Blog 7

 I have to say that like a lot my study program. Social work studies a wide range of topics, and i can learn from basic sociology, to philosophy and epistemology. But there are some thing that i would change. I really rthink we need to study more deeply a couple of autors, classic ones that pop up in almost every single text we have to read; like Wittgenstein and Freud and Lacan. We do not have lectures about them and they appear always in almost every reference.

And also we need to focus more on public policies, real ones, because a lot of us are gonna end working on municipalities or in the State, so we need more experience on that field, in order to e better social workers, and get respect as a University of Chile's graduates in the labour market.

The workload is fine, the length of the career is average, so it's normal. The facilities (when we are in a presential mode) are fine, actually i like a lot Juan Gomez Millas campus, even the old FACSO building, it's quite charming.

We definetely need more hours of technology learning, i really think that's a flaw in our education, because as social scientist, we need to know form undergraduate level how to use the basics of Excel and SPSS and another softwares of analysis. We need courses specific to fill that need. And that could help us if we want to persue a post-graduate career, like a master´s degree, or even a doctoral one.

The teaching methods are nice. I mean we have to read a lot, and that's okay, i'm prepared to that, there is not much more that can change on that. Probably if we use more audiovisual material could help but it's normal to read a lot in a social science career.