Should Students Free to Choose Their Courses

Recently, universities give students more and more privilege to select their courses, aiming to raise their interests in studying. Driven by the trend, some people suggest that every course should be selected by the students. However, in my opinion, students shouldn’t have complete freedom to select their own course.

Firstly, we can grasp systematic professional knowledge if there are some compulsory courses. When the universities arrange the teaching plan, they will put all the needed courses in it. Only when we learn all the needed courses can we students really meet the university requirement. If a student majoring in math has complete freedom and he chooses all the art courses but only a little part of math courses. In this situation, can he really match the math diplomat?

Secondly, the students will be fully developed with some compulsory courses. As is known to us all, everyone has his preference. If we allow students to choose the course completely free, they will mostly choose their preferences, maybe only art or science. However, graduates should have abundant knowledge rather than only a limited area. But the problem can be solved with compulsory courses. The universities will arrange reasonable and overall courses to the students, from which students will benefit a lot.

Besides, it is a good way to make full use of the university resources. If students have complete freedom, they all will choose the courses taught by the most famous professors or the courses seems interesting. However, other courses, which are also meaningful and useful, will be ignored. Needless to say, it is a waste of universities’ resources. Nerveless, if we arrange some compulsory courses, every course will have rational numbers of students. Obviously, limited freedom is much better in the point of resources using.

All in all, students should have the freedom to choose the teachers, but not the complete