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深圳大学 赖小琪

Topic: Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music, film, advertising, and television because contemporary culture has much greater relevance for students than do arts and literature of the past

With the rapid development of science and technologies, we are enjoying a culture of privilege that our forefathers could never imagine before. The great technological improvement of MP4 allows a vaster capability of storing songs, which tremendously conduces to the constantly mushrooming of popular music. It is the same with film, advertising and television, etc. The flourishing of internet enables the public to access the updated films and programs. Hence definitely pop music, film, advertising and television are part of our contemporary culture that is extremely relevant to our life! Therefore I do approve that university should try its best to offer more courses relating to those topics!

Nonetheless, before the university sets the decision, it should consider the following elements prudently. First of all, the scale and financial ability of the school should be taken into account. Offering more courses means more teaching staff and greater budget for the school, hence if the scale of the school is not large and it has insufficient finances, the school cannot afford to offer too many extra courses! Secondly, the school ought to put great emphasis on the need of the students. It had better have students fill out questionnaires to see the potential demand for those courses. If too few students show affection for those courses, the school should cancel the idea to avoid the waste of teaching staff and resources. In all, a university should set the appropriate courses according to its own specific situation!

From the elucidation above, no one can deny the great relevance of the contemporary culture to our life, but is it really true that it has greater relevance than do arts and literature of the past? I do keep a skeptical point for this assertion! As far as I see, arts and literature, though somewhat more virtual and abstract than those films and TV programs, do have a enormous impact on our life! They stem from the observation and inspiration of life and convey abundant emotions and viewpoints towards life! Thereby, we can pierce through life deeply and seek some spiritual comfort that we can never touch in our real life through enjoying arts and literature! Some of the masterpieces can inject our mind with a sense of beauty and hope that can sharpen our thinking capability and help us maintain mentally healthy and joyful! Moreover, innumerable masterpieces embody great wisdom towards life, which deserves our learning. Through appreciating diversified arts and literature, we can develop a more intact and optimistic personality gradually and taste more spice of life! Furthermore, as for college students, the fantastic and vivid composing skills fused into the works can teach us a great lesson in writing, drawing and so on! So I do believe arts and literature do not exert less influence on our development than film, television, etc do.

Altogether, the assertions in the topic are unilateral and merely partially reasonable. We advocate the growing establishment of courses for contemporary culture, but meantime, we should never abandon arts and literature of the past. Instead, we should also spare no efforts to push those courses.
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