Beyonce is one of the biggest artists not only of our generation, but of all time. She’s so big that a major university is offering a class on her.
The University of Texas at San Antonio is offering a class on Beyonce and Lemonade. It will be taught by Kinitra D. Brooks, the Sombrilla, English professor. Below is her description of the class.
Beyoncé Knowles’ 2016 audiovisual project, LEMONADE, has become a movement. Professor Harry M. Benshoff, a film scholar at the University of North Texas, proclaims that Beyoncé got the entire world to watch a 55-minute avant-garde film. LEMONADE is a meditation on contemporary black womanhood. The purpose of this class is to explore the theoretical, historical, and literary frameworks of black feminism, which feature prominently in LEMONADE. We will use LEMONADE as a starting point to examine the sociocultural issues that are most prominent in black womanhood through black feminist theory, literature, music, and film
She says that this class will be far from just an easy A though. You can’t just listen to Beyonce all day and pass the course.
“The course will be new, fun, and exciting—but I expect my students to come in hungry for knowledge and open to new theories about race and gender in popular culture,” the professor told UTSA magazine.
Click the link below to read the syllabus for the class.
