Duration
150h Internship
Number of credits
| Master in architecture, professional focus in architecture and urban planning | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The main objective of the Professional Orientation Internship teaching unit is to support the development of your professional identity through active and reflective immersion in different work environments. This approach takes shape through two observation and hands-on internships, giving you the opportunity to build, experiment with, and question your emerging future.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Concretely, by the end of the teaching unit, you will be able to :
- Build your emerging professional identity through active and reflective immersion in two complementary work environments (long internship and short internship, within and outside of project design/management practice), in order to experiment with and question your professional project ;
- Explain the legal, regulatory, and ethical framework governing the practice of the architecture profession in Belgium as observed in a concrete professional setting : the architect's mission, responsibilities, regulation, and relationships with partners and professional bodies ;
- Adopt appropriate professional behavior and demonstrate proactivity within a host organization, taking on assigned tasks and finding your place within a team ;
- Conduct a rigorous reflective analysis of your internship experience by questioning your initial perception of architecture-related professions, stepping back to reflect on what you have experienced, and drawing up a personal skills assessment in relation to your academic path ;
- Translate a professional observation into a structured and well-argued production, and defend it orally in a form suited to the internship concerned (a fictitious job posting for the short internship, or a reflective production of your choice for the long internship), demonstrating the coherence between the submitted work and the actual internship experience.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The teaching unit includes an Internship Support Seminar (SAS), job interviews, as well as two distinct internship components, long and short, each supervised by a different internship supervisor.
The Internship Support Seminar (SAS) launches the learning cycle. It consists of two mandatory in-person days during the first week of Q1 : Monday and Thursday.
The job interviews aim to familiarize you with the realities of the professional job market. This is a first point of contact with the host organizations envisaged for the long internship. To attend these interviews, you should bring your CV, a cover letter, and your portfolio.
The long internship (15 working days) allows you to discover different practice contexts and architecture-related professions.
The short internship (2 working days) aims to let you discover another aspect of the profession, complementary to the one explored during the long internship.
?? Internships are single-session only. It is not possible to carry out internships between the first and second exam sessions, or between M1 and M2, except for Erasmus students.
?? Any internship starting before the original documents have been submitted has no legal existence and will therefore neither be taken into account nor validated as part of the teaching unit.
You are required to submit all documents and annexes within the given deadlines.
Administrative file - long internship
- ANNEX_01_LONG_INTERNSHIP_AGREEMENT - 3 signed originals submitted during office hours, no later than one week before the internship start date, together with the corresponding job description sheet
- ANNEX_02_LONG_JOB_DESCRIPTION_SHEET - 1 signed original submitted during office hours, no later than one week before the internship start date, together with the 3 corresponding agreements
- ANNEX_03_LONG_INTERNSHIP_BEHAVIOR_CERTIFICATE - submitted on FileMaker by the internship supervisor, no later than the last Friday of January at 6:00 p.m.
- ANNEX_04_SHORT_INTERNSHIP_AGREEMENT - 3 signed originals submitted during office hours, no later than one week before the internship start date, together with the corresponding job description sheet
- ANNEX_05_SHORT_JOB_DESCRIPTION_SHEET - 1 signed original submitted during office hours, no later than one week before the internship start date, together with the 3 corresponding agreements
- ANNEX_06_SHORT_INTERNSHIP_BEHAVIOR_CERTIFICATE - submitted on FileMaker by the internship supervisor (if the internship supervisor wishes to do so)
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Emails sent to teachers or to the administration must include « TSTG0572 - SDP : » in the subject line before stating the purpose of the email. Any other subject line format will result in no reply.
During the SAS, don't forget to bring your laptop (and a power strip) to every session.
PPE (helmet, safety vest, safety shoes) is mandatory when visiting a construction site during internships.
Medical certificates must be submitted on eCampus no later than the day after they are issued. No medical certificate will be accepted if sent by email.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
In progress
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Out-of-session test(s)
Further information:
Assessment objective
The professional orientation internship is above all an identity-building experience. The assessment therefore aims to verify not only the student's genuine involvement in the assigned tasks, but above all their ability to observe, analyze, and question what they have experienced : the professional environment, the profession's legal framework, their own behavior and proactivity, as well as their perception of architecture-related professions and their own academic path.
It is this reflectivity, not merely the technical quality of a production, that is at the heart of the assessment !
- Production related to the short internship - Job Profile 20 %
- JOB_PROFILE_DOCUMENT_SHORT_INTERNSHIP - submitted on eCampus no later than the last Friday of January at 6:00 p.m.
- Production related to the long internship - choice of 30 %
The student produces a 4-to-5-minute video, filmed facing the camera, structured around the four reflective themes. The video must be filmed by the student themselves, without word-for-word reading of a script or automatically generated editing. It is submitted in .mp4 format on eCampus before the deadline. The student may use visual materials from the internship (photos, panels, excerpts from files) to illustrate their points, while respecting any confidentiality requirements of the firm.
The video provides answers to the following four reflective themes :
Theme 1 - The professional environment and its legal framework
- Which architecture-related profession did I observe ? How is this environment organized ?
- How does the organization fit within the legal and ethical framework of the profession (mission, responsibilities, regulation, relationships with partners) ?
- What tasks was I assigned ? What was my place within the team ?
- How did I demonstrate proactivity, adaptability, and appropriate professional behavior ?
- Did this internship confirm, nuance, or change my perception of architecture-related professions ?
- What did I discover that I did not anticipate ? What does this teach me about the diversity and complexity of the profession ?
- Where do I stand in relation to my academic training ? What skills did I use or discover that I did not yet have ?
- How does this internship feed into my professional project and my identity under construction ?
- VIDEO - submitted on eCampus no later than the last Friday of January at 6:00 p.m.
- Oral interview 50 %
Assessment criteria
- Authenticity of the experience and genuine involvement in the tasks described
- Understanding of the legal, ethical, and organizational framework of the professional environment observed
- Quality of reflective analysis : perspective, nuance, ability to question one's initial perceptions
- Awareness of one's own professional behavior and proactivity during the internship
- Depth of the skills assessment and the reflection on one's professional identity under construction
- Ability to elaborate orally on the submitted production
First session : accessible only to students who have completed both internships and whose supervisor's behavior certificate for the long internship has been submitted on Filemaker. The two productions from the short and long internships are considered individually ; a maximum deficit of two points is accepted across the two combined grades. Beyond that, the student is referred to the second session.
Second session : accessible to students who failed one of the assessments in the first session (job profile, video, or interview).
Work placement(s)
In progress
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
09/14 and 09/17/26 Internship Support Seminar (SAS)
Every Thursday in Q1 Administrative office hours from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Laboratoire PAPier Office
Thursdays of Q1, last 15 days of January, outside other classes Time slots dedicated to internships
Last Friday of January, 6:00 p.m. eCampus submission deadline (see Assessment procedures)
Contacts
Patricia Gardier, Professeur
patricia.gardier@uliege.be
Frédéric Haesevoets, Enseignant
Frederic.Haesevoets@uliege.be
Nathalie Delmelle, Responsable administrative
nathalie.delmelle@uliege.be