Issue Essay 5: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students.

Reason: College students—like people in general—prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claims is based.

The author states that limited courses should be predefined for the students in order to avoid them to make their own choices. However I don’t agree with the author because every body’s interest varies from one another. For this reason, it is essential to put an open end of the choices for the students.

I would support my point of view with the help of example out of my own life. When I was at university, several numbers of courses were taught. The main subjects which were taught us were the main branches of the economics as compulsory subjects. However after I have been graduated from university I choose one of the subjects from electives for my specialization. Labor Economics was one of the electives at the university. Currently I am conducting macro as well micro research on youth unemployment in Pakistan. It is worth mentioning that youth unemployment is a part of Labor Economics.  These way universities provide a great opportunity for the students to choose one of subject according to their own interest from several subjects.

One of the other things which we observe in our daily lives is that of professions people choose which are not according to the interest of the students. Many of them choose it because of the force by their parents. Later in their lives, they are forced to change their field when they realize their interest. Therefore it is essential for universities to give many other options for the students.

Well as the author mentions that since the college students make their own decisions therefore it is required to not keep an open end, which I disagree, because making one’s own decision is really important to have a successful career. If some people take decision for us, in one or the other we are going to be in trouble in later stages. Therefore it is essential for everybody take subjects of their own choices.

It has also been observed that as long as people want to do something as a passion they invest their every effort, moreover it is also said that, if you are able to find our passion there would not be need to work hard. Which does not mean not to do any work in actual sense; however that means that you will enjoy the work you will do according to your passion.

Similarly, suppose if Mark Zuckerburg was supposed to study medical or  arts probably there won’t made a facebook, the widely used social media network. And probably he won’t be the youngest billionaire. But since he chooses such a field in which he was interested therefore he was able to make a difference.

To sum up with students must be given variety of choices, so that they can choose a course or subject according to their own interest.