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 your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and support

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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 your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.

The controversial issue of whether should be mandatory for students to attend some courses outside their main field of study is topic worth of debate. Indisputably, this policy will enhance the overall knowledge of students, however it should be well designed so that students do not spare time and money. Thus, I generally agree with recommendation because the policy can have benefits on both students and society as a whole.

The main reason which leads me to believe that the above recommendation should be put in place is the benefit that students will get by this policy. If students are required to take some courses outside their field of study this will bolster their overall knowledge and, in turn, increase their likelihood to be hired. Indeed, the principal function of the university system is to provide students with advanced and specific knowledge in certain topics so that they can be hired in the sector they like the most. Given this primary function of university, if students learn both the main subjects and those topics which are directly linked their likelihood to be hired will increase. For instance, be a manager of a firm require both specific knowledge in how to properly conduct the business but also how to manage the human capital. Thus, if prospective students take courses in the field of labor psychology this will definitely help them in their future job. Therefore, the first reason is that students will benefit from this system.

In addition, society as a whole will definitely have advantages if the policy is in place. The reason which leads me to believe this is the plenty of real-life examples which show how combined research in different fields have helped society. Economics has been recently merged with psychology in what it is called behavioral economics. Economics assumes people to be fully rational whereas behavioral economics introduces the possibility that individuals commit errors in their lives. The main consequences have been in the introduction of the policies by governments which have been adjusted to take into account the non-rationality of people: this change has increased their effectiveness and the well-being of people. Moreover, artificial intelligence has been combined with psychology to design robots which assist elderly people. Or, complex system which describe how animals interact has been applied to try to understand how the people’s interaction evolve over time in an economic system. Therefore, it is clear that if current students from disparate fields are exposed to the study of courses outside their major fields could lead to benefits for the society as a whole.

One can argue that if it is required to students to take courses which are completely unrelated to their major field this will hinder their motivation and lead to lose money and time. This is certainly true. Indeed, the system must be well-designed so that, for instance, an engineer student is not forced to take courses in English literature but only to courses which are in some way linked to their main field of study.

In conclusion, the system, if well-designed, can bring benefits to both students and society as a whole. Students will have a higher likelihood to be hired because of their expanded knowledge and society can take advantage of research in disparate but linked fields.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, of course

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2815.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 547.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14625228519 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75075943567 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433272394881 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 891.0 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2721055332 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.391304348 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7826086957 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216956084054 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0762132931473 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538774785781 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150755572277 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.044479036219 0.0667264976115 67% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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