optional courses（The   Role of  optional   Courses）

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• The   Role of  optional   Courses
• 以on students’ selecting teachers为题的英语作文

The   Role of  optional   Courses

      University students are at the age when they are aware of their academic interests and able to make many decisions on their own.In light of this fact,it is reasonable that they should be given the freedom to make optional courses both within and outside their major area of study.Nevertheless,the central importance of core or requisite courses cannot be understated,and students should be careful not to spread themselves too thin.

      By the time students have finished high school,they have often narrowed their academic interests.Upon entering university,for example,a student might decide to major in English,psychology or economics.However,students are likely to have other interests outside the scope of their field of major. Allowing them to take non-major courses will offer two important benefits.First,it will engender a more meaningful academic experience. Second,it will cultivate students who are well-rounded and bring a variety of skills into the workplace upon graduation.For these reasons,university students should be given the opportunity,and even encouraged,to take courses outside their major.

In addition to taking noncompulsory courses outside of their major,university students are also generally allowed to take elective courses within,or relevent to,their academic major.An undergraduate student majoring in economics,for instance,would,would typically be required to take core courses such as microeconomics,macroeconomics and economitrics,among others.Courses such as industrial economics,environmental economics and labor economics,however,may be offered on an optional basis.This allows students to develop an area of spcialuzation within their their major that can better prepare them for emplyment or graduate studies.

        From the foregoing discussion,it is evident that optional courses offer students a variety of benefits.However,it would be a disservice to students if universities allowed them to take too many optional courses,especially ones outside of their academic major.If an engineering major graduated having completed a variety of coursework in socioligy and anthropology but only two or three engineering courses,it is unlikely that he would have attained enough expertise in his field to be well-trained professionally or to qualify for postgraduate work. It is critical that students avoid becoming a "jack of all trades and a master of none".

        In my opinion,students should be encouraged to pursue their unique and potentially diverse academic interests.To this end,optional courses are an essential part of higher interests.To this end,optional courses are an essential part of higher education.However,too many optional courses would thwart students’ability to develop a single main area of expertise,with detrimental consequences to their future carees.

以on students’ selecting teachers为题的英语作文

Nowadays, college students pay more and more attention to optional courses because they consider them a good way to enrich their knowledge. Recently, some universities have begun allowing students to choose the teachers of some optional lectures.
When it comes to choosing teachers, students often have the following considerations. First, they are convinced that teachers should be knowledgeable and should be experts in the fields they teach. Second, teachers should be responsible and great importance should be attached to adequate preparation for the courses. Only by meeting these two requirements will teachers be the best choice for students.
Allowing students to choose teachers will give rise to both benefits and problems. The advantages include the fact that competent and respectable teachers will stand out and students will be more willing to take optional courses. However, schools may give too much power to students and this may result in teacher’s complaints and disorder in teaching programs. So schools should weigh both the advantages and the disadvantages, and try to satisfy the students’needs as well as arrange the lecturers in a sensible way.