A university in Texas has announced it will offer a course based on the work of former One Direction star Harry Styles.
The exciting course is titled Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture and it will be on offer at Texas State University Honours College from Spring 2023.
While Harry, 28, has undoubtedly become a cultural icon and global superstar in recent years, the Cheshire native isn't the first singer to have a university course dedicated to their success.
Across America, there has been an infiltration of celebrity-themed university courses, with others based around stars such as Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Jay Z and Kanye West, and The Beatles.
The Adore You hit-maker's new university course will focus on his work, both in music and film, in order to 'understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity'.
Dr Louie Dean Valencia announced the news on Twitter on Wednesday, stating that it's the first course of its kind.
"It's official, official. I'm the world's first ever university course on the work of HarryStyles. It's happening Spring 2023 at @TXST University. This is what tenure looks like. Let's gooooo," they penned.
The course description reads: "This course focuses on British musician Harry Styles and popular European culture to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture, and consumerism."
The course is set to give students and fans 'an idea of questions around globalism, issues around gender, sexuality, race, and really trying to kind of peel apart how did we become a part of the world that we’re living in today'.
While Harry is recognised as one of the biggest and most successful solo artists on the planet at the minute, he is also climbing up the ranks in his acting career, having starred in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and with two huge roles emerging later this year.
The 28-year-old all-round talent landed a lead role in My Policeman, which is due for release on October 21.
The 50s-set queer period drama is the Watermelon Sugar singer's first ever leading film role, with fans already predicting an Oscar buzz for Harry.
My Policeman will see the former One Direction play a married policeman navigating a secret double life with a gay lover in Brighton throughout the 1950s - a time period where homosexuality was illegal.
The upcoming romantic drama film, directed by Michael Grandage, aims to examine the struggles the LGBTQ community faces in Britain in the 1950s, when same-sex relationships were forbidden and illegal.
The first My Policeman trailer has already sent fans of Harry wild online - with many even predicting the As It Was singer will clean up come awards season.
Alongside My Policeman, Harry will also star in another blockbuster film set for release later this year, Don't Worry Darling.
Directed by Olivia Wilde - the singer's girlfriend - the psychological thriller sees Oscar-nominated Florence Pugh play a 1950s housewife - married to Harry's character - whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath.
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