Hip-Hop and the City is a multidisciplinary graduate course that will use hip-hop music and culture as a lens to explore historical urban issues; as a medium to think about how urban issues shape cultural expression and how culture shapes cities; and finally as a platform for students to develop innovative solutions to critical urban challenges of today. Students will acquire a solid grounding in hip-hop music and culture, and a deeper knowledge of how it relates to critical urban issues of the 20th/21st century.