CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME 👩‍🎓

 

I´m a social work student so our academic curriculum is pretty new. When the career was reopened in 2015, the academic programme was incredibly innovative and fresh, up to date with the latest theorical and practical developments in Social Work around the world. Contrary to other majors, we didn´t have to push for gender and environmental courses to be in the mandatory curriculum. Still, there is always room for improvement and constructive criticism.

In the first two years of the career, also known as basic cycle, I would try to reduce the contents of the disciplinary courses associated with social work in order to focus on building a good theoretical and historical basis for what we do as professionals. During the specialty years, I would change the order of some classes. For example, Social Issues and Inequalities should be in the third year, not in the fourth one. This would allow to continue the formation of socio-economic analysis of social phenomena immediately after the general economics courses.

Another issue to modify would be the disparity of experiences in the “Núcleos I+D”. These classes are like internships. The work we do here can vary greatly depending on the project and the faculty member, so I would establish certain criteria to unify the students experience like expected learning outcomes at the end of the university year, flexible but comparable evaluation guidelines, approximate working hours, etc.

These are small (and not so small) changes that could make a difference in our professional training.