Taylor Swift College Course Offered At USF
A Taylor Swift college course will be offered at the University of South Florida this fall. The USF student newspaper called The Oracle said that some English professors will teach three Taylor Swift themed sections of a course this coming fall.
The class will look at Taylor‘s business strategies. Additionally, it will look at her cultural and economic impact. Finally, it will also address her songwriting when it comes to literary purposes. The professors will compare her literary influences, which will include William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Lord Byron.
So students who are interested in taking the Taylor Swift college course will be able to sign up for it. A student doesn’t even need to be in English major to take this course. Students from any major will be able to take the course as long as they have completed English Composition 1 and 2.
Other Colleges That Offer A Taylor Swift College Course
USF is not the first university to offer a Taylor Swift college course. USF actually isn’t the first one in the state to do so. The University of Florida and the University of Miami offer a course.
Outside the state of Florida universities like Harvard, the University of Texas, Arizona State University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley also offer a course.
Taylor’s Successful Career
Taylor has been very successful since she first came out with her first album in 2006. Since then she has been one of the world’s best-selling artists, selling around 280 million records worldwide. She is also the most streamed artist on Spotify.
Finally, she is the highest-grossing female touring act and is the first billionaire with music as her main source of income.
Taylor has 11 songs that have gone #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. She is only 1 of 11 artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 who have topped the chart at least 10 times.
Taylor Swift: 5 Of Her Best Country Music Videos
As Taylor Swift, recently named Time‘s Person Of The Year, continues to dominate the music world on her 34th birthday (12/13), we like to recall that her incredible career started in Nashville as a country singer.
Taylor is also dominating the world of sports talk as her 34th year begins, and her romance with Travis Kelce is the topic of many football stories. Her attendance at his games with the Kansas City Cheifs has become somewhat of a Taylor Swift spotting for stadium fans and on TV, whose cameras often show her during televised NFL games where she cheers on her boyfriend.
It was a country music award and a video award, which Swift won her very first honor in 2007, getting CMT’s “Breakthrough Video of the Year” award for her work on the video “Tim McGraw.” She was nominated against Jason Aldean’s “Amarillo Sky,” Kellie Pickler’s “Red High Heels,” and The Wreckers (a duo featuring Michelle Branch) “Leave The Pieces.”
At the time, she told us backstage after her win that she missed her prom for the CMT Awards. She offered, “I am so, so happy about everything that has gone down this past year. I think it’s OK to miss prom for this. I think I’m going to stare at this award every single day and say, ‘I think it’s OK to miss prom.’ I love this.”
Big winners at the 2007 CMT Music Awards were Carrie Underwood for Female Video of the Year for “Before He Cheats,” Group Video of the Year went to Rascal Flatts for “What Hurts The Most,” and CMT favorite Kenny Chesney won Male Video of the Year for “You Save Me.”
Music videos have always been a big deal in Swift’s career, even in her early country music years, when she started to direct for the first time in 2010. As we celebrate all things Taylor today (12/13), along with all the other millions of “Swifties,” we focus on five of what we believe are her best country music videos.
Kevin is a member of Tampa Bay‘s Hometown Morning Krewe on 995 QYK. He has been with the station for 25 years, is a Tampa native, and went to Jesuit High School and USF. Go Bulls!. He is passionate about all things Tampa Bay. Kevin writes articles on the ongoing road projects around the Tampa Bay area, awards that Tampa Bay cities and businesses have won and country music happenings around the Bay area. He is always doing many things with his wife and kids. He loves to read books and play video games in his spare time.
