The University of Texas is the latest to include the works of Taylor Swift alongside literary greats for one of its undergraduate courses. The university, based in Austin, will offer students 'The Taylor Swift Songbook' this fall.
Swifties rejoice! The University of Texas is the latest institution to allow students to study the works of Taylor Swift alongside literary greats for one of its undergraduate courses this year.
"My job is to teach those basic skills of critical reading, research, writing, in an interesting and compelling way to [the students]. And so the way that I do that is to sneak some traditional literature in with something they really like reading, but also allowing them to interpret things that matter to them. And so that's really why I'm teaching a course on Taylor Swift," Scala told CTV National News during a video interview on Monday.
"She's really linguistically sophisticated in some of her songs. And what I want students to be able to do is, find the linguistic sophistication, pull it out, analyze it as evidence, maybe compare it to something else that they might not be so interested in working on on its own, and present that in good writing," Scala said.
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