Argh! Not again!

[.Mikha'el.]

Some time ago, I started a thread here because I was unsure about whether I should drop my minor. It all started when I enrolled in a political scince course I thought was interesting, only to find out that it did not count, perhaps irrationally, towards a History minor, as had been

Just to be clear, I have looked to enter a one-year post-BA teacher education program at my university. Completion of my BA does not require a minor, nor does the admission to the teaching program. That I why i had considered dropping the minor.

I did drop my history minor, only to reconsider. I decided to spend one extra year and pick up a political science minor to complemnt my English major, because that would now be slightly more efficnet than a history minor. I was also uncomfortable with the idea of graduating without a minor, for fear that it may be a detriment if I never go into teaching as I wish. But I always knew that what I should have done would be to have decided from the beginning of univeristy to go for a French minor.

The Faculty of Education advisor has recommended, after i talked to her about this, that if a french minor is not possible, that I should at least take more French so that aa future employer might allow me to teach French if I ever got a teaching degree.

Now to make this all more complicated, I have considered the very real possibility that I might not make it into the teaching program at my local university. After looking across the country, I have found a program with much lower tuition and more generous entrance requirements that would enable me to teach French sooner than I can in my hometown. I have decided that I do wish to move out there and try again if my hometown university ceases to be an option.

So, going into next year, I have my work cut out for me. I need one course to finish my english major. I need three courses of political science to finish the minor. My oringinal plan was to take two courses of french, and two history courses just because they sound unbelievably fascinating.

But I soon found myself in a dilemma. I was torn between those two history courses, and doubling the number of French courses from two to four. Doing that would give me more acadmic experience in that discipline and bolster my chances of ever teaching French. And, if I ever did attend university across the country, it would reduce the number of courses I would need for the equivalent of a French minor at that institution to a mere two, as opposed to six at my current school.

But then I noticed as I was testing registration for my courses next year assuming four French courses, I found that I was missing prerequisites for one of the political science courses. I could rearrange my schedule, but doing so would cause me to take other political science courses with a professor whom i have heard is one of the more difficult ones. I really do not want to do that, espcially when the GPA requirements for the Education program here depend solely on the courses I take this summer and next year.

I am now thinking it might be best to just drop my minor once and for all. I could take those history classes i so want. I would not be stuck in political scince with the great potential of struggling. I could even take all the french I wanted. And take one fewer class than I had planned originally. I feel like i would be giving myself not only the classes i want, but a far, far better chance of getting into a teaching program.

It sounds great. But what stops me is the nagging feeling i had before that not graduating with a minor could really hurt me if I end up in a field other than teaching.

So, what do you all think I should do?

 

[KET20]

I don't think a minor is really that important in the big picture, unless you really need it for something. The only thing I know for sure you can do with a minor is get into grad school for your minor or major fields (as opposed to just your major - you can still get in with no minor). Other than that, I've sure never used mine!