Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Dec 7, 2003 21:28:38 GMT -5
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WANTS TUPAC: School offers Tupac 101.
*Berkeley and Harvard has company. The University of Washington wants a piece of the Tupac action.
The school is offering "The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur," a UW class this fall created by teaching assistant Georgia Roberts, a third-year graduate student, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The difference in this course from the others is that it's the first to relate Shakur's work to literature. Roberts got the idea for a course dedicated to Shakur while teaching a class on the history of hip-hop.
"I wanted to show students there is something to be gained from taking a closer look at why so many people consume a figure like Tupac and why he is important," Roberts said.
The class is offered through the university's Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) program. It explores the literary and historical influences present in the work of the rapper and examines Tupac as a Jesus figure. This theory was popularized by Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "Hollar If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur." This book is also used in the course.
Roberts told the Intelligencer that she, as well as some of her students, were motivated and/or influenced by the rap legend's music.
Although negativity is always centered around 'Pac and his music, I really think this course will bring out the positive side to him. He was truly one of a few lyrical geniuses. I own "Holler If You Hear Me" which was good readin', but I think that his otha book, "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" should also be used in this course because he has some deeeep poetry throughout this one.
*Berkeley and Harvard has company. The University of Washington wants a piece of the Tupac action.
The school is offering "The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur," a UW class this fall created by teaching assistant Georgia Roberts, a third-year graduate student, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The difference in this course from the others is that it's the first to relate Shakur's work to literature. Roberts got the idea for a course dedicated to Shakur while teaching a class on the history of hip-hop.
"I wanted to show students there is something to be gained from taking a closer look at why so many people consume a figure like Tupac and why he is important," Roberts said.
The class is offered through the university's Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) program. It explores the literary and historical influences present in the work of the rapper and examines Tupac as a Jesus figure. This theory was popularized by Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "Hollar If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur." This book is also used in the course.
Roberts told the Intelligencer that she, as well as some of her students, were motivated and/or influenced by the rap legend's music.
Although negativity is always centered around 'Pac and his music, I really think this course will bring out the positive side to him. He was truly one of a few lyrical geniuses. I own "Holler If You Hear Me" which was good readin', but I think that his otha book, "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" should also be used in this course because he has some deeeep poetry throughout this one.
