Vania Arriagada

  I’m currently in my second year of Social Work. Before entering the career, I reviewed a lot of study programs in other universities, and everyone had different approaching of the social practice. I really liked the focus of this university, but there were a couple of things that I didn’t understand at all, but I thought that it couldn’t be a big problem. Well, later I got to know that my program didn’t include practices like other careers or universities, instead, we have like an investigative/applied course of different areas that can be dabble in Social Work. I still don’t know clearly how they work, but I will get to know next semester because I need to choose which course I want to take. The workload and length of studies seems pretty manageable, but of course there are exceptcions where students have big resposabilities outside of the university so they can’t full focus on it. I personally think that this actual semester has been very stressful because professors are more deman

  The principal reason I would like to do a post graduate studies is because I want to deepen my knowledge in my discipline in a certain area. I still do not have clear what kind of area I like the most, but I am interested in reinsertion, gender violence and poverty in general, so I guess in the next semesters I will be more clear in this topic as I will be learning more in my courses. I would love to study abroad, maybe in Europe,   but I am not clear about if there are scholarships that I can access to in different universities, because I do not think I can afford paying those kind of studies, without thinking about food, lodging, and health. By the way, in Chile there is only one PhD   course for Social Work, so studying abroad is the best option to deepen our studies. I have not looked for specific countries or universities I would like, but I think that I prefer an english speaking country, because a big part of social work related literature is in this language. I think I wo