IN the early 50’s, the Bachelor of Arts/Science degrees were known as general AB/BS (Bachelor of Arts/Science). Both degrees did not require a major. When our higher education institutions (HEI’s) began hiring liberal arts graduates to teach, the Department of Education then directed HEI’s to require majors for the AB/BS degrees and to include at least a 3-unit teaching course, such as The Teaching of History (for a major in History) or The Teaching of Mathematics (for a major in Mathematics) and so on.
The general AB/BS degrees were later phased out; HEI’s began offering joint degrees in AB and Education lasting until the middle 70’s. These joint degrees were completed in five years as AB-BSE or AB-BSEEd/BEEd. Any major field in AB was accepted also as such in Bachelor in Secondary Education (BSE) --- 36 units for social sciences majors and 42 units for sciences. For the joint degree in AB and Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (later re-named as Bachelor in Elementary Education - BEEd), the requirements for a major in AB fulfilled those in BEEd except that one-half of said requirements should be integrated courses such as Social Science, General Science, English Language, Reading and Literature.
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