After exploring ways to enhance academic course offerings by including courses that focus on Hip-Hop, Howard University recently unveiled three new Hip-Hop related courses in the spring semester of 2007. The upcoming classes are geared toward engaging undergraduate students in a critical analysis of Hip-Hop using research, policy, and program review, as well as including activist perspectives.Undergrad students will be able to enroll in “Hip-Hop and the African-American Experience” in the spring and next fall, the university plans to offer another new Hip-Hop course titled “Black Youth and Hip-Hop” to students."Hopefully the success of the courses will motivate other departments at the university to develop new and innovative courses that study Hip-Hop from a historical, cultural, and contemporary perspective," said Joshua Kondwani Wright, a doctoral student in Howard’s Department of History.In addition to the undergraduate students, Howard plans to offer a graduate class to students called “Hip-Hop History.” The seminar will include AJ Calloway, the original host of BET’s 106 & Park, as a frequent guest lecturer.Early this spring, Howard played host to a "Hip-Hop and Higher Education Symposium" that focused on creating Hip-Hop related courses at Howard University. The courses were designed to serve as a model for other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in hopes that they will eventually incorporate them into their curriculums.
After exploring
ways to enhance academic course offerings by including courses that focus on Hip-Hop,
Howard University recently unveiled three new Hip-Hop related courses in the spring
semester of 2007. The
upcoming classes are geared toward engaging undergraduate students in a critical
analysis of Hip-Hop using research, policy, and program review, as well as including
activist perspectives.Undergrad
students will be able to enroll in “Hip-Hop and the African-American Experience”
in the spring and next fall, the university plans to offer another new Hip-Hop
course titled “Black Youth and Hip-Hop” to students."Hopefully
the success of the courses will motivate other departments at the university to
develop new and innovative courses that study Hip-Hop from a historical, cultural,
and contemporary perspective," said Joshua Kondwani Wright, a doctoral student
in Howard’s Department of History.In
addition to the undergraduate students, Howard plans to offer a graduate class
to students called “Hip-Hop History.” The
seminar will include AJ Calloway, the original host of BET’s 106 & Park, as
a frequent guest lecturer.Early
this spring, Howard played host to a "Hip-Hop and Higher Education Symposium"
that focused on creating Hip-Hop related courses at Howard University. The
courses were designed to serve as a model for other Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCUs) in hopes that they will eventually incorporate them into
their curriculums.