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.
Many universities have started to include open-electives in their coursework. This ‘open-elective’ can be from other departments as well. This addition of extra courses outside the student’s field of study helps the student in many ways. I mostly agree that universities should encourage students to take courses outside their department for three reasons.
The students at universities are already burdened with copious courses and adding an extra course outside the field of study might put students under more stress. The students might not be able to cope up with the additional courses and try to focus only on the departmental courses ignoring the electives. This will undermine the effect of the additional courses and might not be fruitful. Even though this may be true, there are 3 important reasons why the universities should encourage open-electives.
Firstly, in recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in jobs requiring more than one specific skill set. For example, some doctors are now learning artificial intelligence to assist them understand the complexity of human anatomy. Radiologist are using deep learning systems to map MRI and detect infections in chest X-rays. This goes to show that one should learn new things from outside their field of study. The addition of new knowledge will eventually help the person in his or her current field and he or she can potentially develop novel ways to solve challenges.
Secondly, the addition of new courses might help students discover their liking towards other subjects as well. For example, an physics major student while studying about computer science as an elective finds it to be extremely interesting and might want to dive deep into this field. The addition of this course helped him realise his lover for computer science. Maybe after his graduation, he takes up MOOC courses for computer science and lands himself a job as a software developer. Maybe one student who is struggling as a maths major takes up a fashion design elective and finds him/her actually being very good at it. This shows that by expanding the horizon of knowledge, the students can discover their true passion.
Finally, the new courses will also promote exchange of ideas from one field of study to another. The physics major students taking up painting as an extra elective will discuss their field of study with others in that class and this diversity of different streams will encourage healthy exchange of ideas. The class discussions will be fun and students from different streams might collaborate and develop projects. For example if the task is to develop an application which helps students buy books online, the art major student can design the graphics needed for the frontend of the application while the computer science student can develop the backend of the software. This collaboration might result in novel ways to solve problems and students can learn a lot from this exchange of ideas.
In conclusion, the universities should encourage addition of courses outside the students’ field of study. This will help students use this new knowledge in their jobs and discover their passion and love for other subjects. The new courses will also promote an exchange of ideas between different departments which will prove to be very essential for the development of the students.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a math' or simply 'maths'?
Suggestion: a math; maths
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2834.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20955882353 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73898539277 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455882352941 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 851.4 704.065955056 121% => 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: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4186693755 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.962962963 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1481481481 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.51851851852 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265362270177 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895282401843 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700840735851 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168645746438 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600533072845 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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