Post 5 CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

 

 Post 5  CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Write about some changes that could be made to your study programme (career)
Among others, think about:

> The curriculum (the subjects you have to study)
> Workload and length of studies
> Faculty facilities (buildings and infrastructure)
> Use of technology
> Teaching methods



- Word Count: 230
- Leave comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts and on your teacher's as well.

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There are many things I would have changed from my study programme back when I was studying English Linguistics, and even though I think all the things I studied have been of great use all these years, I believe there are even more issues and topics I would have liked to revise.

First thing, I had several history courses, all of them were related to (obviously) Anglo-Saxon history and only one about national reality, I would have liked to study more from the connection of our cultures, i.e. I would have liked to study how both Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon cultures related and enriched one another. Also, VERY few women as iconic characters were taught, also in the course readings, the papers, and works conducted by women were nearly not taught at all. One could have even got to think that apparently, women have not developed science within the field of Applied Linguistics, though, fortunately, this is something that's changing.

We had many hours of classes a week, this was because we needed to practice a lot, so the “communication” courses were very extensive in terms of practice hours. However, I think that maybe, by changing the teaching methods a bit and stimulating independent learning, we could have had fewer communicative practice hours and more about an alternative course that we might have been interested in.

The Faculty facilities were just alright, we had enough space to eat, study, and whatnot, but what I believe it is important to have as well, is green spaces available for students to chill out. Many little parks inside the campus were closed for students and kept for decoration purposes so maybe a good idea is to have those spaces free to use and enjoy while learning.

The teaching methods were also quite ok, not much innovative though and I think that is because of many traditions in the teaching of English for professionals in the field. I think that maybe, a good way to improve the teaching is to have included more IT in the classes, I mean, we made a lot of use of IT, especially in the Phonetics classes where we had to use a Language Lab, but I believe we could have made a bigger use of different platforms and, all in all, I think that would have made the process less difficult.

I believe that I learnt a lot when I was at uni, and I think everybody will always have a set of well-grounded critiques, but overall, I think I received a very good education, and however it could have been more state-of-the-art, it has been of great use in my professional life.