Most of us could not make up these things. Schools will dream up any easy five credits for a quick sale.
One that infuriated me when I was tutoring was something like "Chemistry for Divinity Students"...the tiniest smattering.
So these scam victims are graduated out into the Corporate World and baffled when they are unemployed. It is not the student's fault, really. They are actually conned into thinking they are learning something. After the damage from the public schools, how can they have the critical skills to even know any better? If it sounds like a long word, it must be a real subject.
My MS thesis made a contribution to the home schooling movement. Having done my bit to replace the public elementary school paradigm, I now dream of helping to devise cost-effective substitutes for university education! (think I can find a dissertation in that notion somewhere?)