Changes to my study program

Hi everyone! I hope you are pretty well.

Today, I'm going to talk about changes that I suggest to the program of my major.

In the first place, and maybe you remember due to previous blogs, I study Political Science, which is about the power and political processes and phenomena. In that sense, a lot of things are part of its field of study and I think that the current program represents it very well, so I would suggest only a few changes. The first one is for a specific subject, which is Political Ideas. It is the first course of four about political theory, but I think that is a little bit unnecessary because all its contents are a resume of the next courses, so I propose to eliminate it (to overtake the others) or maybe replace it with another subject like local management or something like this, to enlarge our employment opportunities. The second change is to incorporate (at the first semester of study) the possibility to take a leveling course of technological skills because in some classes is necessary to use programs —like Excel or N-Vivo (which is to codify qualitative information)— and not everyone knows how to do even the basic tasks (my case, hahaha).     

 

About the workload, I consider that it is high, not for the difficulty of tests but for all the texts that we have to read for every class, like an example, last semester I had five classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, so I wasn't able to read all the required. Besides, I consider that this teaching method (read a text and then listen to an exposition of exactly the same) is a little bit exhausting and it could move to more participative methods. 

Finally, if you ask me about faculty facilities, I only have gone once, but it seemed to me small and lacking the necessary infrastructure for all the students. However, a new building is being constructed (Vicuña Mackenna 20), and I hope that it be more comfortable for everyone.  

Well, this has been everything today!

Bye!💚