Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study
Courses taken at university becomes foundation for one's professional life. During their time at university, students discover an area which interests them and decide to pursue it further and major in them. Most students, who are very focused on their field of study, go on to take courses only from that field. However, by doing so they might miss out on some courses which are not directly related to their field but could help them in their professional lives. The prompt suggests that the universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. I strongly agree with this suggestion for the reasons described below.
We live in an increasingly interconnected world. Different fields of study might be isolated in universities, whereas in the real world, they all depend on each other. Consider for example construction. Constructing a building involves various fields to come together - civil engineering for doing the basic structural design, architecture to give it an aesthetic look and electrical engineering for planning out all the electrical wirings throughout the building. A student who is studying civil engineering might want to focus only on courses that fall under his field of study. But making them take some basic courses in architecture and electrical engineering would make them a better a civil engineer because they would be able to better communicate with people working on these fields and thus take better decisions. Therefore, it is important for the universities to make it mandatory to take courses from other fields.
Moreover, we often overlook how our knowledge in a certain unrelated subject might come to our help in our field of study. Steve Jobs audited the calligraphy course while he was at university. After co-founding Apple, he went on to work in the computer industry. It might not have been obvious how a calligraphy course would help him in any way in the technology sector. But it inspired him to create beautiful typography for the Apple computer, and the rest is history. Students who are focused only on their field of study might fail to draw inspiration from different fields and come up with new things. Therefore, making them take courses from other fields will help them further in their field of study.
One might argue that if a student is clear about his choices, then the university should not make them take courses which are unrelated to their field. However, a college student might not have enough maturity to think long term. For example, a mechanical engineering student might fail to see how an economics course would help them become a better mechanical engineer. But once they have spent enough time in the industry and are now in the position which involves decision-making, the economics course that they took in college would help them make better cost-benefit analysis and thus contribute better to their company. Students left to their own might not realize the importance of taking courses outside their field of study, therefore it is important that the universitites mandate it.
Overall, we see that making students take courses outside of their field of study is beneficial to them. Although the benefits might not be obvious in the short term, the dots get connected only in the long term and a knowledge in a very oblique area might come to their help in an unimaginable way. Without making it mandatory, many students would miss out on this. Leaving the choice to students whether to take outside courses or not is not prudent, since students do not generally know what is good for them in the long term. It is the responsibility of the universities to better prepare their students for the outside world, and therefore it is necessary to make them take courses outside their field of study.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[2]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'knowledge'.
Suggestion: knowledge
...get connected only in the long term and a knowledge in a very oblique area might come to th...
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Line 9, column 277, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an unimaginable way" with adverb for "unimaginable"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...y oblique area might come to their help in an unimaginable way. Without making it mandatory, many stud...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, whereas, while, for example, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 98.0 58.6224719101 167% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3197.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 637.0 442.535393258 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01883830455 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02382911018 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72192797726 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420722135008 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 995.4 704.065955056 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8794924966 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.566666667 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2333333333 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.3 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.39717317112 0.243740707755 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129146701298 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155391065432 0.0758088955206 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264360919402 0.150359130593 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0893174567349 0.0667264976115 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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