Over the last year Miley Cyrus has turned her career into a cultural phenomenon (whether for good or bad) and the world has been watching the young starlet transform into a twerking, tongue-poking-out hit. Now students can study a Miley Cyrus university course to become experts on the cultural trend.
Skidmore College, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, is offering a summer course on Miley Cyrus.
Visiting Assistant Professor Carolyn Chernoff has named the course ‘The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media.’
Chernoff says that the course will focus on the singer and all of her many incarnations as a means of studying topics such as gender, race, class, fame and power.
‘I was teaching a course called Youth Culture in and out of school,’ says Chernoff. ‘and the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) became the twerk heard ‘round the world.’
‘I showed that video to my class, and the students had so much to say. You can study a lot of things based on Miley. She represents how transient wealth and fame can be, and shows how possible it is to change your image.’
