WYOMISSING, Pa. (WHTM) - Taylor Swift is making headlines everywhere whether it be her new album coming out, being at an NFL game, or performing around the world. But now students at one Penn State campus can take a "Taylor Swift Course."

Penn State Berks announced on Friday that they will have a Taylor Swift course called "Taylor Swift, Gender, and Communication" beginning in the fall 2024 semester.

The course is set to hold up to 100 seats with 50 spots reserved for current students at Penn State Berks.

The release states that the course will be cross-listed as a communication arts and sciences and a women's studies course.

Unlike other universities that have a similar course and focus on Swift's marketing strategies and music literacy, Penn State Berks' version will focus on examining Swift's cultural and musical impact and her portrayal in the media.

The course's focus includes:

• A three-week overview of the impact music has on personal identities
• The historical intersections of music and politics, and gendered expectations of female performers
• The career and media treatment of Swift
  • Including subjects such as changes in gendered expectations in shifting from country to pop music
  • Challenges faced by young female musicians as they move from adolescence to adulthood
  • The public battles Swift has faced with other celebrities and media representations of those battles include a tendency to pit successful women against each other

The class is being taught by associate professor of communication arts and sciences and of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Michele Ramsey, who admitted to not being a longtime "Swiftie."

"When you watch social media posts of the concerts or ‘Eras Tour’ movie screenings, you see so many important things happening,” Ramsey said. “You see legions of women — grandmothers, moms, young women, teens, tweens, younger girls, and those who don’t fit into our strict social constructions of gender and sex identity — daring to take up space to enjoy something they love together.”

Ramsey states that there are three reasons she wanted to teach the Taylor Swift course:

1. Wanting students to understand the ideological power of the media to influence our ideas
2. The powerful messages behind Swift's songs
3. How Swift's music empowers fans of all generations and demographics to "speak now"

“It’s wonderful that Taylor Swift’s music helps people feel empowered to be who they are, to take up space, and to not allow themselves to be minimized or ridiculed because of who they are,” Ramsey said. “But it’s also the case that it's equally important to give students a vocabulary so that they can name the feelings and beliefs encouraged by her music.”

“Taylor Swift is not only loved by younger generations, and there’s a good reason for that,” Ramsey said. “She shows vulnerability in her music by speaking honestly about her life and many of those tribulations are linked to how we treat most women in our society. Taylor’s songs speak to generations of people whose stories have not been the center of civilization, movies, TV shows, or music.”

Swift is from West Reading, Berks County which is about a mile away from Wyomissing and Penn State Berks.

The release states that students can enter their "Berks era" and will remember the course "all too well."