SURELY, Stanford students will be able to remember their lessons All Too Well as the Taylor Swift hit single will be officially offered as a course at the prestigious university starting next quarter.
As announced by Stanford University, the institute is rendering a Taylor Swift course cleverly titled “All Too Well (10 Week Version)” in the upcoming winter quarter of the elite university’s academic curriculum.
This will be under the university’s ITALIC 99 course that promises to provide students an introduction to lessons taught by alumni students of the program.
According to the website, these “student-led classes are focused on hands-on learning and have included topics such as travel sketching, watercolor, music composition, improv acting, animation, and digital art, among many others.”
It said that the course would impart an in-depth analysis of the award-winning singer-songwriter’s top-charting track called All Too Well (10 Minute Version). This version is taken from the re-recording of her fourth studio album Red (Taylor’s Version).
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The scrupulous exploration of Swift’s emotive lyrical masterpiece will be discussed under the supervision of alumna Nona Hungate.
All well
The longer version of Swift’s hit All Too Well has been a critical success and a chart-topper.
It received a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year, although it failed to bag the award.
The song’s music video, which Swift had directed, won Video of the Year in the MTV Video Music Award and Best Music Video in the Grammys.
Swiftie courses
Stanford’s offering of the Swift-inspired course is the third time a reputable university has featured a course related to the 12-time Grammy awardee.
In February last year, the New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music opened its first ever course that features the Anti-hero hitmaker.
According to the course’s instructor, Brittany Spanos, the class examines and dives into Swift’s odyssey as a “creative music entrepreneur, the legacy of pop and country songwriters that have influenced the star, how discourses of youth and girlhood are exploited in the media and music industry, the politics of race in contemporary popular music and a greater sophistication in [the students’] artistic appreciation, critical thinking, research and writing skills.”
The University of Texas at Austin also delved into the Tennessee-born singer’s extensive discography in August 2022.
As per the course description, it examines “literary traditions and forms through a distinctly contemporary lens—the songs of Taylor Swift.”
Meanwhile, Swift is currently preparing for her wildly anticipated The Eras Tour, which kicks off on Friday, March 17.
