Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionA sister course to English 144, this course will likewise explore hip hop as a form of literary and linguistic art. However, this course focuses specifically on the women in hip hop and their contributions to the culture. This course, then, will not focus on women in hip hop as simply artists performing within a musical genre, but rather as social and cultural disrupters. More importantly, this course will review the contributions from artists such as MC Sha-Rock, Roxane Shanté, Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Cardi B, Nikki Minaj and others, focusing specifically on how each reflect and reject social and cultural norms. Students will read a variety of non-fiction texts to both define and contextualize the social and political forces that shape women artists in hip hop while also analyzing song lyrics to discover how women in hip hop subvert dominant cultural norms. As part of this focus on analysis, students will also be introduced to traditional elements of literature, such as metaphor, anaphora and others. 