Question:
Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Enforcing a policy requiring students to take a variety of courses outside their field of study is discordant with natural societal behavior since it forces individual study of uninteresting.
Before discussing the stance on this subject we ask the question "why would universities require students to take additional courses outside their field of study?" Universities without the aim of profit are focused on producing successful members of society who are well rounded, have a careers, build families and have sufficient social lives. Hence, institutions of learning desire to impart their knowledge unto the students about these various aspects.
However, universities are under a misconception that being a successful member of society can be taught. Real life is a mishmash of various concepts and dealings involving sociology, psychology amongst others, however none of these are in isolated conditions. Unlike university courses, real life introduces people to all these aspects simultaneously. In the UK, additional courses are built into the education of the student's field of study. For example a computer science major may need to discuss topics on ethics of computer hacking. Using this method has been successful in the UK producing various Nobel Peace Prize winners throughout the years. It allows the wider knowledge derived from other topics while making it specific to the topics relevant to the student's field of study. In the end students are better equipped to correlate between the knowledge achieved in their collegiate years.
Policies forcing students to take courses outside their field of student is not the same as preparing a student for life in the real word. Instead it provides a student with a lot of irrelevant information which has no tie in with their current field of study.
Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Enforcing a policy requiring students to take a variety of courses outside their field of study is discordant with natural societal behavior since it forces individual study of uninteresting.
Before discussing the stance on this subject we ask the question "why would universities require students to take additional courses outside their field of study?" Universities without the aim of profit are focused on producing successful members of society who are well rounded, have a careers, build families and have sufficient social lives. Hence, institutions of learning desire to impart their knowledge unto the students about these various aspects.
However, universities are under a misconception that being a successful member of society can be taught. Real life is a mishmash of various concepts and dealings involving sociology, psychology amongst others, however none of these are in isolated conditions. Unlike university courses, real life introduces people to all these aspects simultaneously. In the UK, additional courses are built into the education of the student's field of study. For example a computer science major may need to discuss topics on ethics of computer hacking. Using this method has been successful in the UK producing various Nobel Peace Prize winners throughout the years. It allows the wider knowledge derived from other topics while making it specific to the topics relevant to the student's field of study. In the end students are better equipped to correlate between the knowledge achieved in their collegiate years.
Policies forcing students to take courses outside their field of student is not the same as preparing a student for life in the real word. Instead it provides a student with a lot of irrelevant information which has no tie in with their current field of study.
