Changes to my Study Programme

Here we go, again ! I love the topic of this post because I hate so many things in my study programme.  First, the curriculum… I study physical anthropology, and we have subjects  who don't have any conexion, they don't follow a logic time. For example we have histology and physiology  in different semesters, but we don’t understand why it’s important the study in living people. This types of subjects are very specialized and present a difficulty like to medical students. In fasco  we need to complete credits and our program has too many, for example, laboratories have 9 credits and we need approximately 9 hours extra to study outside hours class.

Also we have like six non relevant subjects, like general training courses and them take away valuable time. Second, the teaching methods aren’t very pedagocical. We have “sacred cows” and their don’t are very technological, so many times what they say is a law and they do not recognize that things may have changed over the years. They say very sexist things in complete courses of women, they have a real problem with that!

We have good teachers too, but they have part-time contracts, and they can’t help us with theses for example´. Another problem that we have is the lack of basics implements, like gloves, soap in the laboratories, aprons, etc. We do not have quick access to the use of bioanthropological collections, for example to practice or study.

We try changes this situation, but it's difficult because Physical anthropology don't make money like archaeology. Soon I will graduate and nothing changed in four years L !