miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2016

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.


2 comentarios:

  1. We really need more practical works in psychology, you can't help people if you only had theories in your mind :(

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  2. I have the course of Felipe Galves (Psicotherapy with families. This course is very practice, I work in the COSAM of Conchali. Maybe you can go of listener to his class :)

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