Celebrity 101: 5 Popstars Who Have Encouraged Classes At U.s. Faculties

View the full resource, information and more photographs English, history, chemistry... twerking? Several schools and universities around the world have manufactured pop stars the topic of academic research within the last few years, and Miley Cyrus is only the newest star to inspire a syllabus. A short survey of the pop culture personalities who've appeared in course catalogues. 1. Skidmore College: 'The Sociology of Miley Cyrus' Miley Cyrus Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., recently announced plans to offer a summer course called 'The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media,' in which students will be 'employing Miley as a lens through which to explore sociological thinking about identification, leisure, media and fame.' Teacher Carolyn Chernoff told ABC News, 'However, the way we talk about female pop stars and female bodies, class matters, gender matters, sexuality and sexual performance matters, but race matters a lot [too] and the way we talk about white pop stars is very different than how we talk about the bodies of women of color.' She added, '[Cyrus] complicates representations of the feminine body in pop culture in some techniques that are good, bad, and ugly.' 2. Rutgers University: 'Politicizing Beyoncé' Beyoncé Larry Busacca / PW / WireImage In January, New Jersey's Rutgers University made headlines for a course titled 'Politicizing Beyoncé.' ` She absolutely pushes boundaries,' Kevin Allred, a doctoral scholar and lecturer in the school's Department of Gender and Women's Studies, instructed Rutgers Nowadays of Queen Bey. ` a grand narrative 's being created by her around her persona, her vocation, and her life, Though audio is being basically released by other artists. ' 3. University of Missouri: 'English 2169: Jay-Z and Kanye West' Jay Z and Kanye West Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post / Getty In fall 2013, the University of Missouri launched an English class on the Watch the Throne duo. An outline on the school's site claims the course 'looks at the career and work of Jay Z and Kanye West from three perspectives: (1) Where do they fit within, and how do they transform, the history of hip-hop music? (2) How is what they are doing much like and distinctive from what poets do?, and (3) How does their increase to both celebrity and corporate energy transform what we understand since the American dream?' According to The Huffington Post, the class's reputation prompted the team's determination to offer it again-this coming fall. 4. Georgetown University: 'Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z' Jay Z Prince Williams / Getty If Jay Z has 99 problems, academia isn't one. The rapper has also been the topic of a course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. 'I assume he's an icon of American excellence,' the course's professor, Michael Eric Dyson, told the Associated Press of 'Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z' in 2011. 5. University of Sc:' Female Gaga and the Sociology of Reputation' Female Gaga Michael Buckner / Getty Mum Monster was the topic of aclass at the University of Sc, 'Woman Gaga and the Sociology of Fame,' in spring 2011, according to the New York Times. 'The central goal is to unravel some of the sociologically related dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga,' professor Mathieu Deflem told the Times. Follow PEOPLE on Facebook!