Basic Practical Training, 15 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Bachelor´s Programme in Humanities

Entry requirements

and that the specific entry requirements that apply for admission to the Programme in Cultural Studies are satisfied. The student is also required to have completed 3 semesters of Cultural Studies and have achieved passing grades in courses comprising 90 HE credits.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to
- use experiences and understanding of qualified employment in the cultural sector
- translate the theoretical knowledge into practical work
- use the ability for self-reflection and understanding of the own role in the work process.

Course content

The student should, for 10 weeks, work full time under prevalent conditions and relations in a workplace within the cultural sector that the student has arranged independently. There, the student should carry out tasks according to the placement plan: a project, an investigative assignment, a study, or corresponding, that is of benefit to the current workplace.

Teaching and working methods

The working methods mainly consist of independently carrying out the tasks that the placement should comprise according to the placement plan.

Examination

The course is examined through a report that should be submitted to the programme coordinator for assessment at the end of the placement. It should contain a summarising account of the workplace and tasks. Furthermore, the practical training report should contain a reflection on the role and importance for the own education of the placement and how the knowledge man acquired in the programme has could be implemented under the placement. In addition, it should contain a reflection on the own role at work process.
The supervisor at the workplace should at the end of the placement period write a certificate of completed placement.
Approved practical training report along with a certificate from the supervisor on the workplace of completed placement is required to pass the course.

If the LiU coordinator for students with disabilities has granted a student the right to an adapted examination for a written examination in an examination hall, the student has the right to it. If the coordinator has instead recommended for the student an adapted examination or alternative form of examination, the examiner may grant this if the examiner assesses that it is possible, based on consideration of the course objectives.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

Grades

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. 

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

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