Two necessary courses

Throughout my university years I have had to take many theoretical courses related to various subjects, such as, for example, territory, gender, social justice, comtemporaneous history, research, public policies, among others. Although these could be very interesting discussions, there were many gaps in how we were going to apply these knowledge once we had to enter the world of work.

Actually, this problem I would like the social work career to include two more courses. one related to the formulation of social projects, and another related to the use of technologies for social research.

In the case of the first course, students should be taught, not only the theoretical guidelines that guide the intervention, but also how to formulate a project, that is, understand what stages this contemplates, which is what is sought in each of these, and what aspects are necessary to consider for the projects to be included in public policy. In this sense, it would be key to practice with different projects to be able to estimate the main advantages and disadvantages that these should face.

In the case of the second course, students could learn to use technologies that facilitate the exercise of social research. In this sense, learning to use a tape recorder, a camera, or social networks, is fundamental, because during our practices we have had to use these without knowing much how they work. This course would be very useful, for example to teach students to transcribe interviews, to facilitate programs, or techniques that make the work much easier.

Finally, I believe that these two courses would make it easier to carry out the theoretical courses with the work we will do in the future. The university has the tools and materials (recorders, cameras, computers) to make them, you just need to develop the work plan