Rutgers University, in New Jersey is offering students a chance to study Beyonce. Yes, really.
The course, called "Feminist Perspectives: Politicising Beyonce" will aim to explore America race, gender and sexual politics. The course is being taught by PHD student Kevin Allred. Allred told Rutgers Today: "This isn't a course about Beyonce's political engagement or how many times she performed during Obama's inaugration weekend, rather her music and carreer are used as lenses to explore American race, gender and sexual politics."
Allred reckons Queen B is the perfect woman to focus this study on as "she pushes boundaries and creates a grand narrative through her music and persona." He says he's aiming to engage students with the media they are currently passively watching. Her recent essay on gender equality probably helped her, too.
This isn't the first superstar-led course on offer at a university; Beyonce's rapper husband Jay-Z features in his own course at Georgetown named: "The sociology of Hip-Hop: The Theodicy of Jay-Z."
What do you think, dear reader? Should we have more celeb-led courses at universities, perhaps making studies for younger students easier to relate to?
Or should university lectures be consigned to the classics, like Marx and Keats?
I'd love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below!
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