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The Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative has fostered an organized and mutually beneficial relationship with faculty across schools, departments, and disciplines. Co-sponsorship with academic schools and student affairs departments on over 30 events and classes in the past three semesters since its inception, has resulted in shared resources, collaborative course development and team teaching, joint funding opportunities, and sustainable academic partnerships. A few of the partners include the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; the Tisch School of the Arts; the College of Arts and Sciences; the Department of Latino Studies; the Department of Africana Studies; and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute. Furthermore, the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative has created new partnerships and rejuvenated historic partnerships with a variety of student affairs counterparts such as the Admissions Office, the Wasserman Center for Career Services, the Department of Residential Education,the LGBTQ Student Center, the Student Resource Center, the Office for International Students and Scholars, and the Office of Student Activities in support of the successful events listed below. Finally, with its originality and creativity, the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative has captured the interest of many other constituents such as senior leadership and administrators, alumni, development officers, and performing arts administrators. The following is a list of NYU hip hop affiliated courses:

  • Welcome Week: Poetry Slam, and On the Outs screening (co-sponsored by the Student Resource Center)
  • Urban Word/Steinhardt School of Preemptive Education Teacher training institute
  • Groundbreaking partnership with the NYC Hip-Hop Theater Festival
  • Hip-Hop in Darfur event, with the Office of International Students and Scholar
  • Civic Engagement Camp, with the Office of Student Activities featuring the award winning documentarians who created Bling (film about diamond industry in Africa)
  • Consultation on Hip-Hop Archive at Bobst Library