dr. james peterson professor at bucknell university and the self-proclaimed hip-hop scholar. who better to talk about this? all right, dr. peterson. is this a legitimate diploma? >> of course it's legitimate. i took a look at it online to see what courses they're offering. there's a couple different tracks. it's absolutely legitimate. it's legitimate in a couple different ways. on the one hand, there are courses of study you can take in terms of learning the production of the music and the creation of the music which is just like creating and producing any other form of music but they also have courses that investigate the industry, the business side and the kind of courses i teach investigate the more literary and poetic side. there's a wide range of curriculum. >> i know you also researched making this happen at other schools. what were your concerns when you started to broach the idea about a hip-hop diploma? i know you know people are going to think what are you talking about? >> sure. well, the main resistance is related to the perception of hip hop culture in general. wh

dr. james peterson professor at bucknell university and the self-proclaimed hip hop scholar. tter to talk about this? all right, dr. peterson. is this a legitimate diploma? >> of course it's legitimate. i took a look at it online to see what courses they're offering. there's a couple different tracks. it's absolutely legitimate. it's legitimate in a couple different ways. on the one hand, there are courses of study you can take in terms of learning the production of the music and the creation of the music which is just like creating and producing any other form of music but they also have courses that investigate the inland, the busine industry, the business side and i study the more poetic side. >> i know you also researched making this happen at other schools. what were your concerns when you started to broach the idea about a hip hop diploma? i know you know people are going to think what are you talking about? >> sure. well, the main resistance is related to the perception of hip hop culture in general. what people see in the main stream, a lot of violence and a lot of con

dr. james peterson professor from bucknell university and the self-proclaimed hip-hop a scholar who betterto talk about this, all right dr. peterson. is this a legitimate diploma? >> of course it's legitimate. i took a look at it online to see what courses they're offering a couple different tracks, it is is absolutely legitimate in a couple of different ways. on the one hand there are courses of study in terms of learning the production of the music and creation of the music, just like creating or producing any other form of music but also have courses that investigate the industry, the business side of it and the kind of courses that i teach actually investigate the more literary and cultural aspects of it so a wide range of approaches to this kind of curriculum. >> i know you researched making this happen at other schools. what were your concerns when you started to broach the idea of a hip-hop degree, a hip-hop diploma because i know you know people are going to think what are you talking about? >> sure. the main resistance is related to people's perceptions of the hip-hop culture in g

dr. james peterson, professor at bucknell university, and the self-proclaimed hip-hop scholar. who better to talk about this. all right, dr. peterson, is this a legitimate diploma? >> of course it's legitimate. i took a look at it online to see what courses they're offering. there's a couple different tracts. it's absolutely legitimate. and it's legitimate in a couple of different ways. on the one hand, there are courses of study that you can take in terms of learning the production of the music and the creation of the music which is just like creating or producing any other form of music. but they also have courses that investigate the industry, the business side of it. the kind of courses i teach are the poetic aspects. there is a wide range of approaches to this kind of curriculum. >> i know you also researched making this happen at other schools. what were your concerns when you even started to broach the idea about hip-hop degree, a hip-hop diploma? i know you know people are going to think, what are you talking about? >> sure. the main resistance is related to people's per