The Faculty of Social Science

The faculty of social science of the University of Chile was created in 1989. It is located in Juan Gómez Millas Campus, along with other six faculties of many different disciplines from science to art. The social science faculty it consist of four department; psicology, sociology, anthropology and education, and the students of this four careers have to share the facilities od the building. The faculty has four floors and an underground. There are and auditorium, two computation rooms, a library, a cafeteria and some laboratories, beside of the class rooms for the different careers.

The facilities of the faculty have improved so much in this last years, for example in 2006, when my generation entered to the university, were few computers and very old and disrepair, but now, in 2009, there arte two computers rooms and the last month the number of computers was increased significantly, but still there are many aspects that need improvement, like the library and the cafeteria. Are needed to increase the number of books and extend the reading spaces, and also is necessary to create spaces for the students, especially study rooms for work meetings, because the library is the only space for do that and as it's small there are not enough space to read and to work in groups.

To face this situation the students have to organize and raise demands to authorities of the faculty and the university. In the different faculties of the university there are different realities in the facilities. Some buildings, like engineering and economy are very modern and have been recently remodeled with the ultimate technology, but the faculties of the JGM campus don't have many resources, for that, for resolve the situation of our faculty is necessary a better distribution of the university resources, more equal between their faculties.

The impact of this improvements can be very important for students and acedemics, specially because our carerrs are theoretical and the books are basic for our formation. Also, the study room would be very important because we do many investigations in group. Of course this thing are the basic and the priorities, but the next steps could be to expand the cafeteria, building more labs and improve the class rooms.