Changes to my Study Programme

When someone tries to postulate to a university, usually the curriculum of the career is one of the first things to see.  A comparative analysis is the best way to decide which career you want to study and in which university.

Nevertheless, there are always bad things with the good things that you choose of the career/university. And in terms of that, I can tell a little about some changes that I think that are fundamental for the best education and a study programme (at least of the Chemistry career).

The curriculum, with the new changes that were implanted, has improved so much. Maybe there are some mistakes in the order of the subjects, with General Chemistry Lab and General Chemistry II in the same semester, or Inorganic Chemistry Lab with Inorganic Chemistry II, that is a counter-productive measure, keeping in mind that in Laboratories the theoretical learning is evaluated in practice.

All this was done to improve the length of the career, but I think that this has to be more, for 2 simple reasons: 1) the workload is too big in the advanced years (4^th and 5^th) which raise the failure probabilities and becomes a delay in the subjects and more years studying, and 2) Maybe there’s a lack of social-abilities or introduction subjects, that, with more years (and maybe just another semester), can be simply solved.

In terms of infrastructure and buildings of the faculty, there is a disaster. At lunchtime, there is not enough space to do it, and some of the students have to lunch in the floor or stand up, and this problem is bigger in autumn/winter when the rains don’t let to sit on the floor or the grass. There are not enough classrooms and sometimes 200 or 250 students have to be enclosed in a classroom where there is not enough space.

So, that’s the big problem of the faculty and that’s need to be solved now!!

And well, talking about teaching methods, I think that it is not bad, but can improve a little more. Maybe the teachers don't have to do their classes all with digital presentations, maybe a little of board marker is good for a better-understanding class, but obviously never leaving out the digital possibilities and the use of technology, that has been growing up in the last time and can be used for the good in the classes, showing examples or making the life easy for the teachers of more complicated subjects, or that need more specific draws or explanations (life, for my career, can be Inorganic Chemistry II or Electrochemistry).