▶ Your Answer :
In
the field of education, knowing the history of one’s own country is considered
important. For the reason, some people claim that history classes must be
mandatory for all university school students no matter what they major in.
However, I believe that making history courses as necessary requirement of
graduation has ill-effects on student’s academic performances and their life
for the following reasons.
To
begin with, students can suffer a lack of time, if they will be impelled to
take history class as a mandatory course. Most university students have a lot
of task including school works, part-time job and job finding. As they have
only a little time for their leisure time ranging from 4 to 5 hours a day, they
do not afford to study on the extra mandatory course. For instance, my best
friend is a student majoring mechanical engineering at Seoul National
University of Science and Technology, one of the biggest national universities
in Korea. As the school was categorized into a national educational institute,
all student including my friend had to necessarily pass at least one of history
classes at freshman year. Despite he had harshly studied on the subject, he
failed on the final test many times due to a lack of background knowledge. Few
months later, he had spent a lot of time, then eventually passed the test.
Nonetheless, he inevitably got very low grades in other subject related to his
major. It implies that making history courses obligatory for students of other
majors is improper educational approach in respect with that it was not helpful
for their academic performances in practice.
On
top of that, university must guarantee the right of student to freely choose a
subject what they want to study on. Of the gold standard criteria in students’
rights, the most important thing is availability of a choice to a subject to
study. Recently, some school, which has well-observed this rule for the last
decades, invented an innovative registration system. As an example of the
schools, my university offers all students an opportunity to select a subject
what they want to learn about. During the first two semesters, students can
explore all academic fields and even can change their major. Most of these
students are satisfied at this flexible registration system. Additionally, some
critics complement this policy as an ideal educational approach for sustainable
and highly beneficial learning system.
To sum up, I believe that making history classes as a mandatory course
for all university students is too risky. As I mentioned above, such a policy
can abate a life quality of students with reducing their leisure time. Furthermore,
this matter may not be a kind of brainer with regard that freely choosing a
subject is the one of the gold standard right for all students in the education
field.
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