Indeed. I went to a liberal arts college in the 90’s, and everyone had to enroll in at least 1-2 courses across every discipline. So even we compsci majors had to take an “FPA” (fine/performing arts) class, the art majors had to come to our side and do a “T” (Technology) course, and so on. Everyone had to pick an “I” (Integrated) , which were special courses comprised of 2 or more disciplines, and they has to be outside of your major. So there was the “History of Art” (social science + art), “Personal Mythology” (psych + philosophy), and so on.
I was doing undergrad in the late 90s and had roughly the same requirements. We had “multicultural” requirements where we had to take an “X and Y credit” which was just a designator for stupid crap like “Race in American Literature” which I took anyway since I was an English student.
It seems today that the true “basics” (math, science, English) are not requirements, which is a travesty. How could we legitimately churn out “educated” children if they can’t do at least mid-level algebra, write a sentence, or understand how gravity works? That strikes me as terrifying. It’s no wonder our education system is becoming a planetary joke.