Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.

Nowadays, (delete) as people are paying more attention to education, the arrange (word choice error) of courses students should choose becomes a crucial question (simplify). The statement claims (rewrite) that besides a (in addition to a) student’s field of study, one ought to (students should) take a variety of courses, (split these sentences in two here) moreover, the (delete) universities ought to (should) take the responsibility of urging students to take courses. Obviously, it seems that (delete) the more courses a student take(s) outside his or her field of study, the more knowledge he or she absorbed (learns), thus the wider his or her knowledge will be broadened. However, some questions need to be discussed in order to make clear if such claim really works (rewrite, too vague).

Firstly, the students’ courses vary according to their major, different majors will not leave students with the same leisure time for other courses. For instance, students major in law will have little time taking part in courses outside the students’ field of study while students major in foreign language have more time. Since every subject holds a unique requirement for students, the time they need to devote into their subject could have a significant distinction. It will be insufficient for universities to ask their students to taken other courses regardless of their own field of study.

Secondly, the degree to which students of different majors benefit from other courses varies greatly, and for some students being forced to take other courses may even damage their academic performance in their major. If a university calls for students major in medicine to take courses in physics and geography, not only does this require work little in training students to become pharmacists and doctors, but also cause side effects in the process of training since it compels students to devote energy to learning excessive courses. Nonetheless, students who are to solve complicated tasks which need a wide range of knowledge will benefit from the universities’ request. For instance, a student who are to be an agent in investing particular industry will certainly frame his or her study using knowledge not only about economics but also about that industry. Steven Jobs known as the CEO of Apple Inc, once audited a course on calligraphy which he was not major in. This experience cultivated his aesthetic capacity, which later plated an important role in improving MAC user experience. In a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, Jobs said: ”If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”

Therefore, from my point of view, this recommendation must take into account each student’s major, leisure time as well as his or her ideal career. For students with lot of leisure time and willing to engage in some jobs with extensive expertise, they will benefit from a wider range of courses, whereas students with little leisure time and willing to engage in some jobs which ask for single discipline expertise should not be enforced to engage in other courses.