The course is part of the school's Independent Study Periods, which allow students to pursue a personalized study plan on any topic of interest.

New College will offer an independent study course called “The Woke Movement” in January. Right-wing media personality Andrew Doyle will teach it.

“The Woke Movement,” which the New College of Florida says is an “independent learning opportunity,” will center on analyses of what it means to be “woke” and “unwoke,” school spokesperson Nathan March told The National News Desk (TNND) Thursday.

New College of Florida will offer a course on "wokeness" this January, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Why it matters: The course is the latest indication that Gov. Ron DeSantis' conservative takeover of the Sarasota-based liberal arts college is here to stay.

This Spring, New College of Florida will offer a course on "wokeness." It will be a one-month intensive over winter break.

For the first time in the school’s history, New College is offering a course in “wokeness.” The “Woke” Movement — offered as a one-month independent study in January — paints the movement as “a kind of cult” that’s methods are “essentially illiberal” and whose members “are capable of the most dehumanizing behavior,

The catalog’s description claimed the offering was an intro to what’s “best understood as a kind of cult” whose members are “generally decent people with good intentions, but their methods are essentially illiberal.