Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.
Implementing a university policy where students only take classes within their subject field should be undertaken. This will ultimately benefit the student's finances and final career but not without sacrificing the breadth of their education.
University students in the United States (US) system initially undergo two years of general education and even after this will still have to take outside classes during their final years. In comparison, students within the United Kingdom (UK) education system immediately focus on subjects within their chosen field, remaining this way to graduation. This more direct approach allows for the length of time spent at university to be reduced. For instance, it will take a student generally four years at the US university to achieve a bachelor degree in an engineering subject; however, a student from the UK is able to achieve both a bachelor and a masters degree in the same time period.
The ability to progress swiftly through university has many knock-on benefits. By reducing the required time spent at an institution, this would reduce the amount spent on tuition. Thus, saddling the student with less debt in their future life. However, it must be noted that if universities were to implement degrees that can be completed faster, then the cost of the tuition may increase to accommodate this. A reduction in time at university would also allow the students to gain entry to the job market much sooner and; thus, begin contributing to society at a faster rate. Nevertheless, employers may believe that spending three years, instead of four, is not long enough to adequately prepare one for their profession.
Only taking courses within the desired range of subject matter negates courses that are considered to bring insignificant applicability in later life for a chosen career path. Therefore, a student can acquire a deeper knowledge of the subjects relevant to the career path they wish to follow. This may allow students to graduate in greater preparedness than the current students. Yet, this way of thinking depends upon what the universities believe their true aims are. As a university is an institution of education: is this more narrow approach to teaching truly a full education? To fulfil a well-rounded education, students of engineering should understand the great works of English literature, and a French language student should be able to understand the basics of statistics. After all, the life one has after university will not simply involve their chosen career but a plethora of life's challenges to overcome.
Finally, this approach would work well for those who have decided before university exactly what career they wish upon themselves. Yet, many students will not have this clear in their minds and so will need that extra time and those extra classes to find what it is they enjoy and excel at.
Requiring students to only take courses within their subject field would overall benefit the students involved. It would reduce the time at university, the associated costs and better prepare them for the career they have chosen. However, these advantages do not come without sacrifices to education and the flexibility in choosing said education.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 307, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to field'
Suggestion: to field
...y focus on subjects within their chosen field, remaining this way to graduation. This...
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Line 7, column 910, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'overcoming'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: overcoming
...reer but a plethora of lifes challenges to overcome. Finally, this approach would work w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, after all, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2714.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21923076923 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72911921982 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501923076923 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 857.7 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1464872663 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.083333333 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.79166666667 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298113414491 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.089585288861 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0934206530743 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17984960376 0.150359130593 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612428645851 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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