CLEA Masstercursos master course

[nykorn]

For one, I was the first to ever have a degree from my university evaluated by WES USA 

If you say so. I'd be interested to know how you would know that for sure...

Because my school told me so when I asked them to send my documents to WES, and also my school was not listed on WES' unofficial degree evaluation database (the one with past results from other people).

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My course is 25 chapters total, but each chapter is only a few pages long - the ebook reader estimates you could finish them all within 5 hours at the speed I read in. I'm already on chapter 8 or so. I'm very surprised to say I'm actually learning a lot of useful information that will help me in my job, but I think anyone who's had a baby "from scratch" and talked to a doctor about it probably already knows all this stuff (how a baby develops in the body, the age at which kids learn which motor or speech skills and which parts of speech they learn in what order, what various famous philosophers and psychologists like Freud have said, etc). I haven't had a kid however so a lot of it is new info to me. I will say that the course material is in no way difficult, but it does reference back to things learned in previous chapters while assuming you have remembered all the information.

Comparing the curriculum to real college classes I'm currently taking on a similar subject, I'm surprised to say that I think the number of credits could be accurate - only if credits were awarded based on the amount of information conveyed in a course, which is not how credits work. ECTS are based off the amount of time it takes to study the material and do the homework etc, so a course with a lot of busywork but imparting almost no information could give equal credits to a course with a high amount of summarized information and little homework. The contents in this course could actually equal to 1-2 semesters of credits at a normal college if the method were different. The difference is a college gives you more homework and more "busy reading", saying the same stuff in 100 pages instead of 10 pages. Meanwhile Masstercursos is like reading someone else's notes that were summarized from the real textbook. I really prefer the Masstercursos style of imparting information, but we'll see if the credits actually transfer when I finish the course.

The major problem academically is there are NO sources listed in the back of the textbook, nor scattered throughout the text. Some information is clearly based on Hispanic culture or outdated ideas (stuff like sexism regarding a mother-child relationship), and it could be that these are justified by scientists, but again there are no sources listed.

Sometimes in the back of a chapter there's a sort of outline of important information you should have remembered from the chapter in question, which I assume will be on the tests or that you should include in the homework assignments.

The Spanish is moving along VERY swiftly as well, much faster than I anticipated. I have already had 3 whole pages where I could read the entire page without using the dictionary whatsoever!! Again this is despite starting out with no grammar study and no knowledge of Spanish. As a result I have decided to not even attempt machine-translating the text to English, instead I will just re-read the PDFs for a second round after I finish them the first time.