Students should not be required to take the courses that are unrelated to their major...?

Question

Give me some arguments that can support this statement above ??

Answer 1

There are none. A well rounded education is far better than a one-prong education.

Answer 2

I didn't make this article but I found it. It's on "against." I personally see reasons for other things, though. An employer expects you to be SMART by the time you're graduated. I found that college, more than anything, taught me how to learn. You never learn it all, and the more you learn, the more you realize how little you really knew to begin with!
It's important to understand a well-rounded amount of info so you know how to deal with various situations that arise at work. English Lit becomes important when you think of how it relates to current circumstances or just needing a good quote!
Also, little known fact: As long as you take a similar or BETTER related class, you can choose your class. For example, I was required to take Business Math but not Trigonometry. I wasn't sure I was going to stay in my major and wanted something better, so I went with Trig. They said I could substitute it! I learned trig and skipped business math, which would have been bor-ing!

Answer 3

Well roundedness isn't something that can be tought and if you "professors" honestly believe that it can then you have your head up your ***.

If you want to be well rounded, then get out there and live. You want to learn a subject, then go to school and learn it... At least that's the way it SHOULD be.

Instead, students are forced to take courses in subjects they have no interest in so that those subjects meet enrollment criteria so that these otherwise worthless subjects can be justified to be continued on for the next semester.

There is an argument for that statement at any rate.

Answer 4

The students are the one's actually paying tuition, therefore what business does the university have telling them that they have to take courses that do not relate at all?

But be careful with this arguement. Some courses seem unrelated but are, just very indirectly. (In which case they should be taken)

Answer 5

It wastes time. Students could graduate sooner. And time is money. Tuition costs too much to be wasting your money on bs required classes like speech or computer applications when most of us took those in high school already.

Answer 6

it shuldnt be a requirement but a choice for the student i think its simply useless unless if it will help with courses that are mandatory in courses that r to be taken in future semesters
...and sometimes students do poorly in courses becuase the courses they had to take was mandatory instead of a liking becuase studies show people do better when they r studying/reading sumting they enjoy it...

Answer 7

Well...I guess you could ask the question "why do I need to take these classes if they don't have anything to dow ith my major?"

I could see a problem with a history major having to take a biology class....

But it all boils down to societies wanting to create well rounded individuals.

Answer 8

one would be it would be an extreme waste of time for example to force an existentialist student of philosophy to try and focus on algebra,
its basically wasting money to even take up 5 math subjects when you would like to work as a philosophy teacher
its just really most of it an argument of wasting time and money plus effort.

Answer 9

I can't support it. It is important to take subjects that are out of your comfort zone. A college degree means something when it is well-rounded.

Answer 10

There are no valid arguments to support that position.