Some universities require students to take classes in many subjects. Other universities require students to specialize in one subject. Which is better? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. ============================================================================== Assume both the school and the student act for their own good--the so-called rational behavior. The school provides learning resources such as professors and laboratories, of which the expenditure will finally materialize in the financial statement, for the student enrolled who have paid a fixed price for an uncertain amount of goods in the university. Out of the self-interest principle, the student would want to gain as many commodities--the learning resources in those curricular courses--as possible, while the school hope to lower the cost to increase as much the balance after cost deduction. Therefore if left unchecked, the school aim to achieve the lowest the ratio of educational resources to student number which means the amount of commodity of knowledge per student, and the student aim to achieve the highest per unit of tuition. There exists the controlling mechanism. When the learning resource to tuition ratio dips to certain value, students who graduate will not have enough exper- tise, so their performance on the job market is inferior to peers. The ensuing bad reputation for the training insitution would gradually siphon off its customers. In order to survive, the school has to have some quality control of its trainees. That means a low-limit of the ratio. The school has to ensure a student has enough courses options to choose from. In the classroom, the attendee number cannot be too high or the instructor couldn't take care of each one of them, but if the attendee number is too low, there would be a waste of resource. So the administrative department concerned stipulates various required courses to take before a student graduates, which depends on his or her major. In the required subject, attendees not in related departments may not be permitted , to insure against compromised teaching quality. Beyond major subjects, the students should be allowed to select from different realms of knowledge to give certain flexibility of future development. As for the selective courses, the upper limit of attendee number can be higher since the quality demand is not that specific. To sum up, the university requires the student to take certain subjects to maintain their level of specialty, which also prevents too much of fluctuation in attendee number distribution of courses. If a student aspires to learn as many subjects as efficiently, he or she has to strike a balance, since as courses taken increase, the time schedule would get tighter, which squeezes the studying time. --

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