Weird. At least where I went to university (not in the US), you took things that have only tangential relevance to anything vocational -- the joke is that university graduates should learn to say "You want fries with that?" due to the inutility of most of the subjects taught. You may learn computer programming (although it occurs to me that it's basically useful to go into one of those kind of classes already knowing how), but it'll be in the context of computer science, which is definitely more theoretical. You might learn introductory economics, but it'll be a survey course of the most common schools of economic theory. I learnt an awful lot of obscure philosophy (like Transcendentalism) while doing a degree in English literature...
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