Yale University is planning to offer students a course on Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter’s cultural influence in spring 2025, as reported by Yale Daily News.
The professor, Daphne Brooks teaches African American Studies and music, and will be teaching a new class titled,
“Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music.”
In the course, students will get familiar with Beyoncé’s artistic work from 2013 to 2024. They will learn about Black history, ideas, and performance.
This course comes from a previous class taught by Brooks at Princeton University called
“Black Women in Popular Music Culture.”
While at Princeton, Brooks was part of the English and African American Studies Departments. Many topics in her Yale course are based on what she taught about Beyoncé’s influence in her Princeton class.
“Those classes were always overenrolled,”
Brooks said.
“And there was so much energy around the focus on Beyoncé, even though it was a class that starts in the late 19th century and moves through the present day. I always thought I should come back to focusing on her and centering her work pedagogically at some point.”
Brooks feels that after the 2024 election and the events leading up to it, it’s crucial to acknowledge Beyoncé’s remarkable impact on American culture, popular culture, and global culture over the past twenty years.
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