‘You Need to Calm Down’ and ‘Shake It Off’: Taylor Swift class coming to a North Carolina university

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — If you’re a Swiftie and a student at East Carolina University, have we got something for you.

This fall, “English 1500: Taylor’s Version” is coming to ECU. It will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 p.m. by Dr. Anna Froula, a professor of English in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, according to the ECU News Services.

It is a course that satisfies a general education humanities requirement.

“I’m very excited to offer this class for the first time,” Froula told ECU News Services. “The underlying idea is to get people to think critically about a loved object, a loved text. We are going to be looking at different variations of fan studies including some of the Swifties’ fan behavior.

“Additionally, we’ll be learning a lot about basic literary terms such as metaphors, similes and allegories. We’ll be curating song lists by doing some analytical writing and tracing themes throughout multiple songs. Students will also have a music video-focused project where they demonstrate the link between music videos and words.”

Froula said she came up with the idea of the class from one she took herself about Swift.

“I took a three-night online class from a medievalist in Texas on Taylor Swift and how she pairs it with older British literature,” said Froula. “During that class, I felt like ‘we could use a class like this.’”

Read more about this from ECU News Services.

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