ENGLISH 316: Hip Hop Discourse

Hip Hop Discourse allows students to investigate and critically analyze through reading and writing samples criticisms of issues within hip hop music/culture. In that respect, students are engaged in critically reviewing Misogyny, Violence, Drug Culture, Commercialism, Glogalism, Politics, Social Customs/Mores, and other issues currently dominating the hip hop landscape. They are encouraged to discuss contemporary and past criticisms of hip hop music/culture from early discussions of hip hop as a fad to the current explosion of commercial culture within the artform. In short, students are required and expected to seriously consider the development/validity of these criticism and the people who make/made them. The course is available to students from all degree programs and is worth 3 Credit Hours towards graduation.