Offers students an opportunity to develop an appreciation for and an aesthetic awareness of hip-hop culture. Presents an understanding that the genus of this dance/movement is multicultural in origin; is emotionally, socially, and culturally charged; and serves the subculture of hip-hop communities as a form of artistic communication. Examines the constructs of hip-hop origins─spawned from and representative of the life experiences of inner-city youth in America─unique from the popular entertainment that it has become today. Studies the historical, socioeconomic, and musical/aesthetic frameworks from which hip-hop dance emerged as an artistic medium of communication. Engages with the inherently diverse and varying developments and meanings of hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon through class discussion, critical thinking, writing, and physical engagement with the movement vocabulary of hip-hop.