VIDEO: Yale professor Daphne Brooks shares insight into her new course on Beyoncé

The Yale Daily News broke the story in November about a new course on R&B singer Beyoncé’s cultural impact. The course, which will be taught by Daphne Brooks, will be offered at Yale University this spring.

The announcement of the course, “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music,” has garnered global attention, with many people having mixed emotions about the necessity of the class.

Connecticut Public visuals journalist Ayannah Brown sat down with Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Music at Yale University, to gain clarity on the focus of the course, its importance and what she wants students to absorb.