The course into the award-winning adaptation of George RR Martin's fantasy series of the same name, is being offered as a four-week "discussion-based" class out of the University of Virginia's English department.
Course co-ordinator, associate professor Lisa Woolfork, said that while Game of Thrones is popular it also offers "weighty material" for literary analysis.
"One of the goals behind this class was to teach students how the skills that we use to study literature are very useful skills for reading literature and TV in conjunction," she told the UK's Telegraph.
"...There are a lot of things in the series that are very weighty, and very meaningful, and can be illuminated through the skills of literary analysis.”
It is not the first time that popular culture shows and icons have become part of the tertiary curriculum, with the US-based Rugters University and University of Victoria offering courses studying singer Beyonce.
Lady Gaga is taught in a course on the "sociology of fame" at the University of South Carolina, while Skidmore College in New York runs another sociology course on singer Miley Cyrus exploring "race, class, gender and media".
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