With a recorded 99 Grammy nominations and hailed as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year.

Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” the one-credit class will focus on the period from her genre-defying 2013 self-titled album to this year. “Cowboy Carter” and how the world-renowned singer, songwriter and entrepreneur has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies.

Yale University African American Studies professor Daphne Brooks plans to use the performer’s extensive repertoire, including footage of her live performances, as a “portal” for students to learn about black intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison.

“We’re going to take seriously the ways in which the critical work, the intellectual work of some of our greatest thinkers in American culture resonates with Beyoncé’s music, and we’re thinking about ways we can apply their philosophies to her work,” and how it was sometimes at odds with the “black radical intellectual tradition,” Brooks said.

Beyoncé, whose full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, isn’t the first performer to be the subject of a college-level course. There have been courses on singer-songwriter Bob Dylan over the years, and several colleges and universities have recently offered classes on singer Taylor Swift and her lyrics and pop culture legacy. That includes law professors hoping to hire a new generation of lawyers by using a famous celebrity like Swift to bring context to complicated real-world concepts.

Professors at other colleges and universities have also included Beyoncé in their classes or offered courses about the superstar.

Brooks sees Beyoncé in a league of her own, crediting the singer with using her platform to “dramatically increase awareness and engagement with grassroots, social, political ideologies and movements” in her music, including the Black movement Lives Matter and Black Feminist Commentary.

“Can you think of any other pop musician who has invited a number of grassroots activists to participate in these full-length multimedia album projects that he’s given us since 2013,” Brooks asked. She noted how Beyoncé also tried to tell a story through her music about “race and gender and sexuality in the context of the 400-plus year history of African-American subjugation.”

“She’s a fascinating artist because historical memory, as I often refer to it, and also the kind of drive to be an archive of that historical memory, is just everywhere in her work,” Brooks said. “And you just don’t see that with any other artist.”

Previously, Brooks taught a well-received class on black women in popular music culture at Princeton University and found that her students were most excited about the part dedicated to Beyoncé. She expects her class at Yale to be especially popular, but she tries to keep the group size relatively small.

For those who manage to secure a spot next semester, they shouldn’t get their hopes up about seeing Queen Bey in person.

“It’s a shame because if she was on tour, I would definitely try to make the class to see her,” Brooks said.