You can now learn all about Harry Styles at Texas University

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20 Jul 2022, 09:20

Harry Styles is one of the world's biggest stars, and now you can learn all about him on a university course.

The bad news is you'll have to head to Texas to do it.

Texas State University Honours College has revealed they will be offering a course based on the work of Harry Styles from 2023.

Titled 'Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture' the course will be on offer from next spring.

Harry Styles fans will be thrilled to earn a qualification about their idol.

The course will focus on Harry's work as both a singer and an actor, and the description of the course says it aims to “understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity”.

Dr Louie Dean Valencia tweeted the exciting news about the new course.

Dr Valencia wrote: “It’s official, official. I’m the world’s first ever university course on the work of #HarryStyles.

“It’s happening Spring 2023 at @TXST University. This is what tenure looks like. Let’s gooooo!”

The course description reads: “This course focuses on British musician Harry Styles and popular European culture to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture, and consumerism.”

One fan asked if they had checked Harry was OK with this course.

Dr Valencia wrote: "We will not focus on his private life, only his art and public activism and the film, literature, philosophy, music he has acknowledged as influential. Just in the way we study the work of Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf or any great artist."

They also advised they are hoping to offer it as an online course for overseas students in future.

This isn't the first time a celeb has inspired education, after Staffordshire University previously offered a course all about David Beckham and football culture.

Would you pass with flying colours?