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.