A 2014 course by Ron Anderson at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary provides “a historical and theological overview of
church music. Although there will be some semblance to surveys of music
history, it will focus on the various histories and traditions that have primarily
shaped the practice of church music in North America.”
A 2005 course by Rudra Vilius Dundzila at City Colleges of Chicago is an “interdisciplinary survey of significant intellectual and artistic achievements of non-Western cultures through selected works of literature, philosophy, visual art, music and other performing arts.”
A 1997 course by Thomas Peterson at Alfred University explores “How and why are symbolic frameworks transmuted from certain forms to others through the creative imagination? Special attention to masking will help focus on “image” at the point where ritual and myth intersect with the performing and visual arts. Masking is also a place where identity and culture meet; it therefore raises the question about how the creative process is both a personal and social phenomenon.”
A 1999 course by Darren Middleton at Texas Christian University explores “construals of God through a combination of novels, short fiction, and memoir extracts, on the one hand, and through a sustained reflection on Jack Miles’s literary study of the God of the Hebrew Bible, his God: A Biography, on the other hand.”