That’s not shocking.
I agree. When I was at the University of Texas back in the '70s, I intentionally took some elective courses I thought would help me in the real world.
I took a pharmacology course for non-pharmacy students and I learned about all the various meds of the day, including the differences between ibuprofen, acetaminophen and aspirin. I took a "home ec" course that, among other things, taught me about insurance and home budgeting. Since I had a fairly sheltered home experience, these would help me adapt to being an adult out on my own.
One thing I remember was when we had a class on birth control methods. We were given the efficacy rates of all the different choices of the time and the worst choice for birth control was to use a condom. It was only 86% effective at preventing pregnancy, they said. Then came the AIDS crisis and, magically, condoms became the Silver Bullet for stopping everything, even though the HIV virus was much much smaller than the size of a human sperm that the condom was designed to stop and failed 14% of the time even then. Fast forward to today when the media is feeding us the same BS about COVID vaccines.
Ask average people what the COVID vaccine is supposed to do and they'll tell you it is supposed to prevent the virus from infecting you. Only recently have the health specialists backpedaled and said the vaccine is only able to lessen the severity should you get infected, this as thousands who got "the jab" still got sick.
Back to the elective courses, I was glad that UT offered these "dumbed down" courses for non-majors but your typical freshman or sophomore chose more popular electives like Human Sexuality or Guitar Playing.