Is the goal of the this class teaching student how to re-write the Pi3 's kernel/driver in Rust?

It is not that clear from the course syllabus.

"This course covers the following topics:

Disks, File systems, I/O, Threads & Processes, Scheduling, Virtual Memory, Protection & Security, Interrupts, Concurrency & Synchronization."

In theory, if those are the goals, one doesn't need Rust as part the first week's lecture.

Rewriting the Kernel in Rust sure makes a very interesting (and very tough) way to learn OS in 3 months.