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.
Sometimes I wonder how our society would be if there was a more human and more generalist approach towards education. Instead of preparing better professionals, the aim should be to form better citizens, the ones that will be responsible to deal with the challenge of the future. American universities should look back to their English predecessors to recover that humanity, requiring every student to take a course outside the student’s field of study. I feel that way mainly for three reasons, that will be explored in the following essay.
To begin with, there is a long-lasting debate on whether universities should form generalists or technicians and that’s probably one question for which we will never have a correct answer. However, that policy will prepare the next generation of leaders and world citizens, so a more human and generalist approach should favor the emersion of other abilities, such as compassion. it is always better to be taken care by a doctor who really cares about persons and does not see its patients as mere numbers. By encouraging a medicine student to take classes on psychology, history, arts and other humanities the university will actually be forming a better doctor.
Further, by requiring that students take courses outside their field of study, what will happened is that those students will have contact with other students and professors, that are probably very different of what they are used to. that experience is cardinal to form the student’s critical sense and improve their more introspective social abilities. therefore, even if, at first glance, it might appear to be illogical, recent research has found several benefits caused by that policy. For instance, a recent study by Harvard and MIT professors of neuroscience has found evidence that taking the student out of his comfort zone increases the level of attention liberating more endorphin. In other words, beyond having more attentions, students are also happier!
Finally, some specialists argue that such a policy can have impressive results on the student’s performance. they frequently argue that a broader context in student’s academic life can improves learning capabilities and the academic performance on the major field. The student who has supplementary academic experiences in other fields of study, is exposed to various new concepts and ways of thinking and seeing a same phenomenon. this have the potential to increase the student’s capabilities of concentration and abstractions, two competences that are extremely important in the academia.
therefore, even if it might not be logical, requiring that students take courses outside their field of study might have positive consequences on their academic and social life, besides creating several positive externalities for the society. In fact, researchers have already presented strong evidences that this kind of policy might favor student’s compassion, concentration, critical sense and even the ability of abstraction.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, finally, first, however, if, look, really, so, therefore, for instance, i feel, in fact, kind of, such as, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2588.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 468.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.52991452991 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08312157585 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540598290598 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 811.8 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0001978469 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.777777778 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.94444444444 5.21951772744 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.249111554791 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0828221188282 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0817136092544 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149428308799 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0356341229654 0.0667264976115 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.09 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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