The Music of the Catholic Church

Internet Course

Gen Ed Requirements

This course fulfills the requirements for humanities and international requirements for general education. 

Humanities (H)

The principle text for the course is a study of six points in time in which the Catholic church was particularly focused on musical matters.  It examines for each of these periods the music of the time, the Church’s concerns, the attempted reforms and the results.  The text then looks at all of these periods for common themes. 

The course will use this study as a means of offering instruction in “key themes, principles and terminology of” the music of Catholic church in such as way as to enable students “to identify and to analyze the key elements, biases and influences” that have shaped the church’s music. 

Gordon Rule 2000 (E2)

This course will also fulfill the E2 level (2,000 or more words) of the Gordon Rule.  The Writing Requirement (Gordon Rule) ensures students both maintain their fluency in writing and use writing as a tool to facilitate learning.