Yale now offers a Beyoncé course!

Well, if they can offer courses on the likes of Taylor Swift and Madonna, I guess that it's also possible to offer one on yet one more overrated pop star. We're not talking about a great opera diva, but a tacky pop star married to a sleazy rapper with links to organized crime. The integration of the most banal aspects of pop culture into academic circles is embarrassing, and the fact that anyone would believe that someone as basic as Beyoncé is worthy of a full course, ought to be dismissed.

And how much are parents paying for this?

And then you wonder why Trump won the election...

They need a course on this diva.

Yeah Jack, this is Faye Dunaway... Look I've raced some of the stuff from the O'Neill interview but I'm not really interested in Terry O'Neill - he's a BIG, BIG LIAR and I'm really not interested in in him and you know all and dilly-dallying and carrying over Mommie Dearest...I don't even want to discuss it in my interview or on this Lloyd-Webber thing: those are NEGATIVES and I notice that you have nothing in about Marlon Brando, you have nothing in about Johnny Depp which I did two films with, I don't expect you to get get him for an interview, but you could put some footage in of the of the Kusturica movie which I was BRILLIANT in and it was not well sold in this country you can talk about the Marlon Brando film that I was wonderful in. All the POSITIVE things along that that period, the Marlon Brando film was going on at the same time that the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY was going on and you all have to put in the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY, you can't put in that I worked with the wonderful Marlon Brando and talk to the director of that movie FOR CHRISTSAKE! And I'm not gonna approve it and I'm really upset now because that uh for two nights now tried to thread through that STUPID interview with a with a man that I will not even waste my time discussing. And and you know who, suffice it to say, stopped working when he married me and pretended to be my manager for a very long time so LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE! It's very upsetting to me! And then to put my uh our child in JEOPARDY the way he has. So I'm not interested in these NEGATIVE things that you all are putting in there with me in! I don't want Llloys-Webber in, I'd like you to cut him out, and I'd like you to really trim down everything to do with that Mommie Dearest, I'm not gonna talk about it, maybe one thing I'm gonna say about it and THAT'S ALL. It's just like uh you know an obsession, why can't you be obsessed about POSITIVE THINGS?! About Marlon Brando? About the Kusturica movie that was THE HIT OF ALL THE EUROPE AND CANNES? About uh, the film I did with Brando and talk to that, YOU KNOW?!

Colleges have been offering these type of courses for decades now, and every time they do, they inspire the same indignant outrage. It's just repackaging academic scholarship through a pop culture lens. They're not going to be quizzing Yale students on the chart position of "Single Ladies."

I do question why they're using Beyonce to appeal to college kids, though. Most of them probably see her as the singer their moms listened to back in the day.

The irony is that Beyonce can’t read or write so she can’t even get in to a college to take her own course…..not even if this class was offered at Black Bitches Beauty School and Tackle Shop.

Next year, Yale will be offering a course in Kid Rock and a graduate level course in Chachi.