Thursday, December 15, 2016

English class

 Given the importance of English at world level, it is very important to have a good course or classes where you can learn, in general my experience with the courses that the university imparts has been very good (even if only been in level 3 and 4). I believe that the use of blogs in these courses is a creative and fun way to learn, that allows to practice writing even I consider it better than answering questionnaires, because it allows (or at least allowed me) to realize which Are the most common mistakes we make and allow us to correct them. 
 For me it is very important to learn English correctly, since I plan (in the long term) to travel to other countries, in addition most of the information in the scientific community is written or translated to English, so that to better understand the information is necessary to handle this language.In particular my way of learning English is through songs in this language, I listen to them, I look for their lyrics, I translate them and I learn them, so that I increase my vocabulary, another way is to see series in English sometimes with or without subtitles, I also know a game called duolingo where not only can you learn English, but several languages, currently I completed the English classes and I am learning French, but since it has been a week of  test and delivery of homeworks, I have not been able to play much, I really hope the holidays, because I also want to learn Italian.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Changes in psychology

I am usually not very aware of the discussions about the psychology career, however I think when it comes to the curriculum mesh it is very important to know what is going to happen. The last thing I hear is that in the assemblies has been discussed about taking some subjects and adding others, the subjects that I wanted to remove were philosophy, anthropology and sociology, from my point of view leaving out subjects like anthropology and sociology is not a good idea, because Both subjects offer us another way of seeing our study subject and in future our patient, since they teach us how culture and society affect people, besides teaching us how to study it, methods such as ethnography are very important. Other options in terms of changes within the career are that they are seeing the possibility of changing the order in which we have to take the subjects, for example taking the subject of basic psychological processes in the first semester instead of the second. In addition there is the possibility of introducing more subjects in relation to psychometry.
Another very important issue is that within the career there are very few instances where we can do practical work, that is, there are very few times when we have contacts with patients, communities or people in general, most of the work is theoretical and so there are not real instances that  prepares us for practice before we graduate. I think it would be very useful if the subjects were reformulated to generate more practical instances. Anyway I'll have to wait and see what happens.