(CNN) — It’s been more than five years since Clare Yeo got her masters in piano performance, but this fall, she’s assigned herself a semester of coursework.

Yeo, 33, is studying the relationship between good and evil through a series of classic texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and “The Idiot,” William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.”

Outside of her day job as a copywriter in Singapore, she says she spends about two hours a night reading and taking notes on what shapes our ideas about heroes and villains. And at the end of the year, she plans to write an essay about it.

Yeo is jumping on the personal curriculum trend that’s bubbling up on TikTok and other social media. In recent weeks, several c

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