HEAVY writing Limitations in University
Hello, I hope you all know when I ask this question it comes from a place of genuine curiosity and not judgement, I want to better understand why my professor is limiting us the way he is/
Anyways, I'm a college student and screenwriting is a required class for my animation major, however I'm finding the class to be a biiit of a miserable experience. My professor only allows us to write ONE genre, realistic fiction, and we cannot have anything interesting in it for example realistic fiction with anthropomorphic animals, it all has to be human, purely based on where the university is (Hawaii, which I am a local of), and nothing in the distant past or future. His explanation for this is that we don't understand how to write anything else, yet he praises me for having a better understanding of certain writing elements, so I'm confused why he's assuming my ability to write certain things.
I find this class to be, quite frankly, a miserable and boring experience. I cannot drop due to my scholarship being tied to my enrollment, if I drop any classes my scholarship will also be dropped, and we were made aware of these limitations on the SECOND WEEK, aka way too late for us to effectively swap classes without scholarships being affected. I am genuinely curious why on earth we are heavily limited in this way. I hate every story I make in this class and think my work is lazy and uninspired, I can only keep using the same important elements of my life in a story before it gets bland, and every week we make 2 new synopses. Genuinely can someone give me a reason why I'm being taught this way, I seriously don't understand.