Interuniversity Master's Degree in Family, Social and Community Intervention and Mediation

Internships

Internships in companies, organizations and institutions are mandatory in those master's degrees that have it established in their curriculum. They involve bringing students closer to real situations, complementing the training received with the reality of the working world.

In the specialties, the student chooses to delve deeper into the field of Family and Minors or into the field of Social and Community Welfare, developing External Practices in the chosen field.

Academic internships may be carried out in collaborating entities/companies, such as companies, institutions, public/private entities, public administrations or dependent organizations, etc.

For the development of external internships, the University of La Laguna maintains the necessary agreements with companies, organizations and institutions in which it is considered that students can acquire the professional skills appropriate to the degree and that respond to the professional profiles defined in the Report.

General requirements for carrying out external internships

In order to carry out external internships, students must meet the following general requirements:

  • Be enrolled in the degree and in the External Internship subject of your study plan.
  • Not to maintain any contractual relationship with the company, institution or entity, except in cases described in the applicable regulations.
  • Any other academic requirement established by the degree in its Verification/Modification Report and in the teaching guide for the subject.

Organization of External Internships

The degree has the structures and mechanisms for the organisation, management, evaluation and monitoring of external internships, which are specified in: the Academic Committee of the Master (CAM), the Coordination of External Internships, the academic tutors and External tutors. At the degree level, the Coordinator of External Internships, who is included in the Teaching Guide, is responsible for managing the development of the subject:

External Internships are an integrated set of activities that provide direct experience in professional fields. Students will carry out internships in different services, units and centres and will be supervised during the period of their training internship by a University lecturer and by a professional (with the appropriate qualification) from the collaborating company, entity or institution. Students will be assessed under the conditions described in the Teaching Guide and must be based on the general guidelines for carrying out the internships. Students will be assessed using as a reference the assessment of the professional tutor based on the performance, involvement and relational capacity shown in the internships and the assessment of the academic tutor considering the quality and correctness of the Internship Report.

The Academic Committee will carry out a process for the selection and assignment of academic tutors to students. The choice of centers and tutors is proposed by the students in order of priority according to the score obtained in the admission process to the Master's degree.

The Coordination of External Internships, in each specialty of the degree, together with the academic tutors, is responsible for agreeing with the external tutors of the entities the number of students admitted, the temporality and the activities to be carried out by the students.

Regulations

The general university, national, autonomous and ULL regulations governing external internships in official ULL degrees are as follows:

  • Royal Decree 592/2014, of July 11, regulating external academic internships for university students (Official State Gazette of 30 July 2014)
  • D. 168/2008, of July 22, which regulates the procedure, requirements and evaluation criteria for the authorization of the implementation of university teachings leading to the obtaining of official Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands
  • Agreement 6/CG of December 20, 2017 of the Governing Council of the University of La Laguna approving the Regulations on External Internships of the University of La Laguna.
  • Agreement 4/CG of May 9, 2019 of the Governing Council of the University of La Laguna approving the partial modification of the Regulations for External Internships of the ULL
  • Regulations for external tutors for internships from the University of La Laguna (BOC, October 19, 2011).