Notre Dame's 'White Privilege Seminar': Indoctrination or education?

(The Christian Science Monitor) For a select group of students at the University of Notre Dame, a typical course load may include Human Biology 101, Introduction to Statistics, 19th century Russian Literature—and the White Privilege Seminar.

The last course, a new offering by the university in South Bend, Indiana, is getting plenty of attention from critics who say it indoctrinates students and shames white people.

Sociology 25280, or White Privilege Seminar: An Introduction to the Intersections of Privilege, is a one-credit, six-week preparatory sociology class designed to educate and train ten carefully selected students on the definitions of and causes and effects of white privilege, according to the course description.