MLL 425W - Postcolonial Francophone Rap/Hip-Hop

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice; UWR
Examination of the success of rap and hip hop as outlets to express the social concerns of the various ethnicities of the Francophone world. Concentration on socio-cultural and literary perspectives.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice, University Writing Requirement
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Effectively discuss, analyze, and write about, issues concerning a wide variety of cultures from the Franco-Phone world, and their historical and socio-cultural contexts.
Adequately implement critical thinking skills in reading, analyzing, and writing in their examination of theoretical, musical, and digital texts.
Demonstrate they can integrate research information, and convey ideas in a clear, well-organized, and well-constructed manner.
Correlate the points illustrated in theoretical texts to the lyrics and videos studied.
Recognize barriers to equity and social justice, identify and critically assess various historical, socio-cultural, historical, and political contexts within the Franco-Phone world.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

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.