New Class: Rutgers University offers Beyonce'course + Jay-Z x Kanye West course offered at Missouri University

”This isn’t a course about Beyoncé’s political engagement or how many times she performed during President Obama’s inauguration weekend. She certainly pushes boundaries. While other artists are simply releasing music, she’s creating a grand narrative around her life, her career, and her persona. It’s important to shift students away from simply being consumers of media toward thinking more critically about what they’re engaging on a regular basis.” – Kevin Allred, Doctoral student/lecturer for the Women’s Department.…

Beyonce now joins musical counterparts (husband) Jay-Z and Nas in the subjects of University courses department:
Georgetown University : “Sociology of Hip Hop : Jay-Z”
Harvard University : “Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship”
"Polarizing Beyonce" is a new course at New Jersey’s Rutgers University that will focus on her music/career by exploring American race, gender, and sexual politics while examining her control over her image and aesthetic. Her music videos and lyrics will be paired with readings of the writings from Black feminists. S.o. to theJasmineBrand for this course info on Bey.
She never ceases to amaze me. I'm so proud we have a woman like her in our generation. Just Amazing. Go Mrs. Carter!

But wait... she isn't the only one who's new course was announced in the news boulevards this week.

If you sign up for the course, English 2169 at the University of Missouri, you may need to have a copy of Jay's book 'Decoded' along with the ‘Watch the Throne’ album. Professor Andrew Hobreck, who obtains a background in 20th century literature, first taught the course in Fall 2013. Due to the high demand from students, the course is most certainly being offered Fall 2014.
Here’s the course description:

This course looks at the career and work of Jay-Z and Kanye West from three perspectives:
(1) Where do they fit within, and how do they change, the history of hip-hop music?
(2) How is what they do similar to and different from what poets do?, and
(3) How does their rise to both celebrity and corporate power alter what we understand as the American dream?
In addition to listening to music and watching videos, we will also read Jay-Z's Decoded; histories of and critical works on rap music by Jeff Chang, Adam Bradley, and others; and one or two good studies of how poetry works…

To read more on this course, visit the HuffingtonPost.

Talk about power moves. They didn't have any cool courses like this when I was back in school :( I'm lying... they had cool courses (well I thought they were cool) but a course like this? I would have NEVER missed a class. That goes for Beyonce, Nas, Jay, AND Jay x Ye's course. Can you imagine if they offered all of these courses at one college? Can we say.. the best schedule ever? lol. Hip Hop is infusing its way more and more into all cultures every day life. You know what this means don't you? *inserts grin.
To be contd...

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