Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.
I really like the idea of students having a lot of choice when it comes to choosing their courses, it allows them the freedom to direct their lives according to their preferences. However, a finished university education contains a guarantee that the student mastered a certain area, and in order to be proficient in said area, certain courses have to be taken. So, certain courses have to be a requirement even if the students are not too interested in them.
In many fields a more broad knowledge is required to perform adequately, if a student wishes to skip a part of that critical education, it can make them much less prepared for future work. A good example here would be medicine, even if a doctor wishes to specialise on a specific part of the body, they still need a basic understanding of the rest of the body. They can be a wonderful cardiologist, but if their treatment also compromises a patient's immune system, then perhaps they caused more harm than good. Ofcoase it is not the case that people will always need to understand all aspects of whatever they are dealing with, but they do need a general understanding.
Another problem with giving students full free choice, is that they might not see what their future work can require from them. Before one understands all the practices of their particular profession well, it is hard to know all that it requires. Students will be better equipped if they are directed towards all the relevant fields.
While all these previous concerns are important, I would agree that courses that are not relevant to the field a student is studying should be mandatory. Many people think that courses such as computer programming are so vital in todays society that they have to be a part of any education. I disagree with this attitude, it ignores that there are still many career paths that require very little programming, like artistic work for instance. Forcing these courses on everyone will only waste people's time.
To conclude, I do not agree that mandatory courses cannot include any fields that are outside of the students interest because that can lead to a very narrow under understanding of the area, however courses completely irrelevant to a students main education should not be mandatory ether.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 440, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a patient' or simply 'patients'?
Suggestion: a patient; patients
...but if their treatment also compromises a patients immune system, then perhaps they caused...
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Line 17, column 233, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...owever courses completely irrelevant to a students main education should not be mandatory ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, really, so, still, then, well, while, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 14.8657303371 20% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1897.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 387.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90180878553 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67347347516 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529715762274 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0080603652 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.466666667 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258863253837 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895551363423 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057556352822 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147229966832 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350024876656 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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