The complete Summer Term 2015 Course List is now available on our website.

Summer registration begins May 4, 2015.

Cine 399:  Hip Hop / Screens (4 Credits)
Open to ALL MAJORS! 
Instructor:  Dr. Andre Sirois 
Monday through Thursday, 6/22-7/19 10:00 - 11:50 a.m.

This course examines how hip hop culture—DJing, MCing, b-boyin’/b-girlin’, and graffiti writing—has been represented visually over the last 35 years. The class looks at the culture historically and through the lens of documentary film. In addition, we will explore how elements of the culture have been (mis)represented in narrative productions, music videos, video games, and television programs, to deconstruct the power dynamics between these cultural industries and hip hop. Thus, we ask, how has hip hop culture changed these industries and vice versa? Most importantly, how have these (mis)representations of hip hop over time changed our (consumer) ideas about what hip hop is?