Students in California can now officially study Beyonce and earn themselves a degree by regurgitating worthless information about the popstar. Cal Poly has created a new “Beyonce studies” class via their ethnic studies department, which they say will focus on exploring politics via Beyonce’s work. “We’re mostly trying to explore three things: woman of color feminism; racism, specifically anti-black racism; and police brutality,” assistant professor and Beyonce fan Jenell Navarro said. Sanluisobispo.com reports: The idea for a Beyoncé class grew out of a luncheon Navarro and Denise Isom, the chair of the ethnic studies department, had in 2016, soon after Beyoncé’s “Formation” performance at the Super Bowl. “We just felt like in this political moment, young people of color are really tuned in to Beyoncé, and her most recent work, ‘Lemonade,’ spoke volumes to them about the diversities of blackness, about being a woman of color in 2017 — and a politically conscious one at that — and that’s difficult to reign or master,” Navarro said. The class is structured along the same lines of the “Lemonade” album, Navarro said, and each week is themed around a different emotion. For example, the theme of the first week is intuition, [...]