Taylor Swift is the subject of a University’s course.

A new Arizona State University has made Taylor Swift the subject of a new social Psychology course.

This is not the first time the singer is being studied or used as the subject in a University course. The University of Texas in a liberal arts course rolled out a new liberal arts course entitled Literary Contests and Contexts — The Taylor Swift Songbook, where the singer-songwriter’s work was studied alongside the likes of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson and Plath with “required texts” including four of her most recent albums.

In February 2022, New York State University’s “Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music” rolled out its first-ever class on the superstar taught by Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos.

There’s always a correlation between Musicians and universities making them the subject of some of their courses. Some works of some artistic talents are studied in certain universities and the depth of Taylor Swift’s career, her great feats and longevity have made her one of the those artistic talents to be studied in a university.

According to the state’s university, the name of the course is  “Psychology of Taylor Swift- Advanced Topic of social Psychology” which is being offered this fall and will be taught by PhD student Alexandra Wormley. She made some clarifications on the new course. “The course is basically using Taylor Swift as a semester-long example of different phenomena — gossip, relationships, revenge,

the class is not a seminar on how much we like or dislike her — we want to be able to learn about psychology.” 

“Taylor’s sixth album, Reputation, is her comeback after disappearing from the spotlight due to conflicts with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. She enacts her revenge on them — and the broader media landscape — by dropping an incredibly successful album along with a stadium tour,” she explained. “The students know this — but do they know why we like revenge? Do they know how we enact revenge? Social psychology can tell us.” She added that she will be connecting themes from Swift’s various albums to psychology.