I had the same experience in college as an engineering student. I took their upper-division (300 and 400-series) journalism classes as general ed. One time, my family fell on some hard times and I attended two funerals in the same week. I came back Friday completely forgetting that there was a test in my journalism class. I walked into that test totally cold and scored a 94% on it. That should tell you how frickin’ easy a major in journalism is. If you can’t get a degree in journalism, how the hell did you make it out of 7th grade?
I majored in arts and languages, Spanish for my minor. All arts, sculpture, painting, pottery, jewelry, etc. My husband was chemical engineering major. Engineering is such a hard major. He had to study all the time. So once we started dating I studied when he did and my GPA after that was much higher, mostly As. My senior year I had straight As. But it was just because I forced myself to study every time he HAD to study just to pass his courses. Differential equations, Chemistry, Calculus, Physics, Thermal Dynamics, etc. He also had to take some arts classes so I tutored him in art history, and he made an A in that. So he developed an interest in art and now loves museums. That was great that caused him to develop an appreciation for arts. But his major was much more difficult. I can see how Journalism would be a much easier major than most.
I too was an Engineering major in college. My university required everybody to take two classes in Humanities. The first class was mostly about ancient architecture and I enjoyed it and got a 4.0.
The second class was something I don’t remember but on the first day the Prof told us there would be a mid-term and final, both of which would be our entire grade, and that all the test info came out of the two books he assigned. I read both the books the very first week, showed up for both tests and aced them. When I turned in my Final he gave me a snarky comment about not attending his class and I replied that I had just aced his whole class.