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New York college to offer classes on Miley Cyrus

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Pop star Miley Cyrus will become a subject of discussion according to the latest curriculum of Skidmore College.

The course is called 'The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media' and will be available at the college which is located in Saratoga Springs, New York, reported Huffington Post.

The college, which is one of the most expensive in the country, will be offering a summer class on the 21-year-old singer to serve as a "lens" on race, gender, class, and media issues.

The leaked syllabus describes the course's goal to examine the ongoing media frenzy focused on Cyrus' public image, music, and body.
 

"Unfortunately, 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 quite different than how we talk about the bodies of women of color," Professor Carolyn Chernoff said about the course.

The class officially puts Cyrus into an increasing number of college courses which focus on the social entanglement of celebrities and pop culture.

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First Published: Mar 28 2014 | 3:55 PM IST

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