JFL Belgian university launches Taylor Swift-inspired literature course

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Lmao at the.

“I’ve never had so many emails from excited students asking if they can take the course,” said McCausland, an assistant professor at the Belgian university. “And actually non-students as well, people who are not part of the university and who want to participate in some way.”

McCausland pitched the idea of a Swift-centered elective – believed to be the first of its kind in Europe – after she was repeatedly struck by the parallels between the singer’s lyrics and the English literature the academic had long studied.

Due to start in autumn, the course – titled Literature: Taylor’s Version – will capitalise on these links, using Swift’s work as a springboard to explore everything from 14th-century writings to Margaret Atwood’s take on The Tempest.

She’s far from the first to bring Swift into a university classroom. In 2022 New York University’s Clive Davis Institute reportedly pioneered the pop queen’s path into academia, with a course examining the “appeal and aversions” of the musician. Since then, another half a dozen or so courses have sprung up across the US, investigating various aspects of the artist who recently became the first woman to have four albums in the Top 10 of the US album charts simultaneously.

Belgian university launches Taylor Swift-inspired literature course

Course will use singer’s oeuvre as springboard to explore everything from 14th-century writings to Margaret Atwood’s take on The Tempest

www.theguardian.com

Do the people behind and participating in this kind of shit honestly not understand how much of a joke they are to the rest world?

 

[OutcompetedByRoomba]

Since they will only be completly useless, the people finishing that course will be closer to having a net positive impact on human afairs than the majority of todays social scienctists and philosophers.

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Since they will only be completly useless, the people finishing that course will be closer to having a net positive impact on human afairs than the majority of todays social scienctists and philosophers.

Good point.

 

[SoycuckGodOfReddit]

Modern literary studies are a joke, so I guess this is the punchline

 

[PersonalityChimp]

He's so tall and handsome as hell
He's so bad but he does it so well

 

[Cletus Longthing]

Rape Taylor Swift

 

[RuudVanNistelrooy]

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

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No way she hadn’t gotten them enhanced.

 

[RuudVanNistelrooy]

No way she hadn’t gotten them enhanced.

Probably a dress that pushes them up plus hormone changes.

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Probably a dress that pushes them up plus hormone changes.

Probably, but I still like the idea of even ultra-feminist foids going under the knife because deep down they know that looks are truly the only thing that matters.

 

[der_komische]

universities are a joke now

 

[TBIcel]

women in higher education turned it into a complete mockery. College is less about merit and learning and more about looks and conformity.

 

[SoycuckGodOfReddit]

women in higher education turned it into a complete mockery. College is less about merit and learning and more about looks and conformity.