As part of this core curriculum class, Assistant Professor of English Jennifer Eidam will explore the influence of hip-hop on people and cultures around the world.
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Have you ever wondered if there is a story behind hip-hop? Has hip-hop influenced your personal life journey or stories and cultures around the world? Teach COR 3110 Globalization of Hip Hop is something students often explore.
This course, offered during the winter and summer terms, immerses students in the global history and culture of hip-hop and asks them to connect their personal experiences and expertise to the course theme. “Music and hip-hop culture is very personal, so we want them to think about their own stories and their relationships with music and culture,” says Eidam.
Students begin the course by creating a hip-hop timeline and telling a story. Edam tells her own story about how a white woman from Montana was teaching a class on global hip-hop culture. “I tell them about my personal relationship with music, so they know where I’m coming from and how I’ve developed my expertise.” she added.
This course encourages students to investigate how artists negotiate on a global scale.
Through its authenticity, we explore the development and localization of hip-hop culture and explore the development of hip-hop culture in other countries. This course also includes studying hip-hop’s relationship to other topics such as economics, art history, education, representation, and appropriation.
Students complete the course with a final project that connects the course’s core curriculum and each major’s curriculum in a way that synergizes with the course content. “That often means students applying their expertise to develop something related to hip-hop music or hip-hop culture,” Edam says. Previous student projects include an education major who created a series of lesson plans for high school teachers to teach poetry through hip-hop lyricism; Includes pre-health science students studying physical therapy. And use parts of your body.
“I want my students to respect popular culture. Everything around us is important and can be analyzed not only through love and passion, but also from an academic perspective. , that we can think about it. Everything that’s happening around us is a text that we can try to understand,” says Aidam, adding that the complexities and dynamics that occur within hip-hop are He added that he wants students to leave the course with a deep respect for concepts of freedom, resistance, and challenge. society.
About the professor
Jennifer Eadam, who joined the English Department as an assistant professor in 2015, specializes in writing, linguistics, and English language education. Her career includes a stint in the Peace Corps where she taught English in Ukraine. Elon also teaches First Year Writing, Language in the Community, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL): Theory and Practice.
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