Changes to my study programme

Every career has problems in their programs and the students know that because they study every day for years, so is our responsibility to make changes in the subjects and in the career in general

I study psychology in Universidad de Chile and I think we can change subjects in the first year, for example I think the subject of Philosophy is not necessary at all in our development as psychologists, because Philosophy don’t teach any element or component essential so I don’t consider this curse important and can be changed for something related to make reports and team work, how we can solve problems in our groups for example.

The workload in subjects like Basic Process of learning is huge. They make us to read a lot of papers and investigations for a simple evaluation at every week and sometimes we have to focus in other subjects and they are not compliant with us and our mental stability, I think they can change some evaluation or try with other teach method that don’t include study a lot of papers for just 6 questions.

The infrastructure and the space in our faculty are good but could be better. Sometimes we need a place to study in groups but the library and the study’s rooms are full, they collapsed some days especially at the ending of semesters, we could have more rooms to study. Also, there aren’t enough notebooks, sometimes we can’t make reports or essays and when we get a computer it turn off in the middle of a report, I think is time to bring new computers or repair the elders, it would be better for everyone.

Finally, I consider the methods of teaching in my career are goods and varied so everybody can learn and they can enjoy it, I think there isn’t a unique and excellent method, we are all different and we can’t learn in the same way.

Expert on my field

Everyone has someone they admire, like a singer, an artist, a friend and we have our owns reasons for do it.

I’m going to talk about a teacher from my university, I don’t admire him, but I respect him as a person and professional in psychology and his work. Andres Antivilo is a psychologist and a statistical from Universidad de Chile.
Since May 1, 2004, he is a part-time academic at the Department of Psychology of the Universidad de Chile. Also in between 2011 and 2016 he collaborated with the Department of Evaluation, Measurement and Educational Registration (DEMRE). In the field of university management, he was Coordinator of Evaluation and Follow-up in Psychology Career.

I need to be honest, I don’t know anything about his personal life and I’ not his close friend, but I love his classes, the contents and the methods that he uses for teach us as clearly as possible.

The reason I mention him is because I think he is a fantastic teacher, he is charismatic with all the students and in the morning he tries to encourage when they feel tired and he always try to do dynamic classes with games in which we can make points for the next evaluation.

I was surprised when he talks about his collaboration in DEMRE and when he explained the system, the reality of the PSU is horrible, he maintains my opinion about the test, it must be removed and put one that correctly measures the abilities of each student.