Courses 2022–2023
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 618b, Intimacy, Love, and Devotion in 17th-Century Music — Markus Rathey
MUS 675a, Sacred to Socially Committed: A Survey of the Mass — Bernard Gordillo
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 — Felicia Barber
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
MUS 565a, Elements of Choral Conducting — Felicia Barber
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 (Fall Term, Latin Diction, taught by Susan Hellauer)
MUS 509a–b, 609a–b, 709a–b, Art Song Coaching for Singers — Tomoko Nakayama
MUS 522a–b, 622a–b, 722a–b, Acting for Singers —Glenn Seven Allen (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 606a, The Eucharistic Prayer and Eucharistic Theology — Bryan Spinks
REL 628b, Christian Oriental Rites and the Syriac Liturgical Year — Aboud (Ephrem) Ishac
REL 655b, Liturgy and Life — Melanie Ross
REL 675b, Baptism and Eucharist in Ecumenical Dialogue — Melanie Ross
REL 677b, Natural Disasters in the Christian Tradition: Ritual and Theological Responses — Mark Roosien
REL 682a, Foundations of Christian Worship — Teresa Berger
REL 688b, Catholic Liturgy — Teresa Berger
REL 996b, Worship: The Embodied Moment for Self and Church Community — Kathleen S. Turner
Religion and the Arts
Visual Art/Material Culture
REL 745a, Byzantine Art and Architecture — Vasileios Marinis
REL 756a, The Cult of Mary: Early Christian and Byzantine Art — Vasileios Marinis, Felicity Harley
REL 966a, Sensational Materialities: Sensory Cultures in History, Theory, and Method — Sally Promey
AMST 692/HSAR 730/JDST 799/RLST 788b, Religion and the Performance of Space — Sally Promey, Margaret Olin
REL 781b, Readings in U.S. Law and Religion — Sally Promey, Tisa Wenger
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 917b, Political Song and the Catholic Church in Latin America — Bernard Gordillo
REL 948b, Women of the Gospel: Jackson, Clark, Caesar, Franklin — Braxton Shelley
REL 613b, Christian Hymnody: The Song of the People — James Abbington
Literature
REL 907b, Theological Aesthetics — Awet Andemicael, John Hare
REL 902b, Literary Appropriations: Writers and Philosophers in Conversation— David Mahan, John Hare
REL 943a, Gospel, Rap, and Social Justice: Prison and the Arts — Ronald S. Jenkins
REL 956b, Faith, Doubt, and Redemption in 20th- and 21st-Century Fiction — David Mahan
REL 957a, Russian Religious Thought — Mark Roosien
REL 961b, Eco-Theology, Environmental Ethics, and Fiction — Ryan Darr
REL 963a, Literature of Trauma — David Mahan
REL 971a, Creative Faith: Poetry — Christian Wiman
REL 743b, Staging Mysteries: the Legacy of Medieval Biblical Drama, Past and Present — Carla Neuss
REL 861a, The Musicality of Black Preaching — Braxton Shelley
ISM Faculty & Fellows’ Courses Hosted in Other Departments
HSAR 467b, Environmental Relations in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial South American Art — Catalina Ospina
MUSI 483b, The Gospel Imagination — Braxton Shelley
MUSI 484b, Introduction to Chinese Music — Qingfan Jiang
MUSI 486b, Diasporic Jewish Music: History, Ritual, and Memory — Jeremiah Lockwood
MUSI 485b, Sacred Musics of the Middle East — Jon Bullock
JDST 290b, Contemporary American Judaisms — Jeremiah Lockwood