Hello again, this week the post is going to
be about changes that could be made to my study program.
I study anthropology in Universidad de Chile,
I am in the second year of my career, so I still have another couple of years
of study. In my opinion there has to be changes in the curriculum, for example,
in this semester I have 2 subjects that are pretty much close (“Taller de
investigación” and “introducción a la etnografía”) for me it is possible to
teach the contents of these subjects in just one, I mean that we can understand
the aspects of doing and investigation and an ethnography with a better use of
the hours of classes. In regard to length
of studies I think that maybe it is possible to do the studies in a minor time
than now, maybe doing a better curriculum this would be possible.
About the teaching methods I think that
there are some teachers that don’t really have the abilities to teach well, for
me we have to separate what it means to be a good teacher and a good academic, to
be an important academic in the faculty does not mean to be a great teacher.
But not all teachers are like this, of course there are teachers who really
care about the learning of the students. Another important point in this topic
for me is that in the career there are many theoretical subjects and it is
necessary to do more practice out of the classroom, as I see it, this is necessary
from the beginning of the career, even in the first and second year.
Now, about the faculty facilities, I think
that it is necessary more space, because the number of students has increased through
the years, for example the actual library in the faculty is small and many times
you go there and it is full of another students, so you must look another place
to study, besides, sometimes is noisy. So, for me it is necessary to improve
this kind of stuff.
