Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interest in studying
This topic has been one of contentious debate among school students, specially ones living abroad, deciding which education system they prefer: the UK, where you study courses only relevant to your field of the US, where you study all sorts of courses? Clearly, both systems work and as graduates from both systems work in a range of successful careers.
Taking courses from a wide range of courses provides students with a rounded education as students would graduate with a wealth of knowledge of different areas in addition to being an expert in their own. It allows individuals to be a “mini-expert” a number of fields. This helps develop good conversationalists and results in people being more aware of what is going on in the world from the sports pages to current affairs. This breath of knowledge would mean, theoretically, one would connect and converse with a large range of people. In today’s world where wars seem to be escalating and there is political tension in numerous places, conversations and understanding is needed to appease and resolve issues.
However, the flip side to a breath of knowledge, might be the lack of depth of knowledge in their own field since they would have been able to spend less time on their subject. While this is questionable, it is the graduate who has taken multiple courses who would be better equipped for life after college. For example, a position as a manager in a big company. One must be able to have grasp over accounting in order to be able to tell if the numbers and the budget is plausible. One must be leadership skills, multitasking skills and communication skills. All of which can be potentially developed from juggling many classes and talking to different sorts of people in each class where the class may be that person’s field or interest, allowing you to learn to communicate with a range of people. Furthermore, in today’s world, where for example, scientific research is becoming more and more interdisciplinary, young scientists and graduates need to be able to think on their toes and be able to make connections between different fields. Taking multiple courses from all sorts of fields, in addition to being a specialist and expert in their interested field, prepares students in such interdisciplinary careers.
In addition to this, universities offer an incredibly wide range of courses which one would probably not have been exposed to at school. This not only gives individuals such an incredible opportunity to learn a wide range of skills, but also levels the playing field during the years one specialise in college. That is, in the first year of college, everyone has come from different schools, different backgrounds and at an educational level, may not have started off on the same foot. But, if everyone studies a plethora of courses and then moves on to specializing in a field, it might reduce the educational disparity that may exist as during specialisation the university would assume that the only previous knowledge you have is from the previous years. This is starkly different from if one took courses related to their field of interest from the very beginning.
On the whole, universities should not allow students to take courses from fields they are only interested in as this would result in poorly prepared individuals as the world is moving more rapidly towards interdisciplinary approaches to solve problems, in addition to the fact that taking multiple courses from different areas, tries to obviate educational disparity to some extent.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 80, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...debate among school students, specially ones living abroad, deciding which education...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: Did you mean 'are'?
Suggestion: are
...e to tell if the numbers and the budget is plausible. One must be leadership skill...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, while, for example, in addition, of course, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2990.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 588.0 442.535393258 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08503401361 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9242980521 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02228589285 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462585034014 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 918.9 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.8754919974 60.3974514979 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.380952381 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47619047619 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211189064611 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644763662928 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828236583389 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148470493361 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826237557323 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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