A 27-year-old Israeli musician composes an entire album composed entirely of licks, riffs and samples from the video sharing site YouTube and receives more than four million views in a single month; DJ Danger Mouse combines instrumental tracks from The Beatles’ White Album with vocals from Jay-Z’s Black Album to create the Grey Album and receives over 100,000 downloads in a single day; in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a blogger named Zadi Diaz (aka Karmagrrrl) re-edits media images of  the disaster and posts them online to encourage contributions to the American Red Cross. Each of these is an example of “remix culture” – a rapidly emerging cultural phenomenon which has grown increasingly controversial with the proliferation of consumer grade media editing tools and peer-to-peer networks. This micro-seminar, open to new undergraduates at USC, seeks to interrogate the historical roots and cultural implications of remix culture, and to encourage students to think about their own position in relation to practices such as sampling, file-sharing and media downloading. By surveying a broad range of remixes together with arguments on both sides of the copyright debates, students will begin to think more complexly about the aesthetics, ethics and economics of remix culture.