Celeb News: College offering Miley Cyrus Course - Page 2

MusicLoverDude

Why does New York always have the cool classes to take?

Bring some of these electives to California

I'd definitely take this class.

Nightingale

I honestly wish my school would offer this course. It sounds interesting and I think there's a lot to discuss, especially since I don't believe Miley is really as wild or crazy as people try to make her out to be.

pika

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Originally posted by SlayingOnTheEarth

Community college?

you wish

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When Complex discovered that Skidmore College — one of America’s most expensive private colleges — would be offering “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus” during this year’s summer session, the reaction was one likely to be shared by many: taking such a class would be “wasting your parents’ money.”

Miley Cyrus

Poor MEME

onna

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Originally posted by Nightingale

I honestly wish my school would offer this course. It sounds interesting and I think there's a lot to discuss, especially since I don't believe Miley is really as wild or crazy as people try to make her out to be.

Because she isn't Miley herself has said she has people believing she's some wild party girl on drugs when she's literally at home with her dogs

Vespertine

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Originally posted by uhoh-ohno

It sounds like a good elective. I'm curious about how "intersectionality" would apply to Miley or how that theory is being explored with her in mind. Usually that term is reserved for those who are discriminated against for more than one reason. So for example, I am black and a woman. Therefore intersectionality would apply to me in terms of race and gender. With Miley, it's only gender. So I'm wondering how that's gonna work

I'm thinking they mean the ways in which Miley has used multiple groups that are discriminated against (eg. her VMAs performance featured both WOC and midgets [is that the correct term to use? not sure if there is a preferred one, sorry]) in her image revolution, and how that plays off of Miley saying she's challenging standards for women.

I'd actually be very interested in this course. I think Miley has made some great points about women being able to express themselves sexually however they want, but I don't think she has necessarily gone about it the right way (ie. using black women and stereotypes as a conduit for her sexuality).

#PromoteOnlineKindness

DayFusion

Zolvnski

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Ever dream of studying Miley Cyrus?

Well, that dream is becoming a reality for Skidmore College students this summer.

The liberal arts college, located in Saratoga Springs, New York, is offering a special topics sociology course entitled "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media," which will be "using Miley as a lens through which to explore sociological thinking about identity, entertainment, media and fame."

Professor Carolyn Chernoff told ABC News that the class will use Cyrus's public persona as the basis of discussion, as much of what we know of her is based on a media reconstrucution of who she really is. This will be a very different course, she said, from the Rutgers University class focusing on Beyoncé.

"Unfortunately, the way we talk about female pop stars and female bodies, class matters, gender matters, sexuality and sexual performance matters, but race matters a lot [too] and the way we talk about white pop stars is quite different than how we talk about the bodies of women of color," she noted. "[Cyrus] complicates representations of the female body in pop culture in some ways that are good, bad, and ugly."

Chernoff added that the class will also explore Cyrus's shift from "Hannah Montana" star to pop icon and how her on-stage antics have led to discussions about her sexuality.

Scheduled to be an intensive summer course for students looking to delve deeper into specific topics, Chernoff said she's had an enthusiastic response from the college staff.

"Their motto is, 'creative thought matters,' and they understand," she said.

While there's been no response from Cyrus, 21, yet, Chernoff said she'd be open to having her speak, if she was interested. Time will tell.

Will You Be Taking The Course?

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ry?id=23085821

BreatheOnMe

Notorious K.E.N

RidersDX

I actually think it'd be very interesting. Of all teen stars, she's by far had the most dramatic image change. Would be fun to explore the psychology that would be involved in that.

MILEY'S POWER!

uhoh-ohno

AP, and there's a Skidmore student on the forum who will be taking the class. So, hopefully, he will share some deets.

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=547752

AllEyesOnUz

Wonderland

lemme just go enrol in this real quick

Miley Cyrus

Not bad for a meme

Mezter

That impact though

PopeMiley

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Because she isn't Miley herself has said she has people believing she's some wild party girl on drugs when she's literally at home with her dogs

Exactly. She loves her dogs more than anything. I think THAT alone says what kind of person she is. (A good one)

DayFusion

Welp.

Mattyboy

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