Freshman English classes are generally English composition classes not literature classes. More often that not they have nothing to do with Marxist literary critique.

If you think that English composition shouldn't be taught in college, you clearly haven't ready many undergraduate essays. It's fine for you to think that this information should be remedial. Looking at the writing of "normal" students, it clearly isn't.

Also most schools offer a CLEP exam for English composition, so if you consider the information remedial, you can easily skip it.