Saturday, June 27, 2009

Welcome to KU Theatre Department's Hip-hop in Popular Culture


Welcome to Hip-hop and Popular Culture, a new course offered by the KU Theatre Department. My name is Nicole Hodges Persley and I am an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department. This course blog offers students an opportunity to respond to course readings, music, performance and other course related topics. Each week, you are required to post a response using the key words of the week on your syllabus as a prompt. Your posts should be considered a virtual "reaction paper." You should probably draft your comments in MS Word first and then cut and paste them on the blog comment. Your responses must be an engagement with the topics we discuss in a particular week and should analyze your take on critical themes in a succinct manner (not more than a half-page single spaced). This is an exercise in writing your critical perspective in the same way that MCS do,every word counts. You must post your responses no later than Thursday at 12midnight. Late posts are not acceptable.

This blog becomes an archive of your growth and experiences during the course. Your work also prepares you for essay questions on exams. I hope you enjoy this process and begin to see Hip-hop music and culture as an expressive form that shapes perspectives around the world.

Keep Striving-

Nicole Hodges Persley, Ph.D.