We’re still not over the news that there’s an entire course based on The Hunger Games at Washington University, and now we find out there’s one at Tufts that’s setting out to ‘demystify’ hipsters.
While hipsters have never really ‘mystified’ us, we’re still intrigued by the fact that they are worthy of an entire university class. What’s that about?
The Massachusetts university created the course to decipher hipsters’ place in modern society, asking if they’re part of a counter-culture or just another marketing niche in the mainstream (good question, actually).
The course uses film, fiction, music and fashion, beginning with the famous 1957 essay by Norman Mailer: The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster. Excuse us while we Google this, BRB.
Students of the course will need to possess some kind of personal hipster element, too, as they will be creating the course themselves, developing ‘their own canon of hipster art’.
It all sounds quite fun and un-school-ish. We imagine classes will include consuming artisanal cold-brew coffee, discussing if beards are over (or if hipsters can keep their beards now they’ve lost their mainstream appeal) and bitching about the gentrification of cool (aka dangerous) neighbourhoods of one’s home city.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.