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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida axes sociology as required class at state universities in latest attack on ‘woke’

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Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, delivers his State of the State address during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida state capitol on 13 January 2026, in Tallahassee, Florida. Photograph: Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald via Getty Images

Education leaders in Florida have removed sociology as a graduation component at state universities in Ron DeSantis’s latest attack on what the Republican governor sees as the “woke” indoctrination of students.

The move on Thursday by a majority of DeSantis’s hand-picked university board of governors effectively relegates the stand-alone Introduction to Sociology course to a makeweight elective instead of a core component subject that has been a popular choice for generations of students.

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