Which is a shame. I know the whole memery surrounding those types of classes. But in and of themselves there is nothing wrong with learning new perspectives that challenge your preconceived notions, even if you leave the class disagreeing. There is real value in learning how to think, critically analyze new or controversial ideas, and expand the way you think. Taking in new information about the world is a skill that needs to be honed, which includes taking in and processing ideas that some, most, or all would consider "wrong." Colleges are actually pretty good at that, more or less. You can argue that they treat these subjects too much like fact recitation than academic presentation, but that's only part of the problem. The real problem is that colleges also treated like job preparation factories; that they're currently pretty bad at. But there is no incentive to improve because everyone involved just pretends otherwise and the money keeps coming in. College administration, industry, K-12 educators, and parents all still pretend that college is the one-stop-shop for everything that you'll need for a successful life. We're just now starting to wake up to the idea that no, that isn't the case. We need both. We need mind training and job training. Prices need to be brought back down to reality. Employers need to start investing in training their employees instead of pretending that general educations will do it for them. There are so many aspects that need to change, and I really hope the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater.