This story reminds me of when I was going for my BA in college; we had to take a lot of different courses in "diversity" to give use a "well-rounded" education. This was around 2004-08, so not that long ago.
Anyway I had a choice between "Black Literature" and "Feminist Studies" and I chose the latter because I thought at least there might be a chance of seeing some cute chicks.
As it turns out, predictably, most of the students were either sad d-bags like me who HAD to take the course, or bitter, fat and otherwise completely unattractive females who "complained" about crap like, "oh, why do men always undress us with their eyes?"
Um, really, Free Willy? STFU why don't you, you wishful-thinking, buckshot-acne-having mammoth.
We were SUPPOSED to be reading literature, to the tune of four small novels for the semester, but we really only covered one because the professor (a big fat blowhard who got dumped by her husband and thereafter married Twinkies) chose to waste class time by having "workshops" where we just talked about ways to shatter the glass ceiling and other such nonsense.
In other words, a semester of gossip, trash-talk against guys, and ugly women bonding.
I suppose it must have been nice for the ugly ladies in that class, though. I'm sure many of them exchanged emails and became life-long friends and sit alone (being fat) together with their cats and Lean Cuisine dinners, talking about how men are terrible.
One good thing about that course is that I met my wife there, and she was one of the few normal girls who took the course as part of the "diversity" requirement. So, at least one of my hopes was fulfilled.
Courses like that have very little to do with student demand or need, but more with the indoctrination the University wants to perform on young adults.
I have not ever been, and have no intention of ever being in a "White privilege" class, but I'll assume that there will be extremely little, true academic discussion in that class, and more editorializing and just non-scientific bitching about "the Man" and how he's trying to keep the brotha' down.