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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Interdisciplinary courses are a great way of introducing and allowing students to take courses outside their discipline. But making it mandatory would-be huge step in the wrong direction. This might bring a huge shift in the academic culture for students which would not necessarily bring a positive effect.
Firstly, courses outside the curriculum might be a tapping into an unknown territory for a student. They might have no knowledge on it and thus will be committing to it from scratch. In this case, grading a student on a subject which lies outside their interests would be a faulty ruling. Having experienced this firsthand, I can say that subjects outside my field frustrated me a lot since I couldn’t understand them thoroughly which resulted in my scoring less and bringing my GPA down drastically. Similarly, this could hold true for other students as well bringing down their morale along with it.
Furthermore, taking a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study would extra burden because they won’t be dropping any of their field subjects to accommodate the former. This would create extra baggage for the student which might result in them performing poorly in subjects in their field of study. This might affect the student’s portfolio for the future, especially if the student decides to go for higher studies in the same field. Colleges pay a lot of attention to grades of students and this requirement would impede on a student in a drastic way.
Naturally, introducing subjects of different discipline might also positively affect students and broaden their scope of knowledge giving them an edge. Of course, this holds true if such a requirement is not made mandatory for students. Giving it as an option where the student willingly chooses interdisciplinary courses might prove to be extremely propitious. On the other hand, universities that are keeping this requirement mandatory can make these said subject’s grading system of little less importance or any similar grading system could be used.
In conclusion, I would just like to say that the universities should not make such hasty decisions without determining all possible consequences of it. With suggestions from other factors such as professors, students and any related faculty would provide better insights to reaching a much favorable conclusion.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, similarly, so, thus, well, in conclusion, of course, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => 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: 1988.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 376.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28723404255 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94514767745 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529255319149 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.816162155 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.444444444 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8888888889 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254236134741 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0937037758213 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524549139354 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153800178753 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0587061402438 0.0667264976115 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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