Kanye West Becomes An Actual University Course -- What To Expect From Class Revealed

There is a Kanye West-focused course being offered at a Canadian university.

According to the university, this will be the first time that Canada will offer a course solely dedicated to the award-winning rapper.

In the fall of this year, rapper and professor Narcy Narce will supposedly teach a course named "Kanye vs. Ye: Genius by Design" at a Montreal college.

On Instagram, the Iraqi-Canadian expressed his desire to "offer something new and fresh to the kids," claiming that the course will be Fine Arts, and that it will examine the world through the eyes of "one of our generation's most significant artists." He also expressed his desire to "offer something new and fresh to the kids."

According to the lecturer, the three-credit course will also cover topics such as "community, creativity, responsibility, accountability, celebrity and mental health, dreams and nightmares, and self-actualization," as well as "community, creativity, responsibility, accountability, and self-actualization."

According to the course description, the "Donda" rapper's "design, music, celebrity life, and cultural impact" in today's information age would be dissected through the lens of "Special Topics in Fine Arts."

Using Kanye West's albums as cultural, creative, and personal lenses, they will examine the "evolution" of what the lecturer refers to as "Kanyetive Dissonance" over the course of the semester.

He characterized it as "the distinctive, complicated, and contentious natures and context of Kanye West's body of work and impacts," as well as "the distinctive, complicated, and disputed natures and context of Kanye West's body of work and impacts."

But this was not the first time Kanye West has been the focus of a research study at a university.

In 2017, Washington University introduced a new course that focused on his life and work.

"Politics of Kanye West: Black Genius and Sonic Aesthetics," which began in January 2017, has roughly 75 students registered, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. At the time, there was a waiting list to get into the building.

Jeffrey McCune was the instructor for this course. He claimed that the show would be centered on the rapper and would serve as a platform for youngsters to engage with political, racial, gender, sexuality, and cultural issues that are now being discussed.

The University of Missouri sponsored a course on the "Gold Digger" rapper and his older "brother" Jay-Z in 2014, while Georgia State University offered a college course on Kanye West and in 2015.w

Professor Narce, who has been teaching at Concordia University since 2013, also included other hip-hop stars in his course, which he designed just for students.

He has claimed that his course will be "theoretical and guest-driven," with around 200 students enrolled over the course of 13 weeks, according to his description.

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