Courses 2021–2022
Music Courses • Divinity Courses • ISM courses hosted in other departments
The letter “a” following the course number denotes the fall term; the letter “b” denotes the spring term.
Please refer to https://courses.yale.edu/ for course descriptions, syllabi, and up-to-date schedules. You may also find courses that interest you in other departments, such as Religious Studies, Art History, Medieval Studies, etc.
Music Courses
MUS 519a–b, 619a–b, 719a–b, ISM Colloquium — Martin Jean (REQUIRED)
Non-Performance Courses/Academic Courses
MUS 511b, Music before 1750 — Markus Rathey
MUS 617/REL 643a, Music and Theology in the 16th Century — Markus Rathey
MUS 639a, Staging Race in 18th-Century Opera — Markus Rathey
MUS 649/REL 919b, The Passion in 18th-Century Music — Markus Rathey
MUS 675a, Sacred to Socially Committed: A Survey of the Mass — Bernard Gordillo
MUS 680b, African Art Music — Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Performance Courses
General
MUS 540a–b, 640a–b, 740a–b, 840a–b, Individual Instruction in the Major — Faculty
MUS 544a–b, 644a–b, 744a–b, Seminar in the Major — Faculty
MUS 546a–b, 646a–b, 746a–b, Yale Camerata — Andre J. Thomas
MUS 571a–b, 671a–b, 771a–b, Yale Schola Cantorum — David Hill
Choral Conducting
MUS 532a-b, 632a-b, Repertory Chorus—Conducting — Jeffrey Douma
MUS 536a–b, 636a–b, Recital Chorus—Conducting — Jeffrey Douma
Organ
MUS 515a,b, Improvisation at the Organ I — Jeffrey Brillhart
MUS 615a,b, Improvisation at the Organ II — Jeffrey Brillhart
MUS 715a, b, Improvisation at the Organ III — Jeffrey Brillhart
MUS 656a, Liturgical Keyboard Skills I — Walden Moore
MUS 657a, Liturgical Keyboard Skills II — Walden Moore
Voice
MUS 506a–b, 606a–b, Lyric Diction for Singers — Faculty
MUS 509a–b, 609a–b, 709a–b, Art Song Coaching for Singers — Tomoko Nakayama
MUS 522a–b, 622a–b, 722a–b, Acting for Singers — Ethan Heard (ISM)
MUS 531a-b, 631a-b, Repertory Chorus-Voice — Jeffrey Douma
MUS 535a–b, 635a–b, Recital Chorus-Voice — Jeffrey Douma
MUS 594a,b, Vocal Chamber Music — James Taylor
MUS 595a–b, 695b, Performance Practice for Singers — Jeffrey Grossman
MUS 623a,b, Early Music Coaching for Singers — Jeffrey Grossman
Divinity Courses
REL 3910a–b, Colloquium — Martin Jean (REQUIRED)
Liturgical Studies/Worship
REL 608b, Christian Initiation in Late Antiquity— Mark Roosien
REL 611b, Understanding Evangelical Worship — Melanie Ross
REL 617b, Worship, Culture, and Technology — Melanie Ross
REL 655a, Liturgy and Life — Melanie Ross
REL 658b, Sacraments and Sacramentality — Mark Roosien
REL 664, The Sabbath: The History and Theology of Rest from Antiquity to the Present — Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina
REL 682a, Foundations of Christian Worship — Melanie Ross
REL 688a, Catholic Liturgy — Teresa Berger
REL 693a, Gender and Liturgy — Teresa Berger
REL 6971, The Eucharist: Communion and Community — Mark Roosien
REL 762b, History of Early Christian Liturgy — Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina
REL 763b, Time in Early Christianity — Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina
Religion and the Arts
Visual Art/Material Culture
REL 731a, Origins of Christian art in Late Antiquity — Felicity Harley
REL 747b, Islamic Art and Architecture in the Mediterranean — Örgü Dalgiç
REL 755b/MDVL 755 b, An Introduction to Byzantine Monasticism — Vasileios Marinis
REL 758a, Constantinople/Istanbul — Örgü Dalgiç
REL 765a, Death and Afterlife in Eastern Christian Traditions — Vasileios Marinis, Maria Doerfler
REL 945a/MDVL 663a, From House Churches to Medieval Cathedrals: Christian Art and Architecture to the End of Gothic — Vasileios Marinis
REL 955b, The Cult of Saints in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages — Vasileios Marinis, Felicity Harley
RLST 788/HSAR 730/AMST 692b, Religion and the Performance of Space — Sally Promey
RLST 819/AMST 630/HSAR 529a, Museums and Religion — Sally Promey
AMST 837b, Troubling Heritage — Sally Promey
Music
(Also see the Non-Performance Music courses listed above.)
REL 801a or b, Marquand Chapel Choir — Nathaniel Gumbs
REL 802a or b, Marquand Gospel and Inspirational Choir — Mark Miller
REL 913a, Broadcast Religions: Music, Media, and the Materiality of Belief — Braxton Shelley
Literature
REL 920b, Continuing Bonds with the Dead through Art — David Mahan, Tanya Walker
REL 923a, Herbert and Hopkins in the 21st Century — Christian Wiman
REL 925b, Letters to God: Simone Weil, Etty Hillesum, Edith Stein — Christian Wiman
REL 933b, Poetry and Faith — Christian Wiman
REL 943a, Gospel, Rap, and Social Justice: Prison and the Arts — Ronald S. Jenkins
REL 946b, God’s Trombones: Contemporary Black Women Preachers in Literature and Music — Melanie Hill
REL 953a, Reading Poetry Theologically — David Mahan
REL 964b, Imagining the Apocalypse — David Mahan
REL 971b, Creative Faith: Prose — Christian Wiman
RELl 772a, Medieval Christian Theatre: Ritual, Drama, and Performance — Carla Neuss
REL 989a, Accidental Theologies — Christian Wiman
ISM Fellows’ Courses Hosted in Other Departments
RLST 156a, Buddhism and Hip Hop — Kati Fitzgerald
MMES 311/FILM 336/RLST 236a, Social Change in Middle East Cinema — Heba Abdelfattah