ES 247 - Hip Hop Nation

Units: 3; Breadth Area: GE-F-ES; Social Justice
Hip Hop Nation explores the diasporic origins and the national, and international evolution of hip hop as a transformative cultural and political force.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-F - Ethnic Studies, Overlay - Social Justice
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain the complex, heterogeneous, and diasporic origins of hip hop music and culture.
Explain the regional diversity of domestic and international hip hop communities and its efficacy as an aesthetic of rebellion and resistance.
Research the relationship between hip hop as a music of resistance and the constraints of the music business.
Explain hip hop’s controversial articulation of racial, gender, and sexual identity differences.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.