Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study
The author contends that university students should take a variety of courses outside the students' field of study. Admittedly, it may cost time and effort, yet learning different fields can broaden students’ horizon and cultivate their critical thinking.
Taking courses outside students' field of study may bring pressures for them. Nowadays students who try their best to climb the social ladder are under too much pressures, and taking more courses is too demanding for them. Take my college as an example. Students in my college have to spend more than 8 hours a day to take courses and do homework. Thus, it will be too exacting to let students who are already stressful take additional courses.
However, taking courses like literature and film can help them deal with pressures and cultivate aesthetic value. Through reading masterpieces like the Outsider and the Moon and Six Pences, students can feel sympathy. In such a world where people ignore people's inner feelings but chase for reason and sense, students have to cultivate their sensibility and sympathy towards marginalized people and the fate of human being. For example, students may feel sympathetic towards the protagonist of the novel the Outsider for his innocence and have deeper understanding about the selfishness and arrogance of human nature. Moreover, watching brilliant films directed by top tier directors from the French New Wave like Breathless and the 500 Blows, students can be fully overwhelmed by the passion expressed by the film. Surrounded by strangers and seating in the total darkness, they forget who they are and what they are doing, but throw themselves into the fantasy of film. In doing so, the troubles they confront seem trivial.
In addition, taking courses in the field of social science can cultivate students' critical thinking. By learning theories developed by Marshell Mcluhan, for example, students can know more about new media, which has already dominated people's life for more than 20 years. Rather than praising the convenience those technologies have brought to us, they can be more sensitive about surveillance from the government achieved by cookies and facial recoganition, as well as the negative influence of algorithm. Students can gain the ability to think independently and raise questions to established social norm by learning more reasonable theories developed by erudite scholars in courses of social science.
In a nutshell, by taking additional courses like literature, cinema and social science, students can learn more things about the surrounding world, and have critical thinking.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 156, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, for example, in addition, of course, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2225.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 411.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41362530414 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7362777486 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537712895377 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 704.065955056 94% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5817133746 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.105263158 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6315789474 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05263157895 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.337795464224 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132614426406 0.0831039109588 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144273854146 0.0758088955206 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227549045962 0.150359130593 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121211022757 0.0667264976115 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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