Post 9: Changes to my study programme

I always said that journalism in the university is too long. I think (without taking credit) that this career is more a job that you learn in the practice that one in that you need to study five years. It is too much! There are too much filling courses and some of them aren’t useful for the future and the profession.

Also, you have some semester with three courses and A LOT of free time. I mean it, A LOT. So, why instead of five years, we concentrate the courses in less semester? I think that even if the university do that, we still have free time.

Other changes that I would introduce in the study programme, would be to put more history course, because a lot of times (me included) the students don’t know important facts of the Chilean history. Other subject that I think interesting to learn are some juridics terms and constitutional matters that will be very helpful if some day as a journalist we must cover things in the justice courts.

In the infrastructure, I don’t have issues, because in the final years the university has built a lot of buildings and sport infrastructure so if I compare the things when I arrived in 2012 with the thing that we have today, there are a lot of improvements. With the ICEI equipment is different, we are always short with cameras or other electronics stuff that we need to use and that’s been a problem all this years and I hope they find a solution.