CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

I am studying psychology, and I think this major has a lot of things that I would change. One of this things is about the subjects that we have to study. I believe that Universidad de Chile gives a very academicist approach to psychology and legitimizing that like a science above other approaches. I think that academic psychology is important, but I would like that the University had more different approaches like critical psychology, antipsychiatry, social psychology, among others. Something related to this and that make me be very worried is that two years ago, the antipsychiatry and the feminism subject were eliminated of the optional courses of the curriculum. I believe that it is a very big mistake and let the major with a deep academic empty.

On the other hand, I think that the workload is a lot. We have to read too pages per day, besides, we have to do many group works and we have reading controls every weeks. I have listened to a lot of old people say that there are others majors with a higher academic load, and I really hate this comments because it make invisible all the suffering and distress that me and my classmates feels every day. For this, I would like that the teachers put themselves in our position and make less the workload.

Finally, I would like going to class only in the “aularios”, because they are more comfortable than the FACSO´s classroom, and I can concentrate better.