Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Human beings learn from the past. It is only by having the knowledge of our history can we progress without keep making the same mistakes. With that said, I believe that having history courses as a requirement in every field of study is unnecessary in universities.
First of all, some fields of knowledge doesn't require a comprehensive understanding in history to master. Take physics, mathematics, and engineering for example, these fields doesn't have much to do with history. If history courses is required for students in these major, it will only increase the load in school work and make it more difficult for them to master the basics in their own field of study.
Second, I believe that the general knowledge in history should already be grasped when students enter college. Thus, college history classes are generally more specific. These courses specify on the research on certain era, or the history on certain regions. These college level courses are extremely helpful for students trying to major in history. However, the benefits of students in other fields studying these subject may not be as obvious. Students can't see the big picture by taking only a few history courses in college, and it is certain not practical for students who major in other fields to take a massive amount of history courses. As a result, these history courses may not have a great impact on the students taking them.
Third, although having a diversity of courses provided in college is very important, requiring students to take certain courses outside of their field would actually limit the possible diversity a student could achieve. If a school requires all students to take history courses regardless of their majors, then what about geography? biology? or other social sciences? These subjects are also important, but students won't have time to learn these because they are required to take history courses. To achieve real diversity in the selection of courses, the school should provide all these courses and let students have the freedom to choose among these. With this method, students can choose freely from a variety of courses without being limited to one field.
To sum up, I believe that history courses should not be listed as a requirement for university students regardless of their majors. This policy would increase the students studying load, decrease diversity in the courses student select, and would not necessarily have a great impact on the students. Although history courses are important and certainly has their place in universities, setting them as requirement for all students is not the way to go.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2205.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 431.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11600928074 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59005677917 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461716937355 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 684.9 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.854311446 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.227272727 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5909090909 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22727272727 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31210150796 0.236089414692 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114769272296 0.076458572812 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629046822054 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204397787057 0.150856017488 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0373095134378 0.0645574589148 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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