Practical trainingLaajuus (25 cr)

Objective

You understand the rules of working life, and you can function as a part of a work community.
You identify the possible career prospects after graduation.
You recognise your own strengths and weaknesses.
You are able to receive and learn from feedback given on your professional competence.
You can assess and develop your competencies to meet the requirements of working life.
You are able to make practical use of what you have learned. As the practical training periods progress, you take greater responsibility in your work tasks.
You can rely on the competencies acquired during your studies and see how they meet the competency requirements in the working life.

Content

How to find a practical training place and apply for a job?
How to adapt to the requirements of working life?
How to develop your professional skills based on feedback?
How to utilise the skills learned in working life?
How to function as part of a work community?
How to self-assess your skills, learning and performance at work?

You can also complete the practical training abroad.

Entrepreneurship, as a part of the implementation of practical training, may be considered on a case-by-case basis, and is negotiated between the student and the work placement coordinator of the team.

Students are expected to find the practical training places themselves.

Accomplishment methods

Students can
– identify interrelated tasks.
– work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
– choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
– promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
– justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.