Teacher: Dragana Cvetanovic, PhD candidate & visiting lecturer, Aleksanteri Institute

The course is open for all University of Helsinki degree and exchange students.

Please note:
-Teaching programme might be subject to changes and additions, so please check course-specific information before the start of the course.
-Registration is binding. In case you cannot participate, please cancel your participation in WebOodi. After end of registration time, contact the planning officer (see contact information below) for cancellation.
-In case the registration period has ended, but you wish to participate, please turn to the planning officer (see contact information below).

Objective:
This course will address issues that lie at the intersection of debates on hip hop culture, politics, globalization, sociolinguistics and anthropology in the “Eastern Europe” (CEE, Russia, Ukraine and the former Yu-countries).
Students will be introduced to the Hip Hop Studies by covering a wide range of topics, areas and current political, social and cultural issues.

Outline:
1. Introduction to the course. Hip hop studies and interdisciplinary approaches
2. Central-Eastern Europe hip hop
3. Hip hop in Russia and Ukraine
4. Hip hop and women. Hip hop and activism
5. Hip hop culture in Bosnia
6. Hip hop culture in Croatia
7. Hip hop culture in Montenegro
8. Hip hop culture in Macedonia
9. Hip hop culture in Serbia
10. Concluding the course

Completion:
Lectures, reading, essay
Realisation and working methods :
Reading and other eventual material will be posted to Moodle. ECEBB Planning Officer will send instructions how to log in for those who have registered to the course. NB: Moodle instructions will be sent to your University of Helsinki email address (Helsinki.fi).

Course can be also accepted as:
• KUKA-IK503, KUKA-AL217
• KIK-UK104
• ALKU-E313
• ENS-338
• ExpREES optional studies
• Please note that in most BA/MA programmes you can transfer credits to optional studies. In case you wish to transfer the credits to some other study unit please contact the teacher responsible for the study unit / module or BA/MA programme
• This course is part of the Bachelor’s programme for Cultrural Studies, but it can also be accepted as MA level study units (for example ALKU-E313 and ExpREES optional studies)

Other information:
This course is organised by the Aleksanteri Institute East Central European, Balkan and Baltic Studies (ECEBB). You can specialize in ECEBB in Bachelor’s Programme in Cultural Studies and the Master’s Programme in Area and Cultural Studies. ECEBB can also be taken as two study modules, ECEBB I (KUKA-IK500, 30 ECTS) and ECEBB II (ALKU-IK530, 15 ECTS). The enrolment key will also appear at the Course page when the course begins.

Contact person: ECEBB Planning Officer minna.oroza at helsinki.fi
ECEBB: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri-institute/east-central-european-b...