Failing a class in college?

I'm in my first year of college and I am currently attending a local community college right now to figure what I want to do with my life. I'm currently just taking the general studies classes and for a fine arts credit I chose film appreciation. Going into this class I thought we would explore a variety of different films, which reigned untrue and wasn't clear until the first day of class. It was essentially a class based on journalism ethics. Also a lot of shady things were going on throughout the course of the semester, we had two faculty changes who each had separate guidelines so there was an enormous amount of confusion on everything turned in. This is also a course in our Honors College. So now we have a ten page research paper and I thought my topic was approved, but I just got back a graded draft and my professor rejected my entire project claiming that it wasn't relating to ethics in journalism (it was about the effects of journalists reporting stories on suspected criminals who haven't actually been proven guilty yet). So the paper is due in about two weeks and it's too late to drop so I can either essentially just improve upon what I have and hope for the best or stop showing up, either way the highest I will probably get in this class is a C or a D.