Notre Dame will offer "white privilege" seminar in 2015

The course, offered in the spring, is open to only 10 students and will be taught by professor. Iris Outlaw, director of Notre Dame’s Multicultural Student Programs and Services. She also serves on the national board of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.

According to the course description, students will experience a “personal transformation” and become “more aware of injustices and be better equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional and worldwide systems of oppression.” At the end of the semester-long seminar, the students will attend the 16th annual White Privilege Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, a conference that “examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world,” according to its website.

Some students are upset that the university is offering the course. Mark Gianfalla, president of the University of Notre Dame College Republicans, called the course “an opportunity to bias students towards the shaming of one culture and ethnicity,” in an interview with Campus Reform. “This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination,” he said.