In other words, you're at a school that cheats on the rankings. (As the saying goes, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a measure.)
Engineering programs are a bit different, and more interested in making sure the floor is high. More like medicine in that they are concerned that a certified professional should be competent.
1. The art of listening to music
2. Geographic Information Systems
Both courses were pretty much impossible to fail.
The first course expanded my musical horizons and led to me enjoying almost any genre of music, whereas before I had listened to only a few select genres. Huge QoL improvement.
The 2nd course had proven useful whenever the topic of mapping has come up, which includes understanding property lines and real estate.
A bunch of smart people work at universities who are there to teach students stuff. It is up to the students to learn.
When I talk about students taking bird courses, I mean the kind where they never show up to class and just memorize a bunch of stuff before the midterm. They walk away with an 80, completely satisfied, having learned nothing.
Seems to me, that is like paying for a nice steak dinner, coming in, sitting down, eating the potatoes, then leaving.
Like, why? The point of college is to learn things. Balancing course load is important, but not learning at all is just a waste of time.
I’m a pure math student though. Math students tend to have way more flexibility in what they study. You can take extremely rigorous courses like functional analysis and algebraic topology. Or you can do a math-based accounting program and pretty much stop taking hard math courses after first year.