The things you list are pretty much some of the base fundamentals of circuit design. I can't imagine that this curriculum is of much use without them.
Also, I seriously doubt that it covers the entire breadth of information required to create, from scratch, the entire video subsystem required for displaying graphics. Or anything like that.
These guys are completely dishonest. I saw their kickstarter video where they said that for $99 you could have "a computer many times faster than anything on the market ZOMG".
Yeah, maybe it's faster for all those times during the day when you calculate matrix chain products. But for largely single-threaded tasks, like EVERYTHING you do on a day to day basis, it's going to be significantly slower than your average dual-core i3.
The fact that they are childless indicates that they don't have time to have children, but how the hell is the fact that they're white relevant to the point they're trying to make in the article?