ENG 257H - Hip-Hop Literature and Urban Culture
- Prerequisite: "C" in ENG 100 or placement in ENG 209-260
An examination of hip-hop and urban culture as a movement of artistic, social, and political resistance to racial, economic, and gender oppression. With a primary focus on literature, criticism, spoken word poetry, and rap, topics will include language, community, identity, justice, history, and politics
Contact: 3 hours lecture per week
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of ENG 257H, the student will be able to:
- Use basic concepts and terminology particular to literary analysis.
- Recognize major themes in a work of literature, explore their implications, and identify their basic assumptions.
- Analyze the artistry of literary works and become better acquainted with writers as artists.
- Express opinions and responses to literature clearly and effectively in writing.
- Discuss each reading selection as a product of a specific historical context and compare that context to that of others.
- Discuss each work of literature from varying analytical, critical, and literary vantage points.
- Discuss the relationship between form, language, and content in literature.
- Provide literary evidence to support claims and ideas about the texts.
- Think clearly, logically, and inventively.
- Engage in discussions and critically assess ideas.
- Identify a writer's implied as well as literal meaning.
- Summarize, analyze, and evaluate written works.
- Gather and evaluate information purposefully from electronic and print sources.
- Use writing to discover, develop and support ideas.
- Produce writing whose form, organization, syntax, diction, style and tone are appropriate for a given audience, subject, and purpose.
- Write a research paper that supports a thesis, integrates expert opinions from various sources, and documents sources appropriately.
- Revise, edit, and proofread for correctness, clarity and effectiveness.
- Develop a personal voice in written communication.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Hip-Hop writers and artists.
- Recognize and identify elements of the "four pillars" of Hip-Hop.
- Demonstrate knowledge of form and content of various works of Hip-Hop artists.
- Demonstrate knowledge of essay writing as an answer to questions about urban culture and perspectives.