Changes to my study program

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.