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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

• f 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)

Feel to contact

UL Engage

for shared resources, workshops and help ULEngage@ul.ie