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Should I continue to pursue my spanish minor despite the cons (story inside)?

Asked by sevenfourteen (2422points) October 27th, 2009

Last year I declared a spanish minor. Since then I’ve completed one class, and am currently taking my second. To graduate with a minor you must take 6 classes with a B- or better average.

I just recieved the course registration booklet from my school today, and for the next level of spanish (what I would take in the spring) I only have 1 option for teachers and she’s the teacher I have now… and I can’t stand her. She’s an ok teacher, and the class is basically memorization but she’s very rude to students and tends to spend the whole time talking down to us.

Now I have a decision because there are pros and cons of following through with this minor.. The pros are that obviously that I would graduate with a minor, that I have an A so it brings my GPA up, and it helps distract me from my major (it’s nice to study something than OT), and I would only spend one more semester with this horrible teacher.

The negatives to continue are that I pay extra to take more credits than allowed, it takes up my time (and breaks up every tues/thurs when I don’t have class), I’m really not learning anything because it’s spanish grammer when what I want to learn is spanish conversation, and this teacher is the raincloud over my entire day.

So I really don’t know where to go from here. I have a meeting with my advisor (about classes for next semester) on thursday, and I know she’ll say to drop it (she says “with your major no one will care about your minor” << not sure if she’s allowed to say that at all!! ). I really don’t know what to do!! Should I stick with it, pay the extra money and potentially boost my GPA OR say forget it, save a little (my school is 42k a year, plus another 2,100 for this class) and hope to learn spanish some other time along the way?

Can someone point out any more pros or cons that I haven’t seen that could potentially lead to a decision?

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