KU to offer course on the “Angry White Male”

(AP) A congressman is chastising the University of Kansas for offering a course titled “Angry White Male Studies.”

Kansas Republican Rep. Ron Estes was among those turning to social media, lamenting in a tweet that the university has “decided to offer a class that divides the student population.”

The school’s academic catalog says the course will chart “the rise of the `angry white male’ in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state.”

Humanities professor Christopher Forth, himself a white man, will teach the course this fall. Forth and a university spokeswoman didn’t immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.

Other colleges also have been exploring masculinity amid the #MeToo movement, including Duke University, which describes its “Men’s Project” as being “dedicated to interrogating male privilege.”