Much of the time, "to get your degree" is the best answer you can hope for. I suspect the schools use general education requirements to push low-cost classes. You just have to put up with it.

Heck, I've been doing hard-core OS/embedded/real-time/driver/assembly stuff for almost two decades and I still haven't even found a use for: calculus (3 classes), physics (2 classes), statistics, databases (2 classes), theory of computation, or GUI development. If I can't find a use for those, what chance is there that I'll ever use the "history of western music" and similar? No boss will ever seriously ask for Marxist criticism.

I have my degree though. That is reason enough.