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Hi everyone, I would like to talk about my experience with the English at the university. Well, I do not have good reference about English at the university, except this course (the English 4th). I remember the English level 3 like a bored course. We had two modalities, working in laboratory with the writing a blog and other days we had expositive classes. In general, during expositive classes we worked in pair. The teacher chose a specific topic and we must to generate a dialogue around this topic or sometimes we had to answer certain questions about ourselves. The truth is… we spoke in Spanish because it was very difficult and boring to speak in English. When students get into to the university for the first time, they usually are not accustomed to the extensive hours of classes and often the English course is done in the afternoon after being in other classes in the morning, from 8.30 to 13.30. Of course, the students are tired to continue with English classes all afternoon until...

In my opinion, psychology should have practical courses right off the start because in the beginning we have too many theoretical ones. In the first year the study program has introductory courses for social sciences, like philosophy, anthropology, sociology, epistemology, among others. Therefore, first year psychology students don’t get to know about their professional field, so they get discouraged and unmotivated. Only when students undergo their fourth year they are able to approach psychology’s professional field because courses this year increase their specificity. At this point the student must decide what kind of psychology they will choose to work in.        From my perspective the workload and length of my career are adequate; I think that five years are necessary in order to become well-trained in psychology’s many applications. Our curriculum contains learning about educational psychology, organizational psychology, law psychology, clinical p...