Taylor Swift: University of Texas offer a course on singer Taylor Swift
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Love Taylor Swift? Well, your Wildest Dreams may have just come true.
That's because students at the University of Texas can now study Taylor Swift's songs alongside literary greats like William Shakespeare.
The Taylor Swift Songbook course will focus on Taylor's music and look at ways of "understanding her work, such as poetic form, style, and history."
Swifties will be wanting to leave a Blank Space for this course in their timetable!
Texts will include the artist's albums Red (Taylor's Version), Folklore and Evermore, and Lover.
But, Taylor isn't the first celebrity with a university course or lessons about them. Check out these other famous faces you can study...
Other celebrities with lessons about them
Harry Styles
Do you know your Harry's House from your Fine Lines? Can you remember what year One Direction was formed? How about Harry's first job?
If you've answered yes to all these maybe the Harry Styles course, is the course for you!
Also at the University of Texas, students will be able to take a course called Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture from next Spring.
Associate Professor Dr Louie Dean Valencia announced the news on Twitter in July saying: "It's official, official. I'm teaching the world's first ever university course on the work of #HarryStyles."
Those who take up the module will look at Harry's music and film work to "understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity".
Marcus Rashford
Footballer Marcus Rashford has been added to the media studies curriculum.
Pupils in year 10 and 11 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can study Rashford's use of social media and how he used it to fight against child poverty and racism.
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Superstar 叠别测辞苍肠茅 has not one, but two university courses about her.
In 2014 Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, added 'Politicising 叠别测辞苍肠茅' course, which used the singer's career to explore American race, gender and politics.
Then in 2017 Copenhagen University announced they'll have a 叠别测辞苍肠茅, Gender and Race course for students.
Lecturers at the university said they'll analyse her songs and music videos.
Miley Cyrus
A university in New York state added a sociology course about pop star Miley Cyrus back in 2014.
The course offered at Skidmore College, used Miley to look into the "cultural conflict" exploring race, class and gender.
Sociology is the study of society, humans in social environments and institutions.
Would you like to study celebrities as subjects in school? Which celebrity would you pick? Let us know in the comments below!
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