Post 9: Changes to my Study Programme

Recently, in our career programme, Department of Sociology has implemented new changes in the curriculum. Honestly, I’m not very informed about the details, but I know some main changes: principally in the first year in sociology, so these changes won’t affect me in the next years.

Anyway, I think it’s important to have a constantly renewal in our curriculum, because we need to update about new sociological knowledge and methods. In our case, we are much updated about that, but I will make changes about the structure of our optative courses. First, all the “specialized sociologies” like sociology of culture, sociology of organizations and economical sociology must be optional, in the same way of the other optative courses.

About the workload and length of studies are fine (I’m unaware about the final process in my career: titling and thesis), but I will recommend about the possibility to get the master’s degree in our faculty only in one year, if you come from our faculty: so, you could have your sociology degree + master degree in only six years. Maybe, our department could implement some modifications in fifth and last year of our degree, like doing one thesis valid to degree and postgraduate. But now you can do this in seven years.

Faculty facilities are fine too, but I think that we need a bigger library, with reading and study rooms in groups.

The use of technology is important in our career, because when we learn about quantitative methods we use computer programmes, but we don’t have access. We need a free access in theses computer programmes.

Finally, about teaching methods it depends on each teacher, but I think that it’s important to have several instances in our learning, like field visits. In addition, teachers must complement other ways in evaluations and not only do writing exams.