WHAT IS IT?
In the professional internship, the student is placed in a real work context, in which he has the opportunity to observe and above all to try to exercise the professional activity in first person, in a guided way and with progressive autonomy. Every year the University avails itself of the valuable collaboration of hundreds of social workers available to follow the trainees, with whom it has established the appropriate agreements required by law, and indicates to the students the institutions where to carry out the internship.
In the internship experience, the student is helped:
- a supervising social worker, who works in the institution where the internship is located, and supports the student throughout the experience;
- a university tutor (social worker, lecturer of the Degree Programme) who takes care of the work plan, monitoring and verifications of the individual internship;
- the work in small groups carried out in the Internship Guidance Laboratory, with the facilitation of one's university tutor;
- an organizational contact person, who is responsible for finding the internship locations and supervisors, and setting up the necessary administrative requirements.
REFERENCES
Internship Coordinator for the Milan campus
Prof. Francesca Megni, e-mail: francesca.megni@unicatt.it
INS AND OUTS
Duration: 40 hours of classroom work and 250 hours of fieldwork, to which the student can add an additional optional period of 50 additional hours (equal to 2 ECTS for "elective activities") or 100 additional hours (equal to 4 ECTS for "elective activities").
The professional internship takes place, indicatively, from January to May for two days a week, with an intensive period placed during the periods of interruption of classes. The specific calendar of each internship is set by the university tutor together with the supervisor of the host institution.
Prerequisites: in order to be admitted to carry out the Professional Internship activity, it is necessary to have passed, both by the end of October prior to the start of the Internship:
- the exam of Methodology of Social Service I;
- the Social Service Orientation Workshop.
Students who are not up to date with these prerequisites (and who therefore have not passed the relevant exams by the end of October) will attend the Internship Guide Laboratory and carry out their internship in the following academic year.
Compulsory: The internship is compulsory for the entirety of the 250 hours. Classroom attendance at the meetings of the Internship Guide is mandatory for 2/3 of the 40 hours.
N° ECTS assigned to the internship: 12 ECTS in total for the Internship and the Internship Guide Laboratory.
Method of awarding ECTS: ECTS are credited during a specific exam session. For recognition, the following documentation must be delivered to the university tutor: internship register, evaluation questionnaire completed by the company tutor, final internship report drawn up by the student.
ACTIVATION PROCEDURE
The University identifies the internship locations based on the availability of the host institutions and individual supervisors, and taking into account the training objectives. The University Tutor informs each student of his/her Internship location, chosen on the basis of the availability of the Institutions, training opportunities, and – when possible – also on the basis of the student's area of residence or domicile. Internships can be activated through the "ST&P" portal, as detailed in the Internship Regulations (available at the link below).
WHAT IS IT?
In the professional internship, the student is placed in a real work context, in which he has the opportunity to observe and above all to try to exercise the professional activity in first person, in a guided way and with progressive autonomy. Every year the University avails itself of the valuable collaboration of hundreds of social workers available to follow the trainees, with whom it has established the appropriate agreements required by law, and indicates to the students the institutions where to carry out the internship.
In the internship experience, the student is helped:
- a supervising social worker, who works in the institution where the internship is located, and supports the student throughout the experience;
- a university tutor (social worker, lecturer of the Degree Programme) who takes care of the work plan, monitoring and verifications of the individual internship;
- the work in small groups carried out in the Internship Guidance Laboratory, with the facilitation of one's university tutor;
- an organizational contact person, who is responsible for finding the internship locations and supervisors, and setting up the necessary administrative requirements.
REFERENCES
Internship Coordinator for the Milan campus
Prof. Francesca Megni, e-mail: francesca.megni@unicatt.it
INS AND OUTS
Duration: 40 hours of classroom work and 250 hours of fieldwork, to which the student can add an additional optional period of 50 additional hours (equal to 2 ECTS for "elective activities") or 100 additional hours (equal to 4 ECTS for "elective activities").
The professional internship takes place, indicatively, from January to May for two days a week, with an intensive period placed during the periods of interruption of classes. The specific calendar of each internship is set by the university tutor together with the supervisor of the host institution.
Prerequisites: in order to be admitted to carry out the Professional Internship activity, it is necessary to have passed, both by the end of October prior to the start of the Internship:
- the exam of Methodology of Social Service I;
- the Social Service Orientation Workshop.
Students who are not up to date with these prerequisites (and who therefore have not passed the relevant exams by the end of October) will attend the Internship Guide Laboratory and carry out their internship in the following academic year.
Compulsory: The internship is compulsory for the entirety of the 250 hours. Classroom attendance at the meetings of the Internship Guide is mandatory for 2/3 of the 40 hours.
N° ECTS assigned to the internship: 12 ECTS in total for the Internship and the Internship Guide Laboratory.
Method of awarding ECTS: ECTS are credited during a specific exam session. For recognition, the following documentation must be delivered to the university tutor: internship register, evaluation questionnaire completed by the company tutor, final internship report drawn up by the student.
ACTIVATION PROCEDURE
The University identifies the internship locations based on the availability of the host institutions and individual supervisors, and taking into account the training objectives. The University Tutor informs each student of his/her Internship location, chosen on the basis of the availability of the Institutions, training opportunities, and – when possible – also on the basis of the student's area of residence or domicile. Internships can be activated through the "ST&P" portal, as detailed in the Internship Regulations (available at the link below).
WHAT IS IT?
The internship requires the student to carry out an experimental activity or project, which is actually of help to the local community or to the users of the services. Often these experiences have the effect of promoting the profession of Social Worker, putting them in contact with new professional fields and thus offering valuable employment opportunities.
Experimental internships are a peculiarity of the degree programme in Sciences for Social Work at Università Cattolica, an excellence that has no equal in Italy, and has similarities with some significant British and American international experiences.
In the construction and implementation of his/her own experimental internship project, the student is helped by:
- the individual guidance of a university tutor (social worker, lecturer of the Degree Programme);
- from a small group course ( Internship guide workshop);
- an organizational contact person who takes care of the necessary administrative formalities;
- by the professional supervision of a social worker.
If there is no social worker in the partner organizations of the project, supervision is guaranteed by a social worker who is a university professor, while within the organization a contact person is identified with whom the student interfaces for organizational aspects and administrative procedures.
REFERENCES
Internship Coordinator
Prof. Valentina Calcaterra, e-mail: valentina.calcaterra@unicatt.it
INS AND OUTS
Duration: The experimental internship includes 40 hours of classroom work and 175 hours for fieldwork and the final report, to which the student can add an additional optional period of 50 additional hours (equal to 2 ECTS for "elective activities") or 100 additional hours (equal to 2 ECTS for "elective activities"). The experimental internship, with the classroom activities connected to it, takes place approximately from November to June. The specific timetable depends on the individual student's project.
Prerequisites: in order to be admitted to the experimental internship, you must have passed the exams of Social Service Methodology 2 and Internship Guide by the second session in January. In the event of particular difficulties in passing the Social Service Methodology and/or Internship exams, the student, after a special interview with a commission made up of tutor teachers of Internship Guide and Internship Guide, may be required to enhance the skills acquired in the second year internship through an advanced internship instead of the Internship.
Compulsory: Attendance is mandatory for the entirety of the 175 hours provided for the Internship and for 2/3 of the 40 hours of the Internship Guide Workshop.
N° ECTS assigned to the Experimental Internship: 9 ECTS in total for the Internship and the Internship Guide Laboratory.
Method of awarding ECTS: ECTS are credited during a specific exam session. For recognition, the following documentation must be delivered to the university tutor: internship register, evaluation questionnaire completed by the company tutor, final internship report drawn up by the student.
ACTIVATION PROCEDURE
The procedure for the activation of the Experimental Internship is reported in detail in the Internship Activity Regulations (available at the link below).