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Issue13
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.

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Issue13

Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

Diversified classes can serve for students' knowledge, heart and mind, hence expanding their horizon. In general, it is beneficial for the majority of students. However, if taking a variety of courses becomes compulsory, students will not reap as much benefit as it seems. Therefore, it is not necessary for each one of students learn some courses out of their majors. Taking classes should be based on students' own attitudes and preferences.

To begin with, in general, students should be encouraged to take courses in different subjects. A diversified curriculum provides students more opportunities to earn more. By learning more knowledge in diferent fields, students can get different perspectives, methods and disciplines that they cannot discover in their major. For example, a student who specializes in humanism subject, like history, literature or philosophy, can further his/her study in an unprecedanted way if he/she can spend some time learning other subject which is also in humanism. Anyway, humanism subjects cannot be completely seperated from each other, as the old saying goes.

However, people should not neglect an obvious flaw in the statement that learning different courses is compulsory. Apparently, not all of students deserve diversified classes. For some students, mastering the difficult knowledge in their major, such as maths, physics or chemstry etc,is quite demanding.They have to struggle in endless homework, excercise and presentations in order to get a "A". Leisure time is too luxury to enjoy. Rarely can they afford sparing more time to dabbling other courses that have nothing to do with their major. The more time they used for learning irrelevant subjects, the less time remained that can be used for furthering their study. If the time spent on other fields can be contributed to focus on the major, a lot of valuable work can be finished,such as writing some insightful essays. Therefore, for these students, depth is more significant than diversity. Requiring them to study broadly is putting the cart before horse.

Nor can we deny that choosing courses is purly a matter of individual's freedom, which should not be interfered by their universities. Everyone is endowed with liberty to make their choices. Even if there is no other available courses can be taken, students will still choose to study what they are interested in. In our time, we have TTC, coursera, mooc, wikipedia and so forth. Everyone of them can give us lots of valuable online resources about our favorable domain.  Therefore, it is not neceessary for every university to force every student to take courses out of their major.

To sum up, although learning more is always beneficial and should be encouraged, it is inappropriate for every student to do so. In some subjects, focusing on a field is more advisable. Also, students should take their responsibilities of making their own choice, instead of being forced to choose.  

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To be wider or deeper in their coursers seems to be a dilemma for most of the top universities around world. There is no doubt that the diverse courses play an important role in building student's knowledge structure, however too much weight put on diversification will inevitably hamper student's further pursuit into certain theory or issue with depth. Therefore, the variety of courses should be employed but not at the cost of losing focus on the field of study, especially for the senior students, who have already carried on specialised research in certain area.

Varying the courses students take at university serves a key role in broadening their horizon and nurture flexible perspectives, which are the crucial elements of creative thinking and logical analysis. So university should embrace diversification. Evidences show that for beginners or freshmen, a variety of courses offer soft landing and easy atmosphere for study of a new field. Students interested in certain field are allowed to dig their research deeper via higher level of education, such as graduate programme or professional trainings.

Besides, students unfamiliar with or negligent to common sense and general issues out of their own field are often deemed by others as bookworms. How can we expect them to offer innovative solutions and pertinent comments to their own fields? If reviewing history, it is not difficult to find there are many famous scientists or political leaders who were comprehensive in a diverse range of disciplines. The wide interests not only enrich their leisure time, but also allow them to be more tolerant and open-minded.

However, we should not neglect the core educational aim carried by university that is to promote the complexity of disciplines and deepen our acknowledgement to the world both physically and mentally. To achieve this goal, focusing on the specialized areas of study is preferable. Not only because it promotes the accumulation of students' academic capability,  it also helps young students to build effective networks confined to the area they're pursing.

Furthermore, for senior scholars or experienced practitioner, who are seeking for the higher achievement in their focus areas, being deeper seems to be more crucial than wider. Why? Since most of our researches and academic activities require tremendous input, extensive causes risk exhausting students’ limited time and energy, which should be spent on exploring their own depth of field. It is through the arduous efforts and repetition that the fruitful academic accomplishment can be achieved.Therefore, the university is encouraged to curtail irrelevant causes and offer senior students opportunities to dip deeper.

To sum up, reasonable composition of the two types of courses helps student allocate their limit time and energy, and more importantly, achieve more favourable academic results. Universities are recommended to cautiously arrange the courses to meet the diverse academic aspirations of their students.

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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.

This topic gives rise to  a debate that has long been discussed by university education  on general education and professional education. Although I acknowledge that the knowledge outside our major can be helpful for the future development of the student in his/her career and daily life, I do not agree that university student should be forced to spend time on a considerable amount of time to learn a list of curriculum which may be not necessary . I will future examine this issue from the aspects of the aim of university education, the career  planning and considering other ways of study.

First and foremost, requiring the students to be familiar with and develop some basic skills through the courses outside the student's own field can be necessary for the career development of the students, so they can expand their horizon and develop critically way of thinking.  Take my experience as an example, while I major in Mechanical engineering, English writing skill, from my perspective, is an important and useful skill in my work experience. I find that the drawing skill, the knowledge in economic or chemistry and many computer skills are indispensable to be a good engineering or expert in my field.  . I think that learn to think from the perspectives which are different from their own fields can offer them better ideas.  The formal vice-president of Google Alan Eustace showed his athlete talent while he was in college. He is the man who took advantage of his physical talent to help him to work intelligently and diligently to achieve his success in his company.

To prepare the student to head on the challenge, in terms of  both professional and academic pursuit, may be one of the most important purposes of college education.  However, I am surprised to find that many people might have an unrealistic idea about college education, as they think the university should enlighten or nurture the geniuses of the society in every aspect. But for most of the people, their effort and time in the college in limited and if we force them to learn the courses outside their field , just like my cousin who major in Asia history but spent the first two years in university learning chemistry and physics, she was regretted if she had used these time to learn some language or literature subject which was much more beneficial for her future career.  

Besides, the courses in the classroom may not be the only sources of knowledge and the best way to learn the skill that we are interested in. I mean, we may find a more suitable way better than the courses in the university.  The MOOC lessons offer us a chance to choose our favorite teachers' lessons from different colleges. We all have such experience some time we choose the general lessons simply because the school asks us to get enough credits to graduate, but we just have no interest in the subjects chosen. Therefore, instead of taking courses we dislike at college, we have the flexibility to learn the skills from student’s clubs and on-line open course, to name just a few.

In summary, it is a good idea to take advantage of the general optional courses while we are still studying in the university, however, we should be clear that the professional subjects is fundamental and those are what we should make great effort to learn.

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tesolchina 发表于 2016-1-25 20:08
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