All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their study of field is

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All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their study of field is.

As we all know, knowledge about history can bring lots of benefits to students, such as encouraging students or guiding them in the right way. Whether colleges should force students to attend history classes is always a topic. In my opinion, I think requiring students to join history classes may lead to general negative effects even with the benefits it brings, because it will bring extra pressure and be a waste of educational resources.

First, asking students to attend the courses may give them unnecessary pressure. Though history class is not their major, it will take students a lot of time and occupy the time they used to spend on their major, which makes them struggle with their field. People around me who major in computer science always spend all their time in the lab or library, therefore they can hardly even have time to make a haircut. However, in this situation, from my own point of view, forcing them to join a history class that will never help them in their study, seems very cruel. If this really happens, they would further decrease their sleeping time and therefore have negative effects on both their academic career and their mental health.

Second, it is a waste of educational resources to set up history courses for the huge abundance of students whatever their major is. Having courses means that universities should have tutors or teachers in the history area. There are two solutions. One is that asking the teachers who are already working in the universities to teach extra courses, and the other is hiring some other teachers. The first solution adds the workloads of teachers and therefore has an impact on their original courses, or they will ask for a higher salary. The second solution will cost more money to hire and pay their salary. All solutions need more money. Instead, this money can be saved easily by not setting up history courses and used in really meaningful fields.

Nonetheless, admittedly, students can benefit a lot by learning history classes, but they have already learned history courses in their earlier life. No matter in which country, history classes are always fundamental in high schools and primary schools. As a college student, I have learned history for ten years which already takes about half of my life. Also, students can know history knowledge in our daily life. I often make conversations about some historical events and if I'm not familiar enough with it, I will look it up on Google or Wikipedia. There are plenty of methods besides courses that we can get the knowledge of history and benefit from it. It is not necessary at all to specially set up a course.

To sum up, I think universities should not require history courses for all students.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, look, may, nonetheless, really, second, so, therefore, i think, such as, in my opinion, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2277.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 466.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88626609442 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46615824473 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489270386266 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1148739261 48.9658058833 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.875 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4166666667 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70833333333 5.45110844103 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351762367786 0.236089414692 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0993731939797 0.076458572812 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670186113494 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215829165953 0.150856017488 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476918199785 0.0645574589148 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22 Out of 30
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