NBC News Reports Multiple Universities Are Offering Classes In Taylor Swift

When you send your child off to a college or university your mental image may be of them going to a serious place where experts in their academic field impart knowledge to students who are eager to learn before taking their first tremulous steps into the real world of adulthood. Well, that was what people used to think but a thin veneer of that still dominates the mental image many hold of what exactly goes on in the academy, despite the many, many, many missteps that have been taken in recent years by College and University faculty and administration that have lost the trust of a huge portion of the American population.

Still, although many may not be as respected as they once were there's still an aura of intellectual mystique that surrounds our higher education system, an aura that had been carefully cultivated over decades and even centuries by academics who came before… and one that the current crop of professors don't seem to care to cultivate any longer given the newest fad in course offerings at some of our institutions of higher learning. And like so many things in the current narrative these courses focus one a single topic that has many enthralled: Taylor Swift. -- NBC News: “Universities around the country have started creating entire courses dedicated to studying Taylor Swift's lyricism and impact.”

Now it doesn't appear that students can major in Taylor (yet), but when parents are sending in the tuition check for their son or daughter we sure do hope they're aware that part of what they're paying for is for their kid to know a bit more about Taylorology. The classes are being held, according to the article, at schools such as Harvard, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, with topics such as 'The Taylor Swift Songbook' (UT Austin), 'Musical Storytelling With Taylor Swift and Other Iconic Female Artists' (University of Florida), and 'Artistry & Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version' (UC Berkeley). Real weighty academic topics, right?

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NBC News: The art of studying Taylor Swift: College campuses embrace themed courses
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/taylor-swift-college-courses-review-rcna128236