What Was Your Major and Minor?
By Sharon
@simone10 (54180)
Louisville, Kentucky
January 4, 2016 5:23am CST
I stated a while back that Math wasn't one of my favorite subjects when in high school. I wasn't good at it and it just never really clicked with me.
The subjects I really enjoyed was English and Science. I'm not sure if it's the same now but back when I graduated in 1974, we had to have a major and at least one minor. A major was a subject you took for 4 years or a certain amount of credits (which I don't remember) and a minor was a subject you took for 2 years or a certain amount of credits.
I actually had two majors, one was in Home Economics and the other was Business. My Minor was in Science which I really enjoyed and probably should have majored in. I really don't remember now why I didn't.
Do you remember what your majors and minors were in high school?
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@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Jan 16
We didn't have majors and minors. If we wanted to go to university we needed five subjects from several groups. English was mandatory, we had to have a science of some sort, and a Maths, At the time Music counted as a Maths otherwise I would have been battling. We could have two or three from the groups.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
5 Jan 16
We didn't have major and minors in High School but I would say I chose mostly history courses and in college I was in accounting and psychology.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
5 Jan 16
I think about going back to college just to take more history courses but honestly these days you can learn a lot on the History Channel. @simone10 Except of course I would prefer British history.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
9 Jan 16
@BelleStarr Yes, I try to check out the history channel when I can.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Jan 16
We have compulsory subjects in each stream. I took the bioscience stream, so Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Bio were the four compulsory subjects. It was for 2 years after our secondary exam. Before that we had to study all subjects including history, geography and literature.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
8 Jan 16
@ria1606roy Lol...yes, that is very true. We always wish for what we don't have.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Jan 16
@simone10 and I wish just the opposite, of having a choice to select the subjects to our liking. The grass is always greener on the other side 
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@kaka135 (14994)
• Malaysia
6 Jan 16
Our high school is different as well, we did not have major and minor. We got to choose either Science or Business. As Science students, we have to study Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and the languages. We couldn't choose to study other subjects in Business.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
4 Jan 16
No matter what school I was in it was always English and Art for me..the rest I did fair in but not excelled.
Human Biology was okay for me too Sharon.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
5 Jan 16
@simone10 I missed a great opportunity in not finishing my schooling. I blame my first hubby for this.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
11 Jan 16
@TiarasOceanView I'm sorry to hear that but it's never too late 
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
5 Jan 16
My major was English and my minor was Spanish and my grammar in both was horrible!!!
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@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
4 Jan 16
We didn't need majors or minors in high school, just a minimum number of credits in the basic classes (science, math, social studies, and English) and then another minimum number of credits of electives. My favorites were science (chemistry and physics) and math. When I went to college I majored in Sociology and minored in Pyschology and Human Development.
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@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
5 Jan 16
No majors or minors for me until I got to University. I remember liking English and History best and that's what I continued to study for my degree. My main interest has always been human nature so minor subjects tended be along those lines too.
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@Juliaacv (56207)
• Canada
4 Jan 16
We had a prescribed number of credits in each category that we had to successfully pass in order to graduate. Your alternatives were the languages, you could choose either French or Spanish, and in the arts you could choose an actual art course or home economics. I went thru high school enrolled in the advanced courses, which meant that you would be eligible, if you had the correct number of credits, to apply for university. The general courses allowed a student to apply for admission to college.
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@Marilynda1225 (91068)
• United States
4 Jan 16
We also had mandatory subjects which were geared toward college and didn't have much choice in electives.
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
8 Jan 16
My major was science. I love any type of science. I was good at math and history.
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