Academic Catalog

Ethnic Studies
Term : Summer 2022
Catalog Year : 2021-2022

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: Summer 2022 Requirement Designation: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry and Ethnic Liberal Studies Essential Skills: Critical Thinking

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: Summer 2022

Requirement Designation: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry and Ethnic

Liberal Studies Essential Skills: Critical Thinking