I would agree. It is usually necessary for a school to offer any required class at least once a year. If they don’t they are supposed to let you substitute something else. I’m all for following the rules (which presumably were established for some good reason), but if they don’t make it possible for you, it should be their responsibility to fix it. You aren’t a HRT major at Cal Poly Pomona, are you? That was a required class when I was a student there, although we had the option of wines, which I took because I walked through the meat lab and it made me sick. The only problem was that the wines class was offered at 8 a.m., to prevent students from taking it just to get drunk (which had happened the previous semester). No matter how much I tried to coat my stomach before class, and how little I drank, I ended up wasted for the rest of the day every time I went to that class!

Just try to get a letter of permission from your department so that you can take that course or it’s equivalent at a different university. It’s really easy to do.

You may be able to take it at a different school and apply it to your degree.