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Different subject entirely - computer science graphics class is the class for the people writing the 3d modelling/rendering software, not the people using it. And yeah - the modern versions of this class would teach fairly similar things.

There’s a big difference between a graphics class for engineers and a graphics class for the users of that software. Modern graphics programming is also just basically math, as evident from any good textbook on the subject.

I took a couple computer graphics classes in 2015 as part of my Computer Science degree. I only clicked through a few videos here and the content is very similar.

There was no software to use back then and therefore no way to escape the math.

I'd argue that if you still don't at least understand a bit of the math today, it's still very limiting in spite of the progress the tools have made.

> Damn, it's basically maths class

As an EE, this was our complaint for pretty much every non-lab course :-)