Graduate Courses

	THEO 60-414. Liturgical Year for the Pastoral Musician 2 Credits Donald LaSalle 8:10-10:30 MTWRF, July 13-July 24, 2009 This course is an overview of Sunday and the major seasons of the year for liturgical musicians. It considers key principles of the liturgical year and applies a basic historical and theological understanding of each season to liturgical planning and the selection and evaluation of liturgical music repertoire. Fr. Donald LaSalle, S.M.M. is vicar general of his religious order, the Montfort Missionaries, in Rome. Before taking this position, he was director of programs at Montfort House Retreat Center in Litchfield, Connecticut and Adjunct Professor of Liturgy at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York. He currently serves as the secretary of the North American Academy of Liturgy and is a member of the editorial board of Liturgical Ministries. Fr. LaSalle earned a doctorate in sacramental theology and liturgy from The Catholic University of America. In 1997, he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Liturgical and Popular Lament: A Study of the Role of Lament in Liturgical and Popular Religious Practices of Good Friday in Northern Italy from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries.
	THEO 60-429. Liturgical Spirituality and the Quest for Justice: Living the Values and Reign of God 2 Credits Sandra Derby 8:10 - 10:30 MTWHF, July 13-July 24, 2009 Well before the dawn of the Second Vatican Council, Virgil Michel suggested that the fruit of a renewed liturgy would be the emergence of a just society. This course will examine the implications of "full, conscious and active participation" on the social mission of the Church, with issues such as inculturation, economics, globalization, the environment, and solidarity serving as conversation points. Through the study of selected papal and conciliar documents, liturgical and musical texts, and an exploration of some of the constitutive elements of the liturgy such as symbol and ritual action, students will be encouraged to reflect more deeply on what it means to "make your lives a living worhsip" and on the implications of that in their ministries. Sandra Derby has been a pastoral minister for over thirty years. Through teaching, workshops, clinics, and retreats, she has worked with religious educators, youth ministers, social ministers, pastoral musicians and liturgists in dioceses throughout the United States. Sandra holds a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.A. in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She has taught in the fields of music and liturgy at the University of St. Thomas in Houstin, the University of Texas at Austin, and Morehead State University in Kentucky. Currently, Sandra is Director of Choral Activities at the Kincaid School in Houston.
	NEW FOR SUMMERSONG! THEO 60-428. (Cross-listed as MUS 60-122) Music and Ritual: Contemporary Perspectives 3 Credits Judith Kubicki 8:10 - 10:30 MTWHF, July 13-July 31, 2009 This course will explore the relationship between music and ritual in several aspects. Theologies of liturgical music will be compared and contrasted using official church documents, a variety of theological perspectives, and data from pastoral practice. Through close reading and classroom discussion, studentes will engage in critical analysis of theological and ecclesial writings, particulary those of the 20th and 21st centuries, in order to understand music's role in worship. Judith Marie Kubicki, C.S.S.F., Ph.D., a Felician Sister from Buffalo, New York is Associate Professor in Theology at Fordham University in New York. She received a Master of Liturgical Music degree and a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies from the Catholic University of America. Currently, she is the President of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) and has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Her two books are Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol: A Case Study of Jacques Berthier's Taizé Music (Peeters, 1999) and The Presence of Christ in the Gathered Assembly (Continuum, 2006). Dr. Kubicki writes the Liturgical Music reviews for the journal Worship, and has recently contributed an article in a festschrift honoring Louis-Marie Chauvet, entitled Sacraments: Revelation of the Humanity of God (Liturgical Press, 2008). In 2006, Dr. Kubicki taught "The Theology of Liturgical Ministry" in the SummerSong program.