Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 4. Focus on hip hop culture--movement that has captured minds of youth around world shaping youth identities, ideologies, styles, languages, fashions, and physical and political stances. Through documentaries, readings, and music listening sessions, exploration of various local scenes that comprise global hip hop nation--multilingual, multiethnic movement that often resists geopolitical status quo. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0