About Visual Arts

I'm studying Visual Arts right now, and as long as I know, this is the last year with the actual programme. I've been in some of the meetings with academics this last few years, and they said things like that the hours of each workshop, talking about specialties, were excessive, in comparison with the same career in other universities. This is one of the things that are changing in the new programme. As a senior year student, I agree with the "attention" put on each workshop (maybe because I love to work on my interests and totally love ceramics haha). Maybe it is a little too much when it is exams season, but in general I don't complain about that. 

I had four medial workshops out of five in my firsts years of the career, and a total of four semesters of complementary workshops, in third and fourth year, where you can choose the one that you want, even take the same the whole time. In this last point I have to say that it would be better to have more than four workshops, maybe start them on the second year of the career so it would be six, and that will give students the oportunity to learn more specific techniques.

Talking about the faculty, it is really poor so you don't have that much to choose, oops. Some of the workshops have tools that don't work at all, or were never fixed, and this may be a difficulty when there're several students and not enough machinery to work on.

I am lucky to say that the people who tought me techniques were very worried about how much we were learning, and they care about knowing that we were interested in what they were theaching us. Maybe it is a little harsh when some teachers make us work and work nonstop to learn something, but I think it is totally worth it. 

If I could change anything about the curriculum, I would make this career longer, just because I think you can't learn enough in four years. If I could, I would live in the faculty just to learn more!