Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University.

Yale University is set to offer a course next year on singer, songwriter and entrepreneur Beyoncé. The class will explore the period from her 2013 self-titled album, through to the highly acclaimed 'Cowboy Carter'.

This will be her first course centred solely on Beyonce, who has won 32 Grammy awards and achieved a rare level of political influence.

The class will focus on how the world-famous singer, songwriter and entrepreneur has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies.

In session in Spring 2025.

With a record 99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year. Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” the one-credit class will focus on the period from her 2013 self-titled album through this year's genre-defying “Cowboy Carter” and how the world-famous singer, songwriter and entrepreneur has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies.Yale University's African American Studies Professor Daphne Brooks intends to use the performer's wide-ranging repertoire, including footage of her live performances, as a “portal” for students to learn about Black intellectuals, from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison. “We’re going to be taking seriously the ways in which the critical work, the intellectual work of some of our greatest thinkers in American culture resonates with…

With a record 99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year. Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” the one-credit class […]