Howard University Unveils New Hip-Hop Courses
Info provided By Eben Gregory
Date: 12/10/2006 9:50 pm
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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.

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