Post 9: Changes to My Study Programme

Hi everyone! Today I have to talk about my Study Programme and inmediately I think about my first years of University. The career of Anthopology at the University of Chile has a programme of five years, two of them form the "Basic Cycle" where we had subjects of the three mention: Social Anthropology, Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. In that period, I didn't like that the subjects were focused in the area of social Anthropology, while the subjects of Physical Anthropology, the mention that I like, were a few. When I started my third year and I chose the mention of Physical Anthropology, everything changed, but I also found problems here. 

The mention of Physical Anthropology is known as the hardest mention, with a heavy workload and severe tests and teachers. But I would say that I have no problem with that. If you want to have good grades, you just have to study daily, practice your skills with time in the laboratory and trying to be a methodical person. About the subjects in the mention, I can say that I don't like the fact that we don't have methodological subjects specific to the mention, so we have to study subjects with the archaeologists. I don't think that it's bad, because we need to learn to excavate, for example, but we don't learn how to excavate human remains. We can read about this, but is not the same experience as doing it on the work field.

Another problem that we have as a mention is the precarious infrastructure of the University. In the Faculty, there are only two laboratories, one of Genetic and the other of Osteology. In the last one, we have problems, because the amount of people is over the capacity of the laboratory, so the learning environment isn't the appropiate. The new building have two more laboratories for Physical Anthropology's studentes, but they aren't equiped yet! Also, we don't have gloves!!! and they are very necessary to us :c 

Besides, I would like to have access to new technology in the area of genetic or virtual anthropology, but the money of the University goes to other places.

Bye!