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Post 6: English Language Challenges

Hi!! The course seemed good to me, it has helped me a lot to practice English, especially the spoken part, and it is so necessary in the professional life, that I am glad that this is a course at the university. The idea of using blogs for weekly homework (not all weeks, but most of them) is useful for practice the written language, and the comments force you to read the posts of others members of the course, in my opinion that is nice. The subjects of the posts also are interesting, not the coolest ones, but they are enough. My weakest side in the English language is the spoken part, my fluency in sentences is bad, and the pronunciation of the words is weak. I think the written part also needs some improvement, like in the use of more vocabulary, the expression of ideas, and even the order of some sentences. My plan in the future for solvent these issues, is to try chatting by voice in the videogames I play very often with people who speak English (most of them do in online games). ...

Post 5 : Changes to my study program

Hi! as you may know from classes, before entered Sociology I studied Law, and one reason that caused me to leave there was the lack of practice in the exercise of law in the first years in that faculty. In Sociology is diferrent, almost opposite, because a lot of things that we will do after finished the career were done during university days, for example: surveys, interviews, focus groups, data analysis, among others. This situation not always was like this, since a profound reform was carried out in the Sociology program in 2016 to modernize the subjects and bring the career closer to the laboral world. Talking about the duration of the careers in Chile, I think five years is too much, in consideration of the almost null knowledge of the formal labor world and of the professions in general that you have at school, we should have an intermediate system between university and school, which will specialize you in a more specific way before choosing a career, something similar to Bachil...