The External Practices course offers the possibility of completing the training of the degree in a professional context. Students make their first contact with the working world where they can apply the knowledge acquired during the degree. The course allows students to develop as future professionals in the artistic sector.
Titular Professors
To take the course it is necessary to have passed 50% of the credits of the degree.
Apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the Degree in Digital Arts within a real professional environment.
Understand how the job market works, including key aspects of career management and job?seeking strategies.
Develop essential professional development tools, such as a CV, portfolio, soft skills, and strategies to enter and grow within the creative industry
1. Course introduction
The operation of the course and the procedure to be followed to finish the internship will be explained.
2. Profile creation in the Career Center. Explain the contents of the subject.
It will explain how to create a profile in the Career Center and let them know how it works. The contents of the classes and the subject will also be explained.
3. Development of Soft Skills in Digital Arts
In class we will explain what are the main soft skills and we will work on the SWOT.
4. Introduction to the Elevator Pitch
We will explain what an elevator pitch is, its purpose and how to adapt it.
5. Time Management and Productivity
In the field of digital arts, time management is crucial, since many projects are developed under tight deadlines. Time management and productivity techniques will be explained and worked on in class.
6. Personal Branding
We will explain what a personal brand is, why it is important in the digital arts and how to build it. We will work on the key elements to create it.
7. LinkedIn
We will explain how to optimize a LinkedIn profile for digital artists. We will work on how to choose the keywords to be more visible on LinkedIn and which sections are more important to have updated (headline, summary, experience). Guidelines will be given to improve recommendations within the application and networks.
8. Digital CV
It will be explained how to create a digital CV. What structure and projects it should have, as well as how the skills should be presented.
9. Social Networks as a Tool to Sell Yourself
We will explain how to use social networks to promote yourself as a digital artist. What content strategies to develop, how to manage the audience and how to make a metrics analysis.
10. How to Present Orally
Effective presentation techniques will be taught, from voice management and body language to the organization of ideas. We will also work on how to capture the audience's attention.
11. Preparation for job interviews in the creative field
Resources and techniques will be given to know how to answer typical interview questions or how to talk about your own projects...
12. Networking and Professional Relationships
How to build lasting professional relationships to create opportunities will be explained.
The course will work through various teaching methodologies. There will be a small part of lectures in which teachers will introduce certain concepts and resources related to research methodology, in order to properly develop the final degree project and its memory. There will also be workshops so that students can put into practice what has been explained in their own project. All this will be combined with autonomous work of the student that will be guided with individual tutorials.
MD 0: Master Class with the support of audiovisual material.
MD 1: Exercise classes.
MD4: Seminars
MD9: Peer Instruction
MD13: Just-In-time teaching
In-company internships (55%)
- Internship stay in the company: 40%
- Final internship report: 10%
- Oral presentation of internships: 5%.
Professional development (30%)
- Attendance to group classes: 10%
- Submission of the Career Plan: 15%
- Oral presentation of the Career Plan: 5%.
Individualized coaching (10%)
- Completion of two coaching sessions: 10%
Experiential Activities (5%) Moderately Significant
- Attendance at 5 events: 5%
If the documents delivered do not present a correct written expression, grammatically and orthographically, the maximum grade for each document will be a 4.
The evaluation criteria for the submitted documents will be based on the coherence and quality of presentation and writing.
A bibliography will be provided as the course progresses
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