From the seminar's description: "“Whose World Is This?: Explorations in Hip Hop, Writing, and Culture” is an ongoing revision of a seminar I designed and taught as a graduate student instructor at the University of Louisville before moving to the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor. This first-year seminar—and how I use the word seminar—is to emphasize the dialogue-centered course design and enrollees, ranging from seventeen to nineteen student-contributors. Hip hop is both subject and method of this seminar. Drawing its title from Nas’s 1994 “The World Is Yours,” this seminar specifically investigates hip-hop writing, performance, and culture within a US context across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As a medium, hip hop remains an intentional, experimental exploration of survival.The course offers an occasion to make and hold space for myself and Black life and Black culture, centered on the following: Who survives the university? Who survives the US?"