Florida axes sociology as required class at state universities in latest attack on ‘woke’

Move by state education officials picked by Republican governor removes the course as a graduation component

Education leaders in Florida have removed sociology as a graduation component at state universities in Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s latest attack on what he sees as the “woke” indoctrination of students.

The move on Thursday by a majority of DeSantis’s hand-picked university board of governors effectively relegates the stand-alone Introduction to Sociology course to a makeweight elective instead of a core component subject that has been a popular choice for generations of students.