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发表于 2012-8-23 16:39:53
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根据童鞋们的意见，我改了一下13/46/102这篇，明确了thesis和topic sentence，不知道逻辑是否清晰了些。
继续求问论证是否specific...
Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
As universities are established for a basic education, where students get a broad knowledge and common sense, it is beneficial for students to dabble into a variety of field rather than being subjected to only one particular area. However, the universities should not require every student to take various courses. Instead, it ought to provide abundant kinds of courses and suggest students to take courses from several fields, but the right of choice, to choose courses in different disciplines or stick to the specific major,should be in the hand of the students. Otherwise, the initial benefit might end with a negative effect.
Admittedly, taking a variety of courses is conducive to the students. They get basic knowledge in all kinds of disciplines, some of which might help them in their own major study while others might assist them in their life.Taking courses in statistics and psychology, a student majoring in advertisement is competent to use statistical skills to analyze data, digging out valuable information about the customer behavior, which his psychology background equipped him to understand. For a student in favor of literature, basic knowlege about chemistry might guide her to choose the right detergent in order to clean her kitchen or white clothes marred by curry. No denying that a background of various disciplines will be salutary.
Nevertheless, it is not the reason for the universities to set a variety of courses to be compulsory, as the compulsory courses will take up time and energy which might have been spent in the major courses. Some people prefer dabbling into different fields, others might enjoy digging into one specific field, since they are clear about what they want to be in the future. Spending time on other realm, those who want to be specialists hardly have enough time and energy to focus. Although, as mentioned before, various kinds of knowledge will probably help the students to get a better understanding and performance of his or her own major issues, students should not be required. Realized the importance of knowledge in other areas, one will choose courses spontaneously.
As Plato said, "education should be guided by the initial interest and curiosity." While forced, devoid of curiosity, students are less likely to absorb useful skills and knowledge and thus the well-intention program, to help students to build a broad background, can go awry. If a student was required to take a variety of courses, which he is not interested in, he will probably skip classes, finish the homework perfuntorily, recite the material at the night before the exam and sweep all of them out of his memory right after the exam. He gains nothing but credits. It will be just a waste of time and money. Forcing is not a good way to learn. As a result, instead of setting a variety of courses as compulsory, what the university should do is to help students to realize the importance of broad horizon and intrigue them to choose courses from various disciplines. In this case, students are able to select cources based on their own interest and thus the program are more likely to achieve a conducive effect.
In sum, if required, taking a variety of courses, which is initial beneficial to students, can possibly ends with a harmful effect. In order to achieve a positive efficacy, rather than require students to select courses in a range of areas, universities should provide selective courses and give suggestions, leaving the right of choice back to the hand of the students. |
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