Part of what drives modern industry, business, the economy, and health care is our ability to quantify data. Almost all universities are requiring their students to have a certain level of math proficiency. Imagine the embarrassment of not being able to do an assigned project, whether working out a required voltage or developing a statistical measure of quality, because you didn't know the math. Obviously someone in the health professions needs to understand biology, someone in plastics needs to know chemistry, someone in electronics benefits from knowing physics. We live in a world forged out of scientific understanding and so science inevitably touches our careers and our lives.
Science is also an important part of our every day lives.
We are often caught between a number of conflicting claims about the world, about our own safety, and about the best course of action for our lives. To sort those ideas out, we need a basic understanding of science. Scientific understanding courses help you better understand key scientific concepts, understand the scientific method, read and evaluate scientific claims, and follow contemporary issues in science and technology. There is hardly any job, any part of our life that doesn't involve other people or that isn't touched by some kinds of social and political institutions. Obviously the more you know about how people act, how people relate in groups, how our social institutions function the more effective you can be.