Changes to My Study Programme

 

The career I study is geography, I am in second year and I will speak from my experience as an online student, By way of contextualizing, the courses that are taught cover both the social area (anthropology, history, culture, etc.) and the physical area (hydrology, geomorphology, climatology, etc.) so that in this way our training is more complete and interdisciplinary.

The first year I had 6 branches per semester

 1st semester: Mathematics, Physics, Social Geography, Physical Geography, Epistemology and Cartography 

In general I think this was the worst semester I have had because I was just getting used to university life, having to get up early, knowing how to organize, also in branches such as social geography we had to read very complex texts for first-year students who are just getting acquainted with the career, it was also the semester where we had more academic face.

2nd semester: Global Climatology, Social Geography, Introduction to GIS, Economic Geography and Geology 

This semester also had quite an academic load, because in 3 branches we had to read a lot and complex texts, in economic geography for example we had to read a text answer their respective questions, do an activity corresponding to the class, see the class because it was asynchronous and advance in a semester poster. I think that the branch that cost me the most was geology, there are many concepts and complex processes to learn.

In Second course 7 branches 3rd semester and the fourth semester (current) 6 branches 

3rd Semester: Local Climatology, Cultural Geography, Remote Sensing, Applied Economic Geography, Geomorphology, English III, Quantitative Research Methodology It was a quite relaxed semester in terms of academic load and I began to understand better the concepts of the career, what the professors talked about and my grades were still quite good

4th Semester: Hydrology, Applications in Sig I, Quaternary Geomorphology, English IV, Rural Geography, Qualitative Research Methodology 

This semester has not had much academic load and only in one branch we have proof, in the others they are weekly guides or semester works, also as we have to go on Thursdays it has become more bearable because sharing with my classmates and having face-to-face classes has served me a lot with stress and anxiety

As for the infrastructure of the faculty I can not say much because the last two years I have been with online classes and 2 months ago we began to go 1 time a week to the faculty but if I have to add a serious opinion that more rooms will be adapted so that more students can go in person to the university and that everyone has that opportunity since the pandemic it affects us all.