It's no secret that universities across the globe have begun to offer courses on some of music's most influential figures. Now, Harry Styles is the latest musician to become academically significant, following in the footsteps of Drake, the Weeknd, Taylor Swift and Ye.
The course — entitled "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture" — will be available to students at Texas State University starting in the spring of 2023. An ad for the class says that Styles will be studied "to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism."
After news of the class blew up on Twitter, Louie Dean Valencia, course curator and associate professor of digital history at Texas State, further explained the importance of having a course on the Styles.
The course — entitled "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture" — will be available to students at Texas State University starting in the spring of 2023. An ad for the class says that Styles will be studied "to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism."
After news of the class blew up on Twitter, Louie Dean Valencia, course curator and associate professor of digital history at Texas State, further explained the importance of having a course on the Styles.
"In addition to learning about identity, celebrity, [and] European culture, students will learn to closely evaluate sources, test veracity, learn visual and auditory analysis, writing and editing skills, and learn technical skills such as audio editing," said Valencia in a statement.
"These skills are important if you want to go into law, media production, or if you want to work at a museum … That's what we will do through Harry's art and activism," he continues.
Students who wish to learn about Styles for academic credit will have to try their luck and act fast during course selection, as Valencia's class caps at 20 students.