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Texas college students who are fans of Harry Styles will soon be able to study the former One Direction singer’s work as it has officially become a school subject.
Texas State University in San Marcos is offering a college course on the “As It Was” singer starting in spring 2023.
dr Louie Dean Valencia, Associate Professor of Digital History, will teach the course entitled Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Popular Culture.
Valencia took to TikTok to share how excited he was to offer the unique college course.
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dr Louie Dean Valencia, Associate Professor of Digital History, will teach the course entitled Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Popular Culture. (Getty Images)
“I’m that professor who will be teaching a class on Harry Styles at #TXST University in Spring 2023! Follow for [mostly] Harry was referring to content, classes, books and coffee.”
The Texas college professor finished the social media caption with a few hashtags including #harrystyles, #loveontour2022 and #1D.
He also posted on Twitter on Friday about the former One Direction band member’s college class.
“It’s official, official. I’m teaching the world’s first university course on the work of Harry Styles…” the tweet mentioned.
Attached to the Twitter post were two photos: one from an official email offering the Harry Styles class, the second was a poster of the class, which included a photo of the pop singer and information about the class.
According to the class flyer, the college course of honor will focus on Styles’ music, along with “the modern day celebrity’s cultural and political evolution in relation to issues of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, the media, fashion, Fan culture, internet culture and consumerism.”
The class flyer for Harry Styles’ music course says the course will focus on the singer’s music, along with “the cultural and political evolution of the modern-day celebrity.” (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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Not only will students study Styles’ solo work, including his albums and films, but the course will also look at the albums released by his former band One Direction.
The inspiration for the course came from the research Valencia was working on during the COVID lockdown in the summer of 2020.
Harry Styles’ college course focuses on the singer’s work, including albums, films and former band One Direction. (AP images, file)
“When I couldn’t travel to do my regular research, I started researching Harry – focusing on his art, the changes in masculinity over the past decade, celebrity culture and the internet,” he said the professor told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.