University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

ETHN-3212 (3) Introduction to Hip Hop Studies

Examines critical questions posed by hip hop culture. Accentuated in this course are hip hops contributions to the political-economic, philosophical, and sociological study of race, racism, sexism, and sexuality. This course examines the ways in which hip hop, as a new social phenomenon, cultural force and aesthetic form, have influenced contemporary American and global culture. Prereq., ETHN 2001 or 2002.