Oregon State is a university-you are not mandated to attend university (if this was a high school it would be very different). For the record I think it's dumb that they're making new students take this class...but the rhetoric of the big bad liberals teaching Communism is schools is laughable (at least at my school).
So what are they teaching? Be specific.
I teach students grammar, how to write, how to improve their syntax, how to comprehend what they read. Why do you think I teach communism to my students? Hell I even have a lesson undo where my students have to read the bill of rights, select one, and then explain why that bill is vital to our nation.