▶ Your Answer :
Various
opinions may exist over the argument that university students should be
required to take history courses no matter what field they study. As far as I
am concerned, I am in complete disagreement with the idea for the following two
reasons.
First
and foremost, people should focus on what they are majoring in so that they have an outcompeting advantage over other
candidates in a job market. Today, getting a job has been more competitive than
ever since there are too many candidates in a market with not so many jobs
available. Consequently, it has become tremendously difficult to find rewarding
and suitable jobs, and more and more companies require specialists. Given the situation, if they have to take history courses
even though they do not help get a
job, it will be extremely time-consuming and easily distracted without focusing
on their aims. Therefore, students should concentrate on honing specialties in
their fields rather than taking history courses either.
Moreover,
history has become less important today as the world has changed dramatically in
respect of cultural priorities in the
recent century. Nowadays, Our society puts
more value on individual freedom, Capitalism, productivity, and efficiency, which people used to overlook in the
past. In other words, the importance
of most of the principles which
people had followed before has diminished in recent days, and only a few cases among what we learn in history class can be adapted to our lives. Suppose that
students take history class for the primitive ages, and they learn
about how people in the period
lived. It would be hard to find any meaning in our lives through the class, and they also seem to be
just common senses which they can acquire only by reading books if they have
any interest in history.
Taking
all of these ideas into consideration, it is obvious that the argument is not
fair due to a competitive job market and today's cultural shifts from the past.
There is no doubt in my opinion that all students do not need to take history
courses unconditionally.
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