Yes, courses like "rocks for jocks" and "Gods for clods" are generally terrible. Schools do not put nearly enough effort into general education courses. I also wish in retrospect I had taken another language. If I had it to do over again, I would pick Latin because (a) there's a lot of good literature in Latin; (b) there are still a lot of useful phrases in Italian; (c) it gives insight into learning other Romance languages and (d) I am much better at learning to read and write a language than at speaking it. I took four years of high school French and two quarters of college French, and when I go to Paris, all I can say is "Pardon me, I do not speak French. Do you speak English?"
(Actually, this is a good policy; the French hate it when people start by speaking English to them. Everyone, except the bathroom attendant in the Luxembourg Gardens, was very friendly when I started this way.)
I can also find the Metro exits because I know the word "sortir."