208 Graduate course descriptions
WO602 Public Worship: Practicum (3) Creates opportunities for primary services of parish worship in order to evaluate and enhance the student’s ability to interpret, plan, and preside at these acts of worship (baptism, Eucharist, prayers, principal service, weddings, funerals). The course is a learning investment in which the criterion for performance is the psychomotor domain, more than the cognitive or affective domains. Prerequisite: a course in the range of WO510-549. Credit only. WO611 Models of Worship Evangelism: Baptism with Integrity (1) Most baptismal services ask candidates for baptism some of the most essential questions in the faith. What does it mean to take these questions seriously? What does it mean to baptize with integrity? To answer these questions, this course looks at an ancient model of relating worship and evangelism known as the catechumenate, seeing how this model relates to conversion, baptism, and incorporation into a church’s worship life. The catechumenate is explored in both its past historical setting and contemporary attempts to recover it in North America. Of particular interest is a historical comparison of how certain understandings of God, salvation, and the Church find expression in this mode of relating worship and evangelism. WO612 Models of Worship Evangelism: Societal Fellowship (1) Looks at a model of relating worship and evangelism as seen in the societal fellowship of early Methodism and in current expressions. Of particular interest is a historical comparison of how certain understandings of God, salvation, and the Church find expression in this mode of relating worship and evangelism. WO613 Worship Evangelism: Pragmatic Worship (1) Looks at a pragmatic model of relating worship and evangelism. What does the relationship look like when worship is seen as the pragmatic tool of evangelism? This question is explored in both historic and current expressions. Of particular interest is a historical comparison of how different understandings of God, salvation, and the Church find expression in this mode of relating worship and evangelism.
2011-2012 Academic catalog
WO/CA614 Worship and the Arts (3) Humanity is created in the image of God. A part of what this means is that the creativity and imagination that God uses in creation is rooted in our nature and being. This course examines many ways that people have sought (and continue to seek) to celebrate the Holy God, through Christ, by the Holy Spirit, through expressions of the arts in worship. Topics of exploration include creative writing, music (particularly popular and world music), the visual arts, the environment for worship, drama, and movement and postures for worship. Course develops criteria for guidance as it selects expressions to include in corporate worship events and explores practical ways of incorporating artistic offerings in worship. WO615 Cross-Cultural Studies in Liturgical Praxis: Southeast Asia (3) A participatory immersion experience in the practice of Christian worship as found in various communities in Southeast Asia to encourage the development of liturgical practice that is contextually sensitive. The course involves travel to Asia. WO/CH620 Worship, Prayer, and Community in the Anglican Tradition (3) Surveys worship, prayers, and community in the context of the Book of Common Prayer from the sixteenth century Reformation through the ecumenical liturgical movement of the twentieth century. The British churches provide the major focus up to the latter years of the eighteenth century when, with special attention to North America, foreign Anglican churches begin to modify the exclusively English setting and character of the prayer book. Throughout the course, students are be encouraged to relate to the developments of this distinctive tradition with those in other parts of the larger Christian community. Prerequisites: CH501 and CH502. WO650 Tutorial in Worship (1-3) For students with specialized interests/needs in selected areas of intermediate study in worship. Consult syllabus for prerequisites and course requirements. See academic policy. May be repeated. WO/PR655 Getting Premodern to Go Postmodern: Wisdom From the Early Church for Preaching and Worship Today (3) Seeks to facilitate a conversation between a Patristic vision of reality and the postmodern world so as to provoke reflection and discussion about current possible practices of preaching and worship. It seeks to explore a third way for preaching and worship beyond the confines of so-called contemporary and traditional worship. Prerequisites: WO510, PR610.