Educational subjects and capitalization.

Question

I would like to know why in one of my text books educational subjects are capitalized. For example: Mi padre estudió Magisterio y mi madre Fisioterapia. Hardly anything else is capitalised, so why these subjects? My tutor says that she hasn't heard of this but if I don't get it right, I will have marks deducted for putting lower case letters. Thanks Margaret

Answer 1

Mi padre estudió Magisterio y mi madre Fisioterapia.

In this case I would consider the capitalization of the areas of study not necessary because they are just part of a conversation, but in a list of university courses Fisioterapia is correct because this is the name of a course, just as Margaret is your name.

I would not give it a lot of importance, some universities capitalize every letter of a course name - even prepositions.