Special Courses

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Fall 2021

DIG2202 - Digital Culture (Intellectual Foundations Program)

Digital Culture surveys digital culture and the technologies that make it possible. Learn about how digital culture shapes who we are and how we interact with the world. Understand its origins in early computing and recognize the unseen infrastructures that surround us. Become versed in the politics of AI, digital consumption, and surveillance tech. Understand hacker and gamer culture, and learn about the possibilities of digital art. Take your everyday digital world seriously. In this semester, Dr. Andrea Miller teaches what you need to know about the important implications of digital culture. (CRN #21084)

SPC4232 - Studies in Rhetoric: Examining Hip Hop Across Borders and Perspectives

Hip Hop

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of hip hop studies and invites them to see hip hop as more than "just music." This course critically explores hip hop history, aesthetics, pedagogy, dance, fashion, poetry, visual art, and languae in an attempt to illuminate the art form's sonic, social, cultural, and political impact.

From the deejay, to the graffiti artist, to the emcee, within this course, each foundational element within hip hop culture will be used as a creatie-intellectual lens to investigate how the art form has influenced the ways in which we see, perform, and interpret race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, and lived experiences on a regional, national, and international level. Examining Hip Hop Across Borders and Perspectives is taught by Dr. Marquese McFerguson.