The college I went to required you to take some courses in three of four broad areas. So three of hard sciences, soft sciences, humanities, language. Having barely made it through 2 years of Spanish in high school I didn't do languages. In high school language was college prep required and IIRC the choices were French, Spanish, and Italian. Wished they had German since I did learn some of that when I was 3-5 years old and my dad was stationed in Germany for 3 years.