Psychology at Facso: improving or what

Well, to start, it’s important to say that the curriculum (and their subjects) of the Psychology study program here in Universidad de Chile are a very good one; at least comparatively.

In other universities we can see a default curriculum in which you only can choose your teacher and class, but not your subjects at all. So, in this competitive model, students with better marks choose their subjects first, which only increases the differences between students by their marks. I think that this is a very poor system and misunderstood of the purpose of the education.

So, in this university, we can choose what subjects we want to learn and when we want. There are a very heterogenic field of subjects to explore and discover, many of their waiting for people with good ideas to make a contribution.

Despite of this, we can see that sometimes some subjects has a lot of more workload than another subjects. I think that this is a problem of the teachers that need to realize that they aren’t the only subject in the university! Common people have at least 4-5 subjects by semester, so, teachers please be more considered.

Also, we can see an important introduce of the technology in the educative world. I think that this is great because as psychologists we need to learn how to use the digital knowledge. I think that as well you learnt this “by the force” during your study, program, at overall we can say that the different subjects prepare you to understand most of the digital databases and scientific research, which is a key skill that you need to learnt if you want to survive as a social scientist.