Blog 6: Changes to my Study Programme

Hi there! For this blog I’m going to write my opinion of the study programme I’m coursing (Sound Engineering), and what it needs to change to be better in my perspective.

The curriculum is relatively new since it was renewed in 2015, it focuses on the intersection between science, art and technology, in that way it has many interesting courses and makes the programme very dynamic (e.g. somedays you study piano and music in the morning, and calculus and physics in the afternoon, and so the other way around). But this is not as good as you think, this focus involved put together many courses in every semester (at least 8 courses), so much so in first year we have 10 courses and in Mondays we had classes from 8:30 am to 9:00 pm with no much free times, only 15 min. between classes and 1 hour for lunch.

Considering the technology focus the infrastructure needs a improvement, the labor field in sound engineering demands to professionals know how to handle newer gear which the university doesn’t have, the best examples of this are the mixing consoles for recording and live mixing, the actual mixing consoles used to studio and concerts are digital with many features and we learned to record and mix in an analog mixing console from 90’s. It was good to learn how the sound engineers worked before, but real jobs now don’t use this kind of consoles.

The last thing is about the optional courses, these are very good but are very late in the study programme (last 2 years), I think the optional courses should start earlier in the program, but this implies more charge for the early years.