Rutgers is so crazy in love with Beyoncé Knowles, it’s offering a course on the famed diva.
Students at the New Brunswick campus are now enrolled in “Politicizing Beyoncé,” a class led by doctoral student and lecturer Kevin Allred in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
Allred said the class isn’t specifically about Bey’s career. Instead, course material examines gender, sexuality and racial politics through the lens of Queen B’s standing in American pop culture.
“This isn’t a course about Beyoncé’s political engagement or how many times she performed during President Obama’s inauguration weekend,” Allred told the university’s online news site.
The class does analyze Beyonce’s videos and lyrics, in addition to readings from black feminists.
Of course, college classes based on a single musician are not new.
Rutgers has a class on the theology of Bruce Springsteen lyrics.
And the work of Beyoncé’s hubby Jay-Z has appeared in the hallowed halls of Georgetown University and its “The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z.”
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