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Hi everyone! Today I want to talk about changes that could be made to my faculty. It’s complex to talk about changes to the faculty, mainly because there are many improvements that need to be introduced to change things.

Regarding the curriculum, I think it’s better than the previous one regarding the loads and distribution of the times, but I think that the percentage of attendance at certain courses is very high, besides that they are blocks of three hours once a week what I find little pedagogical. In addition, the workshop times don’t allow to combine the subjects well with the workshop. Although, the duration time of the career decreased, I think it's still quite long compared to other countries like New Zealand, where it lasts for 3.5 years.

Another important point for the faculty, is the management and infrastructure, because there are many inefficiencies in terms of management, in all areas. As a professional and after having worked a year in the A block, there’s still a lot of work to be done to professionalize the administrative, financial, infrastructure and teaching management, I think there is a lot that could be done to improve, but it's a matter of willingness to do it.

In terms of infrastructure, the situation leaves too much to desired, especially because this is the Faculty of Architecture so I can’t understand the poor situation of the classrooms, workshop rooms, especially the bathrooms because are terrify, bathrooms are inexplicably bad and it’s sad because I think that couldn’t happen, it’s like “really, It’s healthy to piss here?”. I can’t understand the situation.

Finally, about the use of ICT I think that has improved a lot, there are new channels for information and I think that is very good, although there is still a lot of work to be done.