Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis broad-based interdisciplinary course addresses aspects of Hip Hop culture, including its history, philosophy, art,literature, dance and music that has created a culture and identity for American (and international) youth in all its diversity. The sheer volume of multi-ethnic, multilingual, interracial and cross class integration that Hip Hop culture has generated in the last forty years is matched by very few cultural phenomena in the history of this nation. Elements of Hip Hop have touched nearly every sector of our national culture, as well as they have reached into other continents. In light of this, it is imperative to examine the origins and evolution of Hip Hop in the US as a means of understanding its influence on contemporary national dialogues about race, gender, sexuality, class, politics and religion. Accordingly, this course, will explore the relationship of Hip Hop to contemporary social and political discourses by charting its history in the United States from the post-World War II era into the early twenty-first century - approximately 1968 to present. 