Correct, and I criticize them too. But universities do it because they presumably want to cash in on the prestige of associating the degree with 'science'. A s

Correct, and I criticize them too. But universities do it because they presumably want to cash in on the prestige of associating the degree with 'science'. A standalone course, which presumably comes from the ethos of rejecting degree-based education, is completely free to call a spade a spade.