Harry Styles becomes subject at Texas State University

At the Texas State University in San Marcos, the British pop star Harry Styles (28) will be offered as a topic for students for the coming semester. The course is about the musician and his influence on pop culture. The seminar, entitled "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture," is the "world's first university course on the work of Harry Styles," wrote Lecturer Louie Dean Valencia, associate professor of digital history at the Texas State University, on Twitter.

Valencia also shared the course description there. The students' learning objective is "to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity in connection with questions of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, and consumer behaviour."

"I've always wanted to teach a history course that's fun, but also about a time that the students have experienced themselves and can relate to," Valencia said in an interview with ABC New York. Twenty students should be able to participate in the course; registration will be possible from autumn.

Earlier this year, New York University offered a course on the pop singer Taylor Swift. The seminar addressed, among other things, Swift's development as a music entrepreneur, the legacy of pop and country songwriters, and discourses on youth in the media.

This article was originally published on FashionUnited.de, and it was translated into English by Andrea Byrne.