Changes to my Study Programme

When I first started in the University, I was quite hard to get used to the new teaching and learning format. I got actually overwhelmed by the great amount of both freedom and work, but I was able to kinda catch up with everything.

My degree's study programme during the first year is not as "heavy" as the next four years ones, but it's still pretty hard due it being most of the students first year on a university. In the few months I've spent here I have tought about some things that should be improved, both about the degree's programme and the university itself, one thing being the CFG (General Formation Study / Curso de Formación General) system, which has a great variety of curses the student can take, some of which are actually obligatory. Despite having an important number of options to choose, I think they should expand the English programme including more advanced language levels in order to give the students the chance to improve their English even further. They should also add even more variety to the sport sector of the CFG programme, including a more diverse set of sports to choose from. Regarding the workload and length of the studies, I think that it's perception depends on the student's predispositions and studying method. In my case, I don't have a well-developed studying method, so I think that is up to me to be up to the programme's difficulty. However, the University can still give assistance to the student by implementing tutorials, and I thing is a methods they should keep improving.

Regarding the University's infrastructure, I think that in during this winter they should add some heaters to the Campus buildings such as the Libraries, the classrooms and the faculties. I also think they should actualize the Campus public computers software, both in the libraries and the computer labs, wich is kinda old and makes working a bit difficult. This isn't, however, a problem that can't be solved in time, as it doesn't present a real impediment.

Lastly, about the teaching methods, I have three ideas: Improving the powerpoints used in classes so they are more usefull out of class, improving the provided asignature programme document so it includes each classes obligatory texts and, finally, that teachers would give more individual assignements instead of group assignements, as is really hard for me to get a group in time. That last one is, however, just a personal need :/ .