“College is a place that high school graduates go to become more thoughtful, educated and professional. At the University of Akron and colleges across the country, students must take a certain amount of required classes before moving to their studies. Some of these required classes are logical and understandable, such as effective oral communication, in which students learn to speak professionally.”
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College is a place that high school graduates go to become more thoughtful, educated and professional.

At the University of Akron and colleges across the country, students must take a certain amount of required classes before moving to their studies.

Some of these required classes are logical and understandable, such as effective oral communication, in which students learn to speak professionally.

Others have no relation to a given major at all.

For instance, to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Akron, a student has foreign language, math, and physical education requirements.

It doesn’t make sense that a student intending to enhance their knowledge of English language and literature needs to learn mandarin and algebraic formulas.

They will undeniably never be utilized in the student’s professional future.

There is no reason a future accountant needs psychology.

You’d think that most people would rather want our doctors, lawyers and teachers to have spent their education perfecting their area of expertise.

In like manner, essential basic skills such as reading, writing, adding and subtracting are taught and mastered far before receiving a high school diploma.

Rehashing these basic requirements in college is not necessary.

Furthermore, many students who excel in English or history have deficits in math and science and students who excel in math and science have deficits in the former.

Despite this academic imbalance, these students are forced to struggle through classes, which often result in failing, or at the very least damaging the student’s GPA.

The student must take the required class again.

Many students pay for college through student loans without aid from parents.

These students are paying for the same frustrating classes they do not need in the future and continue to fail.

Due to unnecessary curricular requirements, it seems that student loans and grants are wasted each year.

It seems that creating a more coherent, straightforward curriculum would make each available major the focal point of the program.

Education is the undeniable gift that cannot be taken from students, so every personal academic experience should be enriched and cultivated so that the student can take the most from college.

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