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Greetings folks. Tonight I would like to discuss second language requirements at universities. The university which I attend demands that students with my major and related majors are to study a foreign language for two years as to fulfill a general education requirement. I am interested in how others here would perceive the necessity of this.
I myself do not think this an appropriate demand in that I do not intend to travel abroad nor am I to participate in a trade which would demand that I be bilingual. The requirement has distracted me from other studies in that it takes me an atypical amount of extra studying in order to achieve success in the necessary coursework (German in my case) leading to a neglect in subjects more relevant to my pursuits. So far I have managed but it gets to be aggravating.
I would not suggest an abolition of such courses merely a reform of who ought to be required to take such courses (ex. those whose future trades require extensive global travel or communications with peoples in other countries).
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