When we trace back to the history of human civilization, the imaginative literature has played a significant role in every culture. It not only fulfills people's fancy envision, but also encourage people to think through a creative mind and be more original. In fact, without these imagination, our world might not be so developed today. However, it is unreasonable and impractical for colleges to require students to take certain courses about imaginative literture. The choice of courses should be up to the students' academic fields and more crucial, to their own interests.
It is true that in certain academic fields, those imaginative literature could provide students with the opportunity to become a more well-rounded person. Moreover, it could imspire students' creativity and move them forward in their studies and careers. For instance, it is the description of people flying in the sky like Peter Pan that stimulate several scientists to created airplane; it is the imagination of people living in the sea in Anderson's famous work The Little Mermaid that stir people to build the submarine; it is the suspiction that there are creatures elsewhere in the universe in Jonson's novels that brings spacecraft to us. In a word, the progress of modern science and technology  should attribute to the imagniation that the  imaginative literature devoted.
Yet, there some fields that do not require creative mind and fancy dreams. Like theorical physics. In the field of physics, researchers deal with the natural essence of existed matters, such as mechanics, which do not invite creative mind, but the rigorous, earnest, and pramatical attitude. Newton did not create gravity, he discovered it; Mrs. Curie did not creatie radium, she found; Watt did not creatie steam. he put it into industrial use. The imaginative literature loses its magic in some specific fields that do not require imagination.
Nevertheless, although imaginative literature has different influences on the studenrts in different fields, it is still not a advisible policy for colleges to require students to take imaginative literature courses. As the saying goes, "interest is the best teacher", colleges should leave the choice of taking imaginative literature courses to the students themselves regardless of what academic fields are them from. Beside, taking imaginative literature courses is not the only source that would invit originality to our would. The originality is everywhere, only through a creative mind.
All in all, without the fancy dreams in the imaginative literature, our world would be much less interesting and more vapid, the science and technology might also not reach its current accomplishments. Even so, compulsory imaginative literature courses in college are undesirable and might even backfire. A more effective and democratic method should be taken by the colleges to encourage students' creativity and originality in certain academic fields.