Everything You Should Know About Core And Elective Subjects In SHS

Pre-Shs students have checked their result to see how best they performed. In this article, we will take a look at everything you should know about core and elective subjects in SHS.

After the result checking comes with the pending computerized school selection placement system. This is a technology design purposely for the convenient placement of BECE graduate into senior high schools in Ghana.

After all these process before admission, the most important thing that must be noted by all the immediate past BECE Candidates or Pre-shs Students is their selected course and it’s elective subjects. One may ask, what is the difference between Elective subjects and Core Course?

Core courses are mandatory courses you must study to meet the requirements of your program but Electives are courses you can choose, allowing you to study topics that interest you. Electives, when added to your core courses, make up the total number of units needed to complete your program in the Senior High School.

Courses or subjects from which learners can choose according to their interests and needs, also referred to as electives. Typically offered in secondary and tertiary education and complementing the core curriculum that all learners must follow. Electives usually refer to subjects to be chosen within a range of options where opting for one or more subjects is compulsory. In some cases elective and optional mean the same thing, while in other cases optional refers to a subject that is not compulsory.

You are very lucky to tap on this article. Take your time and read the details information from this post as it will enlighten you on the Senior High School courses and their respective Elective subjects together with some job opportunities.

Everything You Should Know About Core And Elective Subjects In SHS

General Arts:

General arts is the generalized study of the liberal arts and sciences. These courses are sometimes referred to as “classical education studies.” The curriculum in general arts is on general knowledge and intellectual capacities, Science, Literature and Language. Arts is one of the most creative streams. Arts offers many booming career opportunities that are out of the box and interesting to take up. There are certain misconceptions about the Arts stream that only the students who score less in Science choose Arts out of helplessness which is completely wrong. Therefore, if chosen wisely, a career in Arts stream will give food to your thought and help you fulfil all the dreams. Students who have pursued the Arts courses will be happy to know that there are an abundance of high salary career options available such as Content writer or Blogger, Event Management, Government Jobs, Social Worker, Social Media Manager, Wildlife Photography, Growth Hacker, Creative Director or Journalist and many more which can not be outline.

The following are the numerous of elective subjects available to student who want to offer General Arts as his or her course of study Economics, Government, Christian Religious Studies, History, Geography, Elective Mathematics, Fanste, French, Asante Twi, Literature and many others.

General Science:

SHS General Science Programme is a designed programme that involves the study of the natural phenomenon through a systematic approach of science: hypothesis, experiments, observation, and arriving at some logical conclusions. It elective subjects are Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Elective Mathematics and In some schools Geography.

Business:

Business is a course that prepare student for the business world. Below are the election subjects that a student willing to offer business will select from. Business Management, Principles Of Account, Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting, Elective Mathematics and Economics.

Visual Arts:

Visual Arts is designed programme that involves the studying of Ceramics, General Knowledge In Art, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Design Craft and many more.

General Agriculture:

The word Agriculture was derived from the Latin word ‘Ager’ meaning soil or field and ‘cultural’ meaning cultivation. There Agriculture is a science which deals with food and fibre production and processing. The following are the elective subjects to be studying as a General Agriculture student; Animal Husbandry, Chemistry, Crop production, Elective Mathematics, and many others depending on the school’s capacity.

Home Economics

This is one of the courses study in Senior High School that can track and offer various specialization that can lead to livelihood project at home. This course also aims to give a learner job-ready skills that can help in finding the right employment. The following are elective subjects to be read as home economics student in SHS; Food and Nutrition, Management In Living, Economics, General knowledge In Art (G. K. A).

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