Changes to my Study programme

Hi everyone!

Today I'm going to talk about what I would change about my study programme.

The Sociology Career has a curriculum that allows to train students in theoretical and practical terms in a very complete way, thanks to the different theoretical and methodological courses. However, what I would change with respect to the curriculum would be the faculty courses, reducing their number, I mean, from 3 to 1, because they are a greater academic load and in my opinion those courses are not very necessary.

Regarding the workload and the length of studies, I find that there are certain courses that have a huge academic load, but there are others where they don't, so in my opinion there is usually a certain balance. But, what could change with respect to this issue is the amount of readings required by the courses, because many times they tend to be excessive. Especially now in the current context of the pandemic it is more difficult to concentrate on reading, because at the university it was easy to print the texts and go to libraries to read them in complete silence. A possibility that, for many, including myself, is not the same at home. 

In relation to the infrastructure of the faculty, I have not yet had the opportunity to know it in detail, I mean, although I know the outside of the faculty, I have not been able to have the experience of having face-to-face classes to reflect how one feels inside the classrooms. So, I could not say much about the infrastructure, except that FACSO is very nice from the outside.  

The technological methods due to the pandemic have been the most used to conduct online classes. Although it has been difficult for those who do not have a good internet connection or a personal computer, the methods have been effective so far, except that it is often tiring to have to watch the recorded classes again (some of which last 3 hours), because one does not fully understand them. 

Finally, regarding the teaching methods, I find that the teaching team of each course has tried to give us all the possibilities to be able to manage the course in the best way. Although there are some professors who make their classes as if they were face-to-face, which for us as students tends to be tiring, I understand that in this context we are all learning. Besides that for teachers it must be quite stressful to conduct online classes, because many are not very familiar with technology and teleworking mixed with domestic work is often very difficult. 

Postgraduate Studies

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In this blog I would like to talk about my graduate studies.

Since I started studying Sociology, I immediately became interested in the area of gender, that is, Sociology of Gender. That's why I started researching about gender theory, allowing me to know and understand many things. I found great authors who explain how gender opens the space for us to look beyond a biological differentiation between men and women. This concept is defined as a sociocultural construction that is not related to or dependent on sex. Most research focuses on gender relations between men and women and the oppression of women. However, studies on gender-neutral or non-binary gender are very scarce.

Therefore, within the area of gender I would like to specialize in gender-neutral or non-binary gender and also in queer theory. To be able to contribute in the future with studies and research on these topics and to be able to make visible those people of non-binary gender. Especially in Chile, there is very little awareness at the societal level. In fact, although the gender identity law enacted in 2018 was an advance, it only considers those people who transition from one gender to another within a binary range (female / male) and those who identify with a gender outside that range are not recognized at the state or institutional level.

In Chile this subject is not much addressed academically, so I would have to study it abroad and one of the countries where there is much awareness of queer theory both socially and academically is in the United States. If the pandemic did not exist I would like to go to seminars in the United States, especially those led by Judith Butler, one of the pioneers of queer theory. But since we are living in a pandemic context I can only do online courses on queer theory.

My dream job

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Lately I have been rethinking what I would like to do with my life in the future, including what I would like my dream job to look like. Perhaps it is because of the pandemic that I have been able to have space to meditate and rethink what I would like to do with my life in the future.

First of all I have to say that I love my career, but if you were to ask me right now what my dream job would be I would probably answer acting in series or movies. I imagine myself maybe playing a superhero, maybe it's because of my new obsession with Marvel. However, I've never studied theater, so I may never get that kind of job.  

So, being more realistic and thinking about what I'm studying: Sociology. My ideal job would be to work at Sename to be able to help all the little ones there, so it would be an indoor job. Then, to be able to have a foundation for the needy children, to be able to give them a better life and make their day to day life easier, like UNICEF. Maybe the salary of my job does not give me much, but for me the main objective and one of the main reasons why I study Sociology is to be able to help people, especially the little ones. To have the tools to be able to do the right help. 

Now, first of all I would like to focus on helping people in my country and then travel around the world helping other people, maybe create in other countries the same base that I would create in my country.