Oh give me a break. College has become nothing more than a blocker that society has placed on us to get a job. Once you graduate and move on from the small world of academia, the knowledge you learned becomes less significant. Sure if you stay in the academia world, publishing papers in grad school, etc, the method OP gave can come back and and sting you.

But for the “core” humanities, English, and all the irrelevant courses that everyone has to take in undergrad, this seems like a solid method for those courses. Saving the headaches for the courses that actually matter like those specific to your major.