Practical Training

Code:

C400

Acronym:

EST

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S (since 16-09-2019 to 20-12-2019)

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
C	38	Oficial Study Plan LC	4	-	14	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

This UC aims to consolidate the academic training with a framed, oriented and practical learning linked to broad
professional and vocational fields in criminology. With equal emphasis on the development of knowledge, skills and
attitudes, it aims at enabling students to understand fundamental theories and concepts through application and
practice, to develop their skills in authentic context and to create conditions for professional integration. By the
end, students should have been able to:
-Apply and develop knowledge and skills acquired during the course and demonstrate their mobilization in
addressing situations and analyzing issues, difficulties and practices raised in the training contexts;
-Adapt to an institutional context and professional practice and demonstrate a responsible conduct in the approach
of tasks;
-Develop skills of planning, systematic and critical reflection on the internship experience and be able to
communicate this analysis through an academic report.

Working method

Presencial

Program

This UC aims to complement the academic training with a framed and comprehensive practical perspective, which
responds to the diversity of application areas of Criminology. It provides the direct contact with the different
contexts of professional practice of Criminology , aiming the consolidation and development of technical-scientific
and deontological competences.
Can be accomplished in services , institutions or projects in various areas of criminological intervention. Can still
be realized through the integration in a research project in the School of Criminology. The syllabus therefore
depend on the crossing between the demands posed by the specific experiences and institutional contexts where
the internship takes place and the knowledge acquired during the study programme. This integration is one of the
main goals of academic guidance provided to the students.

Mandatory literature

Proulx Jean; Profession criminologue. ISBN: 2-7606-2028-X

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course is eminently practical , focusing on the work done by the student in the host environment . Supported
by the guidance of a teacher and a supervisor (designated by the host entity), the development of the practical
training can be described in two phases :
- The 1st , which consists essentially in observing the institution and practices of professionals, aims at gathering
all the elements that enable the integration and adaptation of the workplan to the demands and needs of the host
context .
- The 2nd provides conditions that allow progressively a more active and autonomous action of the trainee through
situations of assisted circulation .
Academic supervision is done through weekly meetings with the student and through the collaboration with
supervisors. The experience will be integrated in the final report .
The evaluation of UC is defined in a specific Regulation and integrates the practical component and the report
(which is subject to public defense).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	126,00
Realização de Estágio	252,00
Total:	378,00

Eligibility for exams

See specific rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation of UC is defined in a specific Regulation and integrates the practical component and the report
(which is subject to public defense).