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Why are colleges offering courses about Taylor Swift?

By Christopher Tremoglie
Published December 18, 2023 12:11pm ET
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Why are colleges offering courses about Taylor Swift?
FILE - In this March 14, 2019, file photo, Taylor Swift arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Swift says the efforts of a Tennessee LGBTQ advocacy group to fight against a handful of contentious bills moving inside the state’s GOP-controlled General Assembly inspired her to make a sizeable donation. | (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)


Pop music superstar Taylor Swift has dominated news headlines in 2023. Between her record-breaking tour, romance with NFL player Travis Kelce, and being named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” (and subsequent interview with the magazine, her first in four years), Swift has been all the craze.

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