Loved and loathed, Beyonce forms the focus of much debate in today’s Pop culture sphere.
Now, her illustrious career will continue its invasion of the academic arena. Because, yet another college have announced a course centered on the global superstar.
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The University of Waterloo in Canada have unveiled a programme wholly dedicated to King B’s 2013 self-titled album.
What can students interested in taking the course (which commences in the Fall) expect from it? The school explains below:
Want to study Beyoncé this fall? We don’t blame you. The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is offering a course focused entirely on the mega superstar, entitled Gender and Performance (DRAMA 282).
Perhaps it is the mutability of her voice, the impenetrability of her image, the careful choreography of her public persona and the astute manipulation of audio, visual and audio-video mediums that position Beyoncé as one of the most influential performers of the 21st century. Eponymously titled, the “Beyoncé” album is a vexing articulation of contemporary mainstream feminism that has captivated audiences worldwide.
The course will be offered in Fall 2015 to all students and has no prerequisites. Students will analyze videos from Beyoncé’s most recent album, use feminist and critical race theories to reflect on the artist’s work and create their own artistic responses.
Instructor Professor Naila Keleta-Mae says that “whether or not feminist scholars, activists or artists agree with Beyoncé’s discourse, her influence on popular culture is undeniable. I would argue that it would be negligent for those of us interested in gender studies to dismiss the album ‘Beyoncé’ or its principal artist.”
From where we’re standing, Professor Keleta-Mae summed it up best.
More power to Mrs Carter!
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The irony of a college course about a high school dropout
But why are u mad tho????//
Yaassss!! King Bey following it Qieen Bee (lil Kim) steps honey. Y’ALL BIITCHES RECOGNIZE AND DEAL!! #LilKimWinning
LET THEM KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lil’ Kim was the first black female musician to have a university course dedicated to studying her artistry. KIM IS THE ORIGINAL QUEEN BEE!!!!! WHEN WILL HOnika?!?!?!?
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Don’t hate boo boo, just BEY good and BEY inspired lol
Let’s be specific. She’s a performing arts dropout where they sing, dance, act and/or play instruments. She didn’t attend regular high school where kids are taught maths, science, history, business etc. That’s why Beyonce is a dumb ho3. The entire entertainment industry knows that. 😆
You do know that “maths, science, history, business etc” are all covered in performing arts high schools right? and there is no S in Math. LOL, educate yourself before you come for the mis-education of others.
What is this, the 100th course offered on her in the past 2 years?
Didn’t this already happen? YAWN
I know right smoke and mirrors from someone with very little education ????????????????
How is BIG BIRD’S new single doing on the NON-EXISTENT CHART???? I bet FLOPERI NOWHERESON is killing the BUBBLING UNDER 4500000324 CHART THO!!!!
What single fool? It was a leak and not officially released ????????
Why does the teaser for the new Foals album (just released yesterday and yes I will keep using this band to drag Big Bird) already have more views than Bird’s first new song in 5 years, “Keep It 100 (ft. Young Thug)” on YouTube?
Stay pressed Roseanne worry about your drunken fave and her boring elevator music
…that’s not an answer? By the way Lana can get 25K views on her “elevator music” in less than a minute.
Ultraboring still struggled to go gold in a year
And No Hits Allowed STILL hasn’t gone gold in almost 5 years. Stay in your lane.
But your plastic fave is the queen of alternative music according to you and it has barely outsold no boys allowed in the states
How is outselling it 2x+ over “barely?” And you know damn well No Sales Allowed sold 250K MAX (I want receipts for it selling anywhere over 300K).
Anyways stay mad less people are checking for your fave than the number of people who attend a single Lana show on her current tour.
The Pest will rave, but I’ll be excited when Beyonce take a college course.
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“But she’s rich with a 450M NW.” -Pest
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Knowledge is worth more than money. Maybe she’ll learn how to spend and not lose 200M of her NW.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6334796/madonna-paul-mccartney-worlds-richest-list…u are such a damn troll!!!!!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/05/27/beyonce-net-worth-in-2015-250-million/
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BB is for chart stats. Forbes is for money.
If it’s her “self” fulfillment that’s missing secretly. Then I say go ahead. Wayne did it and I personally could tell he went to college because of the language he used in his lyrics afterwards.
So I guess Rihanna’s net worth is actually 58 million then, and Madonna only 500, go figure. Oh and Mark, aka “The supreme power bottom”, a question, why are you always so bitter and pressed? Things will get better doll, let the anger go, the pain doesn’t last forever.
You can’t “lose” something… You never had in the first place…
Yeah the same way people kept saying Mariah lost it, BUT in actuality, she NEVER had it to begin with.
That’s a REACH… But, nice try tho… Beyonce was never worth 450 million in the first place.
A REACH, no bro, that REACH is real. Mariah never had it, studio singer at it’s finest.
Now on to Beyonce, like someone said above, Forbes tried it, because they have the QUEEN OF POP Madonna at 500, along with studio Carey, and we all know MADONNA is WORTH way more then CAREY, and what is actually stated.
Girl keep it cute.
How you gon’ call Mariah Carey a studio artist but praise MAdonna… Lol. The logic & pressed-t ways to try & bring down Mariah is laughable. Those lil celebrity net worth websites aren’t true at all. Mariah isn’t worth 500 million dummy. And, her voice LIVE was amazing! A studio singer would be Madonna. You know, someone who couldn’t sing live at all to save her life at any given moment in her nasty ass career. Goodnight.
Who needs a s degree when you’re schoolin life?
And tell that to your fave who went BANKRUPT because she couldnt read a contract.
Whether she choses to advance her education is none of my business, but everybody needs some type of education even Beyonce. No matter how rich she is, knowledge is much more richer.
And this comment was a response to the usual haters above.
More richer?
Ha MF IMPACT!!!!! ANOTHER UNIVERSITY???!!! POP QUEEN! Her career slaaaaaays????????????????
@MARK666 IS ALREADY SEETHING LIKE A B**** ON IT’S PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
???????????????? She is such a lady
Queen Bey!!
What job are you gonna get with a college diploma in beyonce studies .. grrrlll
I thought the article reported that it was a course and not a major tho?
Hmmm….I wonder if the course(s) will instruct it’s students on how to write songs entirely and not just change two words in the lyrics to get writing credits. Now that would be a true kii!
Kiiiiiiii ????????????????????????
Not the fans of two flop basic b****’s talking s***..LOL
Stripper courses tend to be popular, so I foresee this being popular as well.
KEEP SEETHING U TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, you better inform the Queen of both lip-syncing and stripping at the Grammy’s. My fave would NEVER…..and as you can see, she still can sell records without spreading her legs on a chair in front of her industry peers. Kii!! Some queen! Talk about the struggle to secure a hit…..with yet ANOTHER feature from her struggle-face camel of a husband.
Great For Her. Beyonce looks BEYutiful in that picture.
IF BEY WAS NOT WORTH 450MILLION, THEN WHAT WAS SHE WORTH???. I DON’T WANT TO DRAG U, BUT HERE IS THE RECEIPT….http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6334796/madonna-paul-mccartney-worlds-richest-list
Billboard is not credible when it comes to net worth. Forbes is way more reliable. Mariah’s divorce papers that leaked proved that she wasn’t worth 500 million either. Mariah’s worth around 175 million $’s. Forbes calculated MC (in 2007) around 220 million. So, how she magically jump from 220 – 520 million within the last few years… Even with many flop singles/mediocre selling album & small tours??? Stop believing every article you read on those payola’d websites… That are paid (most of the time) to make our stars look more successful than they really are! Touring is EXPENSIVE. Beyonce is worth more than MAriah. But, she was NEVER worth 400+ million. <—- That number is too high.
The University of Texas is offering a course on Rihanna aswell congrats to both 😉
I bet Kelly and Michelle….heck even LaToya and LaTavia…..would NEVER spread their legs on a chair while “performing” at the Grammys! Michelle is too much of a natural vocalist……and Kelly…..well, she’ll be too busy being Michelle’s back up dancer. Lol.
Has Goddess sold 100K yet?
Well, since you seem to be more of a stan than me, why don’t you tell me? Learn your place and stay there before I drag your fave by her non-existent edges.
Wow at the impact being felt from Harvard and beyond. This is also one of the best colleges in Canada (especially if you want to talk about public colleges) but some of you will act like this is some irrelevant small liberal arts school.
I guess everyone including prestigious schools lower their standards at some point. Then again, Harvard is all about the hype, so it would be natural for them to gravitate to an artist that is all about hype. The same way Apple (with their useless outdated tech) was the exclusive for Beyonce’s overrated album.
So now the most prestigious and well-known university in the world is “overrated?” I bet if it was about Rihanna or Taylor Swift none of yall would be saying this. You gays never fail to amuse me.
Dafuq!? And do people still believe that that performing arts dropout glorified stripper with a mic is a feminist? SMH
“The University of Waterloo in Canada have unveiled a programme wholly dedicated to King B’s 2013 self-titled album.”
Ugh at them bringing this shít to Canada too. Thank god I’m going to U of T. The course is probably easy AF though considering that it’s Beyoncé.
I love her but honestly who gives a fück. This isn’t anything new, they already had a “Queen Bee” course years ago for Lil Kim and I think they have an MJ one. I fed wouldn’t waste my coins and tuition on Beyoncé… I give your music and shows my coins now let me have my education to use it for SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE that will enhance my intellect so I can get the coin.
You go queen bey is all worth it who ever taking the courses
She’s the dumbest and the most boring ,if not basic, black celebrity in the entire entertainment industry. The whole “I’m fierce” bullsh*t disintegrated without a trace. Even gays forgot about that mess. She tried it.
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Beyonce is shy antisocial recluse with no friends and no personality, so you’d think she’s a well-educated or a serious person, but then again, she’s a performing arts dropout where all they did was sing, dance, act and/or play instruments. She didn’t attend regular high school where kids are taught maths, science, history, business etc.
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So if one had to sit down with Beyonce, what kind of things would they talk about? Lol. No wonder nobody is calling her up for talkshow appearances. Poor thing had to reach out to GMA. 🙂
*Plays “Obsessed” by Mariah Carey*
Feeling Myself is GOLD!!! American Oxygen could never
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Oh great, the single matches the album. #Gold #WhoJumpOverGold
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Gold is a flop in a singles age.
Beyonce’s REAL friends are Kelly and her cousin Angie. I don’t know why this Rihanna fan so worried bout who Bey is friends with tks. You should be worrying about Rihanna and her friends who do nothing but spend her money and give her drugs
At calling someone basic when their fave has to hide behind a fake “#bad bishhhh~~” personality just so it can be useful for something than quick forgotten hits.
Anyways the Big Bird stan still hasn’t answered me about certain British indie band that is completely unknown in the States getting more people to click “play” for a basic ass teaser than Bird can get in a entire month for a Young Thug feature.
I don’t understand why that thing keeps coming for Lana when it has no solid ground to stand on. You can’t DRAG someone when your fav isn’t even a 1/10 of where someone else is. Like how bored is it to keep starting the same ish? I don’t understand.
Exactly, then has to become a Rihanna stan to TRY to have a solid read.. Pathetic.
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Once again Bird is getting less views for their new song that their they “leaked” on purpose (who the f*** wastes a Young Thug feature? He’s the “in” feature rapper right now) than a teaser from a band whose highest first week sales in the US are 6.6k. Plus the song has been up on YouTube for a month; said band’s teaser isn’t even two days old yet.
Congrats Bey.
Hey sis!
Hi baby girl!
How are you doing this evening?
I’m perfectly imperfect. Hru?
So much hype for someone who doesn’t even have a classic album whereas Rolling Stone has Umbrella in it’s 500 Greatest Songs Of all time
GGGB=classic
who’s goin to be quoting partition 30 years from now?
NOBODY
Receipts *files nails*
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407
This reach.
According to this site (which is an aggregate of every year-end/decade-end/all-time list by every major publication) Crazy In Love as the 47th most acclaimed song of all time. By the way, honey, no one has taken Rolling Stone seriously as a source of acclaim since the early 2000s. Pitchfork has basically replaced them.
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/1948-02s.htm
I don’t think it know what “aggregate” means sis.
Oh just because Beyonce isn’t listed in the 500 greatest songs now it’s irrelevant Rolling Stone is and will always be the Bible of pop culture
Oh just because Beyonce isn’t listed in the 500 greatest songs now it’s irrelevant Rolling Stone is and will always be the Bible of pop culture
are the going to teach how to suck a d*** in the backseat of a limo? how to dress like a hooker for your husband? write a paper on how to “surfbort”? how 2 pretend that a wig is really your hair? how to show your ass on national tv? and the final must be “how to sell your soul to the devil and pretend to be a christan
This is sad. Something is really wrong with this world when colleges are offering courses on beyonce. People are really worshipping this woman. What have she done for people to study her. There are way more important things in this world than to be studying beyonce.
Smh studying Beyonce? Wtf has this world come to,she is somewhat talented but that doesn’t merit a course even in the measliest community college around
The Queen. You cannot deny her iconic impact now. The Navy must be mad, Rihanna could never. What would they analyze? Drugs? Hair color?
And what would they analyze in the beyonce class, stripping and plagiarism?
Something worth while, because its happening boo boo. Seethe.
I find it funny that a commercially sponsored artist. Meaning one who’s surprise record was all bought by Pepsi H&M Walmart Lorreal, Starbucks… List goes on. Who has limited educational background gets a course. I think people need to ask themselves am I a s**** to society or am I a free thinker. People who are fans are s**** to society meaning they truly are clueless to what is going on…
Um, not only is this moronic, but it’s already been done for Lil Kim. Beyonce stays chasing other folks impact lol.
I lost brain cells just reading this post, i can imagine what kind of idiots will be signing up for this.
This was done years ago right?