Dream university offers entire course on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade'

First Beyoncé schooled us all in love, and now a university is schooling their students in Beyoncé.

This semester, painfully lucky students at The University of Texas at San Antonio can sign up for a class called "Black Women, Beyoncé & Popular Culture." Students who take the course will spend the semester exploring the singer's visual album, Lemonade, and its relationship to black feminism.

Yes, students can get actual, real credit for listening to Beyoncé, and yes, this is real university, not a happy figment of your imagination.

The class meets three times a week and is organized by the album's themes and tracks, beginning with "Formation" and ending with "All Night." Professor Kinitra Brooks, who created the course, will also be teaching it.

While the class may look like an easy A from the outside, Professor Brooks plans to hold her students up to high expectations. The class isn't just an opportunity to listen to one of 2016's best singers and best albums. Brooks requires that her students be "mature," "self-directed" critical thinkers.

"Studying race, gender, class and pop culture theory is incredibly fun...and incredibly hard," Brooks explains in the syllabus. "Do an internal check for your maturity and ability to handle such a self-directed course. There is no shame in deciding you are not ready."

There's plenty of symbolism and material to unpack in Lemonade, even aside from "Becky." The album makes reference to Igbo's Landing, the historical mass suicide of slaves, and carefully explores the black female experience in America.

It's a good year to go to college in America (if you ignore that whole skyrocketing student debt thing). The University of Idaho is currently offering a Pokémon Go class for students to teach people about leading active lifestyles/catching Squirtles.

And so far, Brooks' students are loving her course.

"They are excited about the Beyonce aspect, but that is just the beginning," Brooks told Mashable in an email. "This past class meeting, we discussed colorism in the black community as students submitted and discussed problematic memes and what gendered colorism means for black gender romantic relations."

Hardworking students shouldn't expect anything below a "Bey" on their report card.

BONUS: Can you find the potato in the sea of hamsters?