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Depends what you mean by "taught humanities" I guess.

For my engineering degree in the US, I certainly took non-engineering/science courses as part of a distribution requirement and took various other courses and did various other activities as well. Among other things, communications has been a key part of my career track.

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Literally zero of my degree modules (BEng Software Engineering, Aberystwyth) were non-software engineering.

But the UK does all of education differently to the USA, or at least it did when I went thought it: mandatory up to the age of 16 where you got approximately a dozen GCSEs, then two years doing A-levels (3, 3.5, or 4), then you go up to university. The only mandatory requirement to do humanities was in the GCSEs.

During an engineering degree in the UK you will not be required (or even usually have the possibility) of doing a non-engineering module

I think the only module I took that was close to this, for CompSci in UK, was on technical writing.

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