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HUM 1055 - Hip-Hop: Culture, History, and Global Impact

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None
Course Description: This class explores how the world has changed Hip-Hop and more importantly how Hip-Hop has changed the world.  It investigates the ways Hip-Hop has been used historically to define identities, industries, and cultures by looking at its impact on society.  This course uses Hip-Hop as a lens to examine global identities, historical movements, and other aspects of the humanities.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into ENGL 0950 and RDNG 0950 or above OR completion of RDNG 0940 with a grade of C or higher OR course placement into ESOL 0051 and ESOL 0052 and ESOL 1033 OR completion of ESOL 0041 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0042 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0043 with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Introduction to the History of Hip-Hop: African Influences
  2. Hip-Hop in the US Context
  3. Hip-Hop in the Global Context
  4. How Hip-Hop Impacts Current Issues and Identities
    1. Gender
    2. Race
    3. Commercialization and Industry
    4. Or other topics as deemed applicable by instructor
  5. Hip-Hop and its influence on the broader Humanities

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. explain how histories of African music has shaped contemporary Hip-Hop movements and styles.
  2. compare and contrast US Hip-Hop and international Hip-Hop styles.
  3. describe how current issues impact, and are impacted by, Hip-Hop culture.
  4. connect how Hip-Hop has historically transformed identities, industries, and cultures
  5. explore Hip-Hop’s influence on the broader humanities

Competency 1 (1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.
08. 04. Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.


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