The changes I would made to the anthropology's study program


With 4 years that I have been studying here, there are some (actually many) thing that I would change in the study program. I dont want to say that the program are bad, because I'm aware that there are others more deficient.

There is much to say about the curriculum. The knowlegde they teach us are so old that its becoming obsolete. Few teachers update their knowlegde and theories, so we end up learning the same in almost all subjects

For me, the teaching method are the weakness point of the study program. In first place, the professors often teach us more history of anthropology than the discipline itself: Instead of teaching us how to think anthropologically or talk to us about what its distinguishing with respect other social sciencies, they are content with teach us what theory replaces another. Secondly, more practical work is needed, we need more fieldwork. In the Department of Anthropology exist the idea that we learn by falling. Of course I share that idea, isn't bad. But, for it to works we need more opportunities to fail and not a single one. 

Finally, I think it's also necessary update the infraestructuries. The few laboratories that we have are very old (and most are archeology labs). In social anthropology we only have a one laboratory that is a room with computers, with any luck, have installed Atlas.Ti. In physical anthropology, there are not even the conditions to preserve the bodies, mommies, corpses, etc. 



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