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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 a 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 jobs, 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. A 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. (두번째 바디의 메인포인트에서 시간의 부족과 정확히 연관되다고 보기 어렵습니다. 차라리 이 부분에 있어서는 (역사에 관심이 없었던 학생이 역사를 배우는 데에는 시간이 오래걸린다)와 같은 주장을 메인트로 잡으시는 것이 낫습니다!)
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 the 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 with this flexible registration system. Additionally, some critics complement this policy as an ideal educational approach for a sustainable and highly beneficial learning system. (역사 공부를 하면 학생들의 선택권에 제약이 생기는 것은 맞지만 대학에 들어가기 전에 이 사실을 알고 있을 확률이 높으므로 그 부분을 예상되는 반박에 넣어주시면 고득점이 될 수 있습니다)
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 the 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 rights for all students in the education field.
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