University of Texas Will Offer An Entire Class on Taylor Swift

Students who get a bad grade will just have to "Shake It Off".

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Swifties and students at the University of Texas-Austin will be able to take a college course that is solely dedicated to Taylor Swift’s musical lyrics.

The school recently announced that the course, ‘The Taylor Swift Songbook,’ will be offered this fall and taught by English Professor Elizabeth Scala. The class will make students explore the artist’s original work alongside the works of famous poets like Shakespeare and Robert Frost. Required materials include Swift’s recent albums and a streaming music app.

‘This is a course on her songs as literary writing and the ways a popular and award-winning writer uses the same literary devices, figures, and tropes of traditional poetry in her work,’ Scala told CNN. ‘It is not about celebrity or fame.’

UT is not the first university in the Lone Star State to bring contemporary pop music into the classroom. Texas State University will be offering its own college course dedicated to Harry Styles (whom Swift briefly dated in 2012) in the 2023 spring semester. In several past years, the University of Texas also offered another class titled ‘Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism: Popular Music and Black Feminist Theory.’