Behind the evolvement of human society, there is always science. Without the improvement of science, there wouldn't be a society like these days'. However, I do not think that basic science should be required to college students. Although it's for sure that basic science is significant to human beings, I can't argue this idea which wants studetns to take basic science classes. Science courses is not needed to university students who is not going to get a job in that field. Also, it can infringe the freedom of students. There are many kinds of basic science classes such as Biology, Biochemistry or pharmocology. Some may not hear one of those classes. Yet, those are literally basic classes. In other words, it's not practical and less-applicable. Even medical students whom are realated to science anyway tend to avoid taking basic science courses. Since it's not useful that much, they think learning more applied science is more profitable to them. For instance, my older brother who is in Johnes Hopkins medical school told me that he protest the opinion of taking basic science classes. According to him, the contents of basic science classes in college is similar to high school's contents. That is, eventually, taking basic classes in universtity is just repeating something that you've done before which is not even siginificant in real life. My point is that medical students tend to not to learn basci science, not to speak of normal students who don't major in classes related to science.
In addition, forcing every students to take basic science classes is liable to invade the freedon of students. As students usually go to college by private money, they have rights to choose their classes. Also, students in university are legally,physically, mentally adults. I think they can choose their classes at least. Moreover, each students have their each majors. It means that they need to concentrate on their own work. But if schools makes students take basic science classes regardless of their thoughts, students will not be able to focus on their majors which are related to their future occupations. To give you an idea, here's my story. When I was sophomore in university, chemistry and biochemistry were requisite. Although those were basic and useless classes, there was always lots of assignmets. Naturally, I couldn't focus on my major subject and get C grade in that semester eventually. As a result, it was hard to find better jobs due to my grade I got in that semester because many firms wanted to hire good-graded people.
To summarize, there are few problems to make students take basic science classes without their agreement. It causes not only infringiment of freedom, but waste valuable time of students. Accordingly, it is obvious that students don't have to take basic science classes.
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