English Langauge Challenges

I always said that I don’t like the method in this university for teach english. It’s a method that assume that we already know everything, I know if I get to this course it's because I approved the previous ones, but everyone know that false, the marks have never meant your level of knowledge.

In general, I have not learned much, I learned more when I listened to songs from One Direction haha. 

I would make a room especially for the english subject, or maybe more rooms depending on the number of students and "levels" and each room would set the themes or conjugations, phrases, how to occupy the verb tenses, among others. I know that is very didactic or a “method for children” but I think it would work.

About the blogs, I think they are good but it's still very easy to translate in the google traductor, it’s more easy, more faster, especially at the time we have the english class, that at least me, I just want my house and don’t “take” the rush hour of the subway (this doesn’t mean that I want to have english classes at 8.30 a.m)

About the aspect that I need to improved, the gramatic and some conjugations that I always do wrong haha, but really thinks that can improve talking more in English, even if it's just alone or maybe writing a chat on the internet in English, I don’t know, it’s only practice in the everyday, no more.

My use of English is very low, I don’t occupy it frequently and if I must do it I use google traductor or wordreference. Sorry for so little, english...

Changes to your study program

I think that my career had a lot of theory and very little practice (although from this university approach, cannot be separated theory and practice), this don’t like to me because we, as social worker, need learn how to interact with more people, as well as teachers are taught how teach, I think that we need to know how intervene in people.

 In our third year, we don’t have practice, we have research nuclei, I mean, we work like in a practice doing research, that for what they have told me, it’s very tiring because you have to work while you generate research and your courses like student... for me, this sound horrible! 

Maybe, faculty can add another year to the career exclusive for research nuclei, that way it would be less academic load for us and we could dedicate ourselves better to our work. Considering that my career lasts only four years and a fifth year validated as post graduate studies (and they are not mandatory, I BELIEVE that the fifth it’s validated only if you “win” an investigation with your nuclei, I repeat, I think that it’s like that, I’m not sure) . 

So, for me, the career should last five years or four and a half years (half year for practice) and other year for validated as post graduate studies, if you win the project. 

About the curriculum, I think it’s good, because we are titled as social workers and not as a social assistant (understanding that the first have more “level”).

What is your opinion about...?

What is your opinion about owning an exotic pet?

I think it's selfish. Maybe it would be striking but why remove them from their habitat to domesticate them? I really like ferrets but that's not why I'll have one in my home, probably in a cage and alone, stressed out by being alone in the day… In addition, for this interest in exotic animals there are hatcheries and places of sale both illegal and legal. Why do we have to meddle in nature? For our own enjoyment as "human beings"? S E L F I S H!

What is your opinion about animal testing?

Similar to the previous answer, I think it’s selfish too. Just because the animals can't say no or defend themselves, I even think it's interesting to think about the ethics of animal testing… why they do it? To what extent do they do it? Does the suffering of them make indifferent? Poor animals! I hope that one day they will stop experimenting on rabbits and rats for scientific science, makeup, psychology, among others ...

What is your opinion about the Chilean tradition called ‘mechoneo’?

I think that is so ridiculous and unnecessary for the new students. Why you want a torture? Without your clothes, your personal things… they make you lose your dignity. It don’t make me sense for a tradition or memory for the first year in the university. Also, what do older students want to show (who make the “mechoneo”)? Would not a ceremony be better? or a mentoring to accompany you in your career?

What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in some cases?

“Some cases” it makes me noise because I think the abortion need be legal now, in all the cases: unfeasibility of the fetus, violation, danger of the life of the mother and when the woman doesn’t want to be a mother. Why people choose for us? In addition, abortion exists, it’s a reality in the world, why hide it? 

They can’t force us to be mothers if we don't want!

(and I will not "close my legs" because my sexual activity is to enjoy it and not to reproduce)

I hope not to offend anyone, regards haha!