Incoming students at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, are raising concerns about required first-year courses on race and identity politics, including courses titled “You Are on Monacan Land” and “Race, Racism, Colony and Nation.”
Arts and Sciences students at UVA must complete four of these “Engagements” courses during their first year.
Multiple incoming students spoke with Campus Reform on the condition of anonymity. They questioned both the course offerings and the registration process.
”The engagement courses are ridiculous to me,” one incoming student said. “I think it’s a waste of our time to be required to take them.”