It's not so much "degeneration" as making sure the prerequisites are covered. For many students, learning the use of "tools" like math and grammar is more effective in the context of an application than for it's own sake. It's yak shaving all the way down.
This is some good blog. Incidentally, when I was in college, I took a Philosophy 101 class which could be said to have degenerated into a logic course, but all the same I really enjoyed it, as it taught me the basics of reasoning, and was an unexpected foundation to my eventual work in software engineering.
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