Students at Yale, let’s get into training.

Student members of the Beyhive will be happy to learn that Yale will offer a course on Beyoncé’s cultural impact in spring 2025.

The course, officially titled “Beyoncé Makes History: History, Culture, Theory, and Politics of the Black Radical Tradition through Music,” will be led by Professor Daphne Brooks, who teaches African American studies and music.

The school newspaper said the course was modeled after a course Brooks previously taught at Princeton University, titled “Black Women in Popular Music Culture.”

“Those classes were always overrepresented,” Brooks told the Yale Daily News. “And there was so much energy around the focus on Beyoncé, even though it was a course that began in the late 19th century and continues to the present day. I always thought I would have to go back to focusing on her and centering her work in an educational way at some point.

Brooks said that following Beyoncé’s involvement in the 2024 election and the events leading up to it, it was the perfect time to look at her impact on American culture, pop culture and its global impact.

“(This class) seemed good to teach because (Beyoncé) is so ripe to teach right now,” Brooks said. “The number of breakthroughs and innovations she has made and the way she interweaves history and politics and her very specific engagements with black cultural life in her performance aesthetic and her use of her voice as a portal for thinking about history and politics – there’s simply no one like his.”

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The class will focus on Beyoncé’s 2013 self-titled album through her latest work, “Cowboy Carter,” as well as the impacts and influences of those works, according to the Yale Daily News.

Students will also participate in screenings of the star’s visual albums and study the literary works of Hortense Spillers, the Combahee River Collective, Cedric Robinson and Karl Hagstrom Miller.

Brooks said there was a reason his course would begin in 2013, even though the star had enjoyed popular successes in previous years.

“2013 was truly a watershed moment in which she expressed her beliefs in black feminism. (“Flawless”) was the first time a pop artist used sound bites from a black feminist like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,” Brooks said. “It was more about, ‘We’re going to produce club bangers that also galvanize our ability to think radically about the state of liberation.’

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