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Post 5: Changes to my study programme

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I am currently studying anthropology at the University of Chile, I am in my second year of my degree. One of the reasons why I entered the university was because of its curriculum, which I consider to be very well structured. The first two years are the initial cycle, so we have introductory courses to the world of anthropology such as the formation of modern society, fundamental problems of anthropology, philosophy of social sciences, social theory, complex societies, contemporary problems of anthropology, among others.  The total duration of the course is five years and has three different mentions, on the one hand, there is the mention of social anthropology focused mainly on the study of contemporary human groups, physical anthropology oriented to the study of human biology in relation to culture and archaeology that deals with the investigation and analysis of the material culture of societies of the remote and recent past. It is worth mentioning that, although the initial duratio