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Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
The claim suggests that all university students are required to take interdisciplinary studies based on the reason that interdisciplinary studies are the best way of education. Although I agree that taking a variety of courses from different disciplines can be beneficial, it would be too absolute to suggest that every student is required to do so.
Many might argue that nowadays no fields of study can survive without incorporating knowledge from another field and people might contend that many courses outside a student’s major can actually serve as complementary for that student's major st...
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Sentence: In sum, although interdisciplinary studies have their uses, for some students whose majors are too abstruse and independent of other fields, taking such courses would not benefic their education.
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