Educational Taylor Swift course offered to students at University of Texas this fall

[jayboogieman]

 

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The University of Texas at Austin is offering a new class this fall and it’s all about musical icon Taylor Swift.

Elizabeth Scala, an English professor will be teaching the class that is new to the university this fall. It will be taught to first-year undergraduates who are in the Liberal Arts Honors program.

The Taylor Swift focused course is titled “Literary Contests and Contexts-The Taylor Swift Songbook.”

The class “provides an introduction to literary studies and research methods that uses the songwriting of @taylorswift as the basis for teaching a wide range of skills,” according to a Facebook post by UT Department of English. 

As if we needed more prove this country is going to hell.

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[Anybodyhome]

We can only hope that because this is an "honors" level class that scholarships will be paying for this. While we're on the subject of student loan forgiveness, if a student borrows money to pay for a class like this, they should be forced to pay it back.

[Ja Rhule]

2 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

We can only hope that because this is an "honors" level class that scholarships will be paying for this. While we're on the subject of student loan forgiveness, if a student borrows money to pay for a class like this, they should be forced to pay it back.

They should but they won’t.  I’m all for loan forgiveness but in a fair strategic way.  What Biden did was neither fair nor strategic.  You got a group of people happy that they made $20k and group of people who ended up looking like idiots for doing the right thing.

[onmyown]

9 hours ago, Ja Rhule said:

They should but they won’t.  I’m all for loan forgiveness but in a fair strategic way.  What Biden did was neither fair nor strategic.  You got a group of people happy that they made $20k and group of people who ended up looking like idiots for doing the right thing.

It’s really a nonissue. You really want to talk about what the government spends on?

Because that’s a HUGE topic with so much bullshit education loans are not even close to being relevant. If you’re truly concerned about government money allocation not a second of your life should waste a thought or energy on education.

I feel like people who complain about this know very little, or don’t really care about spending issues but for some reason hate other people are getting forgiven and they’re not.

But let’s not act like it’s about tax payers, moral, and government spending lol

[Ja Rhule]

4 hours ago, onmyown said:

It’s really a nonissue. You really want to talk about what the government spends on?

Because that’s a HUGE topic with so much bullshit education loans are not even close to being relevant. If you’re truly concerned about government money allocation not a second of your life should waste a thought or energy on education.

I feel like people who complain about this know very little, or don’t really care about spending issues but for some reason hate other people are getting forgiven and they’re not.

But let’s not act like it’s about tax payers, moral, and government spending lol

Two wrongs don’t make it right

[LinvilleGorge]

Classic "GPA booster" class. Every student takes some general elective classes simply because they think they'll enjoy it and/or they think it'll be easy and it counts toward their credit hours. It sucks but it is what it is. The university should be ashamed of themselves for this one though.

[Ja Rhule]

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Classic "GPA booster" class. Every student takes some general elective classes simply because they think they'll enjoy it and/or they think it'll be easy and it counts toward their credit hours. It sucks but it is what it is. The university should be ashamed of themselves for this one though.

Yea, I took movie class which I thought would be poo but we actually learned how to shoot a movie, special effects and etc.  It gave you a whole new perspective on cinema.  Taylor Swift tho…. There’s zero benefit.

[Paa Langfart]

This really isn't anything new.  I took a riflery as an elective PE class in college.  I showed up to class 2 times.  First day of class and the last day of class that was the final test - I aced the test and the class.   It really pissed the instructor off but there wasnt a thing he could do about it.  Your final grade was solely determined by your shooting score and I never missed the target bullseye.