viernes, 16 de junio de 2017

My experience learning English at university

My experience in this subject has been very educational. In Sociology I've never read in English. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, they never ask us to read any text in English or any other language. (Maybe is something good or bad but if a theme to other occasion). So, I never practice talk or reading in English till last semester when I remember I have to take this course (I forget take it two semester ago). These courses have been my only opportunity at university to practice my English and they have been even better than my English subjects at school. Here I can talk with others people who are in a similar lever with me. We can learn from each other.
The blogs are something innovative to me. It was my first time I have to write something totally in English and not only complete a sentence. Is a nice experience written freely about things I know or I'm interesting. In other words it makes easier learn this language.
About what I think I have to improved, I believe I have to progress with how I talk, my pronunciation and the modulation. I think I can practice with my father. He is trilingual (He knows Spanish, English and French) from school (A public school, which is a great achievement if it were a school of these times), but is a bit awkward because maybe he will yell at me when I make a mistake.
Unfortunately, I'm not using my English in real world so much. Only when I'm searching information about something and I use a source from other countries like a book in English or a website. I hope when I get a job as a sociologist I could practice what I learn.

Bye to everyone :)

Change to my study program!

Before I start, everyone has to know in this year (2017) the Sociology programme was remodelled and the majority of subject changed, so did how we get graduate. I don't know much about all of these changes... actually I should know about this but I can't remember it right now, but to do this entry I will avoid all of this and think never happened.

So, to begin with, we can say the programme is a varied one. It reaches a lot of interesting themes in every subject, but a lot are elective course. This may cause a lot of things we think are basics to be a Sociologist are left behind by some students, like Sociology of Gender. The only other thing we can say is "bad" with the curriculum is the majority of knowledge goes around work themes. It is something is already changing, but the ego is stil there. Always happen that one or two students, or even a teacher, are minimizing because the path they choose.

If we talk about building and technology, Sociology in Universidad de Chile is recently updating these things. Is not a university with a lot of money, so they always go into debt and compete with other universities to gain money through projects in the State. Specifically in my career just by now they finish a new building to have more office because the professors work under bad condictions for years. About technology we are not so bad. In the last three years the career start updating all the computer programs we use in the career so we can approach to a more real work experience