About my english courses

My last English classes were at school seven years ago because in my previous career I didn't take an English course. In this way I must admit that catching up with the grammatical parts of English took me by surprise, I guess I was not prepared, but I try!

The classes surprised me a lot, but in a good way. In my old school we only dedicated ourselves to listening for a while and we only had a couple of texts. There wasn't much of a dynamic, but at this university it's the opposite.

I like the way the course is run using the technological tools and the dynamism, for example, blogging and being able to share a little bit of ourselves is also a good learning technique. I found it quite creative, and it makes us know things about the people with who we share the course.

My contact with English in my life is limited to watching strange movies that are often not subtitled, besides, I do not share with people who speak English, so music and the audio-visual area are my greatest contact with this language. I think what I find most difficult about English is not understanding it, but clearly there are things that are out of my knowledge, but perhaps speaking it or elaborating an answer in an unexpected way is difficult for me. So, I would like to work on this part to be able to communicate more fluently in other contexts. I also think that I need to practice grammar, which I am very rusty because I haven't studied it for so long.

My Study Programme

The anthropology study programme of the University of Chile has a big variety of courses that you can take according to your interests. The curriculum is very attractive and complete, this is one of the things that attracted me to study at this university. Maybe the changes I would make with respect to the anthropology career would be to generate practical courses where students can develop their skills and can be oriented when they are making the decision to choose one of the three more important courses that the career has. Which are: physical anthropology, social anthropology and archeology.

Also, if I could modify the modality of the classes, I think I would use a system in which there would not be two modules of a single subject. Currently we have one course per day that lasts two modules. So, this means being in a classroom for 3 hours, which is very mentally exhausting and monotonous. In fact, I once read an article that said that to have a better learning experience classes should last a maximum of 45 minutes, what do you think about this?

In relation to infrastructure, although the campus of the University of Chile is quite large, the library for Social Sciences is quite small for the number of students. I would create a space large enough as a building only intended to be used as a library to be able to spend long sessions of study there.