Post 7: Changes to my Study programme

 

Hi, it's me again, today I'm going to talk to you about the changes in my study program. As you mentioned earlier, I study Anthropology. This career has very varied branches, since it has branches of social sciences, statistics and natural sciences. The degree lasts 5 years, of which 2 correspond to the basic cycle and 3 correspond to specialization.

The basic cycle of this career has branches such as: statistics, ethnography and archives, philosophy, human evolution, English, fundamental problems of anthropology, social theory and branches on the history of Chile. In the specialization cycle there are 3 mentions: social, archeology and physics, which have branches together and others according to each mention.

Regarding the workload, in general in Anthropology there are around 5 to 7 branches per semester, they are fed up branches, but in general teachers are flexible with delivery times, especially now in a pandemic.

I would make changes to the infrastructure, since there are many half-finished buildings on campus, and it lacks comfortable spaces in which students can spend their free hours between classes. I would also change the libraries to be bigger and with more computers. And as for the rooms, I would put more comfortable chairs and tables, since there are very small rooms with very uncomfortable and small chairs and tables.

Regarding the use of technology, we use tools such as Excel, Canva, Zoom, Word among others that allow us to adapt to these times of pandemic. Regarding methodologies, we use both quantitative and qualitative study methodologies.

Personally, I would add more botanical and mycology branches in the specialized cycle, also branches of environmental conflicts in Chile and finally add a branch of theoretical and practical tools to interact with people, trying to approach the different communities under study in a correct way.