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Ethnic Studies
Term : Fall 2025
Catalog Year : 2025-2026

ES 270 - The Genius Of Hip Hop


Description: This course examines why Hip Hop holds such an important place in our culture. We seek to understand how something so controversial and marginal could become so mainstream and central. This course infuses historical and cultural context as a backdrop for exploring particular genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques within the Hip Hop movement. Letter grade only.

Units: 3

Sections offered: Spring 2025 Summer 2025

Course Attributes:
  • GS: Arts & Humanities
  • LS: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
  • LS: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry + US Ethnic
  • GS: Arts & Humanities + U.S. Ethnic
  • GS: U.S. Ethnic Diversity
  • LS: U.S. Ethnic Diversity