This document provides information about a course titled "Acoustic America: Listening and Hip Hop in American Popular Culture" taught by instructor Hilary Berwick. The course will examine how listening is culturally constructed and influenced, and apply this concept to analyzing the relationship between sound and aspects of society like war, architecture, work, and play. It will also analyze pop music and hip hop, discussing whether music can have a sound outside of politics and what occurs when hip hop sounds like pop music.