Changes to my study programme

The curriculum must change in Law School, here in Universidad de Chile. We have some asignatures in first year which duration are very large, like History of Law and Introduction of Law (2 semesters each one). We need to reduce the duration of that courses, and give more importance to another courses that today don’t have enough time to be understood like Administrative Law, Procesal Law and Tax Law. (one semester each one).
The career’s lengths are supposed to be 5 years long, but the students take 9 years to finish it. The principal problem is the existence of the “Memoria”. A kind of thesis that is a requirement for the licenciature. We have to remove that requirement, because another Law Schools in Chile don’t have it. And we want to have lawyers from our university, we have to facilitate that job.
The faculty has to put a limit to the students entry, because we don’t have the infrastructure to receive more than 400 people for year. It is necessary to build another library because it doesn’t have the required space for us all.
The career has to stimulate the use of technology and the practical learning. We spend a lot of time memorizing theory, but we don’t have practical courses. In my 5 years here I only had two litigation courses, and they were optional courses, not obligatory.
I think that we have to have an English obligatory course, because it is very necessary for the Lawyer today. All the good companies are looking for bilingual lawyers, and in that matter, English is essential.
Another thing that the faculty needs to change is the teaching methods. The majority of our teachers are lawyers without any pedagogical capacitation. They needs to take pedagogic courses and capacitation.