Issue Essay #5 Review required

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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.

 

Nowadays students have variety of disciplines from which to choose their major when applying to a university. In the engineering sciences alone there are a lot of new streams like Nanotechnology & Biotechnology, which were absent from the scene a few decades ago. But to force or make it mandatory for a student to choose a variety of courses outside his or her field of study is not a welcomed move. Such thought would do more harm than good and would be detrimental for society.

 

Forcing a student to take a variety of courses outside his or her field of study is bad. Universities can’t dictate their own terms on matters related to students choice of subjects.  Every student has the right or the freedom to choose what subjects they would like to study. They are no more children; they are adults now and can make choices on their own best that best serve their interests.

 

 

When universities will force students to take a variety of courses outside their field of study not everyone will accept this with open arms. There will never be whole hearted support for such thought. Students will only takes these courses for the sake of taking a course. They would just try to achieve the passing marks in these subjects as they would have no interest in them.

 

 

Though variety kills the humdrum of life and bring the diverse experiences to oneself simply forcing students to take a variety of courses outside their field of study would be bad. Students should instead be encouraged to look into the benefits of taking few courses outside their field of study. Taking few courses outside their field of study can lead to more holistic growth of these students. Sometimes knowing a few other things than your major can help one in life.

 

Variety in itself is good, but forcing it is bad. Students have the right to choose their own subjects by their own free will. Subjecting them to force would produce a half-hearted result that would not serve the purpose of introducing the variety.