The University of Texas is offering a class on the songs of Taylor Swift
The University of Texas is offering a class on the songs of Taylor Swift
The University of Texas at Austin is giving scholars a chance to study Taylor Swift lyrics alongside workshops by similar erudite icons such as Shakespeare, John Keats, and yes, Robert Frost.
The academy is offering an undergraduate course--" The Taylor Swift Songbook"-- this fall as part of its liberal trades honors program. It comes on the heels of a Swift-themed class at New York University last spring that ended with the songster as the inception speaker.
English Professor Elizabeth Scala told CNN that she picked Swift because the pop star writes her own music and her lyrics can help illuminate analogous ways from classic poetry.
" This is a course on her songs as erudite jotting and the ways a popular and...














