Post 9: Changes to my Study Programme

I’m studying psychology, in the four year of the career. When I think about it I just can realize that the time flies jaja. And, when I think about what changes I would make in the study programme, I think in a lot of things that I like to change. First, something that I and my classmates have talked, is about the professional practice. In our career, we started the practice just in the five year of the study programme, different from the most of the universities that impart the career of psychology, like “La Universidad de la Frontera” (UFRO) in Temuco. They start the professional practice in the second year of the career, and, if well, the practice is not very difficult, they can learn a lot of things about the how the psychology is applicate in the different contexts. So, we feel that we are not the enough trained for the practice in the five year, that supposed to be our final year of career (yeah, of course).

Also, in the five year of my career, we have to take a subject at the same time that we have to make the thesis and the professional practice. So, you can understand that the five year is very complicated. For this reasons, the most of the students in psychology, ends the career in six years and not in five, the formal duration of the career. We think that the five year of the career, have to reduce the academic load. How? Well, maybe the practice can start years before at the final year in the career.

For other sides, the faculty doesn’t counts with an appropriated number of classrooms. So although we have classrooms for our normal classes, we don’t have enough classrooms for our own activities, or the assistantships of the subjects, handle by students. The places for study in the faculty, like the library or the computer rooms also are very small and uncomfortable, very noisy. At the end of the semester, and in the test periods, the library and the computer rooms are full of people, in all the faculty and also all the campus.

I think that is all for now, bye!