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Blog Post 6: English Language Challenges

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  Hello everyone, today I'm going to talk about English class.  To begin with, I feel very happy that we are already finishing the subject but sad at the same time. I am happy because it is a weight off my mind in relation to my academic load and because I really learned, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank the professor; and I am sad because I will probably have a different English teacher next semester.  Regarding my experience with this subject, it was very nice, I really enjoyed the classes and especially that the teacher made us participate because I feel that involving students in learning is the best way to learn. Although I always find it very difficult to participate and leave shame behind, especially in English because I just don't handle it very well and I'm afraid of making mistakes, but I accept it as part of the learning process.  I also find that writing blogs, our weekly assignment, is a good learning strategy because it’s an opportunity...

Blog Post 5: Changes to my study program

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  Hello everyone, today I'm going to talk about some changes I would make in the anthropology curriculum. I feel that all subjects are relevant so I would rather change the way in which teachers organize their subjects. For example, we have a subject called Complex Societies in which the teacher asks for weekly group presentations on readings contained in the syllabus, and in my opinion I find that this method of teaching is not the most appropriate. This subject has a very extensive required bibliography, within which not all are read; this is the reason why each group has to read a certain amount of readings and make a presentation about them, but consequently the contents are not understood in depth. I would like the teacher to do the classes and that we would read a bibliography that is adequate in quantity. So far in that subject I have not learned anything. As I mentioned, the subjects generally seem to me to be perfect in content, but the academic load of some of these cours...