Completely agreeing on author’s view that universities should require students to take variety of courses outside the student field of study. Yes it is highly recommended for students because students not only need to study the curriculum subjects but must also has extra knowledge in their respective fields which will help them to enhance their carrier skills and boost their performance in various areas. When they will go for job they do need to show their expertise in other areas also which they will encounter using the other courses that they will acquire by themselves.

If we look in terms of technology we see that the students who are pursuing the course of computer engineering , it is not possible to cover each and every topics in course curriculum. Computer engineering is really a vast field with many different topics included in it. So to learn some extra new concepts of to study in deeper details of that one needs to take such courses that they will be able to learn new things in that and also help them in their carrier further when they decide to select a particular field job .

Now if we analyze the situation it is not only that technological fields has different concepts , but each and every area of study has different scenarios and every fields of study needs students to learn something new in their irrespective of the universities curriculum. And these various courses teaches students some concepts outside the box learning thing. And nowadays many platforms are offering course at the very reasonable rates so why not to take these course and help ourselves. Some of them are offering completely free . so students needs to take advantage of these facilities provided by the platforms

To conclude with , I completely agree with author’s point of view that universities should require every student to take the course outside the field of study as we have discussed above multiple benefits of it’s usage in various ways.