CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

I'm studying Psychology, in my career we have a lot of courses, there are 48 courses distributed by 5 years of career.  In the better cases the students  have four semesters with six courses until second year. In third and fourth year they have five courses  per semester. The last year ( number 5) the students have the practice and they write the thesis.

In general the career has a lot of problems with the curriculum. For example, most of the futures clinic psychologist don't practice with patients until the last year, this is a big problem, because they are reading about therapy four years, without any practice. For this reasons, the last year the teachers and the students organised a process of curriculum innovation. In that process the students and the teachers learn and discuss about the problems of the curriculum with the objective of create a better curriculum and improve the conditions of the students. I didn't participate, but the people who went to the meetings said that it was very important. Most of the times the teachers don't know about the problems of the students, so they learn a lot of things about  the demands of the learning of our discipline.

Nowadays I'm in the fourth year and with the experience of all of this years I think in the curriculum we need more practice, because when I come to the reality the things are very different to the papers.
About the classes I really hate how the teachers use the Power Points, sometimes in the class they write the topics and the principal ideas, and they only read them in the class.

IN COLD BLOOD

My favourite book is A Sangre Fria or In cold blood , it is a non-fiction novel write by the journalist and american writer Truman Capote. It was published in 1966. It is the real history in details of the murder of the Clutters happened in 1959, a 4 members family from a little town in U.S.A called Holcom, in Kansas. The second part of the book center the history in the murders, two criminals after a long and  extensive search are found and sentenced to death.

I like the book because it tells the history with a lot of details, and it creates a psychological profile of the criminals, Truman Capote makes an exhaustive investigation and he even visits the criminals in the jail!

But what struck me the most with the book was that  you can fell a lot of sensations: in the first part you want to find the criminals, and in the another you know their lives, and you dont what their deaths. It is a really good job, because the author imparts a more human dimension to the killers.

I really recomend the book, is a good chance to know the bad part of the human society, the hidden thoughts of some humans are disturbing. 

Truman Capote has anothers creations , but he didnt write anything after this book. He was severly afected by the history. You can learn more about his life in a movie called "Capote" starring by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

postgraduate

The postgraduate studies I would like to study is a degree in music in Pedagogico c:. The reason of that decision is because I really enjoy learning about music concepts, and listening the sounds of the instruments, playing instruments, and composing songs. I really love it. The extension of the career is 5 year, a lot of time, but I`m so young yet to learn!. I dont like the postgrades of Psycologhy because I would like  to know others kinds of experiences. In the social science you have a particular mode of produce knowledge: you have to read, and to be a lot of time sitting in front of a computer, writing about ideas, problematising any conduct, or social phenomenon. Most of the times, the text is assessed by the teacher and it doesn't have any other function, no one outside the university read those ideas.

In the other side, the music have a lot of other attributes , you can open minds with a song because  is have a message and produce a sensation. With the art you can change the society, like a political speech, the music maintain alive the memories, relive the history . For example today exist in our country really importants art productions, like the Victor Jara songs, or Violeta Parra.

Nowadays I'm singing in a really great theater company called Voces del Presente. We relive the history of the toma de la "Herminda de la Victoria". We have a political spech, we used the art to keep in mind the past.
Here your can learn more about it! :)

https://www.facebook.com/VocesDelPresente/