A few things about my study programme

Oh man, this one hits me on the soft spot hahahaha.

Since 2013, the Faculty has been working on the CIC (Comisión de Innovación Curricular) to improve our courses and our overall progress through the years, seeking for newer and more updated classes, deleting the old ones, and so on. I joined CIC around July this year, when they were planning on how to create a new study programme for our Natural Resources Engineering.

A common critique among my classmates is that we lack many social-focused courses. We study plants, animals, chemicals and legislative systems, but when it comes to society, we are very "do it yourself" and we don't really have the tools to approach a group of people and work with them. Also, since we do plenty of things with satellital images and remote sensing, we need many new courses about these topics. However, we are stuck with a programme made in 1998 and the softwares and updates have been a constant struggle for many of us through the years, so we're also thinking about upgrading that area and giving us useful tools to work with as engineers.

Talking about Law, we have only one class solely focused to environmental law. Back in 1998, it was enough. But today many things have changed: we have a Ministry of Environment, a new energy policy that will end up in 2050, an improved environmental impact assessment, and so on. So perhaps one course in only one semester won't be enough anymore.

And many other things. It has been quite interesting to be part of CIC, because I really feel that I'm understanding my whole programme.