subject: Extracurricular Activities: General Information on the Issue [print this page] Extracurricular Activities: General Information on the Issue
Going to college, students are sure to have obligatory classes they must attend to get a degree. Still, there are great many activities and opportunities in college, students may use as additional. Extracurricular activities are those which are aimed at involving students in the social space, in something new that can promote students' collaboration with other students of the community. Are extracurricular activities necessary? The question is burning but at the same time senseless. Of course, if something exists within the school borders it is important and necessary. Furthermore, all the additional classes located on that territory of the campus are approved by the Department of Education. The necessity of those activities is defined by means of the purposes of the latest. Why should students attend extracurricular activities? The reasons may be different, students may like to attend the classes they are interested in, they may enjoy the communication there, or just have something to do apart from learning. Those classes are directed at personality development. Human mind works faster when it is busy with a work. What are the main purposes of the extracurricular activities? Except for the purposes of the students' involvement in the educational environment, extracurricular activities carry more important message and have much higher purposes. Extracurricular activities help reduce the level of drugs consuming, alcohol drinking and smoking. How does it work? Attending different extracurricular activities, students become occupied with something, they are involved in the interesting process and there is no opportunity to think about anything else. The more students are interested in what they do the more time they devote to the activity, and the less time they spend on going to and fro without specific purposes. What are the options? Extracurricular classes comprise the following activities, sports, dancing, painting, language clubs, drama, music, environmental, and other types of clubs. Each college contains its own list of activities.
