Hate her or love her, you can’t deny getting a university course paper about yourself and career is a pretty insane feat.
That is now a reality as you can be a professional Swiftologist after the Auckland University of Technology introduced a new paper called Taylor Swift: Communications Professional.
The new summer school course, offered by AUT’s School of Communication Studies, will analyse Swift’s 18-year career through the lens of communications disciplines.
In this paper Students will learn terminology and theoretical viewpoints to conduct critical media analysis of Swift’s audio/visual content.
They will also conduct a case study critique into how Swift applies principles of a particular communication profession to supplement her musical career.
The launch of the course follows significant interest in Swiftposium, an academic conference that critically examined Swift’s global impact, in February this year.
The Swiftposium was developed and funded by AUT, the University of Melbourne and Perth’s Curtin University, in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Melbourne’s RMIT and Monash universities.
“The Swiftposium brought together academics from around the world to critically examine Swift’s impact. We had huge demand from high-school aged students and fans to be involved, and the reality is Swifties are very adept at identifying and interpreting the meaning and intention of Swift’s body of work,” said AUT senior lecturer Rebecca Trelease.
The inaugural course started on the 18th of November and will finish up on the 13th of December, coinciding with T Swizzles birthday.
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