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.

A liberal Florida college has reinstated a course on “wokeness,” which describes the movement as “a kind of cult,” despite backlash from lefty students — defending it as “never more relevant than today.

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,

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.