Changes to my study program

Hello everyone!

As I told you in my last blogs, I´m studying public administration. If you don't know about the career, I´ll tell you about it. In fact, today I'm going to talk about the curriculum, the workload and length of studies, the teaching methods, among others.


Firstly, the subjects we have to study are very varied. We study subjects such as law, maths, Chilean history or financial and people management. Public administration is a very interdisciplinary career because to face public problems you have to know the various aspects that they may have.



Secondly, the duration of the mayor is about 5 years (if you don´t fail your subjects). In these 5 years public administration students are studying the “management” at a theoretical level and are also analyzing how this management is in the country.


Third, teaching methods are application of theoretical concepts to everyday situations. To do that, we do group work because it allows you to collect the different perspectives of classmates and achieve a better analysis.


However, the pandemic has made it very difficult to provide feedback from classmates´ perspectives and to do more field work in the institutions. Related to it, I think that has caused a great demotivation to go to classes. 


With this in mind, the changes that I would make to my study program is to incorporate field work or regular face-to-face classes! Because the career profile requires knowing other perspectives and knowing the reality of the institutions.


What do you think?

Comentarios

  1. Juliana Penroz25 de noviembre de 2021 a las 16:28

    I also miss the courses where we could do field work and interact with other people, unfortunately the pandemic has taken that away.

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  2. Salomé González25 de noviembre de 2021 a las 18:07

    I totally agree, the pandemic has caused a great demotivation to go to classes.

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  3. Oscar Mercado25 de noviembre de 2021 a las 18:36

    I agree that the pandemic has hindered comprehensive career learning.

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  4. Marco Reyes26 de noviembre de 2021 a las 4:33

    I totally agree that public administration is made up of very varied subjects!

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