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INSTITUTE AT A GLANCE

Hip Hop as Humanities: Counterstories for the Canon, Classroom, and Country

Week 1: Virtual via Zoom, July 7-11

Hip Hop as Humanities Inquiry Question:

How does Hip Hop as Humanities offer counter stories for the canon?

Topics:

  • Hip-Hop history
  • Hip-Hop arts
  • Hip-Hop language and literatures

Week 2: Virtual via Zoom, July 14-18

Hip Hop Based Education Inquiry Question:

How does Hip Hop as Humanities offer counter stories for the classroom?

Topics:

  • Professional development workshops on HHBE
  • Intro Final Project: Hip Hop as Humanities Playlists (Unit Plans)

Week 3: In-person at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, July 28-Aug. 1

Welcome to the ILLEST Lab!

Inquiry Question:

How does Hip Hop as Humanities offer counter stories for the country?

Highlights

  • Community building
  • Place-based learning experience in the South Bronx
  • Design and present Hip Hop as Humanities Playlists

COURSE TEXTS

  • Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005)
  • Marc Anthony Neal & Murray Forman’s (Eds.) That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2024)
  • Lauren Leigh Kelly & Daren Graves’ (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy (2024).
  • Additional resources will be provided to participants via Blackboard

Date

Topic/Activities

Readings

Facilitator

Day 1 AM

Community building

What is Hip Hop Humanities?

Compose & discuss critical self-reflection (CSR) Journal #1: “Pre-test”

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 1 PM

How does Hip Hop as Humanities offer counter stories to the canon?

Counter stories & master narratives

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 2 AM

Historiography as a Literary Genre

Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Hall

Day 2 PM

Hip Hop’s Forefathers

Netflix documentary film, Hip Hop Evolution (episode 1)

Edouard

Day 3 AM

Netflix documentary film, Hip Hop Evolution (episode 1)

Pabon’s “Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop Dance” (TTJ)

Petchauer

Day 3 PM

Hip Hop Arts, Pt. 2: Graffiti writing & MCing

Castleman’s “The Politics of Graffiti” (TTJ)

Evans

Day 4 AM

Hip Hop Language & Literacies

Potter’s “Gettin' Present as an Art: A Signifyin(g) Hipstory of Hip-hop” (Blackboard)

Alim’s “Bring It to the Cypher: Hip Hop Nation Language” (Blackboard)

Hall

Day 4 PM

Literary Analysis of Hip Hop Counterstories

Literary Analysis Mentor Texts

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5’s “The Message”

NWA’s “F*ck tha Police”

Childish Gambino’s “This is America”

Hall

Day 5 AM

Guest Lecture w/ Lauren Leigh Kelly & Daren Graves

Kelly & Graves’ “Introduction” (BHHHP)

Kelly & Graves

Day 5 PM

Discuss big ideas from Kelly & Graves’ guest lecture

Compose & discuss CSR Journal #2: How does Hip Hop as Humanities offer counterstories to the canon?

   

Day 6 AM

How does Hip Hop as humanities offer counterstories to the classroom?

Introduce final project: Hip Hop as Humanities Playlist

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 6 PM

PD Workshop #1: Contributions, Additive, Transformative & Social Action Approaches to Hip Hop Content Integration

Hall’s “There’s Levels to This Sh*t” (BHHHP)

 

Day 7 AM

-PD Workshop #2: Mining Students’ Funds of Knowledge

Edouard’s “Black Children at Play: The Cultural Practices of the ILLEST Lab” (Blackboard)

Edouard

Day 7 PM

-PD Workshop #3: Playing Our Positions

Hall & DeVirgilio: Playing Our Positions (Blackboard)

DeVirgilio

Day 8 AM

Compose & Discuss CSR Journal #3: The self-diagnosis

Hall

 

Day 8 PM

Individual consultations on playlist proposals

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 9 AM

Finalize playlist w/ teams in breakout rooms

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 9 PM

Finalize playlist w/ teams in breakout rooms

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 10 AM

Teams present playlist proposals

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 10 PM

Compose & discuss CSR Journal #4: How does Hip Hop asHumanities offer counter stories to the classroom?

Hall & Edouard

 

Sunday, July 27

Participants arrive in Philadelphia; Welcome reception in the ILLEST Lab

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 11 AM

Depart for place-based learning experience in the South Bronx & Hip Hop Museum

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 11 PM

Return to Philadelphia

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 12 AM

Compose and discuss a CSR Journal #5 that analyzes the physical and cultural landscapes they studied during their visit to NY

Edouard

 

Day 12 PM

Counter stories for the Country Mentor Texts

Hall

 

Day 13 AM

(Counter)storytelling as Action

Carambo

 

Day 13 PM

Social action projects for playlists

Hall, Edouard, & Carambo

 

Day 14 AM

Finalize playlist w/ teams

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 14 PM

Finalize playlist w/ teams

Hall & Edouard

 

Day 15 AM

Presentations of playlists

All program faculty + Drexel School of Education faculty & graduate students are invited to attend in-person or via Zoom

 

Day 15 PM

Compose & discuss CSR Journal #6:”Post-test” How, if at all, has your knowledge of Hip Hop culture and teaching and learning with and about Hip Hop changed over the course of the institute

Comprehensive online evaluation (Google Forms)

Hall & Edouard