If you're a man who is angry and white, University of Kansas officials think you're worth studying.

The university's course catalog for the 2019-2020 year lists a class under its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences titled "Angry White Male Studies." And one of the state's congressional members, himself a white man, is not pleased with the offering.

The three-credit course examines "the rise of the 'angry white male' in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state while evaluating recent manifestations of male anger," according to the course listing.

"Employing interdisciplinary perspectives this course examines how both dominant and subordinate masculinities are represented and experienced in cultures undergoing periods of rapid change connected to modernity as well as to rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals," the description states.

The course requires students take "Women, Gender, and Sexuality" 101 or 102 as a prerequisite. They can also get written permission from the course's instructor, Christopher Forth, instead, KCTV News notes. Forth is a professor of history and the dean's professor of humanities.

The course, listed in the catalog between classes titled "Pregnancy in Modern Literature" and "Fat, Food and the Body in Global Perspective," has unsurprisingly piqued the interest of those on campus and beyond.

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“Everyone’s just reposting it (on social media) and asking if it’s a joke or not, it’s just been all over the Snapchat stories, so it’s been like big news today,” Kansas student Emily Hiegert told KCTV.

But the course is no joke. And U.S. Rep. Ron Estes, who represents Wichita, isn't laughing.

"Instead of a course to unite people and empower women, KU has decided to offer a class that divides the student population and could pose a Title IX violation by creating a hostile campus environment based on gender," the congressman said Wednesday on Twitter.

Estes is apparently not be the only white man questioning the course. On Twitter, several of tweets this week took issue with the class, many accompanied by profile photos of white men.

"Not to sound like an angry white male but what the actual hell is this utter trash?" one user, @IanBallinger925, said.

"What a waste of taxpayer money," said @TheAlexDwyer, who identified as a KU student. "Indoctrinating students with this marxist trash. Imagine if a certain word was changed? Outrage would be everywhere."

Others seemed to have some fun with it: "I wonder if KU is going to address the rise in 'Angry Whte Male' syndrome being triggered by courses such as 'Angry White Male'?" asked @ProfMattRogers.

Follow white male Josh Hafner on Twitter: @joshhafner