POST 7: Changes to my Study Program

 

 

 

 

The career I am studying is called Film and Television, a career that recently made a change in its curriculum. The new curriculum has been active for 5 years, so we have not yet graduated generations with this change.

Although the progress of the previous curriculum is remarkable, I feel that it is quickly falling behind because only in the fourth year we are taught about television, and only in that year, nothing else. And while this is not a big problem, since most people enter the career to study film and not television. The current problem is that the career is not taking care of the audiovisual formats that occur on the Internet, abandoning a window that is growing every day in number of consumers and audiovisual platforms mainly through streaming.

What the career should do is to change the focus and definitely eliminate television from the curriculum and replace it with content that is created for the internet. Every day we are seeing that television is decreasing its consumption, especially in pandemic, due to the multiple streaming platforms that offer content of choice, in good quality, basically bringing the experience of cinema in a more direct way than television and having absolute control over the content to see.

The other thing that the career could do is perhaps to be less pretentious in the conformation of the students because the ideology of the career or what the university aims to create a student prepared to be a film director or work in the cinema, when the truth is that those who end up in this world are in the minority.