UTPHL 203 Philosophy and Hip Hop
This course introduces analytic and continental approaches to study of aesthetics through philosophical explorations of Hip Hop. Students will analyze scholarly themes, perspectives, and critiques, centered on questions of the social, political, and philosophical import of a variety of forms of local and global hip hop aesthetical productions and topics including sexism, homophobia, class, and race. Students will also critically engage others in a group project, while developing their own theoretical attitudes towards critical questions of epistemology, classical aesthetics, post-modernity, and existentialist thought through analyses of traditional and contemporary thinkers, artists, texts, and media.
Credits
4
Prerequisite
Prerequisite or Concurrent with
AWR 201
Offered
Spring