In my experience, the double standard usually goes the other way. Many of the liberal arts electives I could choose from (as a physics major) were foundational

In my experience, the double standard usually goes the other way. Many of the liberal arts electives I could choose from (as a physics major) were foundational requirements in that major. For example, in a literature class I took, the instructor was surprised many of us had not also taken Literary Criticism 101. On the other hand, an English major friend of mine was able to take a physics course nicknamed "Physics for Poets", where rounding g to 10m/s/s was acceptable.