A low hanging fruit

The existence of two classes of subjects in the curriculum appears to be more of a perception rather than a reality. The attempt to make a distinction between, on the one hand, the so-called more taxing and exacting subjects and less rigorous and demanding subjects on the other hand is a creation of a very fertile imagination, devoid of any empirical evidence.

I used to have this illusion before I was properly grounded on curriculum matters. Before I began my five-year university education journey, I thought there were soft and easy programmes of study. While visiting a friend at the University of Botswana in 1987, I enquired about what programme of study he had chosen to pursue and he said a Bachelor’s of Arts in Humanities. Motivated by my naive and uneducated mind at the time, I confidently and unashamedly said he had selected an easy learning task.