【燃烧的战火作文互改】Hedia 的issue习作帖
第一次写，求狠拍！2012.9.17
Issue 13
Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Universities nowadays are beginning to encourage students to take various courses no matter what they major in. Students around us have more choices including music, literature etc. even if they are from the school of chemistry.
Nowadays more and more students around us are encouraged to take various courses outside their own fields. Science students take music and arts courses, while arts students learn some maths and physics, either out of interest or compelled.
Surely the choices and abundance provide students with more opportunities, which help to expand the range of knowledge. No matter a student is going for further study or work, it counts a lot for them to master a complete knowledge structure. Those in science need literature skills to write enthralling and intelligible essays. And those in arts should take science courses to culture a sense of logical thinking.
Meanwhile it can be seen from the boom of many interdisciplinary courses that different fields of study actually help each other. A biological student may be inspired while taking music class, finding a kind of music benefits to the growing of a plant.
However requiring every student to take various courses as the statement claims may not be a wise deed. It actually requires that students have the ability to handle distinct courses at the same time, which definitely cannot be assured by every student with different interest and strengths. Therefore compelling them to take courses they are not suitable for will lead to many problems. For instance, my roommate Kate loves arts and has no interest in maths. In order to meet the school institution, she took the advanced maths course last semester. She spent too many time on it, even occupied the time when she should go out to practice painting. Finally not only was her depressed with her maths grade, but she also did bad in her main courses.
Besides taking up time and reducing the efficiency on one's main field, being asked to take a variety of courses may evoke students' reluctance, which results in bad performance on those additive ones. After all, "interest is the best teacher". Study should be a kind of things done willingly.
As for different disciplines, things are also different. Students majoring in theoretical maths perhaps have no necessity to take many courses. Their field is independent to some extent, especially for students determined to do research rather than work after graduation. Spending more time on their own field seems to be a better choice.
In conclusion, choosing courses is an important thing and varies according to different fields and students. Universities can encourage students to choose those which may have benefits to their future and those they are interested in instead of requiring them to do so. Advice can be given, but cannot be settled without considering various conditions.
Given enough directions and help, students will make determinations that are best for them.
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