Well the Beyhive is just happy Beyoncé doesn't get press for being a brain dead meth head.

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you right


anyway beyonce is the queen as always.. my baby is the best

It's not really a course. It's only a case study where a certain person or event is used as an example to discuss wider issues in academic study. With Beyonce, they're going to use her videos to discuss feminism. Many universities have also offered similar courses where other artists like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, and even Kanye West and Miley Cyrus were used as examples. It's not like they're going to offer courses discussing their life and career.

Yes, the course is not "The Life and Career of Beyonce". It is a course about popular music (the sociology of it, the study of its music and media, etc.) which is illustrated through Beyonce's career. That is the artist the professor chose to focus on, and so the course is inevitably about Beyonce.

How can anybody take an article clearly written by a stan seriously?

Perhaps, you should look into what the actual music scholar from the UoV is saying rather than what Ian Bailey from the pop-culture section of a newspaper we are still unaware of has to say.

http://www.macleans.ca/education/uni...se-on-beyonce/

It's not a Beyoncé course, it's a course on pop-culture using Beyoncé as a case study. Simple as that. Why is it such a hard concept to grasp?

PRISM, ha impact

So what is the name of the person this pop culture course is centred around?

Keep re-reading this I guess.

Either way, why are y'all so proud of this? As if any of y'all would actually do this, at least I hope not.

Hip-hip, hooray?

You're simply finding the right words to try and discredit Beyonce here. Yes, she will be used as a case study for the course whose main purpose is popular music, but don't you think that there is some credit that should be given to Beyonce? The professor didn't just select her at random. There's a reason it's her and not anyone else that the course is centred around. It'd be like if there was a course on Art Studies and it was taught through the work of Van Gogh, by discussing his practice, dissecting his work, etc. Does that make Van Gogh less significant to the course itself?

And so?they are still going to study Beyonce,not so?

My main point from the beginning was the fact that the course wasn't called Beyoncé - the same way that course wouldn't be called "Van Gogh". Yes, he'd still considered a case study and unlike Bey, he wouldn't be used as a leeway or a gateway to the introduction to OTHER artists I'm guessing, as mentioned by the course director herself. Bottom line; no matter how big Bey or Van Gogh's significance are in these courses, it isn't directly THEIR course. Why the unnecessary carrying-on of this less-than-useful conversation? It was a simple point. Y'all get so defensive.

I wasn't aware that people were saying this course was called Beyonce. I think we all pretty much knew what it was about if we read the article. And in truth this course is indeed mainly about her. As the professor says, "…it’s introducing students to the popular discourse of popular music studies and applying it to a specific artist." And that artist is Beyonce. Notice she did not say "specific artistS"

If you think that carrying on with this conversation is not helpful, then why are you carrying on with it? It seems like you just want to downplay the fact that there is a course being taught that centres around Beyonce. I'm not sure why else you would insist that this course is not directly about Beyonce when in fact it is the only continual topic this course is about. The main purpose may be to educate the students about popular music studies which encompasses a variety of topics, but the mainstay topic is Beyonce.

I don't think we're being overly defensive. We're really just arguing the same things. There's nothing to defend Beyonce from except the true claim that this course is not named Beyonce which is not a big deal.

Another course
Soon, we'll be able to get a Bachelor degree in Beyoncé

Where is the lie?