Texas A&M offered a woke LGBT communications class this academic year.
According to the university’s 2024-2025 course catalog, they are offering a “Gender, Race, and Media” class. It’s categorized as a Communications as well as Women’s and Gender Studies course.
This class is one of the options students can choose when pursuing a Texas A&M (TAMU) Bachelor of Arts in Communications.
Texas Scorecard acquired a copy of the Fall 2024 syllabus for the class. TAMU offered an honors course version of this class this semester too.
Readings throughout the course target free enterprise and push the LGBT ideology. Titles include “The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism,” “#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Advocacy and Community Building Online,” and “Educating the Simpson: Teaching Queer Representation in Contemporary Visual Media.” A reading for September 3 was titled “Transgender Transitions.”
Multiple readings assigned in the syllabus express anti-white attitudes.
Readings during weeks five and seven included the following:
From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump: Conservative Talk Radio and the Defiant Reassertion of White Male Authority
Playing ‘Redneck’: White Masculinity and Working-Class Performance on Duck Dynasty
One of the course learning outcomes is to learn to “effectively” analyze “topics relating to the role of media in social power, privilege, and oppression.”
TAMU advertised its Communications BA as one for students who seek to “transform” the world around them. “The Bachelor of Arts in Communication teaches how to influence and persuade others through the use of language, visual images and other media,” according to the TAMU website.
As the Gender, Race, and Media syllabus showed, students of this class would be empowered to advance woke and racist ideologies through the power of communication. Such work strongly contrasts with Texas A&M’s image of being a conservative institution.
Texas Scorecard asked both TAMU and the Texas A&M University System how this course reflects the conservative values of the institution. No response was provided before publication.
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