<p>You say you enjoy taking courses not related to your major, but then you trash the humanities. You are being way stubborn. Remember that this is good for your development in the long run, and everyone - even the art majors - have to take courses they don’t like. </p>
<p>I’ve had to take a few science and math courses - nothing related closely to engineering, just standard courses. I did them because I had to, at first begrudgingly. But you know what? It was important for me. Statistics helped me in the long run, and I really enjoyed biology. I actually took extra science courses because I thought forensics and anthropology looked interesting (they were)! Even the classes I hated (looking at you, calculus), I would’ve never dreamed of taking time out of the class asking questions and comments about the worthiness of the course. It’s disrespectful to the students who actually want to learn it, the teachers who are teaching it, and to the discipline itself. </p>
<p>General education requirements are to make sure every student gets a well-rounded education. Art is a vehicle for communication that is tied heavily to society and (surprise!) history. There is a reason we are still talking about Piccaso, right? His new ideas of form and image lent themselves to themes. Look at his work “Guernica”. When it was created, it shown a spotlight on that horrific bombing by the Germans/Italians/Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War which was previously under-looked by the international community (although, given that you don’t know any history, that example may be lost on you) !!</p>