Changes to my study programme

Since I began to study in Icei I think that the journalism curriculum could have some changes, for example, not to do obligatory some subjects (like TV or radio). I would like that each one can make a choice about how they want to direct them own way to make journalism, and obviously no one have the same visions or skills about that. I have seen many classmates feeling unsuccessful when they can’t make a “good voice” for radio, or a “good corporal position” for TV cameras. I think this is not just right; journalism is not only TV, radio, or writing press.

In my opinion, five years it’s too longer for a career like journalism. There are some countries that considerate journalism as a postgraduate studies, and I think that’s good.  Nevertheless, I think that the courses in the curriculum can be distributed better than now, balancing the academic workload among every semester. There are semesters that we can have only four subjects, and the next one we even can have seven or eight.

About the faculty facilities and use of technology, I think that Icei must have more audiovisual supplies for the students. There are sometimes all sections in photography or audiovisual must to do any test for these courses and there aren’t enough supplies for all those who need it.

Finally, I think that is necessary to apply more of constructivist vision of teaching methods. I had always considered that is not necessary to repeat and repeat till memorize and then “spit” all this information in a writing test. I prefer when we have to understand some theories and then apply it to real actual problems.