ENGL 380

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Topics in Writing Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Advanced-level work in the field of Writing Studies. Building upon a traditional disciplinary understanding of writing as rhetoric, this course invites students to call upon sociological, anthropological, and/or ideological approaches to the study of writing in order to understand the myriad ways that writing makes meaning(s). See Class Schedule for topics.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 380 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59085	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	English Building	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Title: Hip Hop Rhetorics Section Info: Topic Section F: Hip Hop Rhetoric You say one for the treble two for the time come on ? Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape/Now Let it fall-Huuh!/ My restlessness is my nemesis/It?s hard to really chill and sit still/Committed to page/I write a rhyme, sometimes won?t finish for days/Scrutinize my literature from the large to the miniature. . .? ? Mos Def ?Hip Hop? This course examines the hip-hop rhetorics of writers, performers, and activists of the hip-hop generation. These rhetors draw on hip-hop cultural tools, including rap, fashion, dance, graffiti, and deejayin?, to construct their identities and make and disseminate meaning within and about their social worlds, particularly around issues of racism, sexism and misogyny, poverty, and heterosexism. The primary goal of the course will be to strengthen skills in writing and rhetorical analysis through a study of hip hop and its links to controversies of cultural, social, political, economic, educational, and global consequence. Reading some foundational and more recent scholarship in Hip-Hop Studies, as well as popular articles about hip-hop, we will examine the ways hip-hop operates with historical, cultural, economic, and political consequence within the U.S. and all over the world. Through these readings students will engage the following questions: What is Hip Hop Rhetoric? How is this rhetoric constructed and deployed? What is the relationship between hip hop rhetorics and a diversity of other language and literacy practices in everyday life? Topics the course may cover include: rap and social consciousness; hip hop feminism; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) hip-hop performers; youth culture and activism; spoken word and hip-hop theater; and commercialism and commodification of hip hop culture. Engaging these topics through a variety of written and oral communication projects, students will learn the usefulness of employing hip-hop cultural tools as a tool of argument, analysis, and other forms of expression within the everyday. In addition to reading and participation in discussion, students will complete informal short writing assignments, regular reading quizzes, three essays, a group presentation, and a final project. TEXTS: Chang, Jeff, Can?t Stop, Won?t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal, That?s The Joint!: The Hip Hop Studies Reader, 2nd ed. (2011); (select chapters) Lunsford, Andrea A., John J. Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters, Everything?s an Argument with Readings, 6th ed. (2012); Pough, Gwendolyn, Elaine Richardson, Rachel Raimist, and Aisha Durham, Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology (2007); Rose, Tricia, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop (2008). Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).