Taylor Swift's songs and personal life will be the theme of a psychology course ... trends now
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Students at Arizona State University can study the music and life of Taylor Swift, 33, for college credit.
The Psychology of Taylor Swift is debuting this semester at the Tempe, Arizona campus.
The course is being taught by Ph.D. student Alexandra Wormley, who hopes to inspire meaningful conversations that lead students to advanced psychology concepts.
'The course is basically using Taylor Swift as a semester-long example of different phenomena — gossip, relationships, revenge,' Wormley said, as news broke that the Snow on the Beach singer earns $6 million a month from her songs streaming.
She was quick to add that 'the class is not a seminar on how much we like or dislike her — we want to be able to learn about psychology.'
Swifties rejoice: Students at Arizona State University can listen to the music of and study the life of Taylor Swift for college credit
The course started as a joke but quickly turned into an ingenious way to study the phenomena of social psychology, ASU News reported.
Not long after the Lavender Haze singer's Glendale, Arizona concerts in March, her research assistants joked that they'd love to take a course on Swift.
'I liked the idea and jokingly made a rough outline of what that sort of course might look like. I pitched it to my department and apparently they liked it,' Wormley explained.
And the course will be laid out much like Swift's Era's Tour — each week will focus on a theme from one of the Anti-Hero
