well-founded solutions through the application of the knowledge, skills, tools, and strategies acquired or developed throughout the degree program. C4: Solve economic models of interest from both theoretical and numerical perspectives. C5: Use appropriate statistical and econometric tools to address and solve economic problems. C6: Integrate democratic principles and values, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals, into the professional sphere.
Description of contents: programme
All those activities carried out by the student in the company, entity or organization, which are intended to provide a practical complement to the academic training of the degree that the student is taking.
Learning activities and methodology
The knowledge and attitude competencies will be acquired by the students through an internship in a company or organization for a determined period of time. The course will have the following development: 1) The academic tutor carries out specific informative sessions to the students about the subject, with the aim of informing about the guideline to be followed. 2) The students will be called by the companies for selection interviews. 3) Once the selection process has been passed, the student will submit the offer for validation by the academic tutor. 4) Once the internship has been validated, the student will join the company for a minimum of 450 hours. 4) During his stay in the company, the student will have a tutor in the company in order to direct, guide and supervise the student's activity. 5) For a correct follow-up of the internship, the student, on a regular basis, must send an e-mail to the academic tutor, indicating the tasks performed in the company, the training received, the relationship with the tutor and the rest of the colleagues, as well as any other aspect considered relevant. 6) Finally, within a maximum period of 15 days from the end of the internship, the student will write a report on the internship for its evaluation.
Assessment System
The final grade in the course is based on two documents: ¿ ACTIVITY REPORT prepared by the student (40% of the grade): It is a summary of the tasks developed in the internship and the learning done. ¿ REPORT OF THE EXTERNAL TUTOR in the company (60% of the grade): It is a document with the company's evaluation of the students' work done in their internships.

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.