viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2016

English Language Challenges


Hello everyone! 
This is my last post for the course of English, I finish all my English courses this semester, so is probably that I'll do not continue with the blog, but it was a good experience to do it, I had fun writing each blog post and I think that is a good form to improve the writing and learn new vocabulary. 
I have three English courses in the university, and I think they have been good, I improved my writing and pronunciation, but I have to improve my auditory ability, but I only can improve if I continue to practice, for example, try to translate the lyrics in English just by listening to them or talking to other people. 
I think the activities was funny, although I do not like to make exhibitions, but the blog and the videos was very interesting to do they, especially for the subjects, because were very diverse 
Outside the English class, I do not use English much, except when I have to read English literature for the university (although often the anthropological texts are very complicated by its specific vocabulary) or when I listen to music (many of the artists I listen, sing in English, such as my favorite band 30 seconds to Mars)
I do not know what will happen with my English studies, but is very necessary that I continue learning,  because the most of the archaeological literature is in English and although I am not interested in the academy, many magazines así to publish in English and in this country is important that the archeologists make scientific research and publish the results.
So, that is all, it was a pleasure write this blog. 

viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2016

Changes to my study programme

Hello everyone!
today I will talk about changes that I want to do to my study programme.
In general I like my career and its curriculum, but I thinks there are many things that can to get better.
An example that is the curriculum of the basic cycle, because I think that is too long (two years), and, although it serves so that those who have not chosen a mention can do it, it is too much for those who already know to what area they want to dedicate or study,  besides I think that the basic cycle is more oriented to the social anthropology and lack physical anthropology and archaeology courses.

On the other hand, I think  most of classes are just theory and we need put into practice what we know, and in that sense, take advantage of the laboratories that exist in the university and the excursions to different places such as a museums, archaeological sites or ethnography works.
Respect to teachers and their teaching methodologies, I think that they have to be more didactic, because not all students accommodate standardized tests, and for some courses the academic load must be level or reduced, because in courses such as anthropology III or prehistory II, the amount of readings is too much and in some cases the requirement of the evaluations is very high (especially in prehistory II). but although for this situations exist the teacher survey and the qualitative evaluation of teachers, I think this evaluations many time are not considered and the situation does not change.
despite all of the above, the career is good, but there are things to improve.