Rutgers Course Inspired By Beyoncé

Friday, January 27 2012 4:48 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, R&B

Like her hubby, Bey’s musical influence is being taught in schools. Rutgers University’s Department of Women Studies offers the course, “Politicizing Beyoncé”. Doctoral student and lecturer Kevin Allred says:

This isn’t a course about Beyoncé’s political engagement or how many times she performed during President Obama’s inauguration weekend. Rather, the performer’s music and career are used as lenses to explore American race, gender, and sexual politics. 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.

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Comments (19)

  1. Your mother's "friend" says:

    About time

  2. TacoKillah says:

    Your going to waste 40k on this piece of shit course how the fukk is this course going to Do any good for anyone

  3. Hecate says:

    its called ” Fake pregnancy” by any chance?

  4. ZoomZoomDad-Otis says:

    “Rutgers University’s Department of Women Studies offers the course.”…Drake go sign up for class.

  5. ??? says:

    This is what a college degree entails nowadays?

  6. jlee1214 says:

    wow the only reason why I would want to take this class is to see how irrelevant it is to a college degree and to prove the point that people who take this class are probably ignorant enough to think they’re learning about Beyonce’s history

  7. iamme says:

    I used to go to that elementary school. They always got famous people to visit it. I’m a senior now.

  8. Rizz says:

    that shit craay .. congrats bey ,, man that nigga jay is fuckin lucky

  9. e says:

    obviously none of you are in/ or went to college. sounds like a damn good elective

  10. Sarcastic A$$hole says:

    Where’s the backshot to this pic???

  11. yo says:

    @e haha exactly

  12. VIP says:

    Shes looks like a white girl

  13. im730 says:

    broad is bad

  14. TheProphet says:

    Good post e.

    You’d be surprised at how good some of these electives are. Considering that the professor is looking on her societal influence, it could turn out to be a good course. None of you were bashing the college system when Georgetown taught a course on Jay-Z. Plenty of schools have non-traditional classes such as the Wire being taught at Harvard as well as other schools.

    And it doesn’t cost 40K to go to Rutgers. Its a state school. You all sound salty as hell.

  15. NaturalBeauty says:

    @Hecate… If anything, my dear sweet illiterate cherub, it can teach you how to form a grammatically correct sentence to get your disdain across.

    And you, @TacoKillah, it’s YOU’RE… YOU ARE… not YOUR.

    LOLOLOL weirdos

  16. beyonce you go and do you fuck the muthafucking haters

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