I'd like to ask this "institution of higher learning" how exactly such a course improves someone's ability to have a meaningful and lucrative lifetime career? Or is that silly consideration too old fashioned these days?
It has absolutely nothing to do with teaching students useful topics. A university could give a rat's @ss whether their students went on to Wall Street or WalMart. If you look at a university as a profit-generating institution it will make more sense. Give the consumers (students) what they want and they'll sign up for more classes and the university will make more money. For instance, one of the more popular classes among the boutique students at my alma mater was a class on the motion picture industry. In a nutshell, the class watched movies all semester.
So, what do kids like? Kids like to party and have sex.....hey, let's show porn in the classroom and encase it in a sanitized package called 'sexuality studies'! That'll bring 'em in!