Small thing. Says someone who confidently views a minor course as an easy load of academic endeavor. Guess what? It is an understatement.

The word minor is seen as a manifestation of inferiority which in any degree is easy to accomplish and is attached to the notion of less importance and/or significance. Like a minor course, it features qualities of generalization where anyone is able learn and excel without putting extra effort. But it’s a bubble we must pop, although minors are general education and electives, it weights equal academic challenges to any other course which offers both the fact and irony to student’s academic journey.

As a matter of fact

A minor course is an additional breadth of one’s program which is outside of the discretion of the major course. It can be a complementary subject that offers supplemental and further exploration of other disciplines of studies. That is why students usually take it for granted and do not put as much effort into their majors. Thus, the weight of the challenge that they carry in minor courses is taken lightly which sometimes fails them to oversee that its value is also heavy and hefty.

The irony

When you belittle a certain endeavor, the odds will not be on your favor. While students take it lightly, the consequence is brazened and unbelievably wake them up to reality.

According to Mark Gil Bostrillo, a fourth-year Bachelor of Arts in English Language student, minors are not hard nor a problem, it’s the negligence of small things that make it difficult and a major problem.

“For me, there is no such problem [in minor course], but sometimes, if we do not take it seriously, the plot twist is such a worry. It is when minor course drags you down,” said Bostrillo.

Minors rest in two contradictory characteristics. Although it is not the focus of one’s target degree it is a course that offers a broader understanding of related disciplines and provides a supplemental and complementary knowledge of other disciplines of study. It might be easy, but a course is a course that should not be taken lightly. Courses are to be treated equally because effort in any degree marks the result of your academic journey.

While minors are treated inferior, let us not forget that the minor course is a paradox of small but terrible.

Article by Meraflor Pecore