Post 5: Changes to My Study Programme

Hi everyone, today I will talk about changes to my study programme.

I have been studying Visual Arts at the University of Chile for 3 years, unfortunately I have only been there for 1 year, that is to say, I just got to know the university this year. With this in mind, I say these things.

About the curriculum, it had many changes when I started studying, the whole curriculum changed from the previous year, we had new subjects, new schedule and many more things, many people say that we were like lab rats and we were trying new things for the career.

Among these new subjects I think we had some useless and boring subjects, or rather poorly designed, for example: Field Recognition, this subject has good and bad things, among the good, the teachers talked about something important for the future, but the classes were online, very long and very very tired, and the worst was that we only had one work to pass the subject, very scary. Another subject that was poorly designed was Interdisciplinary Workshop, the topics was good, but the same problem, that subject was online, it was very long and we only saw superficial things about the topics, so we never could go deeper because we didn't have time in the semester for all the units, so I think it was a waste of time.

About the workload and length of studies, I have to say that the online classes were horrible, we had a lot of classes and we had to be all the time in front of the computer, for this reason many people have vision problems (including me), also I felt that we had a lot of things to do, that was one reason why the carrer was on strike for a long time, many times without classes. This year seemed to me to be better in that sense, doing things at the university with the proper space is nice, and at the moment the workload is acceptable.

The faculty facilities are honestly a lot of things wrong, we had problems with leaks, the eating place was not equipped, and of course money problems. We are arts faculty, we always have problems with money or infrastructure, another reason whythe carrer went on strike, it is not fair that something as important as art is undervalued in such a great and respected institution. This year some things changed, I hope many more things change for future generations, and the minds of so many people about art. 

The use of technology was good I think, we needed to use tablet or computer a lot, something with internet for online classes, and now we do more manual things but the technology is welcome. Lastly the teachers are good, I know some of all the teachers but they are really amazing they have very good ways of teaching and seeing art.