Yep, this is a very fair point. My opinion is really, "we're doing this all wrong", but I also don't have any idea how to redirect the ship.
My university had the CS program under the engineering department, and I think it served me very well as someone planning on a career building software, but I doubt it served the people hoping to do actual computer science research nearly as well. And I doubt they would have known that when they signed up for the program. It was called "computer science", after all, so to your point, it seems reasonable to assume that's what it would prepare one for.
My university had the CS program under the engineering department, and I think it served me very well as someone planning on a career building software, but I doubt it served the people hoping to do actual computer science research nearly as well. And I doubt they would have known that when they signed up for the program. It was called "computer science", after all, so to your point, it seems reasonable to assume that's what it would prepare one for.