Practicum
A practicum (also called work placement, especially in the UK) is a graduate level course, often in a specialized field of
study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of a previously or concurrently studied theory. Pra
cticums (student teaching) are common for education and social work majors. In some cases, the practicum may be a par
t-time student teaching placement that occurs the semester before a student's full-time student teaching placement