All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.
University courses lay a very solid academic foundation for the future development of college students. Facing the great selections of these courses, some people say that, history classes are supposed to be compulsory for college students, for the reason that they could be more familiar with the advancement and evolution of human society. I disagree. I believe, despite minor merits, asking students of all majors to attend history classes would cause problems.
Firstly, history courses would put more academic pressure on students. College students have already had to study many theories and professional subjects related to their majors. Meanwhile, their schedule is very tight. For instance, a medical student is not only obliged to finish the professional papers for credit, but he also needs to seek an opportunity to get clinical experience. His load is so heavy that he could not afford to take any irrelevant courses, such as history. In this case, schools should not add this course, because students would worry whether they could finish their homework on time and how they could pass the tough final examination.
In addition, a required history course may lead to unnecessary cost for students. To guarantee quality of lecturing, colleges have to hire talented and senior history professors and experts, such as those from the best-known universities or history research institutes. This would definitely increase the cost of schooling. Normally, a lecture given by a famous history professor costs over 1,000 dollars. These high costs would be reflected directly in the tuition fee, which may deprive poverty-stricken students of a precious opportunity for education.
Admittedly, taking history courses does have its merits. Students could learn to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past. For instance, they would learn about the cause of the world wars and other bloody battles that claimed millions of lives. Students could also gain a better understanding of current issues by studying historical events. For example, by studying the American Revolution a student could be enlightened on the current world democracy. However, this knowledge could be mostly acquired by other approaches other than required courses. History seminars, TV documentaries and books are all available options for students to learn about history.
In conclusion, although there are some small benefits to require a history course, making every college student take a history course would overburden the students both academically and financially. Furthermore, students could obtain the advantage that a required history course could offer by other ways.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, may, so, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2252.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 409.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50611246944 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79718355969 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 212.727598566 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567237163814 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 698.4 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.4094291506 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.9130434783 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7826086957 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52173913043 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285444151555 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0821481452221 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527188133208 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172356996613 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417001032899 0.0645574589148 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 11.7677419355 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.38 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.01818996416 116% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 86.8835125448 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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