Lady Gaga: The new subject of study at an American University?

Gaga has become a new subject of study at the University of South Carolina.

Apparently, Lady Gaga's popularity has intrigued Mathieu Deflem, 48, a sociology professor at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and so he decided to conduct a course called Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame.

The objective of the course is to unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga. Deflem wants to find out what makes a person famous and what fame means in today world.

"What is important about the course is it isn't a musicology course," Deflem told the Daily Gamecock. "It also isn't a literary criticism course. It's not a poetry course. It's not like a dance course. It's not an art course. It's distinctly sociological."