SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management in Mumbai is the only college in India to start a hip-hop certification course.
Initially, the course was approved in December 2019 and was a collaboration with The Dharavi Project, and was supposed to be held on the Mumbai University campus. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, not only pushed the launch of this course but also resulted in it not being a collaboration anymore. Instead, SVKM’s UPG college took it up as a value-added 60-hour certificate course by itself. “This course is open to any student who is desirous of picking up an extra skill and it is a combination of both, practical and theoretical,” says Dr Anju Kapoor, principal of UPG College. ‘Introduction to Hip-Hop Studies’ has been designed and curated by Dr Yatindra Ingle, who is not only a hip-hop artist and an emcee but also a mass media professor at UPG College.
This is an initiative where hip hop can be understood and learnt from…