I’m in the cranky old man camp. I had to take two semesters of western civ from the history department simply because the dean of my department (NOT history) thought it was good. He was from Greece. He was biased. We had plenty of “distribution requirements” and could have been trusted to choose well from among them to round out our liberal arts education. I would not have chosen those two semesters of western civ, which was a huge class in a huge lecture hall. 6 credits wasted.