UL Engage How to set up a UL Practicum
What is a UL Practicum? • For communities, UL Practicum projects are established in response to community identified needs and are designed and implemented by collaborative teams comprising UL staff, Community Partners and Students. • For students, the UL Practicum provides curriculum based accredited learning in community projects, combining applied academic work with the development of UL Graduate Attributes. • For academics, the UL Practicum is essentially a project shell. It provides a pre- approved module code that enables your students to work with you on collaborative community projects and as part of their credited academic curriculum. • For the university, the UL Practicum raises the profile of staff / student engagement with communities and applies consistent criteria for best practice community engagement.
1. Identifying a Practicum Project Practicum projects come from a variety of sources: • You may have your own project work with collaborative community partners • UL Engage community workshops may have identified you as a possible Practicum partner for a community with an existing project need • You might consult the UL Engage data base to create a project or address an identified project need
2. Identify the academic learning and community collaboration project elements • Community collaborators who have attended a UL Engage Community workshop may already have a project proposal – if not you will need to develop one with them. • UL Practicum module requirements and information for Academics supervisors can be found at: www.ul.ie/engage/
3. Profile your project on the UL Engage website • Complete the UL Engage Project submission form – making sure that you fill in all required details: • On the project (green boxes) • On the practicum (orange boxes) • Include details of project evaluation and contact and logo details of project partners
4. Attend to student administration • Practicum codes are available for each faculty • UL Practicums may be 3, 6, 9 or 12 ECTS • If you are planning a Practicum elective, seek course board approval. • If you are supervising a Practicum FYP, inform the Course Director • Alert the student status committee in order to register the module with Student Administration. • Ensure that your Practicum module code is included in the list for your department’s external examiner.
5. Ensure that your Practicum Project includes: • Clear identification of all roles and responsibilities between community, staff and student collaborators. This might entail an MOU, service agreements, student learning contracts etc – resources for all of these can be found at www.ul.ie/engage • A mechanism to develop the UL Graduate Attributes (this might be done in a workshop, a tutorial, or a one- to-one supervision session) • Practicum project evaluation from all partners to the project. You may wish to develop a UL Engage Report (see: www.ul.ie/engage)
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