Nov 14, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21

ART 1120 - Art and Hip Hop


Hip Hop culture has profoundly influenced art since the 1970s. Hip hop has given voice to new art forms and new approaches to existing artistic practices. Its underlying concepts have been adapted worldwide into art unique to diverse geographic and cultural locales. Art and Hip Hop will explore this phenomenon within the context of traditional and contemporary art; polyculturalism and multiculturalism; activism and politics; and gender and race.

Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code: 2FA
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate ability to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate practicing artists, their techniques, and creative processes.
  • Develop an active participatory relationship to the arts.
  • Develop the ability to perceive and comparatively evaluate the influence of global hip-hop culture on traditional visual art forms.
  • Utilize critical thinking and appropriate visual and verbal vocabulary to analyze how the culture of hip-hop has changed the nature of contemporary art.


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