No, programs do not insist, pinheaded bureaucrats on power trips insist.
that students acquire competence in the whole program therefore how could you eliminate one part of the program and still have a general competence?"
So now you don't possess general academic competence if you're not indoctrinated to accept homosexual behavior as normal and appropriate.
Competence meants assenting to opinions based on ideology rather than facts? Yes, that is indoctrination in teachings akin that those which asserted that Jews are inferior beings.