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140) Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

The university is a place where students can get the useful knowledge and prepare for facing with society all by themselves. After graduation, some students will choose to be graduate students, while another of them will find jobs to make a living. No matter what you do, the university must have some important impacts on you. Given this, the university education is essential. When coming about choosing courses in universities, I insist that universities should ask students to take different courses, not just learn what they major in.

On one hand, society demands people to possess various skills. Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technologies, the knowledge of a single field is far from solving pragmatic problems. In most cases, we need to utilize other fields to complement some methods. Although professional talents are still popular, what we virtually prefer generalists, which can flexibly apply various kinds of skills and solve diverse problems. For example, genetics, a hot field in biological researches, requires researchers to at least master molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology and zoology. People who are merely good at genetics cannot finish a whole set of experiments at all. Considering the tendency of the interdisciplinary collaboration, the recommendation of taking various courses is necessary. On the other hand, to students, knowing about different areas also benefits themselves, not only jobs but also the life. If we have to use the knowledge to handle with troubles, these courses in other areas may help us. When solving problems of the electricity, physics works; when borrowing money from banks, mathematic works; when investing in stock, economics works. In fact, we always make use of them without awareness. From this point of view, different courses are also significant.

As to the consideration of limiting students to choose courses for their jobs, even though this is a good willing to prepare for the future, I still have to point out that this is harmful and unpractical. Firstly, no one can predict what will happen in future. They can work in other fields. Even if they really get jobs in their chosen fields, who can ensure that they will persist these jobs forever? If so, the previous limitation of courses will backfire. Secondly, arbitrary limiting courses may cut off many ways for students to learn or even dampen their enthusiasm to study. If they do not like what they major in and want to try some interesting courses in other fields, there is no doubt that this action has serious impacts. In this regard, universities should be cautious with this decision.

All in all, for the sake of students' better future, universities should encourage them to try different courses and think about the real meaning of learning, under the condition of making no bad difference in their major courses. As for the job and the future, universities can leave them to students so that they can have the chance to learn to face with them all by themselves.

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