Starting next spring, Texas State University Honors College (TXSTHonors) will offer a course on the former One Direction singer, called “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture”.
A class that will surly have no skips
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Why does
#HarryStyles
matter?
That is the question students at a university in Texas will be pondering in a new course based on the 28-year-old’s work
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The syllabus, originally listed as “Why does
@Harry_Styles
Matter?” on the university’s course directory, will focus on his work both in music and film
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According to the course description, this is in order to: “understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism”
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Louie Dean Valencia (
@BurntCitrus
), associate professor of digital history, announced the news on Twitter, claiming it was the first course of its kind
It's official, official. I'm teaching the world's first ever university course on the work of
#HarryStyles
is happening Spring 2023 at
@TXST
University (see description).
This is what tenure looks like. Let's gooooo! 😊
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The cost of attending Texas State University Honors College ranges from $22,670 to $39,960, with the cheaper fee reserved for Texas residents.
🥲 Similar to the cost of re-sale tickets to
#LoveOnTour
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It is the latest in a string of university courses cashing in on celebrities.
@nyuniversity
announced this year that it was offering a course on Taylor Swift, addressing her transformation from singer to music entrepreneur
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Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kanye West and the Beatles also have courses based on their works 📚
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Styles’s third studio album, Harry’s House, released in May, went straight in at No 1 on the UK album chart and was the fastest-selling album of the year
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Read the full story 👇
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@timesculture
ok so when did
@brittany_broski
get a job teaching, it can’t be that hard out here
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@timesculture
There are people who are demanding others to pay for them to get FREE college/university. Just to learn crap like this.
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@timesculture
Only class in the history of time where students not only show up, but show up early for barricade…I mean front row seats! 😂
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