Changes to my study program

Hi everyone today I will talk about some changes that could be made to my career: Social Work.

Well, when I decided to study Social Work I was really satisfied about some subjects. For example, we have a subject called Gender Theories that I think it’s totally necessary and I have not seen in another careers. Despite this, I disagree about the length of studies (five years), because it implies a lot of time, although this fact is not exclusive of Social Work but the majority of professional careers in Chile, I think this could be changed because it seems like some subjects of the curriculum have been thought just to ”fill space” so we have to pay more years.

In Social Work an important aspect to consider is the language learning because the majority of studies about this discipline are in English, German or Portuguese.  We have an obligatory subject of language: English J but it would be great if we had one more instead of subjects like the first “Tranversal” we had in first year because with a lot of my classmates think it was more like a burden subject instead of a time to learn because made workload heavier. Also, I would like our first two years of career were not just “read” because this makes difficult to imagine how we will “put in practice” all the things we have learned maybe if we could take part in some organizations we could notice things that are unperceived in just a reading exercise. I think it should be a balance between that we read and what we do outside of academic papers.