The University of Texas is offering a Taylor Swift songwriting course this fall

Taylor Swift’s songwriting is set to be the subject of a new Literature Course at Lone Star University.

The University of Texas at Austin is now offering students a songwriting course that focuses on the songwriting approach of the 11-time Grammy Award winner.

Nicknamed “Literary Contests and Contexts: The Taylor Swift Songbook,” English professor Dr. Elizabeth Scala will lead the course starting this fall.

Swift’s songs will now be read aloud alongside the works of literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Frost and Keats. according to the university’s website.

“Let’s turn this Easter egg hunt and detailed reading for academic purposes,” wrote the University’s English Department at A Facebook post in May.

“Swift is an intelligent and talented songwriter and her writing skills have made me focus on her,” said Scala American of the State of Austin.

She said her daughter introduced her to Swift’s music in November, shortly after the release of Red (Taylor’s Version).

“I want to take what Swift fans can already do on a sophisticated level, tease them a bit with different vocabulary, and then show them how Swift actually draws from richer literary traditions in songwriting,” says Scala. .

“I will show students that the operations and interpretive movements that are performed by reading her songs are appropriate for all forms of writing.”

The course will use “songwriting by pop icon Taylor Swift to introduce critical literary reading and research methods – essential skills for working in English literature and other humanities” university website states.

“By focusing on Swift’s music and the cultural contexts in which it situates and its career, we will consider frameworks for understanding its work, such as poetic form, style and history among the various issues and theoretical issues important to contextualization when practiced closely and in-depth reading , assessing secondary sources and building strong arguments ”- adds the description of the source.

Introductory texts for the course include albums by Red (Taylor’s Version), Lover, Folklore and Evermore.

New York University was the first to create a course in honor of Swift, however, their course covers the singer as a music entrepreneur and focuses on the songwriters who shaped her work.

Earlier this year, Swift received Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from NYU.