Fieldwork and internship (excavations, museums, laboratories, fieldtrips...) (100h)

larke1351  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Fieldwork and internship (excavations, museums, laboratories, fieldtrips...) (100h)
5.00 credits
Q1 or Q2

  This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!

Teacher(s)
Roucloux Joël (coordinator); Verslype Laurent (coordinator);
Language
French
Prerequisites
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Main themes
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Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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Content
The internship consists of a simulation of a professional situation in which the student has to participate in one the following organisations : an archeological excavation site ; one of the multiple museum/heritage sectors ; the various cultural enterprises or institutions in the art trade sector; scientific laboratories where technical conservation and restoration of cultural property is applied. Accompanied by a UCLouvain internship coordinator, the student establishes a training agreement with a host institution working in the field of interest. The student performs the internship while being supervised by the tutor of the host institution.
Art history students may select a practicum according to their interests.
They can either choose from a list of internship places or propose a new place of internship. The new place of internship must be approved by the UCLouvain representative. The training period in history of art lasts a minimum of 10 working days.
The internship of the students in archaeology covers minimum 10 days and maximum 25 days, depending on the types of activities selected. Their combination is possible, if at least 10 days are completed in a given institution or on a single site, and in accordance with the requirements of the host institutions. The internship is completed once the associated credits have been duly validated.
Teaching methods
The people responsable for the UCL internship (archeology and art history) validate the student's internship project and accompany the establishment of the training agreement.
Evaluation methods
Half of the evaluation is based on the points given by the tutor of the host institution. The other half of the evaluation concerns the placement report written by the student.
Other information
Students have documents containing instructions regarding their internship ;
document placement agreement ; a list of potential internship sites ; guidelines for writing the internship report and a criterium-referenced assessment sheet of the course to be completed by the tutor.
In the workplace, the ban on wearing religious symbols stipulated in the work regulations also applies to interns.
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Bachelor in Biology, Anthropology and Archaeology