102 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.
Should all students be required by universities to take a variety of courses outside their field of study? In my view, the speaker makes the statement unfairly with some omission. It will be beneficial to students if this policy is carried on by universities. However, the speaker neglects the feasibility and necessity of implementing of the policy.
Admittedly, it is essential and useful for students to learn all sorts of knowledge outside their field of study. First off, these courses which seem not to relate to student's field of study can be helpful for students to construct the comprehensive structure of knowledge. Consider, for example, to some kind of students who are major in computer science, if they want to design a useful as well as beautiful website, knowledge with respect to compiling codes is not enough. They also should master something about aesthetics in order to beautify the website. Besides that, the emergence of an excellent procedure not only relies on knowledge about compiling codes, but also requires students studying in computer science to take courses as to math, physics and English. Moreover, courses outside studying field can spark inspiration of someone as well, which of course, goes impetus on their major study. Take Einstein as an example. As we know, he is a famous physicist. But he got the thought and inspiration of the unity of the world from the philosophical thoughts of Spinoza and Euclidean geometries. In this light, courses outside studying field indeed bring some advantages to students.
However, this policy is not the optimum way due to the ignorance of feasibility and necessity. The feasibility of this policy is flawed. In the first place, not all universities are able to provide their students with all kinds of resources and facilities. In the second place, some universities do not engage scads of the faculty resulting from poor conditions. In the third place, it is impossible that all students have enough time and myriad interesting to study a multitude of knowledge which does not attribute to their major courses.
In addition to, the necessity of this necessity still has some problems. To begin with, unduly emphasis on courses outside field will lead students to failing to recognize the importance of major courses. A possible outcome may appear that students who have a vast and wide knowledge but only understand a little of all, do not master, which is harmful and disadvantageous for them to be outstanding competed with others who are versed in their major courses for obtaining jobs in the future. Second, unduly requiring students to learn knowledge outside their studying field may produce negative effects. For example, if a student who are really interested in and good at math but does not like other subjects, forcing him to study courses outside math most of which he is fed up with may lead to shortening his time to study math and diminishing his enthusiasm for studying, even be detrimental to his progress in math. Thus, this policy is not the best method considering its flaws of feasibility and necessity.
To sum up, the speaker does not sufficiently take merits and weakness of this policy of implement into consideration. As far as I am concerned, the executors of the policy should analysis case by case before implementation. They should make a survey about whether students are suitable and interested in studying other courses outside their filed or universities have good and enough conditions to offer their students.
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发表于 2012-2-21 18:31:15
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