COM LIT 112Poetics of Hip-Hop
Comparative Literature · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of poetics of hip-hop within tradition of comparative literature. Examination of rhythm, rhymes, flow, wordplay, traditions of signifying, beats, samples, production, and hermeneutics of music videos within historical framework. Historical and current hip-hop criticism and scholarship from comparative perspective, with goal of developing methods, approaches, and strategies for interpreting and writing about hip-hop.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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